Jerry Garcia and Keith Richards were good players. So was Miles Davis, and lots of other jazz guys. Still, I would hate to see my kid shoot heroin in order to be that good. And at times, I'm not sure that one is not the price for the other, which is the deal with the devil.
Still, people who live real lives have lessons that are more valid than a stereotype in a Hollywood production deal.
And, at that, admire only the living. Dying is way too easy.