Are drugs less common in prog?

King of Loss wrote: It depends on the band  But I'm 100000000% percent sure that Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull were big acid treepers!

Yes were clean, and so were Tull. Not sure about KC tho.

in general, prog bands use way less drugs than hard rock and metal bands.

The Doctor wrote: The Miracle wrote: King of Loss wrote: It depends on the band  But I'm 100000000% percent sure that Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull were big acid treepers! Yes were clean, and so were Tull. Not sure about KC tho. in general, prog bands use way less drugs than hard rock and metal bands. Yes were clean???? Come on...I've heard Squire talk about the drug culture of the band, and let's face it, Jon's been doing coke so long, you could grind him up and snort him and get high.  Don't know about Tull, but I'm sure KC tripped the light fantastic quite a few times.

I'm sure Tull did not take drugs.  Anderson announced at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival something along the lines of "Tear down the fence, score some pot," mocking the hippy culture.  I'm sure Yes took drugs.  I've read interviews with Jon Anderson about how they smoked pot all the time.  Don't know about KC.  Frank Zappa didn't take drugs either.

Does anyone know about Genesis and ELP?

The Miracle wrote: King of Loss wrote: It depends on the band  But I'm 100000000% percent sure that Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull were big acid treepers! Yes were clean, and so were Tull. Not sure about KC tho. in general, prog bands use way less drugs than hard rock and metal bands.

Yes were complete dopeheads!

Anderson's gibberish lyrics came to him from smoking tea leaves (he actually jokes about this in concert). Squire was quoted recently as TFTO albums concept was due to too much toking!

Most musicians did something (beit alcohol or more elicit stuff) and the prog bands did not escape that anymore than others!

Tull and Zappa being a bit more of an exception...... Drugs were discouraged but those two leaders needed no drugs tobe trippy.... 21%O2 + 78% N2 did the trick for them!

Are you kidding me?

Quote Mojo Mag

""Me and Dikmik had been up four days on Dexedrine spansules, so we were pretty well bent", Lemmy explains. "But we had this gog at the roundhouse - the one where we recorded Silver Machine - so we had a couple of Mandrax to calm us down. Then it got a bit boring, so we had two black bombers each. We get to the roundhouse and somebody comes up with alot of Bombers, and we take 10 each - a lot. Then someone comes up with some Mandrax, and we were getting very twisted up by now, so we had at least three each to calm us down again. Then someone came up with cocaine, f**king big bags of it, and we thought we'd have some of that. All this time in the dressing room theres constant smoking - we were all blasted out of our heads from dope. And people were producing acid and mescaline. We all had some of that. By the time we come to go onstage me and DikMik are stiff as boards. I said I can't move can you? He went, 'no its great isnt it?' I said what are we gonna do when we cant play? He said ' we'll think of something...."

FUNNY sh*t!!!!

Pink Floyd( have you seen pompei), KC, Yes (Quote Squire "What can I say? We smoked alot of dope" Mojo)

Thats all I can be 100% sure on but I'm sure there are hundreds more.

I think its great - If more bands had done drugs the music would be even better