Hard Drugs

Hard Drugs are a wolf among a flock of bleating postmodern sheep
Ian Astbury

What do the remaining members of East Vancouver's Blood Meridian do while their singer and drummer are off touring the world with psych/prog juggernaut Black Mountain?

Hard Drugs is an indie rock opera that trusts in spectacular songs rather than an elaborate stage production to tell a twisted love story that could only happen in Terminal City. The final product is a 13-song double LP showcasing an orchestral mix of roots, rock, punk, savvy percussion and heartbreaking harmonies conceived by Jeffry Lee and executed
with help from a cache of his talented friends.

Love’s the hardest drug of all. Lloyd the small-time thief and big time boozer and his prostitute lover Aline learn this lesson by the end of the musical story Hard Drugs. Lloyd cannot bear his precious Aline leaving each night into the downtown Eastside of Terminal City, but she cannot quit her hooking for fear of what her pimp Slim might do. The only way the fated couple can have a chance at reclaiming Happiness is for Slim to die. Luring his friend and occasional dealer Hank into a plot to have Slim overdose on a shoddy batch of drugs, Lloyd and Hank successfully convince Slim to have a bump. Will this free the lovers of their sketchy pasts, deliver them from the clutches of Death, releasing them into eternal bliss? After all, if Aline has Lloyd, and Lloyd has Aline, other than that, what could they need?

Collaborators include members of Blood Meridian, Black Mountain, Lightning Dust, Pink Mountaintops, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Limb Lifter, Bughouse 5, Bend Sinister, Fan Death, The Mohawk Lodge, Bison, and Bason among many others.


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