talent = depression?

There is a saying "a misplaced childhood is a writer's goldmine", perhaps we could change this into "a misplaced childhood is a musician's goldmine", just read the biographies about the troubled childhoods of  Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, Ozzy Osbourne, Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, Fish .... it inspired them to deliver very emotional and compelling music!

Edited by erik neuteboom - October 26 2007 at 18:41

There is a great Arthur C. Clarke novel called "Childhood's end", which inspired the lyrics for Watcher of the Skies and the album cover of Houses of the Holy. In it a race of superior aliens guides humanity into it's next stage; somewhere around the middle of the book Clarke hypothetises (does this word exist?) that art is just a way for ill humans to express their angst and disillusion, and that is why the superior race of aliens did not appreciate music or any other form of art, because with them being superior, their "soul" did not had the missing pieces the human soul has, so music was just a random variation of air pressure to them. I don't know how much I personally agree with this, but it is an interesting idea nonetheless.


Edited by electricsilence - October 26 2007 at 17:39