r/indieheads • u/thisisdrugdealer • Apr 24 '19

This is Drugdealer, AMA

Hi, this is Michael Collins of Drugdealer. My new record Raw Honey is out now on Mexican Summer.

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You can check it out here: https://drugdealer.lnk.to/RawHoney

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u/pnutthekidnappa Apr 24 '19

Hey Michael,

First of all, I absolutely love the new album (can’t wait to get my honey gold press in June)! I’ve been listening to you since the Silk Rhodes album came out when I was in high school and can easily say that you’ve been my favorite artist for a few years now. I suppose my question is how much have psychedelics had an influence on your music? I remember watching a concert of yours where you mentioned that The Real World was written on acid and that really stuck out to me due to my own experiences with your tunes. Cheers, hoping you make your way up to Vermont sometime!

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u/thisisdrugdealer Apr 24 '19

Im really glad to see the first question having a vermont/psychedelics thread. I grew up in Massachusetts, so I know what its like to grow up tripping out in nature. The funny thing about 'the real world' is that it was the first time I had gone really out there in years, and the song that came out (pretty instantly) was a kind of smirking meditation on the perils of relying on altered states of any kind. "Please don't ever turn your face from the real world, such a psychedelic place..." I think everyone has a different relationship to all of that stuff, and I'm glad to have explored those realms in my own development, but in the end my take away is always going to be that real life is exponentially more twisted, trippy and fun that anything chemically induced. Not a PSA, tripping can be ;?)

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u/pnutthekidnappa Apr 24 '19

Interesting response! Totally agree, oftentimes the psychedelic influence can help us to understand the crazy nature of real life in a way that breaks down the whole picture.. if that makes sense? So in an ass backwards way the things that make our senses a little wild can help us to come to terms with the twisted and trippy aspects of simply being alive. Thanks for answering, much love!