This is why Rockstars do Drugs w/ Billy Corgan

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  • Опубліковано 6 лип 2023
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  • @Nabo42
    @Nabo42 10 місяців тому +531

    I can't believe Bill has been doing his show for so long and hasn't learned to not talk over people.

    • @lamnuck
      @lamnuck 10 місяців тому +13

      You mean like ... Oprah ? haha

    • @Nabo42
      @Nabo42 10 місяців тому +15

      @@lamnuck Or any of them really, these people are horrible interviewers lol

    • @lamnuck
      @lamnuck 10 місяців тому +12

      @@Nabo42 I work with a guy like this . I learned that you have to talk over someone sometimes or you'll never get a word in. mic hogs, haha

    • @thestomachpuncher
      @thestomachpuncher 10 місяців тому +6

      It’s partly regional communication style and the fact that the more emotionally involved and engaged in a topic someone is the more they tend to talk over one another. It can simply be a sign of an interesting conversation provided they aren’t trying to abusing shut down the other person from speaking.

    • @Buttcakes15
      @Buttcakes15 10 місяців тому +5

      Seems like how normal conversations go to me…

  • @mightbefire
    @mightbefire 10 місяців тому +263

    Imagine how good this show would be if Bill would let AMAZING PEOPLE tell their AMAZING FUCKING STORIES!

    • @briweeks71
      @briweeks71 10 місяців тому +2

      Maybe the weed won't let him.

    • @Hapotecario
      @Hapotecario 10 місяців тому +3

      @@briweeks71 unfortunately, bill maher is turning into a grumpy old man

  • @Hollowsmith
    @Hollowsmith 10 місяців тому +114

    If Bill Maher interviewed Bill Maher, it would be two guys each saying 5 or 6 words before the other guy impatiently interrupts because he's convinced whatever he's thinking is way more interesting than what his clone is saying.

    • @subg8858
      @subg8858 10 місяців тому

      Kyle Dunnigan has that covered already

    • @drdj2626
      @drdj2626 10 місяців тому

      he needs to interview Brandan Schaub

    • @Chucktones1408
      @Chucktones1408 5 місяців тому

      😂😂😂

  • @joshuachristofferson9227
    @joshuachristofferson9227 10 місяців тому +122

    IDK which is dumber: that Bill thinks 25 hits of LSD will "kill you" or that Billy thinks 2 cupped hands full of liquid LSD is anywhere NEAR 25 hits (try "in the hundreds" unless it was seriously watered down).

    • @microplasticsinurblud
      @microplasticsinurblud 10 місяців тому +20

      my favorite genre is people who don't know anything about drugs talking about drugs

    • @microplasticsinurblud
      @microplasticsinurblud 10 місяців тому

      giving him the benefit of the doubt I think Bill was making the argument that taking that quantity of an unknown substance from a guy you just met can definitely kill you. if that was some DOM Nbome or Bromo he would be a dead man. also yeah a cupful of liquid lsd even watered down would be like 25mg at least or 250 hits. definitely, a couple sheets worth which would leave you in a psychedelic trance for days on end and might traumatize you to the point of no return mentally. but physically I think you'd be alright and there are stories of people taking thumbprints or dousing themselves in the liquid and coming back to reality. lucy is a kind substance that will take care of you if given the respect it deserves

    • @Digital_PeterGriffin
      @Digital_PeterGriffin 10 місяців тому +12

      One hit of Cid is 100 micograms. One microgram is a millionth of a gram. Two handful s of acid would be like millions of hits or some shit

    • @danzwku
      @danzwku 10 місяців тому

      Okay so would 2 cupped hands of LSD kill someone? As you say "in the hundreds" of hits?

    • @joshuachristofferson9227
      @joshuachristofferson9227 10 місяців тому +3

      @@microplasticsinurblud xcept that such things encourage draconian Drug Laws, but it is otherwise quite amusing LOL

  • @paulcarr2207
    @paulcarr2207 10 місяців тому +106

    Bill destroys every interview.

    • @C1schecter101
      @C1schecter101 Місяць тому

      Facts the dude is a smart and yet stupid stupid asshole !!with in essence basically destroys his very potential for greatness

  • @chrischris9157
    @chrischris9157 10 місяців тому +57

    This Bill guy really likes to hear Bill talk

    • @ronaldmilner8932
      @ronaldmilner8932 10 місяців тому +2

      Bill doesn't know what you mean.

    • @Nathan-gd7xq
      @Nathan-gd7xq 10 місяців тому +4

      That's basically what this podcast is: Bill Maher talking at famous people.

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 10 місяців тому +82

    Bill steps all over the story about LSD. RELAX, BILL.

    • @microplasticsinurblud
      @microplasticsinurblud 10 місяців тому +9

      ikr instead of hearing an interesting macro dose trip story from the mind of a rockstar we get to hear about Bill's experience with poppers and weird sex

    • @AnthonyL0401
      @AnthonyL0401 10 місяців тому +9

      @@microplasticsinurblud Bill is the epitome of a malcontent narcissist. He is always butting his stupid asides into things. He thinks this is really in his basement club space. No, this is an interview for those of us watching and we would like to enjoy it. Billy even had to warn him he was stepping on the story. And then he called Billy Corgan a complete idiot basically.

    • @dimlamplight
      @dimlamplight 10 місяців тому +3

      "You could have died" LOL. Bill is so naïve.

    • @Shlogger
      @Shlogger 10 місяців тому +2

      @@AnthonyL0401 lol. there was a second there where Billy was like "Huh? Did he just call me an idiot?" then he let it slide cause it was the polite thing to do and he understood what he was trying to say. I mean we're definitely prone to make bad decisions and do some dumb stuff when we're young but idiot is kinda harsh. It's that same youthful exuberance that can and has created some amazing contributions across the board.

    • @AnthonyL0401
      @AnthonyL0401 10 місяців тому

      @@Shlogger And the worse part is that Bill Maher presents himself as a rebel and who wants to say whatever is true for himself, yet he has such rigid views especially as he's getting older. Bill is just truly an asshole, tbf.

  • @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj
    @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj 10 місяців тому +54

    Motley Crue was right. Performing on stage in front of a ton of people is the biggest high ever. Afterwards it’s really hard to just “shut off” so you want to keep the party going.

    • @LannieLord
      @LannieLord 10 місяців тому +12

      It's because your ENDORPHINS and Dopamine levels are THRU the roof. There is a real chemistry behind it . Also the testosterone levels and youth is on your side.

    • @pillsareyummy
      @pillsareyummy 10 місяців тому +1

      I think Motley just liked to party in general. Look at Vince, poor guy ...

    • @Dan16673
      @Dan16673 10 місяців тому

      Very true. I wanted to keep playing often

    • @microplasticsinurblud
      @microplasticsinurblud 10 місяців тому +2

      im surprised he didn't make the "drugs fuel artistic creativity" argument

    • @pillsareyummy
      @pillsareyummy 10 місяців тому

      @@microplasticsinurblud I believe he'd agree with that argument, so long as they aren't abused.

  • @mneugent7658
    @mneugent7658 10 місяців тому +19

    I like that his example of another profession is industrial adhesives. A job where you could literally sniff glue all day.

    • @johnrawlings6610
      @johnrawlings6610 10 місяців тому +1

      I'm a blue collar worker and about half my coworkers are acohilics or partake in some sort of drug!

  • @bdsouza1977
    @bdsouza1977 10 місяців тому +48

    Mahr cant resist showing how much he knows. LOL.

    • @joshuachristofferson9227
      @joshuachristofferson9227 10 місяців тому +4

      *"doesn't know", you mean (cf. "25 hits of LSD will kill you")

    • @microplasticsinurblud
      @microplasticsinurblud 10 місяців тому

      he doesn't know shit. LSD isn't always just liquid. it comes in crystal form as well. 25 hits won't kill you but taking that high dose of an unknown substance definitely can be lethal if it's not actually lsd. lsd 25 is one of the few drugs on the planet where you can overdose to that extent and still walk away without major physical harm. your mind is another story, but he seems alright all these years later. also no surprise he experimented with amyls

  • @dr.badass702
    @dr.badass702 10 місяців тому +13

    Yes, let's get pedantic about the fact that paper LSD is technically a liquid, Bill

  • @jjgreen5206
    @jjgreen5206 10 місяців тому +10

    Billy is a guy who comfortable in his own skin and he’s not afraid to make fun of himself. That’s awesome

    • @aWomanFreed
      @aWomanFreed 9 місяців тому

      There’s a lot of material

  • @redriver6541
    @redriver6541 10 місяців тому +9

    I'm seeing Billy everywhere these days..... I LOVE this man. I know it's Cliche....but his music influenced me greatly when I had several personal tragedies in my late teens. God Bless Him.

  • @madringking1119
    @madringking1119 10 місяців тому +7

    One reason why some rock stars started using drugs was to help keep them awake after being on the road for days on end with very little rest. And some to help cope with the pain

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому

      It's difficult to sleep on a tour bus even with bunks. I have slept in a sleeper carriage on an overnight train and woke up every time we pulled into a station. Sleeping in a cabin below deck on a ferry or ship is difficult too as it is so suffocating so I went upstairs to deck level lounges to try to sleep.

  • @cjbaker9703
    @cjbaker9703 10 місяців тому +7

    I took an Addy and perk one time and started playing the guitar and literally felt like I was playing like Jimi Hendrix and I filmed myself. The next day, yeah I definitely was not Jimi Hendrix lol.

    • @charlielucky4201
      @charlielucky4201 10 місяців тому +5

      Before I went to college, I'd only smoked weed once or twice and it was low quality small town brick weed. My first week of college I was introduced to really great weed by a guy across the hall. I went back to my dorm room, put on The Doors, and laid down in my bed. For the next two hours I was Jim Morrison. I never even got up out of my bed. I just lay there being Jim Morrison.

    • @tthheekk
      @tthheekk 10 місяців тому +1

      Roflmao I fucking love this!!!

  • @nerigarcia7116
    @nerigarcia7116 10 місяців тому +6

    When I was in my band playing in Hollywood, I realized to Billy's first point, that there is a lot of down time, a lot of time to waste that the draw or allure to drugs and alcohol was an easy time waster before you even get into the effects of it all. After that you crave to keep that feeling and it's all over. I was lucky enough to exercise some restraint but the allure was all too easy.

    • @xpicklepie
      @xpicklepie 10 місяців тому +2

      I only drank when I was onstage. It numbed the cigarette smoke sting from eyes and made being onstage tolerable. I quit music years ago and haven't had a drop since.

    • @nerigarcia7116
      @nerigarcia7116 10 місяців тому +1

      @@xpicklepie As soon as I got out of music and out of that environment, it was easier for me to not to drink or smoke anymore. Part of the problem was my lack of discipline but the environment did not make things better.

  • @ricileigh88
    @ricileigh88 10 місяців тому +9

    Being interviewed by Bill feels like talking to a doctor about your problems, and they're correcting your grammer instead of listening.

    • @collegerebel
      @collegerebel 10 місяців тому

      Grammar. And no, I'm not a doctor😁

  • @chadelles2586
    @chadelles2586 10 місяців тому +7

    Disposable income and too much free time. These two items go hand in hand.
    It is almost impossible to OD on LSD. Now it can leave your mind in shackles.

    • @tj03297
      @tj03297 2 місяці тому

      You mean shambles?

  • @Berley_1234
    @Berley_1234 10 місяців тому +19

    to hide the pain of the reality that 1) you are a puppet of the music industry and 2) you are completely alone when not on stage

    • @pillsareyummy
      @pillsareyummy 10 місяців тому +4

      I can't feel sorry for Rock/Pop stars, they're making huge amounts of money doing what they love. As Ozzy once said, "If you think you got it tough, go get a real job mate".

    • @Berley_1234
      @Berley_1234 10 місяців тому +1

      @@pillsareyummy oh i dont feel sorry for them either

  • @theworld1739
    @theworld1739 6 місяців тому +2

    "Why do people do drugs? I don't get it." As he puffs a cigar and drinks liquor every episode.

  • @sitindogmas
    @sitindogmas 10 місяців тому +1

    it was the just the time, me and my friends didn't really play music but damn we partied like we were rock stars, I mean massive amounts of everything we done. if you weren't there you wouldn't believe it. it amazing any of us survived or didn't go insane. we lost a few in the early 2000s

    • @Shlogger
      @Shlogger 10 місяців тому +1

      I can relate. there's definitely times throughout the day when I'm hit with random memories and I think how the fuck am I still here? lol

  • @ericrice1914
    @ericrice1914 10 місяців тому +7

    I always thought that the drugs start with just trying to deal with playing on stage. I was in a band in high school and I would get so nervous that I could barely play my instrument. With hundreds and sometimes a couple thousand ppl and all their energy coming directly at you, it was like sensory overload. I started smoking pot and it worked like magic. On the other hand are lead singer was just the opposite. He was an extreme personality, didn’t know what the word nervous even meant.

    • @eddietat95
      @eddietat95 10 місяців тому +1

      I think at a high enough level (i.e. rockstars playing packed arenas) *most* (but not all) artists get used to the pressure and taking drugs becomes more about dealing with energy exertion (tiredness or what Corgan was talking about - the sudden low ofter performing) or even pain (mental or physical). Also, artists' performance really varies under the influence. Some can perform just fine drunk or on drugs (sometimes better), others are absolute trash.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому +1

      Eddie Van Halen got into hard spirits and smoking in his mid teens as he was too shy even to perform with a school band.

  • @alexsmart5452
    @alexsmart5452 10 місяців тому +1

    in 91 I went with friends to SF that just so happened to be over the weekend for the Bill Graham memorial concert(Golden Gate Park). We went and it didnt take 5 minutes for someone walking around with a glass bottle, an eye dropper, and a bag of sugar cubes to offer us a dose. We didnt want to be rude so...anyway I dont know how we got backstage(a friend said it was a roadie for Tracy Chapman of all people), but there were drugs everywhere. All free. Everything, anything.
    I work in the LA/Hollywood film industry and there are a LOT of drugs(more so a decade+ ago). Ive been to a lot of concerts and gotten backstage(the first 3 Lollapalooza for instance. Parties with famous actors and musicians) but that concert was on a whole never level.

  • @bintibrindamour5328
    @bintibrindamour5328 9 місяців тому +2

    I think part of it is people who become musicians are excitement seekers and risk takers by their nature or they would have taken up a safe, stable profession like accounting.

  • @eznir84
    @eznir84 9 місяців тому +1

    By reading the title I thought every rockstar is doing drugs with Billy Corgan 😅

  • @ATRTAP
    @ATRTAP 10 місяців тому +5

    Billy Corgan is the top dog of rock stars presently.

  • @BryNeal1
    @BryNeal1 2 дні тому

    as a "boots on the ground" industrial adhesive manufacturing worker... There are more of us than rock stars, but we're mostly just a bunch of potheads.

  • @Cap683
    @Cap683 10 місяців тому +4

    The other side of the coin is that all sorts of people from all walks of life are ending up dead from drugs. When I scan the obituaries in the local paper and see that someone between say 20 and 50 years old "died at home", chances are high that it was an overdose. The musician and drug use is likely true but it would be interesting to see some statistics of drug deaths among musicians and the population in general.

  • @DingleMcGilacutty
    @DingleMcGilacutty 9 місяців тому +4

    Is every question Bill asks now rhetorical? Or, does he just enjoy hearing himself talk over his guests? Either way, I’m so glad Bill knows more about being a rockstar than rockstars do. Such a unique perspective.

    • @user-mm8vw1ow1x
      @user-mm8vw1ow1x 7 місяців тому

      Yes

    • @MegaMkmiller
      @MegaMkmiller 6 місяців тому

      John McEnroe said in his book, "You Cannot Be Serious!" that the roar of the crowd is totally addicting. Also, the attention from the media and hero-worship from the fans. I'm convinced the Stones went from drug addiction to simply switching one addiction for another. Or stopping one and continuing another. All of these ancient rock bands are addicted to the attention and roar of the crowd. I rather doubt U2 needs the money. For cryin' out loud they did their best work 35 years ago!

  • @Bob-Sacamano314
    @Bob-Sacamano314 10 місяців тому +4

    i love when guys who didnt start smoking pot until they retired and never touched hard drugs in their life think they know what they are talking about when it comes to drugs.... "hey I wonder what happened if i ate this?" smelling salts? realllllll hard stuff bill

  • @kellyfeger
    @kellyfeger 10 місяців тому

    The EDM, House and Techno scene have the best of the best.

  • @ivanbabic661
    @ivanbabic661 3 місяці тому

    Bassist form queens of the stone age says there's no better feeling than playing live and that's why people that take drugs is to replace that feeling it off stage. I have played in front of people and the feeling is truly amazing

  • @GimmemuhReparations
    @GimmemuhReparations 10 місяців тому +22

    I came home after drinking all night and ate a bag of mushrooms my girlfriend got me for my birthday. There were probably about 30 standard portions in the bag and I ate the whole thing before I went to bed. I woke up about 30 minutes later and lost my mind for the next several hours. The closes sensation I could compare it to would be sprinting along the edge of the Grand Canyon on a race-horse while being terrified of heights and not knowing how to ride a horse.

    • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
      @ScrewyDriverTheMan 10 місяців тому +1

      That's it? I dream that kind of thing NIGHTLY and then I wake up shitting myself LMAO and I don't do drugs LMAO

    • @WithmeVerissimusWhostoned
      @WithmeVerissimusWhostoned 10 місяців тому +3

      lol, I get mad scary dreams straight from hell when I go to bed sober

    • @miscwatching8993
      @miscwatching8993 10 місяців тому +3

      That's an amazing metaphor man, made me laugh out loud!

    • @csnide6702
      @csnide6702 10 місяців тому

      and you want reparations...?
      just be glad you are alive.......

    • @you0nlylivetwice
      @you0nlylivetwice 10 місяців тому

      LOL, I did 2 portions one time after being like nothing with 1 and the 2 portions sended me to another galaxy hahaha, can't imagine someone surviving a whole bag.

  • @joegibbskins
    @joegibbskins 10 місяців тому +4

    If you meet a person in a situation where they are fairly young and have the time to drugs and enough money to either do a lot of drugs without consequences, there’s a good chance they do a lot of drugs. Likewise if you meet a poor person who has time and doesn’t see their lives getting better even if they were sober and dedicated 100% of the time, there’s a good chance that they abuse drugs. It’s also pretty common in the middle class actually. New theory, people abuse drugs in every profession but no one cares unless it’s a celebrity that is getting destroyed by them

  • @bobsacramano2263
    @bobsacramano2263 10 місяців тому +21

    1. Musicians are artists, and drugs have always been used as a means of enhancing creativity.
    2. Concerts are just parties, and people tend to drink/use drugs at parties, performers or otherwise.
    3. Self-fulling prophecy. Drugs/alcohol are strongly associated with the culture of being a stage performer. To a degree, performers probably do feel like it's just what expected of them.
    4. As Maher alluded to, people are likely offering them stuff, everywhere they go, as a means of gaining their favor.
    5. To deal with the unique stress of being famous.

    • @lamnuck
      @lamnuck 10 місяців тому +2

      Rush is one of the rare bands that grew out of the drug thing early

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому

      ​@@lamnuckThe Manic Street Preachers too.

    • @subg8858
      @subg8858 10 місяців тому +2

      Rock bands rarely have drug tests. I imagine that is another big difference.

    • @iunnox666
      @iunnox666 10 місяців тому +1

      @lamnuck I think it's more that they kept it pretty quiet and aren't really "partiers" per se.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому

      But when you are an entertainer you are staff just as much as the catering staff and lighting crew so you are working not partying.

  • @AndrewsArchives
    @AndrewsArchives 10 місяців тому

    "Hold on....let me tell the story...." - priceless

  • @ScrewyDriverTheMan
    @ScrewyDriverTheMan 10 місяців тому +2

    There's also the creative side. Most of them couldn't even come up with anything if they weren't high or drunk. They're really not that creative without "help"

  • @LordZedd123
    @LordZedd123 10 місяців тому

    Very thoughtful, cool dude.

  • @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns
    @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns 10 місяців тому +3

    Only Bill Maher would drink an *inhalant* like amyl nitrate. Seriously, that's like saying "instead of sniffing glue, I almost ate glue".

  • @brokentillman4346
    @brokentillman4346 10 місяців тому +1

    When bought in the bottle, it was called Rush.

  • @SonnyK248
    @SonnyK248 10 місяців тому +6

    Bill is clearly a connoisseur of LSD then 😂

    • @BlottaMcTablets
      @BlottaMcTablets 10 місяців тому

      No. He's an idiot.
      LSD is not "always liquid". LSD is a crystalline powder, which is usually diluted into a shelf stable carrier liquid, such as ethanol.

  • @captaingrub2228
    @captaingrub2228 10 місяців тому +5

    They skipped the most obvious reason which is that artist of all types often struggle with trying to coax out and sustain moments of inspiration and epiphany, and these are very slippery things to pin down (drugs can sort of simulate these states, however the longer you do this the less effective it is and you ended up chasing an ever receding creative state of mind).

  • @stophumpingthelaser
    @stophumpingthelaser 10 місяців тому +1

    when I was in college in Greece, this guy I knew actually brought some poppers back from the UK. So one day while we were hanging out in between classes, he comes to me he says, hey man try this…I had no idea what it was but I thought what the hell, I’ll give it a try. so I take just one small sniff. Next thing I know my mouth just opens wide and I’m laughing like an idiot for absolutely no reason for about a minute or two straight. After an hour I go to class and as I’m sitting down I start to laugh again for 10-15 mins. It was so weird and intense I still remember it like it was yesterday. I’m telling you those poppers are no joke…

  • @nicoguarini28
    @nicoguarini28 13 днів тому

    Clear windowpane and Purple microdot. Yup! I still recall, the smile on the wall.......

  • @4444doggs
    @4444doggs 10 місяців тому +4

    Bill the only guy who can interview a famous person and make the interview about him. SMH…

  • @robdixson196
    @robdixson196 10 місяців тому +1

    Creatives have a tendency to be mental, but musicians are a whole special category of mental. Just combine that with everything Billy said.

  • @gasjet2000
    @gasjet2000 10 місяців тому +2

    Another reason for drug consumption among working musicians, and probably the entertainment industry in general, is because outside of the actual performance, that life is incredibly boring. Ninety-nine percent of your time is spent either in a van, in a strange hotel trying to sleep, waiting at the club between your sound check and your set time, and then waiting around after your set to get paid. It’s a lot of time to fill and there is almost always someone in every city eager to get you drugs and party.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому

      Plus in the early days they often have to share single beds, sleep in the van or stay in grotty back street hotels. REM members used to take it in turn to sleep in the van.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 10 місяців тому

      The waiting around us valuable down time for relaxing, exercising or doing vocal exercises. You can't be on all the time.

  • @Suzibird307
    @Suzibird307 10 місяців тому +4

    I'm not a rock star, just a regular person. I've taken shit off people that I just met many times, when I was young.

    • @michaelsuder486
      @michaelsuder486 10 місяців тому

      Yea, people exchanging drugs is normal when youre young

  • @BrockLanders
    @BrockLanders 10 місяців тому +4

    I thought it might have to do with the fact that creative sensitive people (which a lot of musicians are) can more easily get overwhelmed by their emotions because they’re so intense. So you’ll do anything you can to get away from those turbulent emotions, which alcohol and drugs do for you temporarily. The problem is that it becomes a vicious cycle which leads to addiction.

    • @chrisg7731
      @chrisg7731 10 місяців тому +1

      Was looking for someone to say something like this.
      I’m a musician (not a famous one obviously) and a drug user. I think a lot of creative people who make art where they dump a ton of emotion and passion into it come from some pretty fucked up backgrounds, at least in the rock world. I’m a huge metalhead, and a lot of those guys had some fucked up lives, and the songs they make reflect that.
      Drugs are an escape from reality for me. I don’t want to be sober because then my thoughts are there telling me awful things and filling me with anger and self-hatred. So… I do drugs to quiet them down. It’s not safe or sustainable, but neither is self-resentment. A lot of us are constantly running from reality. Drugs let you stop running for a while. It’s a welcome break, but it’s delicate. You keep pushing the highs more and more because the escape feels amazing. And that’s how you overdose or drive drunk or do other dumb shit.
      Billy seems like he comes from a stable background and may not have the pain in his past that a lot of musicians I love have in theirs, so I don’t think he identifies with the escape aspect of drugs. Believe me, it’s there. Layne Staley wasn’t doing heroin because “he didn’t want the party to end.”

  • @sleepleZZZV3
    @sleepleZZZV3 10 місяців тому +2

    Poor rock stars, a lot of money but unhappy... I'm so sad for them😢😢😢

    • @LannieLord
      @LannieLord 10 місяців тому +1

      Jesus ; look at Kurt Cobain. He would have been better off being a local band that never made it.

    • @timothymeadows8326
      @timothymeadows8326 10 місяців тому

      The old tale of the tragic artist

    • @brando7266
      @brando7266 10 місяців тому

      So u would rather be a nobody/ nothing than billy idol, most people will pick the rock star,

  • @EricSmith9000
    @EricSmith9000 10 місяців тому +4

    If I had to sing the same song every night, I'd do drugs, too.

  • @lovermansmith9082
    @lovermansmith9082 10 місяців тому

    Not many jobs are allowed to drink while working . Wish you'd let Billy talk more . New fan of his . Being too honest ain't gonna wreck his career or anything

  • @JoeThornFreedom
    @JoeThornFreedom 9 місяців тому

    Anybody notice his podcast is more bill talking at his guest rather than listening to his guest?

  • @DrewDogg87
    @DrewDogg87 10 місяців тому

    Like the Zero sweater

  • @paulavery5889
    @paulavery5889 9 місяців тому

    I've always thought it's just because it's accessible and they get carried away with it. I've known people that have said they'd probably be dead by now if they were rich.

  • @crawdaddy6969
    @crawdaddy6969 10 місяців тому

    We called it rush, Bill

  • @stellastarbrightk7563
    @stellastarbrightk7563 10 місяців тому

    Plus you don’t kill anyone if your drum solo is off. If an engineer designs a bridge high and it collapses it kills people. Some people need to be competent.

  • @jasoncthomas
    @jasoncthomas 9 місяців тому

    The stuff you pop are called poppers and are Amyl Nitrate. This is prescribed to heart patients, as it dilates the blood flow. That stuff in the little bottle is called LockerRoom. It is Butyl Nitrate and was used as an air freshener.

  • @James-wj8eq
    @James-wj8eq 10 місяців тому

    In the end, whatever floats your boat, like the Nike logo states- 'just do it'

  • @trishaspencer9956
    @trishaspencer9956 10 місяців тому +1

    I let a random stranger drop a hit of acid in my eye at a Grateful Dead show, that was not smart but worked out for me 😊

  • @leegoddard2618
    @leegoddard2618 10 місяців тому +1

    When I was a kid. Buddies and I would have contests, to see who could take the most acid. I made it to 13 over the course of about a weekend. It was summer so we were camping and tripping in the Olympics. Weird times. We knew straight LSD couldn't kill you. It was just a matter of who could handle the trip, best.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 10 місяців тому +1

      It won't kill you but it can make certain people lose their minds... Permanently.

    • @leegoddard2618
      @leegoddard2618 10 місяців тому

      @@ryanjacobson2508 yes, a buddy of mine did. 😔

  • @tonyrutgershauer7947
    @tonyrutgershauer7947 10 місяців тому +2

    I think Nikki Sixx would be a fine guest on this show.

  • @SHOOTERSBARLACROSSE
    @SHOOTERSBARLACROSSE 10 місяців тому +4

    Looking to replace/carry on that "Performance High" that iconic, brilliant Billy Corgan spoke of is also something athletes seek out as well and is a reason college wrestlers & football players etc tend to overdo it or get in trouble while celebrating the big win.Testosterone,endorphins,Alcohol & ?? can lead to some bad decisions for young men which is why many coaches always speak to their athletes about being responsible after competitions as we did while i was a college wrestling coach

    • @LannieLord
      @LannieLord 10 місяців тому +2

      Dopamine levels are super high.

    • @makidiaz3894
      @makidiaz3894 10 місяців тому +1

      Drugs hit you a lot harder when you are in peak physical shape as well.

    • @makidiaz3894
      @makidiaz3894 10 місяців тому +1

      When I was a wrestler, smoking weed felt twice as strong as say smoking weed while sedentary

  • @sawg4607
    @sawg4607 9 місяців тому

    I think just about every industry has a level of it.

  • @mheberling5939
    @mheberling5939 10 місяців тому

    I remember that stuff Bill was talking about in college. Weird stuff.

  • @pnut3844able
    @pnut3844able 10 місяців тому +3

    He wouldn't have ODed Bill lmao. You can't OD on acid.

  • @paulgardner5079
    @paulgardner5079 10 місяців тому +1

    Corgan did the soundtrack to a movie about meth called "spun" It was a great movie and soundtrack

  • @esbaldwin
    @esbaldwin 10 місяців тому

    I remember one time we did some “poppers”, tee hee hee, that was crazy shit

  • @Nickecho7979
    @Nickecho7979 9 місяців тому

    When i first seen "This is why Rockstar do drugs w/billy corgan" I thought "How the hell did he do drugs with Jimmy-Janice & Amy winehouse?

  • @phlezktravels
    @phlezktravels 10 місяців тому +1

    For fun.

  • @alphalifestyleacademy
    @alphalifestyleacademy 10 місяців тому

    Creative people are high in a trait known as "Openness" and these people are high in negative emotions and many of them not all of them use drugs to regulate their emotions. Others may use exercise like why I believe Kobe Bryant had such a work ethic and Tom Cruise used high risk to regulate his emotion but all these produce the same chemicals in the brain that these drugs do. I use to have a deep craving for drugs until I learned how to regulate my emotions.

  • @garyphisher7375
    @garyphisher7375 10 місяців тому +2

    The first and only time I have done liquid LSD, was in a squat in London. The squatters were mostly Spanish speakers - most of them were street performers (living statue - clowns - acrobats etc).
    I was invited by a barmaid - she met up with me after she finished her shift. She sat next to me and I told her I'd taken 4 drops of liquid Acid so I was tripping - I still remember her look of disgust before she stood up and walked away.
    Great night - couldn't stop laughing. London is sh*t though!

    • @saraivatoledo1842
      @saraivatoledo1842 8 місяців тому

      May I take a guess ? - 2002 -2005 ; location : a squat in (* sorry !You have already said it was a squat ) Hackney /Dalston . Is that somewhat accurate ?

    • @garyphisher7375
      @garyphisher7375 8 місяців тому +1

      @@saraivatoledo1842 It would've been there or somewhere close.
      I remember it being at least three stories high - to me it looked like an abandoned school.

    • @saraivatoledo1842
      @saraivatoledo1842 8 місяців тому

      @@garyphisher7375 That was Dalston , one of the coolest squats I´ve ever been to regularly , I was friends with this dealer called "Grubber " (think he was German if memory serves .). This was one of the major reasons I would be there daily ...also a LOT of mad Eastern European girls.
      Crazy squat ...you would walk in and there would always be a lot of different parties in different rooms/ parts of the school . Different sound systems and DJs in different rooms ... did I have some crazy times there ...in hindsight it seems like I dreamt it all such was the dissonance with what was going on outside. K, liquid acid , great Green ...also some hard stuff which I really didn´t care for back then .
      You would have to go in through a back door ,right ? Just a few minutes away from Dalston´s train station . It´s London anyways , might be a very similar place somewhere else -the resemblance is striking though .

  • @naimarbaje3202
    @naimarbaje3202 10 місяців тому

    This Interview was brutal. I thought Maher had it together.

  • @jacquelinel1618
    @jacquelinel1618 10 місяців тому +1

    Isn’t it amazing how people can talk so freely about how they did weed now, when we all know it was all bullshit from the beginning to be illegal in the first place?

  • @PJCloutier22
    @PJCloutier22 10 місяців тому

    Anytime you stay up late and hang around bars, drugs and alcohol will be more tempting.

  • @davidmacgown321
    @davidmacgown321 10 місяців тому +1

    What Billy said about Motley Crue wanting the high of being on stage makes a lot of sense.
    I did stand up once and the feeling of hearing people laugh at your jokes is an incredible high. I was on cloud 9 from the minute my set was over and so pumped up after I couldn't sleep until early in the morning. I can totally see why someone who entertains for a living would do drugs. It's not easy to turn it off.

  • @R3TR0R4V3
    @R3TR0R4V3 10 місяців тому +3

    Bill apparently hasn't done much lsd, or at least the research on it. 😒

  • @MidNightRider2001
    @MidNightRider2001 10 місяців тому +4

    Billy Corgan is the Lex Luthor of rock-n-roll.

  • @marklechman2225
    @marklechman2225 10 місяців тому +1

    Because they don’t have to wake up until noon.

  • @consciouscrypto3090
    @consciouscrypto3090 9 місяців тому

    OMG, I forgot about poppers! Yeah, that was pretty stupid. I'm so glad I survived youth.

  • @underflo43tky
    @underflo43tky 9 місяців тому

    i cant believe my mom and straight edge brother watch bill mahers show. they hate cannabis. im always like he smokes cannabis. cause they give me hell for liking cannabis.

  • @guybartlett9587
    @guybartlett9587 10 місяців тому +1

    Bill stop interrupting

  • @radamus210
    @radamus210 10 місяців тому +2

    I've always said, if you experienced the 80's, and are still here to laugh about it, you survived, and were lucky af ~ because we were stupid, invincible and never expected we'd see 35 because that was like the age of growing old in downhill misery. But that's how it was in that time because we were idiots. I certainly got lucky more than I was smart and a lot of my friends are dead now, some for a long time because they sank like a rock.
    I wont say we licked up liquid LSD from a stranger, but one of my dudes certainly would have stepped up and smashed the fk out of whatever someone might have. Fk, we would buy blotter squares in the bathroom at concerts that were packed from absolute strangers and there was a line to hand him money for who knows what - Always turned out to be good blotter for me but yeah, we didn't have shit like today that would kill you. Seriously, at a Floyd concert, dude is in a barstool by the bathroom door, peeling off squares to everyone like he was the guy at the ticket taker at the turnstiles when you went into the arena.... and at the concert the whole place smelled like a pot bonfire. Every concert, always the same - that's just the way it was, and security didn't care as long as you didn't fk with people. Half of them were hittin the shit anyway.

  • @user-mm8vw1ow1x
    @user-mm8vw1ow1x 7 місяців тому

    You underestimate the non rock stars

  • @owlcu
    @owlcu 10 місяців тому +4

    The REAL reason is that music is fantasy, just like painting or acting, and in order to sustain and explore that fantasy, most musicians (and artists in general) must step outside of "reality" in order to function. Because "reality" is meaningless without another perspective to define it. There, I said it.

  • @chancefoy6287
    @chancefoy6287 10 місяців тому +13

    Bill clearly doesn’t understand anything his guests ever say Jesus

    • @brandongratta9040
      @brandongratta9040 10 місяців тому +5

      @@danacuff7982 he has to cut off soooo much lol. even to try to explain to a literal rock star about the differences in acid as if he doesn't know. like c'mon xD

    • @shanerjedi1138
      @shanerjedi1138 10 місяців тому +3

      Well maybe it would help his understanding if he wasnt stoned all the time?

    • @brandongratta9040
      @brandongratta9040 10 місяців тому +5

      @@shanerjedi1138 not even that, just listening more. You can be stoned and understand what people are saying. If you spend someone's whole story waiting to debate small bits of it you'll miss the big picture which is what seems to keep happening on these

  • @bettyriley7295
    @bettyriley7295 10 місяців тому

    Hold a giant bong hit in your lungs, and pontificate about the dangers of doing drugs, as you exhale. And then pour yourself a glass of whiskey.

  • @benjaminkell3726
    @benjaminkell3726 10 місяців тому

    Bill has even been to an industrial adhesive party I see

  • @surfcollector
    @surfcollector 10 місяців тому +5

    Maher is trying to establish that he is the expert on LSD.

  • @mikemccourt6225
    @mikemccourt6225 10 місяців тому

    Bill - they make a full-flavored decaf, chill out and let the man talk

  • @terrencemilton5088
    @terrencemilton5088 9 місяців тому

    Drugs bring out creativity. Trust me. 😂😂😂😂

  • @jcmangan
    @jcmangan 9 місяців тому

    "With LSD you become a better person, not a better musician."
    "But Hendrix?
    "That´s what I`m saying, he was crap half of the time."
    Lemmy Kilmister, always a good source if it comes to surviving Rock`n`Roll

  • @techn1kal1ty
    @techn1kal1ty 10 місяців тому +2

    Drugs!

  • @petermartin4142
    @petermartin4142 10 місяців тому +1

    Think of what you’re saying now bill……. Your old.😂

  • @mneugent7658
    @mneugent7658 10 місяців тому

    Am I the only one who saw the video's title and thought "I had no idea so many rockstars do drugs with Billy Corgan"?

  • @jacquelinel1618
    @jacquelinel1618 10 місяців тому

    drugs can help you be at your most creative. The best albums were created while on drugs. Not to mention Steve Jobs and his ideas.

  • @VolvoImpala
    @VolvoImpala 10 місяців тому

    Does Amyl just throw you for a loop and then you're done after you snort it? Or is that airplane glue?

  • @sniffableandirresistble
    @sniffableandirresistble 10 місяців тому +1

    Because drugs are fun ❤

  • @GandhiQc
    @GandhiQc 10 місяців тому +4

    I think Bill was better when he was not high.

    • @brando7266
      @brando7266 10 місяців тому

      When hasn't he been high?

    • @GandhiQc
      @GandhiQc 10 місяців тому

      @@brando7266 I thought he wasn't in Real Time

    • @brando7266
      @brando7266 10 місяців тому

      @@GandhiQc he's been smoking weed ,since his college days,

  • @SikDigitz
    @SikDigitz 9 місяців тому

    ...and ONLY Billy Corgan.