The quote may not be available on the website. It was on page 24 of the June 2003 issue along with quotes by other musicians.
And as for his comments in Rolling Stone, gee, you encourage young bands to take as many drugs as possible.
Why, so they can end up a has-been like you are and throw all of their money away on drugs and watch their talent level go down the toilet along with their careers?
Great, just fucking great.:rolleyes:
I don’t think any teenagers are listening to Evan Dando on this topic. I’m fifteen, one of the “youth of the world” that he’s apparently corrupting, and I’ve never even heard of him. I wouldn’t even read about an interview with him, much less try to emulate him.
AE has a good point. It’s not like The Lemonheads are all that relevant anymore.
Anymore?
Look, this is really not a black-and-white issue. More than a few artists have derived inspiration from drugs. In recent years, Paul McCartney has said that Sgt. Pepper never would have happened without pot. I’m not even going to go into the litany of other rock and jazz musicians who have extolled the virtues of that particular drug.
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road during a series of amphetamine binges. Writer and renouned intellectual Aldous Huxley advocated psychedelics until the day he died - guided off into the afterworld with a few hundred micrograms of LSD.
Drugs change the way your brain perceives things. Sometimes these altered perceptions can manifest themselves in visionary artistic accomplishments. Sometimes they are nothing more than the beginning of the road to addiction, despair, and ruin. Sometimes both. Other times, neither. It all depends on the person.
But anyway, as other posters have pointed out, it’s not like anyone is even listening to anything Evan Dando is saying in the first place. The Lemonheads had two mildly successful singles nine years ago, and one of them was just an uninspired cover of “Mrs. Robinson.”
Interesting how selfish all these former users are.
Everything that has been posted by former addicts here, in this thread, relates to themselves or other addicts and friends, but not a thing about the effect it has on those who do not take such substances, the victims of their crimes, from simple robbery, of the destruction of their own families, to the sheer massive cost in lost work hours and the bill for the criminal justice system.
It might be that heroin is a beautiful drug for the user, I often come across addicts who will say that heroin ‘talks’ to them and makes them feel safe, but lets widen our perspective just a little.
Frankly I don’t give a damn about drug users doing harm to themselves, it’s their issue and not mine.
If they can control their habit, or at least function, then fine, but when their habit infringes on the rights of others, then I would fucking kill them (yes really).
I despise junkies, they are utter low down scum who seem to think they know everything when all they know is how to steal, cheat, lie and kill for their next hit, and they will use their partners, thier family and I have even witnessed junkies using childrens nappies(which were being worn by the child at the time) to smuggle drugs through secure areas.
Well, they did give us “Into Your Arms,” which I consider one of the all-time pop-music glories, kinda like the La’s “There She Goes.” (Though now in retrospect, I wonder if “Into Your Arms” was also about drugs.)
Whoa-the OP was banned-how come?
Trying heroin, I bet.
Based on his topic, I can’t say I’ll miss him.
Maybe there’s a lifetime limit on rolleye-smileys, and you get automatically banned after you use your last one.
I just did a search of his posts for the last five days or so, and didn’t find anything ban-worthy. I’m guessing that means sock puppetry.
Can’t say I’m sorry. Guy was getting on my nerves.
Evan Dando lived on my floor freshman year at college. Ketamine is much much better than Heroin.
I know! I noticed on another thread the dreaded “banned” under his name and did a search to try to figure out why. Surely it couldn’t be becuase of the drug use since, what, half the people in this thread also admit to drug use? And there was that whole “3 mushrooms” thread and that poster never got banned. Hmm…
Huh - the only reason I’m IN this thread is because I was searching for something BANworthy from Payton’s Servant . Still haven’t found it. Anyone else?
Nice thread, though - I’ve had NO experience with drugs, but the posts from ex-users are both informative and fascinating.
I think he compounded several offenses in a short time. This thread, and the Haley Barbor/Head Start/whorehouse thread, and possibly another one.
Eureka! Just a theory, but I think you all might take a peek at threads Payton’s Servant started on 5/22 in General Questions. I’m not even going to say any more, or link. It’s a BIG NO NO.
Also, I think that on volatile subjects, media are responsible for presenting BOTH sides of the issue, and giving EQUAL time. Has anyone else found the magazine article that the OP was about? I think Rolling Stone was irresponsible, if they did not cover this topic responsibly. They should bring up the harm that drug use causes in some way. They should give the con side just as much weight (ok, not necessarily the same space, but eual weight) as the pro side. That’s just good world citizenship.
Payton’s Servant used to post under another name, which was banned. When we found this out, I banned this name. Sheesh.
Could you tell us which name? The one before, I mean?
Back to the OP,
I read the article this weekend while traveling to my parents. I don't recall Dando specifically saying that .."it was beautiful", but I do recall him specifically saying something along the lines of "drugs are something everyone needs to do". I can'te quote exactly as I don't have the magazine anymore - I left it at my parents house.
I think that all the arguements made here against Heroin can be applied to alcohol ("it devistates your life" "It can kill you" "It ruins your family's life" "It can be fun"). I don't see anyone getting all worked up over beer ads showing a great time.
The point is, Rolling Stone is a pretty irrelevant magazine these days. As is Dando (and/or the lemonheads). If anyone reads that article and is *so* impressioned that they have to immediately go shoot up somewhere, I don't know that they wouldn't have done it anyway.