I've never understood it, but certain professions seem cursed by heavy
drug use ie. recording industry, entertainment and food service industry.
The big players I can understand; lots of stress, travel, too much money and
too much time; plus lots of enablers. But it also seems to heavily hit the
working joes in these fields. Must be cultural.
Charlie
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Most rock stars go through the wild booze-and-drugs phase, but then
> > realize it's killing them and eventually sober up. At that point, they
> > realize they feel better, play better. The ones I know are generally
> > still a lot of fun to be around, but with the added attraction of not
> > being whacked out on blow and whiskey.
> >
>
> I was working in a recording studio one night (that's to prove that I
> actually did) when the engineer and producer started doing a couple lines
> they had cut onto the mixing desk.
>
> Needless to say, I went a little ballistic. First of all, I didn't touch
> the
> stuff, but secondly, that junk does wonders to electronics and I was
> personally supervising over a hundred grand of gear in that room. I went
> into insulting mode and basically told them that they were worthless pieces
> of s*** and if they needed the drugs to do their job then they weren't any
> good. I carved them open, filleted them and left them to the scavengers. I
> kinda ruined their moment, so they put the stuff away and saved it for a
> bathroom break. I can't control their behavior outside the room, but in the
> room I had veto power and I used it. Neither one actually lasted long in
> the
> industry.
>
> Another time, at a BIG network production facility which produced multiple
> top-rated shows (I'm not naming names, here), the drugs flowed like coffee.
> At any given time, 2/3 of the people there had to be high. I kept my mouth
> shut because the culture of the entire place showed that I was an outsider
> and the equipment I was training people on and configuring was oned by the
> network. What was incredible, though, was six months later, the
> vegan-syndrome kicked in and when I returned, it was like a Baptist Social.
> The "Granola Heads" ruled.
>
> AG
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