Musicians that have done time series#

I felt like Superman onstage, and I played that way. In my early 20s, I discovered cocaine, and that was it-my problem was solved. In my teen years, I discovered alcohol, and that made me feel really good-I really relaxed and settled down and paid more attention to things. I really had trouble completing tasks-I couldn’t sit still.

Attention deficit didn’t even exist back then. Walsh: I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger’s in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid.

When I started smoking weed, in ’65, ’66, it kind of enhanced those magic feelings. It was just the silence and Mother Nature, no one around-it was an awful lot of magic there. So I grew up in the woods listening to the wind. Tyler: I was a beautiful little boy that lived in the woods of New England, New Hampshire. Some see these expectations as having played a part in what happened to them, though most ultimately see their decisions and actions as also-if not mainly-a matter of their own psychology and personality and predisposition.ģ3, French singer-songwriter Chuck Grant Before Sobriety

Musicians that have done time series#

In the modern pop-culture tradition, being a musician has often come with a series of default lifestyle expectations, ones of indulgence and recklessness, larger-than-life living, and a diligent pursuit of altered forms of consciousness. Some see signiﬁcant correlations here some don’t. Some created the work that made them ﬁrst or best known before they were sober some have done so since. Some were clean before the end of their teenage years some only surfaced into sobriety much later in their lives. Some found themselves at the edge of the precipice, or worse others simply re-routed from a path or trajectory that they came to see as unwise.

Some drank, some used drugs, some did more or less everything, and they did so to very different degrees. This is a story about sober musicians-about the life that has led them here, and about the life that they live now-but there is no single story here.