One hard thing about the music industry is when people give heroin and hard drugs to the bands, it would be good to teach all children who want to be musicians to avoid the hard drugs. Pot is safe, you cannot over-dose on pot, and alcohol is safe in moderation, but the hard addictive drugs like heroin really do damage.
I was crushed when Tom Petty died.
And I have a friend who was in the Chili Peppers and he had to quit because they were on heroin, and the guy who replaced him, Hillel Slovak died from a heroin over-dose.
I met a woman who her dream was to be a Band Manager, but she lost all of her money because the band that she managed got on heroin and collapsed. It is hard for a Band Manager to keep the bands clean.
And there is the movie "Lady Sings the Blues" about Billie Holiday, heroin ruined her life, and it was so sad in the movie when her piano player got killed for trying to help her, great film with great acting. Every young musician should watch "Lady Sings the Blues."
I wrote a movie which I hope to produce, and the opening song is by Neil Young, and it is about a porn star and a Rock and Roll DJ, they were teen lovers, and a bunch of bad stuff happens, and she ends up as a homeless orphan, and he ends up in juvenile hall, and she becomes a drug addicted porn star, and he becomes a Rock and Roll DJ, and when he hears about her problems he tries to help her, but she ends up dying anyway, the title of the film is "Echo, A Rock and Roll Tragedy." And I hope to inspire people to donate to Children of the Night to help the homeless teens on the streets of Hollywood, etc. Hugh Hefner read my script and liked it, but we could not find a director, I wanted Oliver Stone but Oliver read it and turned me down. I hope to find some new connections maybe at Chapman film school to help to get my movie made, we will see. I would love to make it at Universal Studios and have a bungalow office. We will see what happens.
Salute,
Tony V.
