How do musicians survive after all those years of drug and alcohol abuse?
>>127854694Money.
Your body recovers pretty quickly if you quit. Also, if you have read much about 20th century music you would notice how many do not survive. Not even just the big names like Hendrix or Cobain either. Life expectancy for a professional musician in the 20th century was probably about the same as a dam builder or coal miner.
>>127854756You also get people like Brian Wilson, Roky Erickson or Syd Barret who fried their brains and basically became cataleptic retards for the rest of their lives.
>>127854778Peter Green too ;_:
>>127854694they don't. ever met one?
Drugs are the worst thing to happen to any talented musician.
boomers were built differentgen x ended up dead
>>127854694Most of them were only alcoholics or drug addicts for a few years at most. They get sober then keep larping as an addict because it makes them look cool.
>>127854694you can recover if you quit early enough, if you don't quit by 40 it's too late and quitting can actually kill you from withdrawal symptoms.
it seems you either die or get sober
>>127854694They never did as much as you think they did. Those who actually did are deadMaybe Jimmy Page took one sip from that bottle but you think he drank it like lemonade
>>127854694The cap was still on>>127854704This
>>127856166his addiction wasn't booze
>>127854694many of them are actually slightly retarded from the use, they just hide it really well. nikki sixx comes to mind. frusciante too, have you heard some of his solo shit? you'd need to be slightly brain damaged to make some of it
>>127854694It’s just an act, they make it seem like they spent all their time on hard drugs and alcohol, but it's no like that
>>127856055This. The stones were the blueprint for this, keef mostly stuck to weed and cigarettes. Hard drugs were an occasional treat, they weren't knocking back bags of Mexico's finest every weekThe genuine alcoholics ended up with fatal alcohol poisoning at 27 like Amy Winehouse, liver failure at 43 like Rory Gallagher, or dead of a heart attack at 50 like Gary Moore. Same goes for the druggies, most fried their brains or found themselves at the bottom of a swimming pool like Moon.90% of rock n roll is image and that image is always exaggerated. It's a business, and you can't be touring and performing every night for decades if you're off your tits.You get the odd old alkie like Ian McCulloch who's still going at 60, but they're an embarrassment to watch (assuming they don't fall off the stage 3 songs in)
Just look at this photo. Everything about this is staged
>>127854694Most of them don't, like Bonzo didn't, some of them sell their souls to the devil and keep it going.
>>127854694Jimmy Page doesn't count, because he made a pact with the devilso even though he spent the 70s in his coke and heroin fueled pedo antics, he managed to survive as the leader of one of the greatest rock acts of all timehe was actually supposed to die by the end of the 70s, but turned Bonham's and Plant's son's souls to the devil insteadthen he lived the rest of his days as a chinese man in his giant mansion reading Crawler and releasing new Gibson custom guitars with a wife less than half his agePlus, he got away with everything
>>127857665pretty great deal if you ask me
>>127857665>ohhhh whatchu say? I make fuck fuck with rittle kids? Nooooo haha I just Jimmy Pang, from Red Zepprin!
>>127856765Yeah, everyone always jokes about Ozzy's voice, but it was clear he had brain damage.
>>127857665>girlfriend named Scarlett>daughter named Scarletwhat's the play here
>>127857311>Slash after drinking too much orange juice
>>127857204Or Malcolm Young dropping at 60 from alcohol-induced dementia.
Elton John and Stevie Nicks almost dropped in the late 80s from out of control coke abuse; both were lucky to have survived at all.
>>127854694Having sex with 14 year old groupies does wonders for a man's vitality, apparently.
>>127857311Are you telling me a photoshoot is staged?
RHCP bullshitted a lot of that too, Hillel (dead) and John were the only serious drug users in the band and John did suffer some obvious permanent damage from it because he never could play like he did in 89-92 again after getting clean.
>>127858441everything's a ritual with this dude
>>127858637see >>127858623
>>127858441Great feet game on the young broad, Pager's a knower.
And Lemmy, well he only lived to 69 not really that old and he was looking pretty skeletal his last 5 years.
>>127858637actually get into serious drug use and you drop like Whitney Houston did, not yet 50 and she also completely trashed her voice
>>127858637Not true. Read the Anthony Keidis book. Dude has always been a major degenerate heroin user. Really bad. As a former user I got so many bad cravings reading it. He should have easily died along time ago
>>127858441he's a well known occultist who follows the teachings of Aleister Crowley
>>127854704fpbp/thread
>>127857311lmao based
Nikki Six and all of Motley Crue are very lucky they haven't died
>It's an act
>>127859460nikki six was one of the few that realized they needed to quit/moderate in older age
>>127857311>SoftpackWe use to be a real country
>>127854694In the case of Keith by massively exaggerating to the press.
>>127858637Wasn't John shooting straight into his muscles because he just didn't know smack goes in the veins or some dumb shit?
>>127859460I'd probably think of quitting if my dealer saw me OD and tossed me a dumpster, those fuckers were insane.
>>127856765nikki sixx did heroin once in the 80s and hasn't stopped talking about it since.
>>127858450Acid reflux is no joke.
>>127856166think this is after his pinky finger got crushed in a train door or something and was drinking brutally for pain relief before be switched to smack
>>127858623some of these men lived like kings, damn. if i had consistently fresh 13-17 year-old pussy i think i'd live forever.
>>127854694they don't
>>127854694They usually don't.Big abusers don't live past 27, Amy Winehouse style. Small abusers can reach 50, no more.When you see someone like MIck Jagger in their 80s you pretty much know his flaunting about drugs was all an act.
>>127854694Survive? anyone can do that bub...Its staying skinny that's the issue...t. Well... You can pretty much guess already...
>>127861273You can either drink or eat, not both.
>>127859852In most cases anon. Obviously there are exceptions and Perry's a jew - they're basically unkillable
>>127857311of course its staged you fucking retard its a photo
>>127857311>look at this photo! it's le staged! they never actually did that many drugs! they're le hiding somethign!!people like this think chemtrails are real
>>127858450My first thought was how hilarious it is that it's this alcoholic rocker highway to hell lost cause shoot except for some reason they went with a damn screwdriver lol
>>127861273Axl ? That you?
>>127863685I've got a Rolling Stones record and a bottle of Jack Daniels to sell you.
>>127856166You're such a clueless virgin zoomer piece of shit
>>127861314Booze is incredibly calorie dense numbnuts
>>127863779based, sign me up
>>127854694Well the drugs then weren't as dogshit as now
they don't make drugs like that anymore
Drugs and alcohol are not that bad, most rock stars died from accidents caused by them. Goyslop and sedentarism are worst for your health. Since the 70s every Rolling Stones member but the drummer were addicts to booze and drugs, guess who died first?
>>127863817Exactly?
>>127864396Charlie was a smackhead in the 80s
