The work involved in composing, writing lyrics, the arrangements, the writing necessary for each instrument, the engineering & mixing involved, the many rehearsals involved, and the producers, managers, publicists, record company executives, budgets, deadlines, legal contracts, promotional activities and concert scheduling & logistics, album cover & layout, etc., & etc., - no guys, they were not getting and being high on illegal street drugs in order for them to perform all the duties, requirements & expectations demanded of them. Drugs are inept for managing high pressure situations. Drugs would have crippled them. Although they may have indulged in any off cycle period in their lives, but when writing lyrics, composing music and getting it documented and being in the studio - no way! There’s no way they touched drugs and then come out with the quality output that they did. Drugs don’t enhance anything, they only tear down, and break down, and destroy and ruin. And degrade, diminish. “Every junkie is like the setting sun, gone, gone, gone”. Heavy use leads only to rehab. This is not the legacy they’ve left. They have earned our respect.
@mjmccash2112 My friend, LSD does not create junkies, it is an entirely different animal. Non-addictive, and mind expanding (the point), LSD is an adventure, not a lifestyle. All of the "Moodies" knew that and they're writing is unquestionably fueled by psychedelics - not while they were "on it", but after the trip when they were clear and most creative. Thus the beauty, with no chaos or confusion.
@mjmccash2112 My friend, LSD does not create junkies, it is an entirely different animal. Non-addictive, and mind expanding (the point), LSD is an adventure, not a lifestyle. All of the "Moodies" knew that and they're writing is unquestionably fueled by psychedelics - not while they were "on it", but after the trip when they were clear and most creative. Thus the beauty, with no chaos or confusion.
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This is from an interview with Justin Hayward: “I went through that phase for about a year. The first time we did it, we did it as a group, with myself, Ray, Mike and Graeme (Edge). We all went into Richmond Park and we had the most amazing trip. It was just absolutely wonderful. And the next time I did it with my girlfriend, and it was just wonderful. And then one day I did it with Graeme and went to some awful club and the whole thing went terribly wrong, so that was the last time I did it.”...
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This is from an interview with Justin Hayward: “I went through that phase for about a year. The first time we did it, we did it as a group, with myself, Ray, Mike and Graeme (Edge). We all went into Richmond Park and we had the most amazing trip. It was just absolutely wonderful. And the next time I did it with my girlfriend, and it was just wonderful. And then one day I did it with Graeme and went to some awful club and the whole thing went terribly wrong, so that was the last time I did it.” His start to finish using drugs/LSD was in 1967-68 less than a year and involved a few times. Here he describes three times “and that was it”. So clearly drugs was not a tool he used to polish his craft. He went on to say this: “I remember always having a notepad near the bed— or wherever I was — after I’d taken a couple of trips and writing miraculous philosophical stuff down. Of course, when you look at it the next day, it’s complete nonsense”. And that was the end of that, this and that bad trip in the foul club with Graeme. (Which would had been his very last time, in early 1968). The thing is, if LSD were anything like unto what you had described & advocated, I don’t think Justin would have had such a very short career with it, especially given that he quit the drugs at the very beginning of his career - and that 95% of his published creativity (probably statistically more than that) was not on any drugs (where “on” meaning not even in the same year(s) his music was created & recorded). If he found anything like unto what advocates claim, I think he most probably would have continued. But Justin characterized the output of LSD as “nonsense”. So there you go. That and the fact that it’s illegal for a reason - and it has a definitive track record of doing a tremendous amount of harm a thousand times more than any pretended good it has ever done, hence its illegality and general lack of ethical, social & moral acceptance in civilized society
The work involved in composing, writing lyrics, the arrangements, the writing necessary for each instrument, the engineering & mixing involved, the many rehearsals involved, and the producers, managers, publicists, record company executives, budgets, deadlines, legal contracts, promotional activities and concert scheduling & logistics, album cover & layout, etc., & etc., - no guys, they were not getting and being high on illegal street drugs in order for them to perform all the duties, requirements & expectations demanded of them. Drugs are inept for managing high pressure situations. Drugs would have crippled them. Although they may have indulged in any off cycle period in their lives, but when writing lyrics, composing music and getting it documented and being in the studio - no way! There’s no way they touched drugs and then come out with the quality output that they did. Drugs don’t enhance anything, they only tear down, and break down, and destroy and ruin. And degrade, diminish. “Every junkie is like the setting sun, gone, gone, gone”. Heavy use leads only to rehab. This is not the legacy they’ve left. They have earned our respect.
@mjmccash2112 My friend, LSD does not create junkies, it is an entirely different animal. Non-addictive, and mind expanding (the point), LSD is an adventure, not a lifestyle. All of the "Moodies" knew that and they're writing is unquestionably fueled by psychedelics - not while they were "on it", but after the trip when they were clear and most creative. Thus the beauty, with no chaos or confusion.
@mjmccash2112 My friend, LSD does not create junkies, it is an entirely different animal. Non-addictive, and mind expanding (the point), LSD is an adventure, not a lifestyle. All of the "Moodies" knew that and they're writing is unquestionably fueled by psychedelics - not while they were "on it", but after the trip when they were clear and most creative. Thus the beauty, with no chaos or confusion.
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@mjmccash2112 This is from an interview with Justin Hayward: “I went through that phase for about a year. The first time we did it, we did it as a group, with myself, Ray, Mike and Graeme (Edge). We all went into Richmond Park and we had the most amazing trip. It was just absolutely wonderful. And the next time I did it with my girlfriend, and it was just wonderful. And then one day I did it with Graeme and went to some awful club and the whole thing went terribly wrong, so that was the last time I did it.”...
@mjmccash2112 This is from an interview with Justin Hayward: “I went through that phase for about a year. The first time we did it, we did it as a group, with myself, Ray, Mike and Graeme (Edge). We all went into Richmond Park and we had the most amazing trip. It was just absolutely wonderful. And the next time I did it with my girlfriend, and it was just wonderful. And then one day I did it with Graeme and went to some awful club and the whole thing went terribly wrong, so that was the last time I did it.” His start to finish using drugs/LSD was in 1967-68 less than a year and involved a few times. Here he describes three times “and that was it”. So clearly drugs was not a tool he used to polish his craft. He went on to say this: “I remember always having a notepad near the bed— or wherever I was — after I’d taken a couple of trips and writing miraculous philosophical stuff down. Of course, when you look at it the next day, it’s complete nonsense”. And that was the end of that, this and that bad trip in the foul club with Graeme. (Which would had been his very last time, in early 1968). The thing is, if LSD were anything like unto what you had described & advocated, I don’t think Justin would have had such a very short career with it, especially given that he quit the drugs at the very beginning of his career - and that 95% of his published creativity (probably statistically more than that) was not on any drugs (where “on” meaning not even in the same year(s) his music was created & recorded). If he found anything like unto what advocates claim, I think he most probably would have continued. But Justin characterized the output of LSD as “nonsense”. So there you go. That and the fact that it’s illegal for a reason - and it has a definitive track record of doing a tremendous amount of harm a thousand times more than any pretended good it has ever done, hence its illegality and general lack of ethical, social & moral acceptance in civilized society