Drugs & Travel.
Great name for an album.
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music is a mortal profession. RIP MIchael Hedges (car wreck on hwy 128, Mendocino co.)
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The BB store is writing novels now? Seriously guys, that’s impressive and all but I think you need to reign it in before it goes all SkyNet.
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Yeah. The whole post is like an ad for the author’s novels. When writers do something like this, I appreciate it if they shed light on their subject, which they can do because they’ve written about it. Instead of just providing a grocery list.
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Oh come now. Most musicians die in obscurity after re-forming the band and doing the county fair circuit.
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Actually Jim Morrison died of a heroin overdose.
-1 for alcohol
+1 for smack.
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Elvis, too.
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I’ve been looking into it, and I’ve actually discovered that given enough time, virtually every profession has a 100% mortality rate!
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Still, a slight edge up on the ads for random crap from Amazon.
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Death is the ultimate career move. I’ve been working on this topic for the last few years too with my book The Ultimate Career Move. It seems to be a topic of recent years with lots of previously massive pop stars becoming more respected and selling more records in death. Michael Jackson was regarded as being “a bit weird” up to his death, and then suddenly all crimes are forgiven. Amy Winehouse was regarded as a bit of a joke by many towards the end of her life, and now considered one of the greatest jazz muscians of her era. Didn’t quite work that way with Whitney Houston though. Well, that’s just my opinion on the whole debate.
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If you want to be a star, you’ve got to kill yourself, man
GLC are always on form. They don’t name check their fellow countryman Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers. The Manics’ career has improved since his passing…
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IIRC the sales jump just after a musician dies is known as the “coffin bounce”.
Alcohol and heroin act synergistically, and I’d be very surprised if Jim hadn’t had a drink that day.
Alcohol amplifies the effects and dangers of all opiates, doesn’t it? And also near-opiates like hydrocodone?
They’re both respiratory depressants, and each enhances the other.
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