NEWS: Perry Farrell: "Sobriety is Wrong"

MUSIC: Perry Farrell: "Sobriety is Wrong"

Some-time Janes Addiction/Porno for Pyros frontman and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell has a prescription for the ills of modern music, literally.

He also feels that drugs haven't spoiled his good looks:

...he then excused himself from the interview, saying he had to finish shopping for a shiny gold leotard to go with the purple boots and neon feather-boa he planned to wear for that night's performance.

His god is way cooler than the one they tought me about in sunday school.

unfortunately to me it seems the price for dabbling is addiction at times . maybe the drugs havent affected his looks but it seems it has affected his mind . haha

They guy's taken one too many hits of batshitinsane.

Well, that's insulting to anyone who's ever created something worth remembering.

What board game is that from?

The real hipsters like Ginsberg and Zappa found ways to put themselves on sound financial footing but without surrendering themselves to mediocrity via the "cube village".

"DOPE - You are what you use" - official T-shirt from Frank Zappa's marketing firm, Barfko-Swill.


[Edited on Nov 08, 2005 4:26PM]

If you want to expand your mind, you need to have one to start.
Perry Farrell is so smart.

"he had to finish shopping for a shiny gold leotard to go with the purple boots and neon feather-boa he planned to wear for that night's performance."

yeah drugs are great...WTF

The game is a prototype from the folks over at Degenerate press-here is a link
Identity Crisis

haHA! Perry. Crazy bastard!

He must be one of them crazy protestants.

Whoa, you know I kinda agree with ol' Perry (ne' Simon Bernstein) on this one, at least as far as the staleness of modern music is concerned. I only listen to a fraction of new music because it MAKES ME ILL and scared to see and hear what young people today think is 'good' or, God forbid, 'cool.' And, btw, I am fairly young myself. Take the worst emo bands (I can't tell, myself) and open their minds with some drugs and let's wait for the twisted masterpieces to start rolling in. I bet they'll be less concerned with mom, dad, girls and school anyways. Sure, only half would make it out with their minds but....well...it'd be giving them way too much credit to think they have them now.

i love perry.

I bet Trent Reznor agrees.

I think Perry might be on to something here, I'm quite sober and I can't play an instrument to save my life. Then again I couldn't play any better when I was all hopped up on goofballs and what have you. Plus, if I stuck around drinking and trying to play long enough I'd probably puke on your shoes or steal your dog or something.

like myself. he's Jewish and has a predilection for asians.

I'll look past his crazy opinions.

I would dissagree with Perry on the drug part but I think the large amount of people on antidepressants may have affected the creativity of young people. Raging hormones make good music.

Ginsberg spilled more drugs than I've taken.

exactly.

I think it's time to re-establish relations with my dealer.

Thanks Perry!!

I think it would be more accurate to say that professionalism and careerism has hurt creativity in modern music. The kind of people the money love to deal with, people who are always professional, hard working, always on time, responsible... how many great artists have you ever met like that? Yet those adjectives seem to describe most bands these days. Bands quit doing drugs so they could be more professional.

are you guys surprised that he said this?

Well, he would know.

yeah he made such a fine movie on the topic

as i remeber he and Casie Nicolli where so high when they made this she thought they where actuly married