scottishcelts

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

stevemich

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

Broad Shoulders

or was that Renth?

scottishcelts

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

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.

moneypenny20

Genius? Hmmm, each to his own.

scottishcelts

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

Don't mean they are particularly sane, but somewhat genuis.

moneypenny20

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

Broad Shoulders

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

scottishcelts

Think so yip, says me. Obviously the drugs played a part, but some of the best poetry and songs have been written under the unfluence, right back in time.

Jim Morrison, Marc Bolan, just a few other poets that ended up doomed in a rock band.

scottishcelts

Of course they were - were they not clever cookies?

Broad Shoulders

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

scottishcelts

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

Broad Shoulders

yes it seems to be a genius of the artistic kind these days you have to have been born in the 19th century.
People don't seemt o be able to attribute the term with many of the 60s artistic crusaders simply because it was a time of open drug taking. For me, I would also add Hendrix to the list of geniuses

moneypenny20

When did I say or think that?

haggis supper

Personally I like...

"The helicopter is changing direction..."