Who cares? It pretty much goes hand in hand with being creative.

Mong said:

I would dispute that, it is entirely possible to be creative without taking drugs, sheesh...Taking drugs doesn't make creative people more creative. If at all, creative types tend to hate to be bored and take drugs in the downtime from being creative. If you can fill your free-time with interesting stuff or contantly making music like Prince does, you don't need drugs.

Seem's he's gotten fried on a few occasions, but he doesn't appear to be an alchoholic or drug addict. He was definitely on "something" during the infamous james brown/michael jackson video. I also recall discussion on the message boards about him being hooked on painkillers around 98-99 or so. He looked kinda lit in some of the press pictures around the time of Rave.

Tom said:

yes

Mong said:

U have no CLUE.

Most of Prince's posse over the years have been infamous coke fiends, like Morris Day. Eric Leeds has been a heroin user but he hasn't touched the stuff for years. Prince has never been hooked on drugs though, but he has definitely tried coke and on one occasion ecstasy. The temptation to try new things and get hooked on drugs must be unbearable taking into acount the kind of envirionment rock stars inhabit on a daily basis. All said kudos to Prince for not falling under that particular spell and for emerging from it all relatively unscathed

Handel said:

RIGHT! Even if he HAS tryed a lil of this a lil of that. He's no junkie! Ugh! Just another thing that adds to the list of how great he is!

It's a well established fact that throughout the 90s he was a heavy intravenous heroin user.

NouveauDance said:

Too right. He was shooting heavily up their jacksies

Graycap23 said:

I was just about to say that, but unlike some folks (coughtomcough) I read the posts before mine. Of course, on some of the longer threads I don't bother so.... yeah, you don't need drugs to fuel your creativity. If anything creative people start having serious problems with them when the creative flow starts to wane a bit. It's hard to replace that high of coming up with great ideas.

Tom said:

HEY where can i see that video of james brown, MJ and

whodknee said:

i knew somehow this would be used as concrete proof!

Se7enkisses said:

http://www.dailymotion.co...video/2361

Tom said:

[b]OMG!!! I....I.....cant talk right now.....

Obviously he's had a glass or two of wine--and Christopher Tracy seemed to have a bit of a problem.

He references pot a lot. I wouldnt't be surprised if he'd smoked a bit. But as he said "education got important...even more important that ripple & weed" and it seems partying may be okay with him, but not just because "everything else got wrong."

In my opinion Prince looked drugged-out during the mid-late nineties, i mean: look at the tv-performances around that time, he looked scarily thin, he didnt seem happy, and his behaviour was sometimes weird, even for the artist called Prince (Tora Tora, We are the world during the AMA).

It might be he was depressed around that time, or anorexic, i mean: he just didnt seem healthy at all and most of all he often seemed UNHAPPY: a quite unsettling sight.

As i said, it might have nothing to with drugs, but it was not a nice period to look (and listen) at him.

Apart from that, i am not surprised if it turned out that Prince used coke during the early eighties, i am thinking about that performance with James Brown and Michael Jackson, he was definitely on 'something' there.

So you think Prince might of been anorexic?

I think a lot of fans have a hard time thinking of Prince using drugs recreationally, because of a seemingly strong anti-drugs theme that is consistent throughout his music - so they tend to build up a strong anti-drugs image of him.

Whenever stories or rumours have been told before, often people are vehement in their denial that these might be true.
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The first time I can recall Prince looking really ill is at the beginning of the Nude tour in 1990. He looked like he'd bleached his face in flour and he looked stick thin.

luv4all7 said:

Have you noticed the sleeve of The Vault? (cd)

Does it really matter?

EmbattledWarrior said:

I don't suppose it does, I'm just trying to make a point.

goosebumps said:

What?

luv4all7 said:

Was that a Morris day impersonation?

goosebumps said:

The passwords What?

No, what was on the sleeve?

luv4all7 said:

I'm just getting at how thin Prince looked on the sleeve of "The Vault", he did look very thin.

goosebumps said:

And lazy, his head hung down, cant open his eyes--probably heroin.

Just viewed the Prince, JB, MJ clip. Maybe the streetlight prop should've been nailed to the stage? I don't think he expected to be summoned to perform and clearly was in no shape to do so. It seems to be a combination of ETOH/upper of some kind. Everyone's entitled to a night out and it's not like he drove himself home. You'd NEVER see this behavior during a concert or video. He's too much of a control freak. But when James Brown requests your presence you gotta do it. It took awhile before he was finally CARRIED to the stage by the bodyguard.

goosebumps said:

Oh, well Prince is very thin, but SEXY!

Metalorange and Graycap, you're completely missing the point. But then I didn't elaborate on my statement, so fair enough.

I did not say that drugs make you more creative. The problem with being creative is that it tends to go hand in hand with being prone to periods of self-doubt and low self esteem, since a piece of art (from whatever field) will always be in some manner an extension of yourself, with that person having a high degree of emotional investment in their work. What other job invites daily and constant critique from people you don't know? Prince not affected by bad reviews? Of course he has been and always will be. Add to this the regular periods of "writer's block" which every songwriter/writer goes through at some point...or maybe your most recent tour hasn't sold so well...I could go on and on...you pretty much subject to having a life of irregular ups and downs. But then would your average creative person be happy doing a 9 to 5 cul-de-sac job? I doubt it.

So all in all, it is Graycap who has NO clue.