Timothy Leary was involved with the Revolting Cocks at one point. What was the man behind the legend like?

Just the greatest human being I've ever met. I lived with Tim for 2 years. I still carry his photo in my wallet. Besides teaching me a lot, I was also his personal drug guinea pig.

Al Jourgensen

Source: http://www.powerofmetal.dk/interviews/r ... _cocks.htm

Some of the RevCo stuff has samples, and some of the Damage Manual material has lots of dub affects. Was reggae or rap a big influence on your work?

Certainly reggae music played a big role. Especially in Damage Manual with Jah Wobble involved. It’s definitely in there. Everyone in Damage Manual grew up hearing reggae in the clubs. In the ‘80s, that’s what they played in the clubs. I mean you had disco, but we considered ourselves a little higher brow. And the reggae worked well with the drugs at the time.

Chris Connelly

Source: http://www.artinterviews.com/ChrisConnelly.html

"The final experience that occured is the only one that I would say was a little frightening, but in no way would I say it was bad. Paul was already in bed after I got out of the shower and I was sleeping on a sleeping bag on the ground across from the bed. The ambient music was still on and I laid down. So, I get comfortable and I'm on my back just listening to the music. When I closed my eyes the geometric shapes were no longer there, but I kept opening my eyes and staring at the wall/ceiling above me. Then it just happened. The slow pulse and sounds of the track that was playing began to take over me quite unexpectedly (this is after about 5 or 6 minutes of this staring at nothing). As the pulse of the song slowly moved along, I started to lose all conscious recognition of my body or surroundings. All I could hear was the music and all I could feel was the music. I was slowly reducing down to a form of energy that felt so incredibly primordial or "purest of essence" that after a few minutes I finally got confused and I wasn't sure if I was still in the room, or even in my own body. So I didn't panic, but just thought to myself, "just say something and wake Paul up". So it took me a second or two but I just said as loud as I could, "This is too much." Far cry from the safeword for the night, which was "help." I could "sense" where he was in the room, but I was still caught in the minimal state of "being nothing" to see/hear him. Then I tried to speak again and this time I said, "Paul. This is my way of saying help." And with that he woke up right away and started to talk to me. The second I heard his voice, I was "back" but just a little disoriented."

Trip report from someone on LSD.

Source: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/inde ... 17980.html

"True story, I used to own a nightclub, and one night Al Jourgensen was supposed to perform, so I went to the airport to pick him up before the show. So I’m standing there at the gate waiting for the plane to arrive (this was before 9/11) and as I’m standing there waiting, a bunch of cops show up. When the plane rolls up to the ramp, the cops go running down and board the aircraft. I’m thinking to myself, this can’t be good, right... So they come off the plane dragging Al Jourgensen, who was screaming that he would kill these fucken cops and whatnot. Turns out, he had insisted on smoking on the plane and when told to put out the cigarette, he told them he’d blow up the plane if they didn’t leave him alone and let him smoke. So I begged the cops to let Al come perform, it was two sold out shows. The cops let me take him after I promised to deliver him back to them when the show was done (which I never did of course). Well, Al couldn’t perform at the show, was screaming the entire time, throwing full coronas into the audience (his rider stated he was to have a full case of cold Corona beer on stage). He kept screaming Ministry IS DEAD over and over. As it turns out, when he saw the cops coming onto the plane for him, he ate a bunch of LSD he had in his pocket, and thus was WAY TOO HIGH to perform the shows. So I ended up losing a bunch of money from people who walked out and wanted refunds."

Club Promoter.

Source: http://www.prefixmag.com/news/club-prom ... eve/52366/

Hah! That's as hilarious as it is tragic. Never heard of a better way to handle Coronas though.

Hehe tragic indeed. It's still hard to figure out how Al actually managed to compose and produce so many albums and do so many tours. There must have been many other undocumented events such as this one along the way...

I want to ask you about your forthcoming show at MUTEK in June. What do you have in store visually for the show?

It’s tricky. I don’t want to ruin the surprise for a lot of it. We’ve been working hard to try to make this really special so I don’t want to blow the whole thing, but I can say it’s going to involve space travel, psychedelic alien fairies from outer space, space drugs. We’re going to take off and travel through vast psychedelic space!

Amon Tobin

Source: http://www.mutek.org/en/blog/266-amon-t ... live-music

As someone who doesn’t do drugs, I’m genuinely curious from a physical standpoint how you could do a high-level opiate/depressant and play as fast as you played. Could you explain?

Here’s the thing. Your body normally excretes endorphins called dopamine. You have it, I have it too, except that when I was introduced to it, I was introduced to it in excess, and it felt really enjoyable to me. I had complete understanding of the ramifications, of what would happen if I started doing it routinely, and I did, and that’s when I ended up becoming addicted to the stuff. Now playing fast—you can play as fast as you want to [on heroin]. It’s not something like Thorazine, where you’re gonna be chewing your tongue up and wetting your pants. It was just basically putting the same enzymes or whatever back into your body, the dopamine, the endorphins. And in this type of work, it’s a very bohemian kind of thing, when people know people who do heroin or sell it or whatever, they usually know people who have stimulants, too. So not to have this conversation go totally terrible, but usually when people have to play fast and they can’t, they’ll cheat. For me, I was always playing fast. I played fast when I was in Metallica, before I was even introduced to any of that stuff.

Dave Mustaine

Source: http://social.entertainment.msn.com/mus ... 8e0efd25bb

Have you written any songs directly as a consequence of doing drugs?

Oh, all of them.

Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh-pAykfQ-8

drugs ruined my life

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i ruined my life......drugs just helped me watch it deconstruct in slo-mo

word of warning there !

From where did your interest in Easy Listening evolve?

In 1971, Martin Denny's Exotica and Quiet Village were the most predominant albums in thrift stores. We would see these albums all the time and we'd start making jokes about them. A friend of my father who was a biker forced me to listen to Exotica from start to finish. He said, "This is the best fucking music on the planet. It's psychedelic but old folks like it. It's perfect music."

Is it truly psychedelic?

This guy was doing a lot of LSD and he really was into stereo separation. You could hear certain things in one speaker and other things in the other speaker.

Did you ever listen to Martin Denny on LSD?

Yes, many times. Once we took some LSD at Spahn Ranch and it didn't come on. When we were driving back, we were listening to Martin Denny and the bells... we had to turn it off because my feet began to feel like they were made out of water and I couldn't use the brakes effectively.

Boyd Rice

Source: http://www.boydrice.com/interviews/pdf/ ... evival.pdf

The writing processes of 'Ghost' and 'Deconstruction', were they not already done before you started recording and developing the stories?

To a certain extent, but the writing process is the same for both: I have a template in Pro Tools and I just open it up and start writing.

You never sit down, just the guitar and you?

Not anymore, not since I quit smoking weed. I used to take like nine bong rips and have an extra-large coffee and play the verse for like nine hours. I'd get so hung up on how the verse was that I'd never get past it. But now I don't - I rarely do that. When it's time to write, I sit down to write.

Devin Townsend

Source: http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/showintervie ... 43&lang=nl

"Gaspar Noé's big beast of a Cannes entrant, Enter The Void, showed for the first time in the UK this week in October. Gaspar Noé was there to introduce the film, which was a great kick for me, even though he didn't do a Q&A. His intro was quite funny, because he's not a grand intellectual, he's more of a sensualist. It's clear that he had a pretty dissipated youth and he talked about his experimentation with hallucinogenics and he always wondered as a kid why nobody was making movies with the images like he was seeing whilst high in them. So this is a movie I think he's wanted to make for a very long time, perhaps a couple of decades, but only now has he been able to get the freedom and funding to do it."

oOgiandujaOo

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/reviews-7

Where did your interest in magic stem from?

I have been a student and follower since the age of 12. I met a few people that were influenced by esotericism and magic and mythology. And by the time I reached 12 and started to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs, it became a pastime and hobby to escape mortal manifestation of planet Earth. Magic is a way to mentally escape of it all.

Proscriptor (Absu)

Source: http://www.noisecreep.com/2011/01/27/ab ... m-trilogy/

Weird question,what kind of wine did you prefer,red or white?And Is the alcohol helps to the moments of your creativity?

I do not drink wine. I am rather strictly limited to beer and whisky when it comes to alcohol. Alcohol is – together with some other drugs – a definite way to expand my mind and make it accessible for strange and morbid ideas, which are really essential for The Ruins Of Beverast. I definitely do not agree with the theory that creative art does need a level head, often just the opposite is true.

Alexander von Meilenwald (The Ruins of Beverast)

Source: http://frostkamp.wordpress.com/2008/08/ ... interview/