# Rock stars who avoid alcohol/drugs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891 "2007-02-27T17:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/1 "2007-02-27T17:06:08Z")
Inspired by the recent “Rock’n’Rollers who never screwed groupies” thread, I would like to make a similar query : What rock stars have avoided alcohol and/or drugs? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/2 "2007-02-27T17:14:31Z")
Gene Simmons and Dee Snider, for starters. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/3 "2007-02-27T17:14:48Z")
Frank Zappa. He died young anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/4 "2007-02-27T17:15:20Z")
I’m gonna guess Cat Stevens because he’s muslim and all. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/5 "2007-02-27T17:37:46Z")
Britney Spears. Plus, she’s a virgin. What? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/6 "2007-02-27T17:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Britney Spears. Plus, she’s a virgin. What? [/QUOTE] What indeed :rolleyes: Everybody knows she’s not a rock star 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/7 "2007-02-27T17:48:19Z")
In DMC’s autobiography, he says that of all the rap groups he toured with, Will Smith was the one guy that he never saw doing any drugs. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/8 "2007-02-27T18:05:24Z")
Not rock stars but they act like them - Penn & Teller. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/9 "2007-02-27T18:10:10Z")
I’d always heard that Ted Nugent never touched the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/10 "2007-02-27T18:28:36Z")
**Ian Anderson** (Jethro Tull) and **Robert Fripp** (King Crimson) have always been firmly anti-drugs. Anderson has been known to berate the audience for smoking their “fucking marijuana” while he was singing. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/11 "2007-02-27T18:30:12Z")
Ian Anderson. I don’t know that he’s never done drugs, but certainly not on tour. From what I’ve heard he views music as a business, acts accordingly, and expects the same from his fellow Tull members. At least one member was chased off in the early 70’s for excessive partying, IIRC I used Edit! Mark this date on your calender. What **Biffy the Elephant Shrew** said. I’ve heard Ian bitch out an audience for smoking regular cigs, pot really pissed him off. Cranky old dude 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/12 "2007-02-27T18:31:59Z")
Bruce Springsteen is another anti-druggie ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/13 "2007-02-27T18:39:51Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I’d always heard that Ted Nugent never touched the stuff. [/QUOTE] This may be some false memory but I think there was one of those Biographies on VH1 about him and I think they said he never did drugs but did have a problem with alcohol but has been clean for quite some time now. I also thought Alice Cooper stayed away from all that too. I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/14 "2007-02-27T18:39:55Z")
I think the Fugazi guys are all straightedge. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/15 "2007-02-27T18:42:51Z")
[QUOTE=capybara] I think the Fugazi guys are all straightedge. [/QUOTE] That’s my understanding too. I remember seeing them about a hundred years ago in my youth and they were pretty adament about people not getting f\*$ked up at the show. Great show by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/16 "2007-02-27T18:50:32Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] That’s my understanding too. I remember seeing them about a hundred years ago in my youth and they were pretty adament about people not getting f\*$ked up at the show. Great show by the way. [/QUOTE] A hundred years ago in your youth? I feel old. I had to look these guys up, as I’d never heard of them before. Their Wikipedia entry says they had an international following by the late 1980s; I was in Thailand by then, but I guess they’d not made it here. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/17 "2007-02-27T18:56:46Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] What **Biffy the Elephant Shrew** said. I’ve heard Ian bitch out an audience for smoking regular cigs, pot really pissed him off. [/QUOTE] (hijack) Last time I saw Jethro Tull, a few years ago, as soon as the lights went down, the guy in the seat in front of me started fumbling for his smuggled-in baggie, and soon the air around him was full of the familiar odor… …of a peanut butter sandwich. Times have changed! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/18 "2007-02-27T18:58:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] A hundred years ago in your youth? I feel old. I had to look these guys up, as I’d never heard of them before. Their Wikipedia entry says they had an international following by the late 1980s; I was in Thailand by then, but I guess they’d not made it here. ☹ [/QUOTE] It sure feels like a hundred years. 😉 My cousin, the rabid Madonna fan, tells me that once she started getting famous hasn’t touched any drugs because she’s such a control freak. I have nothing to substantiate that claim, however. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/19 "2007-02-27T18:58:47Z")
Alice Cooper was reportedly not into drugs, but he was an alcoholic for a long time. His album “From The Inside” is based on when he committed himself to a mental hospital to detox. He’s been sober since then, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891/20 "2007-02-27T19:00:20Z")
Re: Nugent [QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] This may be some false memory but I think there was one of those Biographies on VH1 about him and I think they said he never did drugs but did have a problem with alcohol but has been clean for quite some time now. [/QUOTE] That’s what I remember too, but _don’t even_ let him get anywhere near the no boinkin’ groupies thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-who-avoid-alcohol-drugs/393891.md?page=2)