An interesting perspective, if not rosy ;)
Clint
""From what I'd learned coming up," Nick Kent writes in Apathy For The
Devil: A 70s Memoir, "rock writing was fundamentally an action medium
that best came to life when the writer was in the thick of that action
and yet removed enough to comprehend its possible consequences." And
as a writer for the English weeklyNew Musical Express, beginning in
1972, Kent helped propagate some of the music's key myths. He fixed on
musicians who held the promise of the '60s counterculture, only to
descend into drugs (Keith Richards, Syd Barrett), depression (Nick
Drake), or both (Brian Wilson). It's a story Kent lived out himself,
becoming a notorious junkie in the mid-'70s.
Kent spends a lot of Apathy For The Devil decrying the limbo the
lifestyle led him into. At the same time, he doesn't, or won't, gloss
over its more glamorous properties: "I didn't get into hard drugs—
specifically heroin—so that I could be more like Keith Richards. I
took the narcotic partly as a misguided way of temporarily gluing back
together a broken heart but mostly because I liked the world it
plunged me into, that instant all-embracing comfort zone.""
http://www.avclub.com/articles/nick-kent-apathy-for-the-devil,44784/
Devil: A 70s Memoir, "rock writing was fundamentally an action medium
that best came to life when the writer was in the thick of that action
and yet removed enough to comprehend its possible consequences." And
as a writer for the English weeklyNew Musical Express, beginning in
1972, Kent helped propagate some of the music's key myths. He fixed on
musicians who held the promise of the '60s counterculture, only to
descend into drugs (Keith Richards, Syd Barrett), depression (Nick
Drake), or both (Brian Wilson). It's a story Kent lived out himself,
becoming a notorious junkie in the mid-'70s.
Kent spends a lot of Apathy For The Devil decrying the limbo the
lifestyle led him into. At the same time, he doesn't, or won't, gloss
over its more glamorous properties: "I didn't get into hard drugs—
specifically heroin—so that I could be more like Keith Richards. I
took the narcotic partly as a misguided way of temporarily gluing back
together a broken heart but mostly because I liked the world it
plunged me into, that instant all-embracing comfort zone.""
http://www.avclub.com/articles/nick-kent-apathy-for-the-devil,44784/
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