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!

I read in the Relayer Remastered Edition booklet that Yes were staunch vegetarians during the 70s, mainly for health benefits. So I highly doubt they did drugs. If they didn't, good for them, it proves that freaking awesome music doesn't have to be chemically infleunced.
 

BaldFriede wrote: Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing. Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced.

Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this 

Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.

  oh, the scandal of it all!

  we should clarify for the conservatives that kurt cobain was "on drugs"....

 yes smoking pot doesn't qualify. .

 also, drugs are manufactured. cannabis is an herb.

 kirk

 

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 yeah? name a "drug" that isn't manufactured, legal or illegal besides pot

that comes to us right out of the ground.

 heroine, cocaine require intensive processing, as does meth ect.

 manufacturing LSD requires a knowledge of chemistry.

 while cannabis contains compounds, such as THC, they're not sythisized.

   isolating and synthisizing compounds allows the phamaceutical companies to

 file for patent.

 the reason pot is illegal in the US has nothing to w/ health concerns-

see tobacco, alchohol, which can be controlled and taxed, the root of the problem.

k

 

 

  those are plants and fungi. my point exactly.

 they contain varying degrees of mind alerting compounds,

but they're not "drugs". "drugs" are manufactured..by drug companies...

...sold in drug stores. too much of almost any plant can be toxic.

  we must have a different definition of "drugs"..or "druqks"

>  pot is manufactured, it's only the leaf itself which isn't.

    wheat is grown. pasta is manufactured from it.

 coca leaves are grown. cocaine, heroin is manufactured from it.

  what you're referring to is processing for consumption.

from webster's-

 Main Entry: ²manufacture
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -tured; man·u·fac·tur·ing /-'fak-ch&-ri[ng], -'fak-shri[ng]/
transitive senses
 : to make from raw materials by hand or by machinery b : to produce according to an organized plan and with division of labor
 : INVENT, FABRICATE
 : to produce as if by manufacturing : CREATE

  where the hell is the dutch guy?

k

krauthead wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing. Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced. Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this  Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.

you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too


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BaldJean wrote: krauthead wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing. Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced. Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this  Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second. you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too

Hi Jean and thx btw 

Sounds cool... never heard of that, does it exist in English language?

BaldJean wrote: krauthead wrote: BaldJean wrote: krauthead wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing. Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced. Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this  Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second. you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too Hi Jean and thx btw  Sounds cool... never heard of that, does it exist in English language? not that I know of, sorry

That's ok Jean 

Thanks, it was some serious good info anyway 

 we weren't discussing hashish. we were discussing marijuana, aka the herb.

Etymology: Middle English herbe, from Old French, from Latin herba

..if that's important somehow.

Main Entry: herb
Pronunciation: '&rb, US also and British usually 'h&rb
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
1 : a seed-producing annual, biennial, or perennial that does not develop persistent woody tissue but dies down at the end of a growing season
2 : a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic qualities
3 slang : MARIJUANA 2
- herb·like /'(h)&r-"blIk/ adjective
- herby /'(h)&r-bE/ adjective

 i'm breaking from the topic after this. it's a ridiculous subject to begin with.

 of course most of the 70's proggers were writng on various mind altering substances.

 and you know else? probably fornicating. .

 i should say, i haven't used an illegal drug in years.

it's just that the harm level doesn't match the hysteria.

as les claypool said "more people have died from eating cheese than from marijuana".

p e a c e out

kirk