Posted on 09/20/2015 8:12:59 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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It’s been hard to avoid tragic tales of troubled musicians lately. Two recent documentaries, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (on HBO) and Amy (in theaters), chronicle the lives, and early demises, of Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, respectively, beloved singers whose struggle with drugs, depression and the consequences of fame precipitated their deaths at age 27. Another recent biopic, Love & Mercy, takes us inside the head of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, who only just survived such swirling forces and more in his own life.
In some ways, like Achilles, the legendary Greek warrior in Homer’s Iliad beset with inner conflict, these artists sense that joining the tour and pursuing earthly glory could mean dying young, but many choose to embrace it nonetheless. “[I]t’s better to burn out than to fade away,” Cobain wrote in his suicide note. Of course, such tales of downfall and destruction are not limited to musicians as well known as Cobain, Winehouse and Wilson. Indeed, according to the alarming findings of one new study, pop musicians more broadly tend to live up to 25 years less on average than the rest of us, and have much higher rates of death by accident, suicide and homicide.
But is it just the temptations, hazards and vicissitudes of life on the road and in the limelight that are to blame for such numbers and destructive tendencies? Or are these musicians really just playing out a life strategy that lies dormant within almost all of us should we be placed in the path of fame’s freight train?
Stopped right there, looked to be a grunge lovefest............yeccchhh.
Steve Howe looked like Mum-Ra when I saw Yes out in LA in uh... ‘98. If that’s a current picture... he’s been pretty stable for the past 17 years.
Nirvana - Most overrated band, ever.
LMAO.Post of the thread!
People who have virtually unlimited access to those things which our culture often tells us are the ultimate objects of desire soon learn that these things can never fill that vacuum.
They try "MORE" and "The Latest Kick" - Nothing satisfies and they either do not know of the Savoir or refuse to acknowledge Him as Lord.
“None the less, the vast majority don’t die young. Just look at all the geriatric rockers still out there.”
There is quite a list of them with 25+ years, clean and sober. And that would be of those who did wind up with serious addiction troubles. Clapton, Ringo, Elton, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Williams, Bill Ward (original Black Sabbath drummer).
Another category includes those who never developed addiction problems. Rod Stewart, McCartney, for instance.
Some of those struck down young, simply accidentally overdosed on street drugs, of unknown purity-Janis Joplin, for instance. Probably Hendrix, too.
First thing: negotiate downtime, twice or more what you need, even if you are still under the delusion that you will live forever. Then additional breaks if something unexpected goes wrong. AND, let your keepers know that you will report anything they ask you to take to the fbior whoever.
Grace Slick
David Crosby
“None of the ones I’ve worked for did drugs,”
That’s funny there, you gotta admit.
A knee slapper.
You make a great point.
And Lemmy...
Wow, he and Keith Richards could be spokesmen for formaldehyde !
Because they are drug addicted trash?
I don’t know if he as an addict, but Rod Stewart certainly was a heavy user at one time. I remember he said he used to do cocaine enemas so he wouldn’t trash his nasal membranes and ruin his voice.
BEST METAL BAND EVER! (Sorry Metallica)
Oh Yeah !
who are they?
So, this blogger not only fails to answer his question, but he never really establishes his premise. That's some great blogging there!
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