"Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M."

hey ch'yall, it's wednesday, NOT 3 A.M...in fact its 4 in the afternoon. by the time i'm finishing this up, it may be eleven o'clock tonight. HOPEFULLY not. i have yet another concert to play in, this time at cheney hall along side of Pratt and Whitney's Screamin' Eagles Jazz Band. pretty nifty! maybe grampy should whip out his jazz flute =)

anywho, i'd like to take this time to talk about drugs and music. nick gave me a great idea for a rave (not the techno type of rave) for this blog.

so i can't officially consider this a "part 2" to the previous post, because the yayo ain't just for the rappers out there. this sort of unnatural creativity showed up in music a hundred years ago. jazz greats like miles davis and thelonious monk were becoming close personal friends with dope. and then of course the beatles in the sixties, along with every other woodstock era band.

i did my junior thesis paper on the formation and evolution of rock and roll, so along the way i encountered many topics of drugs in my research. i mean, more so than what i already knew. it's a little hard for the beatles to go unnoticed when they title one of their songs using the letters LSD (lucy in the sky with diamonds), and create an album (and movie) named "magical mystery tour". if you haven't gotten a chance to watch that movie, don't. if you haven't gotten a chance to listen to that album, then DO SO!

why? because its creative!

why? because its trippy!

why? because they were all drinking the electric kool-aid...OH YEAHHH!

a lot of the great artists of the late sixties and seventies were dependent on their acid to help them with their creativity and originality. and believe me, you can tell when something is not just spurted from the sober mind. when you start claiming you're a walrus or and eggman (or BOTH for that matter), then you know you're tripped out of your mind. believe it or not, "got to get you into my life" is written specifically about lsd, and paul's difficult decision to start using it. he gave in and ended up taking "another road that maybe i could see another kind of mind there".

don't get me started on the psychedelic era of rock and roll, because i consider that the prime example of how drugs can be an advantage of lyric writing. sure, why not venture into a new state of mind, because it holds ideas that the clean mind cannot even touch.

sadly though, lsd is...well...bad. and at any point in your life, regardless of whether or not you are taking it, you can start tripping out. must be why paul mccartney continues to write music about his "feet in the clouds"...which actually is a good song. it's off his most recent album "memory almost full"...which ACTUALLY is a good album. so check it out.

well it's currently 11:03. see? i told you i wouldn't finish this till late. and it's not terribly long either. so i'll keep it at that. tomorrow i will start my album reviews! i'll basically pick a random album, most likely recent, and then rave/rate.

until then, cheers!



-Johnny