Graycap23 said:

You've never even drunk a beer?

LexNevermind said:

That's a bunch of bull. Gene Simmons never did drugs!

xplnyrslf said:

I raise my hand

I don't think Prince ever did drugs to any degree. He's ALL about control, of his music, life, career. And he's prudish (surprisingly).
U just couldn't maintain the work ethic that he has over the years if u got into drugs significantly. And looking spaced out is not the same as being high. The performance with JB and MJ just shows him paralyzed by nerves IMO.

I honestly have to say, congrats to all who've never done nor tried drugs.

prince IS drugs. he can make ya high, mellow, horny, mad.. he's a hard habit to break, costs alot of money, ur desperate when u cant get more, n there's always a risk of O.D.ing.

on that note, imma have one more line of coke, half a bottle of sleeping pills with 7 shots of scotch n i'm off to bed.

jtfolden said:

I've had less than 6 beers in my ENTIRE life. Don't dig the taste of alcohol.

Graycap23 said:

there's a whole lot of room in between NONE and a LOT right?
I believe Prince has INDEED done some drugs...but none to excess...and always had a handle on it.
he most certainly drinks wine...but not beer.

gimme a cold one!

Graycap23 said:

That's fine... I generally hate the taste myself. However, alcohol IS a drug - therefore you have tried drugs in your life.

jtfolden said:

Lol.....if u say so.

Graycap23 said:

Not me... it's a fact.

Shorty said:

Right I can't see why the topic has to be all or nothing. While he certainly doesn't seem to have ever been strung out, he more than likely has taken some drugs.

Graycap23 said:

Well, it is an important point Graycap23 - alcohol IS a drug.

And, do you drink coffee? Why do so many people drink coffee (and tea for that matter)?? No, nothing to do with the drug caffeine being present, is it?

Such a banal thread and incredible to see just how many people are hoodwinked by government propoganda that implies just because they say its bad, it must be - so people have this completely illogical view that all illegal drugs are really bad for you and all those lovely government-approved ones aren't!

Most people here will pop a pill for a headache without even thinking about it. Have you actually read the side-effects of most painkillers - take the wrong dose and you could be in big trouble. Yet, for them, that's different to taking "illiegal" drugs.

Yet, most of the best art, certainly alot of the best music, was created by people who liked to get high. Shakespeare was famous for his opium intake, as was the novelist Shelley. Van Gogh was addicted to absinthe (double drug that one - alcohol and wormwood - a potent hallucinogen). And then look at all the greatest musicians of our time - The Beatles, Stones, Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin - all major caners, all great artists.

To quote the late and great Bill Hicks;

"I mean why do we fear these things? I don't get it. I think an attitude of compassion might help us alot more than fear, personally. Y'know? And I figured out a way to perhaps make everyone happy about drugs, are ya ready? How about this? Here's a way we can do it, make everyone happy. For those people who believe drugs should be legalised, legalise them. And, for those people who believe they should'nt be, they're not, they never were, don't worry, we're cracking down. There! Now everyone is happy. I am the weaver!

Drugs have done good things for us, if you don't believe they have, do me a favour - take all your albums, tapes and CDs and burn em cos you know what, the musicians who made that great music that has enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrreal fucking high, ha ha ha ho ho. ok

And these other musicians today who don't do drugs and in fact speak out against them? Boy, do they suck! What a coincidence! Ball-less, souless, spiritless corporate little bitches, suckers of Satan's cock, each and every one of them. Gnorr. "We're rock stars against drugs cos that's what the President wants." Aw, suck Satan's cock. That's what we want isn't it, government approved rock n roll? Whooh, we're partying now!!"

And just had to include this!! lol

"George Bush says 'we are losing the war on drugs'. Well you know what that implies? There's a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it! Well what does that tell you about drugs? Some smart, creative motherfuckers on that side!"

Mindflux said:

Hey don't mix creativity with drugs. Most of the users use the same excuse to do drugs. You can be creative without drugs and Prince , alongwith some other great artists, is a fine example. You talk about Govt propoganda in the US - well, it's not just the US but almost all countries in the world which have banned drugs - except maybe some which have permitted Marijuana. Hence going by your logic, every damn govt in the world is wrong and drug users are right since drugs fuel creativity. It's better off living without such creativity which kills people. You talk about music created by great artists when they were on drugs, why don't you talk about all the great artists who died because of drugs . KUdos to all who have not touched drugs

but how can we be sure prince never used drugs
on purple rain tour ,parade tour lovesexy he had some crazy look in his eyes

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

If you want 2 know the truth the only one who can tell you that is Prince. The rest of this stuff is assumption or hear-say. No one really knows whether Prince has done drugs or not {Although I really don't think he has} unless they were there when it was given 2 him or they were the ones giving it 2 him. [None of ya'll gave Prince any drugs right!]
[Edited 5/22/07 20:30pm]

Only the naivest neophyte would think Prince never did drugs. I'm sure he's done the occasional toke or toot, but probably nothing too hard. He's so sensitive and his antennae for weirdness are so finely tuned he probably doesn't need much stimulation to get him going.

Having said that, it's interesting to me how the alleged ecstasy trip in '88 plays out like the story of the Tree of Knowledge, like Prince consumed something forbidden that gave him special enlightenment. The whole Lovesexy thing was a religious awakening, after all, and the first song on that album announces that he "knows." A few years later, he would proclaim he "knows from righteous, he knows from sin," which is precisely what happened to Adam and Eve after eating the fruit.

Consider also the many occult elements in Prince's work around that time: references to soothsaying, prophesy ("Crystal Ball," "The Future"), witches ("Dorothy Parker," "Shockadelica"), astrology ("Arms of Orion"), and the emergence of a curious alternate personality in Camille, and a new devil analog Spooky Electric. There's always been a diabolic component to Prince's music, but never more pronounced than this period. In this context, the X trip sounds more and more like an invitation from dark forces to tempt fate and be as God.

But knowledge comes at a price: Lovesexy marked the beginning of Prince's decline, as an artist and as a superstar, and his eventual split from his business home, Warner Brothers, would send him deeper into the pop cultural wilderness--all which echo the Fall of Man and his expulsion from paradise.

So the moral of the story is: Just Say No!

girl66 said:

Not so fast..as a member of the 40 plus club and a fan of "The Phantom" KISS movies as a kid ( remember those?) I distinctly remember Gene Simmons in a rock mag gulping from a bottle Seagrams Gin ....alcohol counts a a drug right?...

LexNevermind said:

No, were not counting alcohol here. I myself am talking about street drugs. Illegal street drugs, Manufactured, sold, and used illegally.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Same here.

I am not sure if Prince has ever done drugs though.

padawan said:

between black and white
night and day

black night seemed like the only way
so I danced

parishilton said:

come on...it is written..everyone on this site knows PRINCE is VAGINA...not drugs

parishilton said:

I this answer

i dont want prince to be drug user but its naive to think he did extacy only once and thats it
i think he smokes weed or smoked weed.i dont think he did heroin
cocaine maybe

That tried X one time is lame. How do go to doing X one time when you have tried no other drugs? My own mind says he has got high before perhaps as in his younger days. More than one night on X.
And I have met many people who get high and you would not ever known.So I have to disagree with people who get high look like it. Perhaps junkies and hardcore users ...but casual users are all around you.....and you would not ever know it.


Peace .....

Etorres said:

That is very true. And I don't think if he did any other drugs he would have gone out in public. He wouldn't want to not be in control of the situation at all times.

Mindflux said:

You mean Coleridge, no? First I've heard that ol' Shaxpere enjoyed the laudanum!

girl66 said:

Who's WE?

Alcohol is a drug and I am most certainly counting it... So, we do know that Prince has done at least one drug, illegal or not.

jtfolden said:

Yeah, my question was about drugs in general.
But alcohol never really came to mind when it comes to Prince. He doesn't seem like the type that gets drunk... not to me, he doesn't.
I'd have to ask him myself to be absolutely sure, but I'm pretty confident that I already know the answer to my question.