General Music Chat

K, I look at it a little different. I mean guys like Lane, Mike and the rest that died from drug addictions would have probably done it whether they were in a band or not. Its just part of thier DNA. They just never learned to control it and let it control them. There are folks like this in all walks of life, not just music. Now maybe the fame and the availibity because of the lifestyle sped things up and made them happen faster, maybe they made more income than they otherwise would have sped the process up.

Ive personally seen friends go thru this that arent musicians. I personally got addicted to Xanax and had to kick it, my ex was an alchoholic, so I have been very close to this kind of situation in real life and it didnt necessarily mean musicians.

Once again Im sorry that one of the folks that made one of my favorite albums Dirt died, its a shame that they never truelly got over it. But from what all Ive been thru I realize that the only person I can try to take care of is me.

I''ve got scripts for valium and xanax...I could never see the want for it though... Makes me tired and very fatigued...I've got sooo much of the stuff in my medicine cabinet cause I just can't stand the feeling! Never could understand the urge to take it.... Now...Painkillers are different thing... I get them for 3 herniated discs and 2 bulging discs.....I can understand the adddiction to them but just can't understand how xanax and vlium would work for me...They were perscribed for me for sevee"clenching" due to stress and I only take them when it gets real bad...I've got hundreds of them in my possession... I can see taking them, though, for insomnia but can't function or wail on my axe while taking them!

As a self endulgent musician with little else to do for recreation, I am also drug free. As a pro truck driver, my profession and conscience requires it. I've been looking at other professions that I have proficiency to expand my horizons. At 50, my horizons are getting shorter. I've invested into myself in more ways than Carter has liver pills. I don't feel I've found my niche. I don't get inspired easily. My creativity has lapsed into an" I don't care because no one else does". I have done so much in my life, professionally, yet have so little to gain, I feel I can relate to those that take or do drugs for "expansion of horizons', however, there is elements in some drugs that damn you from the first "experience" that you don't come back from. Those people that feel that they can be above habitual, recreational, never to return drugs of choice may have something in their personal lives the rest of those of us can't understand. Only to cock your head sideways and say "why?". Sometimes it is not for us survivors of those we love to understand "why" becauase it puts us in a place that is so uncomfortable, like understanding why a a murderer did what he did. Don't need no mouse to die in vain to understand that understanding everything is just a secret away. Taking deadly drugs like crack is a choice that someone that hasn't taken, knowing it has elements like Draino in it is not broadening anyones horizons. Other drugs such as opiats' heroin and pills that are addictive are damning going into them. Given the amount of information you don't have to ask for, those people going into that darker side of "experience" must tug at those who take that hit of crack. Poor Charley Sheen. How can anyone get a handle on "why" he would smoke that sh*t when he was at the top of his game. Don't understand it, just stay away from it. Leave the drain cleaners to just doing that! Are you experienced? [/u]

Crip, I thru the years experimented with lots of things as Im sure many here have, but when my ex-wife walked out the door I went into depression. So I went to a local doctor and told him what was up, he gave me a prescription to Xanax, I said how many do I take, he said take em til you feel better. So I did, 2 and a half monthes and 500 pills later I was hooked. Another doctor who I know happened to be fillin in for him when I went to get another prescription. She freaked out when i told her how many I had had, so she cut me off. I went thru a couple of weeks of physical living hell. I had been around folks addicted to various things thru the years and until then I thought it was just will power. Im here to tell you it aint, if you got that bug its a bad mofo.

But hey while I was taking them i was happy as Ive ever been in my life, it jsut took more and more to get me there, like all things LOL. And from what associates have told me later, I was functioning fine, other than one night at a gig I was on them and some folks handed me some Yagar to shoot, the guys had to take me home that night. But it was the only time I let anything like drinking or drugs get in the way of my playing.

I could probably write my own Behind the Music LOL

Crip, I thru the years experimented with lots of things as Im sure many here have, but when my ex-wife walked out the door I went into depression. So I went to a local doctor and told him what was up, he gave me a prescription to Xanax, I said how many do I take, he said take em til you feel better. So I did, 2 and a half monthes and 500 pills later I was hooked. Another doctor who I know happened to be fillin in for him when I went to get another prescription. She freaked out when i told her how many I had had, so she cut me off. I went thru a couple of weeks of physical living hell. I had been around folks addicted to various things thru the years and until then I thought it was just will power. Im here to tell you it aint, if you got that bug its a bad mofo.

I understand jw. I've gone through xanax withdrawls myself.
Scary as hell for me.
You're right. Will power isn't enough.

Yikes I'm so glad I never really took a liking to them! Everytime I took them, I'd just konk out! They were more like sleeping pills than happy pills to me hence the reason I still have sooo many in my med cabinet...never gave me that "happy" feeling thankfully..I'd be a freakin' mess right now I would guess..

It is a good thing Crip. Those things can give you seizures from WD.