The relationship between creativity and perception has always been very complex. Throughout the history of art from prehistoric times, the use of various psychedelic natural ingredients has allowed creators a perception different from that inherent in the regular state of consciousness. Perhaps more than encouraging inspiration itself, because they also dull it, the significance of altered perception is important after returning to reality. A person who has experienced a changed perception remains forever aware that reality is not just unambiguous and that it is subject to changes that individuals without such experience could not experience. In rock art and rock culture, the role of love, music and drugs has been emphasized even more than in the past. As the poets of Romanticism moved away from everyday life using absinthe and perhaps opium, rock grabbed a wide variety of recently developed chemical as well as traditional, herbal narcotics. Observations of drug connections, music publishing media, and forms of compositional and arranging creativity are widely discussed. In short, this is how we connect the connection between amphetamines (speed) and energetic rock and soul music of the first half of the 60's. This fast-paced music was released in short, energetic forms lasting up to three minutes, on short single records. In the mid-1960s, the use of marijuana and LSD increased, leading to freer compositional forms lasting from over five to over 20 minutes. That psychedelic music was slower, and the length of playback was made possible by the long play (LP) format. The hippie era ended with increased use of dangerous drugs such as heroin, and in the early 1970s with a sharp rise in cocaine use. Cocaine, with its emphasis on egomaniacal urges, most likely led to the breakup of many bands because the discipline needed to maintain the unity of the rock band was impossible to maintain with the inflated egos of the members. This indirectly led to a great increase in the importance of singer-songwriters who as individual artists became the dominant form of creative expression in the first half of the 70s. The punk era was marked by the frenzy of glue sniffing and a return to energetic short forms, and the slowness of marijuana was limited to the realm of reggae music. The conformist kindness and chemical closeness of ecstasy marked the transition of rock and roll and the end of rock culture. In this episode, we listen to a number of songs related to drug use and abuse.
