Doesn't bother me.

Not at all..

I have actually been thinking about this for a long time.

I WISH Prince used Cannabis. In some weird way, I think his chances of still being here with us would have been SIGNIFICANTLY improved. But we can never know.

I ALSO believe it would have been an amazing addition to his palette of colours, musically speaking.

Nope.

Prince, The Beach Boys(Brian Wilson), The Beatles,, The Doors, Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, etc... The list of incredible artists doing amazing thngs while under the influence of something is vast. Drugs, alcohol and raw emotions make great music. Love and/or heartbreak + drugs = potential artist greatness. Obviously not all of the time, but very often.

As someone who has zero interest in recreational drugs and appreciates anyone who strives to be as creative/focused as possible without them, I'd be slightly disappointed. As someone who absolutely loves Prince's music and knows that people are complex and multi-faceted, I wouldn't dwell on it. Obviously, whatever state he was in while recording hasn't kept me from enjoying his work, so it really doesn't matter if he was high or sober while doing it.

No

NO

At one time or another he probably was. Who knows?! But I DO NOT CARE.

PeteSilas said:

TrivialPursuit said:

He was altered when he created The Black Album and Lovesexy. Prince told one of the band members (who told me) that he (Prince) thought he saw the devil (not God, as the more popular story goes) and that's what moved him to write Lovesexy. It couples well with the Susan Rogers story about Ingrid and him asking Rogers to the studio late one night, and they were high as fuck on X. Ingrid was just bad fucking news for him.

It seems decent to think he was drinking in the mid-90s in the midst of his WB fight. We know on April 21, 1996 he had a near-fatal moment with his heart, being a bit too vegan, and drinking way too much wine. We also know he talked about his despair and drinking in "The Holy River":

Great song, but it comes from a very dark place. I believe there's a small but fair amount of his records he created around times in his life when he was either drunk or high. He wasn't sloshing into the studio, but his brain was toxic and altered.

Whatever we got from that is all good, because a genius does what a genius does.

His sound in his last few albums was flat and acrylic to me - a vast contrast to the organic feel of The Rainbow Children and the pop appeal production of Musicology and 3121. Even Planet Earth has a janky live-band feel about it. I don't know if he was trying something new in recent years, or his senses were flattened to what sounded good on record by his use of opiates.

yup, women are one avenue that drugs and alcohol come in, they use it to weaken a fella.

as far as his production, i thought it was fine but i've never been a stickler for production, i want good songs and he gave plenty of those. also, never noticed the holy river lyrics quite like that. Hopefully it wasn't autobiographical, i never thought of it like that.

What a moronic, sexist thing to say.

Musze said:

I have actually been thinking about this for a long time.

I WISH Prince used Cannabis. In some weird way, I think his chances of still being here with us would have been SIGNIFICANTLY improved. But we can never know.

I ALSO believe it would have been an amazing addition to his palette of colours, musically speaking.

I thought about that also. But he railed against that specifically in his music. I think it dulled his senses too much. One thing about Prince, he was highly energetic. He seem to poo poo on anything that slowed him down.

Genesia said:

PeteSilas said:

yup, women are one avenue that drugs and alcohol come in, they use it to weaken a fella.

as far as his production, i thought it was fine but i've never been a stickler for production, i want good songs and he gave plenty of those. also, never noticed the holy river lyrics quite like that. Hopefully it wasn't autobiographical, i never thought of it like that.

What a moronic, sexist thing to say.

gee thanks.

no