Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601243)

Love this one;

"If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good- and CARES about any of it- to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working. "

-Frank Zappa, American musician

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601243)

Love this one;

"If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine- but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good- and CARES about any of it- to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working. "

-Frank Zappa, American musician

Originally Posted by stevemich (Post 7601247)

ahh yes - the man who called one of his children Moon Unit :lol:

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601331)

Doesn't seem to bother her though does it, she never changed her name. :D

Could have been worse, she could have been called Britney, Kylie, Chantelle, Michela, Shelby or any of the other common names doomed for some poor innocent wee lassie.

He was a genius, think you'll find others similar name their children bizarre names.

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 7601381)

Genius? Hmmm, each to his own.

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601391)

Och he was, musically, anyone who can compose classical music is usually deemed genius!

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 7601404)

Are they? Says who? Never heard that before. Anyway, did he compose or did the drugs? :sneaky:

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 7601404)

Are they? Says who? Never heard that before. Anyway, did he compose or did the drugs? :sneaky:

Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 7601413)

so you think the classical famed composers of the 19th centrury weren't taking drugs too?

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601418)

:thumbsup:

Of course they were - were they not clever cookies?

Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 7601425)

exactly, opium was the drug of choice in those days.

At the end of the day drugs are just a creative lubricant for some musicians. If drugs were solely responsible for creativity then everyone who took drugs would be reknowned

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 7601433)

Yip - Oscar Wilde, Keats, Shelley - they all used drugs too. Musicians and poets, that's what they did/do.

Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 7601413)

so you think the classical famed composers of the 19th centrury weren't taking drugs too?