theAudience said:

grrrrr

I never said I LIKED his skeletal look!

Now BEFORE that, that's a different story altogether.....

Mark you must have REALLY been bored to start this thread...

Moonwalkbjrain said:

no, stevie does not, and has not drank or used drugs (narcotics that is, I'm sure he's taken advil or something ). That's why he didn't enjoy touring with the stones in the early seventies.

Someone else who doesn't do drugs but everyone seems to think does is Andre from Outkast. They have to have two separate touring buses because dre doesn't want alcohol or smoking on his.

Laura Nyro was on some stuff for a while. I think when she made this album she must have been on heroin. It's one of the most depressing things I've ever heard.

minneapolisgenius said:

From what I've heard, it's worse...heroin.

theAudience said:

That explains A LOT of things!

okaypimpn said:

Really? I really had no idea because I just went because a friend got an extra ticket. I mean, I have listened to his album a few times a long time ago, but I had no idea what he'd be like live.

Well, that explains a lot then.

Supernova said:

Bored? no. Stoned? possibly.

Marrk said:

I don't think there's any "possibly" about it. How else would you have put Stevie Wonder, the squarest man in rock history (which is not an insult), at the TOP of your list?

jacktheimprovident said:

I think i was listening to Innervisions at the time. Stevie's amazing, listening to his imagination in his early to mid-seventies work, You'd think he'd done the odd or two! (and that is a compliment)

Marrk said:

Well he didn't. And personally I think people's tendencies to attribute any creativity, weirdness, or idiosyncracy to drugs is tiresome. I don't use them, and whatever you want to do with your life is fine, but I don't think drugs make you more creative or are a legitimate source of inspiration. I do admiit that many great artists have done them and they can trigger interesting ideas, but I think true creativity doesn't need them.

Marrk said:

stevie wonder..
when and whant kind of drugs did he take?i heard about it,but im not sure where i can get exact info

elmariachi said:

Once again, stevie never did drugs

jacktheimprovident said:

I think he mentioned smoking pot once, but he found it very scary.

Hence "Too High"

Um, honest to god, from everything I've ever read on him, HE NEVER DID DRUGS. All his anti-drug songs were just that ANTI-drugs songs, not songs based on experience: Too High, Chemical Love, Bird of Beauty etc..

andyman91 said:

You could be right though, all I'm trying to say is that Stevie's creativity and imagination is in no part due to drugs

jacktheimprovident said:

Absolutely. Drugs were never a part of his creativity other than as something he took a stand against.

andyman91 said:

co-sign

my personal favorite is Bird of Beauty because it's the least dogmatic

jacktheimprovident said:

tsk,tsk,tsk,this guy's sure a stevie's baby sitter.