Rock Stars who do tons and tons of drugs

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Jesus & Mary Chain, Marilyn Manson, Bobby Gillespie, Mercury Rev...(this could go on for weeks)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

rowland s howard, allegedly

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Keith Richard to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What kind of drugs? To cite pop favorites: We've got acid kids like the Flaming Lips, heroin addicts like Nirvana, Lou Reed, coke heads like (well I can't think of any primarily coke folks), and all rounders like Clapton, Keith Moon, Ringo (they go hand in hand here, I believe), The Stones, etc.). If you're counting pot as "drugs", don't.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My old roomate did coke and smoked some "extremely potent" grass with Tom Petty. She got the impression that it wasn't something he did on a regular basis though. The coke, that is.

― Will (will), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

One day i'm gonna come back to this thread and say "ME!"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

don't those douchebags from Oasis do mountains of coke?

― vid, caballero (cab vid), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's funny how one of the slang terms (around here anyway) for crack dealer is 'rock star'.

― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

And it's great how if you're embarrassed about buying a Von Dutch hat this summer, you can take a magic marker and turn it into DON BUTCH. (I just discovered this).

― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

BOREDOMS

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaun Ryder ownz. I once talked to a guy who had seen him in the airport, putting his stuff through the X-ray machine and just walking on like a fucking sleepwalker without collecting any of it. Totally smacked up and off his trolley.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

We've got acid kids like the Flaming Lips

actually, in the sleevenotes to 'finally the punks are taking acid', coyne says he only took acid a coupla times and didn't enjoy it.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the Flaming Lips are totally clean. Wayne has gone to great lengths to reinforce this.

The Super Furries, on the other hand...

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Ryan Adams (he can't recall a few Whiskeytown tours because of it)

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan Adams.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

coke heads like (well I can't think of any primarily coke folks

Dandy Warhols are the most recent.

― lifetime piling up (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Jonestown Massacre, they say

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Warlocks

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep reading that the neptunes are on the coke...

― Jole, Thursday, 18 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus & Mary Chain, Marilyn Manson, Bobby Gillespie

Well I have it from the horse's mouth (excuse the pun) (from someone who has toured with both, in case you're wondering) that JAMC and Bobby Gillespie are complete pussies - don't believe the hype

― The Spotlight Kid (kid), Thursday, 18 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie kept Columbia (the country, not the label) economically stable during the 70s

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 18 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a great 1992 interview with Sonic Boom, with at least 172 sample-ready instances of him lapsing into "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 19 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

But my favorite is Alice Cooper's celebrated addiction to *Budweiser*.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 19 December 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I imagine that a GOOD many artists are addicted to coke,
speed or meth, mainly because they have the ability and motive
to try it, and you can get addicted to those things after
1 or 2 tries.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant to add that they're addicted, but have managed to
keep this from becoming public knowledge.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

If you read the Motley Crue oral hist "The Dirt" you'll know who tops the list.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Julian Cope

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

brett anderson was doing coke, crack, acid and heroin. Now clean apparently.

― kinski (kinski), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

libertines. wasshisname did crack in a friends car.

― kinski (kinski), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Shaun Ryder
David Crosby

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I heard that EVERYONE's addicted to K but no one knows because everyone's too busy hiding it from one another.

― edglider, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently Jet does coke, according to rolling stone.

holla.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OZZY DOOD

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

otm edglider! you have to keep the horses in the stable. on another note. anyone... need any drugs?

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Coke is such a rotten drug. Nothing good comes of it. Weed is the only safe drug.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

no one's mentioned iggy yet.. joe cocker can't remember most of the 70s..

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and since relapse is a part of recovery,
I wonder how many of these "reformed" stars are back on the blow.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Wilson
Joe Walsh
Layne Staley

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Joe Walsh really do that many drugs? I thought he was just a stoner.

Now Roky Erickson,....there's a drug-taker!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently he's sober, back on his meds and his brother is legal guardian now.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Joe Walsh really do that many drugs? I thought he was just a stoner.

When Kurt Cobain checked into celebrity rehab, he ran into Walsh who was checking out.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well.

Has anyone mentioned the grand high poobah of drug-taking rockstars....Syd Barrett yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know that his consumption was extraordinary -
his scizophrenia was extraordinary.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The only drug that ever gave me real problems was weed... coke was AOK!

― noway (ex machina), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw two members of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead smoke crack (these were 2 seperate occasions) at Austin house parties ca. '98. I imagine they're clean now.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mars Volta smokes a lot of crack

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark E. Smith - speed.

What about Bez!?

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 15 April 2004 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Husker Du took lots of speed.

― Ayres (Z_Ayres), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that Jet article and it only confirmed my belief that there's nothing more boring than reading about other people doing drugs.

Jet=Bush

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian MacKaye used to drink tons of Coca-Cola...with CAFFEINE! Look at any Teen Idles-era photo - he was obsessed.

― mike a, Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Joe Walsh

I heard that he was so bad in the 70's - early 80's that he had to hire a bodyguard to keep him from getting so fucked that he couldn't make shows.

― Will (will), Thursday, 15 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Einstuerzende Neubauten. Shitty users (substances and people) and seedy fucks, all. Huge cokeheads, especially Blixa Bargeld and Alex Hacke. If you're around them, watch your wallet.

― kjoerup, Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

So the decadance Joe Walsh sang about in "Life's Been Good" is reality-based?

― mike a, Friday, 16 April 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i would very much like to hear that s. boom interview. or at least the first few minutes of it

― j. pantsman (jpantsman), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Anselmo. The guy lost chunks of his memory due to all the heroin.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

He had chunks of memory to lose? I thought he was essentially a raspy throat and a bald head.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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