Famous speeders

[dpayne]

Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim has stated numerously he hasnt performed sober in years and the last show he did sucked.
I also remember reading an article where he'd have fans or was it dancers (the ones paid to perform on podiums) split E's and share em with him while performing at nightclubs.
Wish I was there for the big beach boutique, the dvd never looses its appeal.

[humdroid]

Originally Posted by dpayne

Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim has stated numerously he hasnt performed sober in years and the last show he did sucked.
I also remember reading an article where he'd have fans or was it dancers (the ones paid to perform on podiums) split E's and share em with him while performing at nightclubs.
Wish I was there for the big beach boutique, the dvd never looses its appeal.

Was that speed or ecstasy though?
I know both are amphetaminey, but speed has more of an attitude problem than pills.
Fatboy does always look pilled up though

[dpayne]

It was eccies that he shared and I think his powder of choice was cocaine. I remember reading an article about him doin lines off his beach side porch or someshit and he also likes to drink shitloads of piss.

Thanks tho it was a litle off topic as it wasnt a famous speeder I spose just another musician lol

[enquirewithin]

Yes, MDMA is not really speed-- just a relation.

[lucy in the sky]

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol were speed lovers. Unfortunately Edie overdosed

[enquirewithin]

I remember someone from the Factory saying that methampetamine was the drug of choice amongst Warhol's circle. Warhol's writing seems like speed inspired rambling.

[yaba]

Herman Brood

Not many people will know him,(most Dutch people will) he was a Dutch artist.
Very nice guy ! was liked by many.. even the non drug users like him.
Swim seen him a few times at a night club under a hotel in Amsterdam, he ask swim do you have enough ? While looking in his eyes..

He committed suicide jumping of the Hilton in Amsterdam, he was a regular guest there and was easy to get on the roof there for him (he knew the hotel well)

He liked to shoot and sniff amphetamines in large quantities..

[rocksmokinmachine]

Originally Posted by yaba

Herman Brood

Not many people will know him,(most Dutch people will) he was a Dutch artist.
Very nice guy ! was liked by many.. even the non drug users like him.
Swim seen him a few times at a night club under a hotel in Amsterdam, he ask swim do you have enough ? While looking in his eyes..

He committed suicide jumping of the Hilton in Amsterdam, he was a regular guest there and was easy to get on the roof there for him (he knew the hotel well)

He liked to shoot and sniff amphetamines in large quantities..

Yes a shame indeed, it happened around a year before I arrived in Amsterdam.

[enquirewithin]

"Rock 'n' Roll Junkie" Herman Brood? I used to listen to him a long time ago-- I didn't know that he had died. That's a pity.

[yaba]

Originally Posted by enquirewithin

"Rock 'n' Roll Junkie" Herman Brood? I used to listen to him a long time ago-- I didn't know that he had died. That's a pity.

yes thats the one ! He was a artist as well. And rocksmokingmachine, its a shame.. Swim was once in a Night club under the Renaissance hotel and was waiting for the toilet, he came out and took one look at swim and asked swim do you have enough ? Think he meant if not I can help... Surprised non Dutch people have heard of him.

[Ghaffa]

Andrew Eldritch from UK cult band Sisters of Mercy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_of_Mercy
They even have a song called Amphetamine Logic

[Benga]

French author Françoise Sagan--- used amphetamine frequently, though later on it was pretty much cocaine only.
French author Maurice G. Dantec ( Villa Vortex and roots of evil were written on amphetamines)
British cyclist Tom Simpson died of an amphetamine related issue in the Mont Ventoux section of the Tour de France race of 1967- a little anectode which underlines the role played by amphetamines in professional sports, especially in the 1960's and 1970's
Jazz singer Dinah Washington died of an alcohol+ amphetamine complication in 1963

as previously mentioned, Philip K. Dick and Hunter S. Thompson really spring to mind.
b

[gmeziscool2354]

barry bonds, us baseball player used adderal or a similar prescription that was not his and got busted for it. he served a league suspension for failing a pee-pee test but didn't face any criminal charges

ous mellolui from tunisia who won a gold medal in swimming at the olympics once failed a test from taking adderal 2 days prior while working on a paper

[chillinwill]

Originally Posted by gmeziscool2354

barry bonds, us baseball player used adderal or a similar prescription that was not his and got busted for it. he served a league suspension for failing a pee-pee test but didn't face any criminal charges

ous mellolui from tunisia who won a gold medal in swimming at the olympics once failed a test from taking adderal 2 days prior while working on a paper

How do you know it was adderall or a similar prescription? As far as I have read, they just know that he tested positive for amphetamines and tried to play it on another teammate.

[gmeziscool2354]

well i don't know about bonds. he failed the test for amphetamine, and i thought it was a team mates prescription or something which is why he tried to blame the other guy. i could be wrong about that.

[Hollow Hippie]

John Lennon and the other Beatles, first used phenmetrazine (Preludin) then moved onto amphetamines, called "Black Bombers" and "Purple Hearts" while staying in Hamburg, Germany.

[rocksmokinmachine]

Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) had a fondness for IV'ing illicit amphetamine sulphate.

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[enquirewithin]

Originally Posted by rocksmokinmachine

Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) had a fondness for IV'ing illicit amphetamine sulphate.

I'm not surprised to hear that, although heroin and his own lack of brains killed him. IVing amphetamine sulphate was fashionable amongst more addicted speedfreaks at that time.

[rocksmokinmachine]

Originally Posted by enquirewithin

IVing amphetamine sulphate was fashionable amongst more addicted speedfreaks at that time.

Still is in the UK and Netherlands

[guldenat]

Elvis Presley took a fair amount of amphetamines in his early days.

[FrankenChrist]

Originally Posted by guldenat

Elvis Presley took a fair amount of amphetamines in his early days.

He had the strongest legal amphetamines prescribed, took quaaludes and drank coffee so thick you could almost let a spoon stand in it. He also drenched cotton balls in 100 % liquid medical cocaine. He would then put the cotton in his nose and every time he needed a hit he'd just squeeze his nose.

[Benga]

Originally Posted by FrankenChrist

He had the strongest legal amphetamines prescribed, took quaaludes and drank coffee so thick you could almost let a spoon stand in it. He also drenched cotton balls in 100 % liquid medical cocaine. He would then put the cotton in his nose and every time he needed a hit he'd just squeeze his nose.

sorry for the OT, but where is this from, especially the cocaine cotton balls part ? pretty interesting aministration method ! i found a reference to it as stemming from a tabloid book by Albert Goldman's new Elvis: The Last 24 Hours. any more info ?

b

[FrankenChrist]

Originally Posted by Benga

sorry for the OT, but where is this from, especially the cocaine cotton balls part ? pretty interesting aministration method ! i found a reference to it as stemming from a tabloid book by Albert Goldman's new Elvis: The Last 24 Hours. any more info ?

b

I got it out of one or two books I read back in high school for music class. I don't remember which ones though.
We had to write an essay on a significant artist. I got 30 out of 30 points btw

[Moonage Daydream]

Mark E Smith, The Fall - hence the song "Totally Wired"! and quite a few others with speed references in

Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager who "often had a cough at parties" (sorry don't remember where the quote comes from, i work in a Liverpool museum and there were loads of books on art and culture to read during that exhibition so they all meld into one...) ie. he *discreetly* popped a speed pill at regular intervals...

[enquirewithin]

John Cooper Clarke, British punk poet (who used to back the Fall) performed on speed. His only and minor hit single, Gimmix! Play Loud, was about speed:

"Hey Jimmy, gimme the gimmix...
Talk was cheap and loud...
Speed's in sports out".

I can't find the lyrics printed but that was the gist of it.