10 Rock Music Songs That You Didn't Know Were About Drugs
5. A Passage To Bangkok - Rush
Ever since Rush drafted Neil Peart into the band, they were always known to be the thinking man's version of prog rock. Whereas Pink Floyd may have been experimental and even Led Zeppelin dabbled in some more outlandish material, this is the kind of philosophical stuff that made you feel just a little bit smarter when you listened to it. So how did a band like this make a song that would fit perfectly on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack?
Right after their magnum opus song 2112, A Passage to Bangkok is the Canadian power trio's take on the wonders of hash, as they travel through different corners of the globe. As much as the lyrics could just seem like a wild trip across the world, you'd have to admit that there's definitely a pot haze surrounding this song, especially with a guitar that's soaked in distortion.
If the actual sound of the song wasn't subtle enough, the guitar solo begins with one massive toke of a joint before Alex Lifeson lets his fretboard fireworks fly. And it seems that the band has embraced the drug connotations as well, noting that most of their shows had the atmosphere change whenever they played that song. And why not? This isn't the kind of cerebral epic that shows your technical skill. No, this is mind expanding of a different kind.