ROCKERS FOR POT '94
Smells Like Green Spirit
What would rock be without pot? For High Times' Second-Annual Rockers for Pot special report, we interviewed more than a dozen musicians. Opinions varied as widely as the styles-alternative, grunge, metal, punk-these musical activists represent. But all agreed that it's high time to legalize it!
MEAT PUPPETS' Curt and Cris Kirkwood
Too High to Die (London) marks a return to the ingenious psychedelic punk-hillbilly sensibility that characterized the Meat Puppets' best work in the mid-'80s - Meat Puppets II. Up on the Sun, Mirage and Huevos, to name a few. The following interview took place at CBGB in New York, during the club's 20th anniversary celebration.
High Times: Too High to Die - how'd you come up with the name?
Curt Kirkwood: Dave, our soundman, said it should be the name of the album.
HT: Which do you prefer - mushrooms or acid?
Curt: I like them both.
HT: Have you tripped on stage?
Cris Kirkwood: Yeah, that's one of the better places to do that shit-on stage
Curt: You can drop a hit of acid and have it out of your system in a hour and a half on stage.
Cris: It's like a hyper-trip. You purge it right out of your eyeballs.
HT: So you'd recommend it?
Curt: I wouldn't, because the neck of the guitar starts to flex uncontrollably in your hand. And yo uhave to develop the strength in you r forearm to hold it straight, because the thing'll try and bend over backwards and strike you in the face. It'll try and tie a knot with itself and your arm. It'll grow simulated necks and arms. It takes a lot of strength to move twenty sets of hands.
HT: Why do you think so many people are supporting hemp and other political movements now?
Curt: People's motivations are as much a mystery as why the stars shine. Maybe the motivation is a media thing. I'm sure this is just a passing phase. It will blow over. In a way, I'm more interested in the motivation of psychotic slashers or rock climbers, things that I have trouble relating to.
-Chauncey McKuen
Accessed 10/11/11
http://ngro_obsrvr.tripod.com/articles/hightimes.htm
Smells Like Green Spirit
What would rock be without pot? For High Times' Second-Annual Rockers for Pot special report, we interviewed more than a dozen musicians. Opinions varied as widely as the styles-alternative, grunge, metal, punk-these musical activists represent. But all agreed that it's high time to legalize it!
MEAT PUPPETS' Curt and Cris Kirkwood
Too High to Die (London) marks a return to the ingenious psychedelic punk-hillbilly sensibility that characterized the Meat Puppets' best work in the mid-'80s - Meat Puppets II. Up on the Sun, Mirage and Huevos, to name a few. The following interview took place at CBGB in New York, during the club's 20th anniversary celebration.
High Times: Too High to Die - how'd you come up with the name?
Curt Kirkwood: Dave, our soundman, said it should be the name of the album.
HT: Which do you prefer - mushrooms or acid?
Curt: I like them both.
HT: Have you tripped on stage?
Cris Kirkwood: Yeah, that's one of the better places to do that shit-on stage
Curt: You can drop a hit of acid and have it out of your system in a hour and a half on stage.
Cris: It's like a hyper-trip. You purge it right out of your eyeballs.
HT: So you'd recommend it?
Curt: I wouldn't, because the neck of the guitar starts to flex uncontrollably in your hand. And yo uhave to develop the strength in you r forearm to hold it straight, because the thing'll try and bend over backwards and strike you in the face. It'll try and tie a knot with itself and your arm. It'll grow simulated necks and arms. It takes a lot of strength to move twenty sets of hands.
HT: Why do you think so many people are supporting hemp and other political movements now?
Curt: People's motivations are as much a mystery as why the stars shine. Maybe the motivation is a media thing. I'm sure this is just a passing phase. It will blow over. In a way, I'm more interested in the motivation of psychotic slashers or rock climbers, things that I have trouble relating to.
-Chauncey McKuen
Accessed 10/11/11
http://ngro_obsrvr.tripod.com/articles/hightimes.htm