Drugs and Bass

[JBass1]

does anyone experiment with any kinds of drugs while playing music...i mean anything..i'm assuming the most popular is weed but what about others (shrooms, acid, etc...)?...and how have they affected the way you play and/or write music?

also i'm not sure if this is the right place for this thread but i didn't want it to get closed

 

[ryco]

Used to, don't anymore.

I feel it separates me from my true spirit.

Nothing against it, just not for me anymore.

I'd say go ahead and experiment and see what you can see, but you may find that it turns out to be a detour.
And there's nothing wrong with detours either if you feel you have the time and energy to expend.

Hopefully there could be a reasonable discussion about this subject.
IMO much more interesting and closer to the artistic experience than talking about guns and such.

 

[Basshole]

The place for drugs in Rock and Roll is pretty well established (after Sex, and before Rock and Roll, actually, IIRC)...but if you're looking to drugs for inspiration, you're probably better off spending your money on some good music to listen to, or some instruction.

...and no, this is perhaps not the best place for this thread...and by that I mean Talkbass, not just this subforum. Besides...do a search. This comes up literally every week.

 

[megadan]

Inspiration from drugs and making music are two separate things.
But if you get high and think you're making up brilliant music, it's probably not.

But I will say that the best way I know of, so far, to LISTEN to an album, and hear every single tiny nuance and tone, is to smoke a joint, lie in bed in the dark with headphones on and listen.
Useful for checking your album for final completion.

it's better to stay sober while actually playing it though. I've learned lots of things while inebriated, but they need to be practiced and performed while sober

 

[JBass1]

every now and then when i'm high (weed) i'll get the urge to just start playing for hours...and i write a lot of material that i love...

i don't see it as inspiration so much as just a reflection of a different form of consciousness coming through my music...my high self transfers ideas to my sober self and vice verse between different sessions of playing

when I write music regularly, it's coming from a sober mind which is of course different from an intoxicated one, and I like to hear the differences in my music coming from each mindset...being high makes me think in a much more ''out of the box'' way..and when I use that way of thinking to write it tends to get very fun and interesting..

however I can't help but admit that I hate playing with my band when I'm high...my timing is a little off and i get too caught up with my own playing to listen to the rest of the band...I've only tried playing with my band high a few times and each time I somewhat came to regret it...

but i've written some lines high that i perform sober and a lot of them are pretty successful in the band setting....so i guess you could say that smoking is a creativity booster but (for me) not a performance booster...

also..during times when i take breaks from smoking (usually a month or two) and i hit a wall in my bass playing (creativity-wise)...i'll smoke and just get flooded with new ideas

i've never attempted to play under the influence of psychedelics but I eventually want to try just to see what comes out....the mind is an amazing thing to explore, especially when you catch glimpses of it's different attributes through music

 

[squidmaster]

drugs make playing very fun, but not always good to listen to when sober. Maybe if you are pretty proficient sober you can produce something better when under the influence, personally when I tried I wasn't very good so it was pretty bad (speaking on psychedelics) it was fun as hell tho!

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

It'll you feel like your playing is amazing, but you will suck

Also, drug talk is a no-no here

 

[DaBassman]

Lipitor............

 

[GeneralElectric]

And this thread's gonna close.

 

[Depth_Charge]

does anyone experiment with any kinds of drugs while playing music

Weed and alcohol. Both made me play worse but at the time I thought I was a wizard!

 

[phat daddy]

I hear the Mods coming.......

 

[Commreman]

Advil. In copious amounts to combat tendonitis!!

 

[cranberrysauce]

I dont endorse drugs... but if it wasnt for drugs, do you think we would be listening to albums like Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road?

 

[cranberrysauce]

And I find, for myself however, that a beer or 2 relaxes me enough to unwind and not be so uptight.... anything more than 2 is bad though... for me anyhow..

 

[Pacman]

Discussion of illegal drugs is not allowed at Talkbass.