Do you get drunk before playing??

[FretNoMore]

Drunk on stage?

Never. To me it's completely disrespectful to myself, the audience, the person paying the band and the music.

I personally don't want to pay to see drunks on stage when I go see a show. It's your choice, do what you want, but I'm leaving if there is a drunk fool on stage. It may have been funny in my early teens, now it's just pathetic.

 

[Jon Moody]

Which means all this talk like he's clocking in work bringing in the long money and its a very professional environment and all along its just a bar with drunks and some band playing the same ole stuff. You guys that don't agree with drinking are pretty vocal about it. But your not always right about it either. State your opinion and move on already.

So because it's still in a bar, being and acting professional doesn't matter to you?

 

[10cc]

That's exactly what I did not say. Anyhow I've stated my opinion and now I'm out. Everybody have a great Friday! Got work to do.

 

[AaronVonRock]

This is the problem when it comes to topics like this that deal with lifestyle choices. It's one thing to say "I don't _______ because I don't like it" and a completely different thing to say "I don't ______ because I don't like it and no one else should, either." The former is a preference/opinion and I can respect that whether I agree with it or not (different strokes for different folks, live and let live, etc). The latter is intolerant and judgemental and I don't have the time or interest for that kind of nonsense.

 

[whbjr]

During, i.e. shots in the middle of songs fed to me by beautiful women while I'm playing.

True Story: This pretty much happened to me, when my band played at a bar the same night that Bushmill's Whiskey made a sponsored appearance. Multiple cute young things (dressed a'la Hooters waitresses) came onstage to give shots to the band - we all had a laugh when they almost gave a shot to our underage singer!

 

[48thStreetCustom]

In case no one has seen this before (and if it wasn't posted, I didn't check every page of this thread)

Here is an interactive youtube vid of a band that recorded themselves sober, after 20 beers,
40 beers, 60 beers and 80 beers. You can see how it alters their performance throughout. Pretty funny!!

So 80 beers divided by 5 guys is 16 beers each? Yeah, I'm calling BS.

 

[birminghambass]

I like beer.

 

[10cc]

I like beer.

I like drinking beer while playing at The Nick.

 

[Kevan Campbell]

During a jam or rehearsal I may have a couple beers or a nip of liquor, but during an actual gig or performance of any kind I'm sober before and during. Now afterward...yeah, I'll have a drink or a few. Gotta network and connect with your crowd, right?

 

[Cowboy in Latvia]

Never get drunk on stage. It truly fouls up your performance, I suck badly enough as it is without alcohol to enhance the suckiness.

The general rule here is if you are playing a bar/pub they supply one before, one during and one after. The first 2 are Guinness for me as they are about a percent ABV lower than the others I could choose and a nice beer after. If someone buys a drink I accept it and either take a marker for one after or set it aside while I play. The exception to this rule is if I work the next day, then I skip the one before and pass my markers to friends.

 

[mdogs]

1984, a little too much to drink, had to pee in the middle of a set, no way I was going to hold it. As I am walking to the bathroom, I can hear the singer telling the crowd of 4000 (no lie) what was going on. Everyone had a good laugh, I wasn't drunk, I was just drinkin'...

 

[birminghambass]

I'm currently hungover at my church gig, does that count as drinking before playing?

 

[dewolfe03]

I don't drink much anyway. Maybe 1 beer before and 1 during.

Good story though. Mid to late 90s local Denver band got their first gig and decided to get a limo and be rock stars. The showed up to the club drunk. Ten minutes into the second set, the sound guy had to play bass because the bass player was out back puking. Twenty minutes later, the lead guitard knocked over his stack in the middle of a song trying to get his beer off the top. Tubes busted. Beer in the head. End of show.