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'rockers of every stripe bear a terrible burden!
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?
IIRC Howe has a very strict diet. Vegetarian and such.
I am 75 and I have about the same amount of wrinkles as his wife!
He looks awful!
But then Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard and even Jerry Lee Lewis are still alive!
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'rockers of every stripe bear a terrible burden!
who are they?
when I'm eighty-four......"
Here's lookin' at ya!
Mick Jagger is probably the healthiest rockstar ever.
He had a proper British middle-class upbringing. A drug bust early in the Stone's career had Jagger facing prison time. Boys like Mick Jagger aren't supposed to go to prison. He was pretty much scared straight and has largely avoided drugs for the remainder of his life.
His addiction is money and not spending it on anyone but himself.
I am hoping the current crop of “artists” follow in their steps. Justin Bieber has 6 more years left : )
How come politicians don’t die young?
“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.”
Use does NOT equal addiction. There are lenty of folks all across society that have used substances (alcohol, drugs) to excess at time, but never to the extent of addiction and the self-destruction which that brings.
In AA meetings, members refer to people that can drink without becoming addicted as “normies.”
Stewart probably a “normie.”
BTW my list of sober performers was far from exhaustive.
A trivia item I intend to mention from time to time, Donald Trump does not drink.
Well, except for the fact that Steve Howe is still an absolutely amazing player, and Keef is playing the same riffs he’s been playing forever.
Appropriate to his milieu, Keith is, but I remember an argument with a freeper a few years ago who said that Keith would go down in history as one of the greatest blues players ever. I think I may have asked (if I did not, I should have) when do you think Keith will start playing the blues? Cuz he sure has not to date been a blues player.
Yes, in fact I saw him Aug 31st in concert. He was fantastic, though I saw him holding up the wall on a couple of occasions as he rocked on!
Oh he can still play....but frankly without Squire, it’s not Yes.
Watch “Beware Mr. Baker” on Netflix. Ginger Baker looks better now than he did as a heroine addict at age 30. He’s still as crazy as a loon and in his mid 70’s!
I was shocked when I found out that Angus Young of AC/DC has been a teetotaler all his life.
You’re right. ‘Yes’ was definitely less without Squire. Missed him.
Countless local demos.
Neil Zaza;
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3339282,21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAY1WKouT18
Bobby Sche’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ100pj82Po
They don’t want to?
The demos all blur into one, sort of. Ya get a call to play on a song you’ve never heard, spend a couple hours, at most, in the studio, get paid, and leave to play your regular gig. The Zaza and Sche’ stuff was for regular cds, released internationally.
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