Felony complaint filed against Barenaked Ladies’ Steven Page
Quite surprising. Amazingly bad timing too, considering they’ve only just released Snacktime, an album aimed at kids.
Drugs in music has always concerned me – so many musicians seem to be dabbling in drugs. Thankfully, they’re not all up to the levels of Amy Winehouse or Pete Doherty, but it seems to be a pretty universal thing. I stopped subscribing to Total Guitar magazine as I mostly got fed up with all the references to drugs in the interviews. I personally abhor their use; I rarely drink (I don’t get binge drinking), and smoking disgusts me, so drugs use is a massive nono.
I don’t understand why anybody needs to use drugs. Life can be hard at times, but not that hard, surely?
However, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was probably nearly all written under the influence of something, and it’s considered a classic album. Who’s to say what it would have been like otherwise? It might have ended up a footnote in musical history. I often wonder what the writers of Family Guy have been smoking sometimes – and I’m not being ironic when I think that, yet I’ll sit there laughing like a drain at it.
I suppose I’m a hypocrite really. Maybe I’ll just stop appreciating anything creative.