pink floyd/ wizard of oz

[PhoenixRisin]

Originally Posted by Tom Brennan

I'd rather hear Judy sing "Over the Rainbow" than hear any of Pink Floyd's drug induced noodling.

It's a shame that Floyd gets accused of "drug induced noodling" all the time, simply because the people that may have enjoyed their music back then were so identifiable with drug culture.

After they all watched their founder and frontman Syd Barrett become a vegetable from LSD abuse in 1967, they claim that they really lost interest in and were saddened by drugs and drug culture and really didn't do drugs after that. And that was 1967, 5 years before Dark Side of the Moon, and well before they were even famous outside of London.

I'm sure they realize that people associate them with drugs and that they will never convince people that they themselves weren't big drug takers.

Either way, nobody can deny that they were/are still incredibly relevant musicians and have created music that untold millions around the world have enjoyed and cherished.

Something I've always prided myself on is being able to differentiate between things that I'm just not into and things that suck. I'm not into Miles Davis, but that doesn't mean he sucks.

Call me overly defensive, but as a professional musician, I have often been accused of being a druggy or a lowlife simply because I play a guitar for my paycheck, and that's a very narrow minded and judgmental way of thinking.

No offense meant to anyone, just my non-drug induced ramblings.