History Main / ArtisticStimulation

* Speaking of Brocks, there's Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. To say nothing of the rest of the band, he definitely used various drugs. And then they all sobered up and made ''Good News For People Who Love Bad News'' and WeWereDeadBeforeTheShipEvenSank. The former is generally considered excellent (and quite bizarre), while the latter is generally considered merely very good and less bizarre (although some blame it on the change in drummer). Their earlier work is much different from those two releases, the influence of drugs is very clear on ''The Moon & Antarctica". Incidentally, ''Good News'' contained a song about...

* BrianWilson first took LSD with a friend in 1964 - after some initial anxiety, he sat down and played what would eventually become ''California Girls'' - call it coincidence, but the BeachBoys music started to get more interesting and complex around this time.

* Subverted by Robert Lewis Stevenson- he happened to have been given drugs when suffering with a severe chest infection which simply had the side-effect of inducing hallucinations and convulsions; this inspired him to write JekyllandHyde- not that he hallucinated the story as such, but he was fascinated later by how the drugs had made him feel like a separate personality.

->'''Thurgood Jenkins:''' You must seek therapy. But that's just where I would go with that.

!!Examples:

* Charlie Pace from ''{{Lost}}'' is addicted to something that is most likely cocaine but for some reason the drug is called heroin.
* Isaac Mendez in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is this and/or a JunkieProphet. He's perfectly capable of painting the future without heroin, but using the drug does sort of give him a boost to his power.

** Possibly a nod to rumors that Music/TheBeatles were high when they wrote their songs, as Jude creates a masterpiece while high.
* The author in ''StrangerThanFiction'' is addicted to cigarettes.

** That entire plotline is a very subtle CrowningMomentOfFunny for the series, especially the bit where she walks into the room and says, "My name is Peggy Olson and I'm here to smoke some marijuana."

** JohnLennon was addicted to heroin for a while; he wrote the song "Cold Turkey" about his withdrawal symptoms. It was released as a solo work because PaulMcCartney didn't want to touch or get credit for it. (Pity, it's one of John's better works.)

* StephenKing was addicted to alcohol, cocaine, and prescription drugs. He claims to have no memory of having written ''{{Cujo}}''.

* StephenKing was addicted to alcohol, cocaine, and prescription drugs.

* Doug [=TenNapel=]'s creations are off-the-wall enough that many people think that he couldn't have possibly have created them without the aid of some manner of hallucinogen. Doug himself is a rather conservative Christian who is absolutely offended by the notion that creativity can't happen without drugs.

* The Tang Dynasty-era Chinese poet Li Bai (perhaps better known as Li Po in the West) was famous for his alcoholism, to the point where many if not most of his poems are in some way about drinking and drunkenness. He supposedly died during a drinking session in a rowboat on a lake, where he became enamored of the reflection of the moon on the water and drowned trying to hug it. He is considered to be one of the finest (if not ''the'' finest) poets in the history of Chinese literature, which is saying something (considering how much literature China has produced in its 3,500+ years of existence as a civilization). Since Li Bai lived in the eighth century, that makes this OlderThanPrint.

** Possibly a nod to rumors that TheBeatles were high when they wrote their songs, as Jude creates a masterpiece while high.

* TheBeatles were often high during or in the near vicinity of creative endeavors. They used stimulants while they were in Hamburg so they could stay awake during ridiculously long sets. After BobDylan introduced them four of them to pot under the mistaken notion that they already smoked it (due to a {{Mondegreen}} of all things...), they took up the habit. A year later, John and George were introduced to acid by their dentist, who [[IntoxicationEnsues spiked their coffee with the stuff one night]], an incident memorialized in the song "Doctor Robert"; Ringo followed shortly thereafter. By their second trip to America, they were fairly regular trippers (there's a famous story about how Peter Fonda ruined their trip at a party they were throwing at their rental house in LA, which got turned into "She Said She Said" on ''Revolver''). Paul also took it up, but not until around "Sgt. Pepper," and he gave it up ''right'' before telling the press he ''used'' to take it... <sigh> John in particular loved LSD (he admitted to having written "I Am The Walrus" at least partially on two separate acid trips). At least two of Paul's songs ("Got To Get You Into My Life" and "Fixing a Hole") are most definitely about pot -- the former by [[WordOfGod Paul's admission,]] the latter because it's obvious; and odds are, any song from that era by Paul that looks like it's about pot is.

* Take a rock star. Any rock star.
* The Beatles were often high during or in the near vicinity of creative endeavors. They used stimulants while they were in Hamburg so they could stay awake during ridiculously long sets. After BobDylan introduced them four of them to pot under the mistaken notion that they already smoked it (due to a {{Mondegreen}} of all things...), they took up the habit. A year later, John and George were introduced to acid by their dentist, who [[IntoxicationEnsues spiked their coffee with the stuff one night]], an incident memorialized in the song "Doctor Robert"; Ringo followed shortly thereafter. By their second trip to America, they were fairly regular trippers (there's a famous story about how Peter Fonda ruined their trip at a party they were throwing at their rental house in LA, which got turned into "She Said She Said" on ''Revolver''). Paul also took it up, but not until around "Sgt. Pepper," and he gave it up ''right'' before telling the press he ''used'' to take it... <sigh> John in particular loved LSD (he admitted to having written "I Am The Walrus" at least partially on two separate acid trips). At least two of Paul's songs ("Got To Get You Into My Life" and "Fixing a Hole") are most definitely about pot -- the former by [[WordOfGod Paul's admission,]] the latter because it's obvious; and odds are, any song from that era by Paul that looks like it's about pot is.
** John Lennon was addicted to heroin for a while; he wrote the song "Cold Turkey" about his withdrawal symptoms. It was released as a solo work because Paul didn't want to touch or get credit for it. (Pity, it's one of John's better works.)

* Syd Barrett.

* Kurt Cobain of Music/{{Nirvana}} used heroin a lot. It was at least partially self medication for an unspecified stomach condition.
* John Frusciante's heroin use during the 90s led to all his teeth falling out, voices in his head, and the album Smile From The Streets You Hold which is considered his CreatorBreakdown. Luckily, [[ItGotBetter|He Got Better]].

* Kurt Cobain of {{Nirvana}} used heroin a lot. It was at least partially self medication for an unspecified stomach condition.

** Hawkwind also spawned the Heavy Metal icons {{Motorhead}}. Motorhead being a slang term for an amphetamine addict.

* Take a Rock star. Any Rock star.

* Take a Rockstar. Any Rockstar.

** Seems I'm always encountering the lament that Kesey pissed away his talent. Hey, a lot of writers would be very proud to have written those two novels. Plus he's led a very interesting life. Why should he have any regrets?

** Although when he discovered his powers, he was unaware he could paint the future without drugs. [[spoiler: It was only after Eden McCain and HRG took him away and weaned him off heroin that he found out he could use his powers without, erm, "assistance".]]

* Dave Brock of space-rock band Hawkwind once claimed that he always mixed the band's albums while he was stoned. Listening to the results, I can well believe it.

* Syd Barret.

* WilliamBurroughs spent the first half of his life as a drug addict and the second half as a writer (and drug addict).

* The Beatles were often high during or in the near vicinity of creative endeavors. They used stimulants while they were in Hamburg so they could stay awake during ridiculously long sets. After BobDylan introduced them four of them to pot under the mistaken notion that they already smoked it (due to a {{Mondegreen}} of all things...), they took up the habit. A year later, John and George were introduced to acid by their dentist, who [[LemonWackyHello spiked their coffee with the stuff one night]], an incident memorialized in the song "Doctor Robert"; Ringo followed shortly thereafter. By their second trip to America, they were fairly regular trippers (there's a famous story about how Peter Fonda ruined their trip at a party they were throwing at their rental house in LA, which got turned into "She Said She Said" on ''Revolver''). Paul also took it up, but not until around "Sgt. Pepper," and he gave it up ''right'' before telling the press he ''used'' to take it... <sigh> John in particular loved LSD (he admitted to having written "I Am The Walrus" at least partially on two separate acid trips). At least two of Paul's songs ("Got To Get You Into My Life" and "Fixing a Hole") are most definitely about pot -- the former by [[WordOfGod Paul's admission,]] the latter because it's obvious; and odds are, any song from that era by Paul that looks like it's about pot is.