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2 wasted 2 play

Destroyer of gigs

  • Alcohol

    Votes: 454 82.5%

  • Weed

    Votes: 74 13.5%

  • Cocaine

    Votes: 38 6.9%

  • Opioids

    Votes: 47 8.5%

  • Coffee

    Votes: 11 2.0%

  • LSD/molly/shrooms

    Votes: 43 7.8%

  • Freebase carrots

    Votes: 60 10.9%
  • Total voters
    550
#141
just like when i used to bartend -i like to work hard and play hard! while I am working I work. When i am ready to party -ITS ON!
SO hand me that delicious coffee and lets play!
Later on we can drink 50 beers then smoke big fat hog legs and sleep on the lawn!
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#142
Medicine Man said:
I took a hit off a balloon while trying to tune at a music festival in the old 90s. So dumb. I then had the pleasure of trying to retune during the opening number. I only put the main offenders in the poll, but if you've had a gig ruined by nitrous or peyote, feel free to tell the tale.
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A nitrous buzz is VERY short-lived though...at least (?):thumbsup:
 
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#143
orange joe said:
I can't say I've ever played with anyone who was stupid enough to take hallucinogenic drugs before performing. Alcohol has definitely been #1 for ruining gigs or practice in my experience. I've also had some issues with overconfident stoners . On the contrary I used to play for a local guitarist who was one of the most professional BLs I've ever worked for. we eventually found out he was on opiates nearly every practice and gigs. He was such an amazing player and professional in every way. We were very surprised when he told us what was going on and that he was going to rehab.
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#144
hennessybass said:
IMO, the major factor on players having a bad gigs is not the booze or drugs themselves, but something that's going on in someones life... which leads to not being present during the performance.
Stress from work, not sleeping, feeling low, fight with your lady (or man), money trouble, thinking about what you have to do tomorrow... often those kind of feelings lead to self medication with booze or drugs, and then we blame the booze or drugs.
Like the Jaco thing... easy to blame his thing on drugs, but now in 2019 we know more than that.

I had a poopy day and I want to forget it and not let it ruin my gig, so let me smoke a little... and you have a bad gig. Easy to say it's because of weed. Had a great day, in a great headspace, having a great time, so let me smoke a little... best gig of your life.

Like I said in the other thread, things are not black and white, and we do better when we widen the lens a little.

My worst experience was a guitar player and meth. The music got bad sometimes, but was sometimes ok,,, but it was more the other stuff. Disappearing, becoming a flake, lying, stealing your poopie... all that other stuff was way worse than "the music was suffering." Hell, just watching a human go through that stuff sucks a lot worse than someone missing changes.
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Even worse when it is your significant other.
 
#147
oZZma said:
And actually I think cocaine may boost your "performance" if you're the frontman.
(Never tried cocaine, personally, but from indirect experience I think it works that way)
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"Just the right amount of cocaine"; and that could be true.
Problem is, your body says that "Just the right amount" is always MORE. Things go downhill very quickly if there are more than just a few bumps available.

So glad those days are LONG past.
 
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#149
Cave Puppy said:
C'mon. Do we REALLY have to have another one of these threads?
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Apparently we will continue having them until everyone accepts that any sort of intoxicant usage of any sort by anyone at any time is absolutely unacceptable and should be punishable by instant death.

Of all the internet communities I would have gone to were I looking for prohibitionists, this board would not have been it. I was so wrong. I learn something new every day.
 
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#150
I voted weed. I accept that alcohol is more readily available and has likely ruined more gigs than the others combined, but from my personal experience weed has been the main culprit. Usually guitarists. One in particular - "Stoner Neil" - who couldn't remember how a single song went...
 
#151
Yea its alcohol. But the funny thing about it is that if you take too much, you think you can play but in reality you play quite bad, but if you take just enough it relaxes you and could even help you play better than being sober.

Most of Pantera were wasted during gigs, yet they play tight.
 
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#153
I've never experienced it first hand but alcohol wins. A shot or a beer likely won't cause harm. Once it turns into rambling, slurring and falling please exit the stage.

I know I know, smoking pot makes you think you're playing better. A diehard toker's playing probably won't suffer much.

Hallucinogens? I don't understand how someone could function at all when up is left and right is blueberry.
 
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#156
DJ Bebop said:
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Speaking of DABS.... For the uninitiated, this a concentrate vaporized in the red-hot bowl of a water pipe. Potency varies, but a dab can easily equal half a joint or more.
There is a pot shop a block from me (since burned down) that served dabs (not in accordance with local law) and cowboys would stroll in, have six dabs (the equivalent of three or four joints, and within ten minutes) and then return outside to pilot their cars in the heavy L.A. traffic. LOT of stoned drivers in L.A. Driving here in the afternoon around quitting time, you see working class guys hitting pipes behind the wheel of their trucks and vans. It's the new Miller Time, and my friend observed that the little film canisters cluttering the gutters here are the new beer can.
 
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#157
arbiterusa said:
Apparently we will continue having them until everyone accepts that any sort of intoxicant usage of any sort by anyone at any time is absolutely unacceptable and should be punishable by instant death.

Of all the internet communities I would have gone to were I looking for prohibitionists, this board would not have been it. I was so wrong. I learn something new every day.
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I'm no prohibitionist, quite the opposite. But just like I don't go to my day job drunk and high.....
 
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#159
Medicine Man said:
I'm no prohibitionist, quite the opposite. But just like I don't go to my day job drunk and high.....
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Yeah, it seems like sometimes any attempt at a reasoning, non-polarized viewpoint is seen as extreme, anyway. If I don't get 100% on board that "all intoxicants, all the time" train, I'm some sort of puritanical narc.

Uh, no. I just don't think every situation is appropriate for a good ol' drunk-n-high. If it impairs my performance or that of someone I'm working with, THAT is what I have a problem with. Not the substance itself, or its use in other situations.
 
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LBS-bass said:
Yeah, it seems like sometimes any attempt at a reasoning, non-polarized viewpoint is seen as extreme, anyway. If I don't get 100% on board that "all intoxicants, all the time" train, I'm some sort of puritanical narc.

Uh, no. I just don't think every situation is appropriate for a good ol' drunk-n-high. If it impairs my performance or that of someone I'm working with, THAT is what I have a problem with. Not the substance itself, or its use in other situations.
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Most balanced, sensible post between the two recent threads on this subject.
 

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