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drummer on shrooms

#63
ease up people! I remember one gig (I was a drummer then) where we played out of town and I took a hit of acid before the gig, I remember when we started playing white rabbit, it was awesome, I kicked as the whole night and unless I told people, no one could tell I was tripping....I used to take a lot of acid so I was pretty good at controlling it!
 
#64
Well the good news was, he came to the next practice 30 minutes early and apologized to all of us and was extremely remorseful. We told him it was actually pretty funny and to consider it water under the bridge. 5 minutes later we started jammin and had one of our best rehearsals. Show is tonight, so all that matters now is how tonight goes.
 
#67
bassbombs84 said:
Geez there are some uptight guys in here! RELAX. You'd think this was a parole officers message board. This board is for MUSICIANS, and some of the best musicians of all time were users. I dont understand how musicians could be so hard on users. Get over it.
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I don't care what people do to relax if it doesn't impact on the lives of other people, but getting behind the wheel when you're intoxicated is a disgraceful thing to do. Driving after taking mushrooms even more so - perhaps he was only a short ride from his rehearsal when he dropped the shrooms and got there before they kicked in, but he must have a total disregard for the safety of others to even do it.

So yeah, I don't care how funny he looked drumming, and I'm shocked at how many of you think it's OK to get intoxicated and then go for a spin in the car. Hope you lose your licenses before you hurt anybody.
 
#68
I lost two of my best friends (one of whom was my drummer) when I was 20 (they were only 19). How we partied back then pretty much fits to a T what was described in the opening post - been there, done that, literally - which is why I know the drummer - we were just like him. Close-calls with the law included, driving around smoking with booze and shrooms on us. We thought we were invincible right up to the point Jay and Chrissie died in a horrible car accident - on my birthday, no less. We thought the same things about sex drugs and rock 'n roll. It's really amazing how easy it is for young minds to ignore reality and indulge in fantasy.

It's all good fun right up until it isn't. Call me a buzz-kill if you must. Believe me when I tell you I am not against partying at all - and yes, the fact that the OP's story has a happy ending does make it a little easier to laugh at the shenanagins of a pie-eyed drummer trying to negotiate his kit while the heads are apparently moving out of arms' reach - all very surreal/Fear and Loathing/Lizard King - I get it.

I also know that there isn't a day that goes by (going on 25 years now) that I don't miss my friends who chose to hop in a car while buzzing their brains out only to discover how unforgiving the physics of a 70 mph crash into an overpass abutment can be. Every year on my birthday I wake up hearing my mom telling me, "Tony... Jay and Chrissie were in an accident early this morning..."

You can laugh today because nothing happened. Jay and I laughed many, many times together about exactly the same stuff. I hope you can laugh for a long, long time to come. The day you can't because last night something did happen (and I hope that day NEVER comes for anyone), you'll see a post like this and my bet is that you will have a very hard time seeing the humor in it - and you'll also have a hard time NOT seeing or ignoring the down side. I also know that if you post in that thread, you will also try to share the wisdom you hopefully gained from your life lesson - and you will probably be accused of being uptight and a buzz-kill.

You want to share a story about intoxication, close-calls with the law and driving - be prepared for a few people to say stuff like this - and don't get all miffed just because everyone doesn't automatically think it's as funny as you do - or knows why it's not.

Rock and party on, my friends - safely!
 
#71
kevteop said:
I don't care what people do to relax if it doesn't impact on the lives of other people, but getting behind the wheel when you're intoxicated is a disgraceful thing to do. Driving after taking mushrooms even more so - perhaps he was only a short ride from his rehearsal when he dropped the shrooms and got there before they kicked in, but he must have a total disregard for the safety of others to even do it.

So yeah, I don't care how funny he looked drumming, and I'm shocked at how many of you think it's OK to get intoxicated and then go for a spin in the car. Hope you lose your licenses before you hurt anybody.
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Lets face it... the high school senior TEXTING in their new car is WAY more dangerous then me driving stoned!!
 
#74
otherclef said:
Lets face it... the high school senior TEXTING in their new car is WAY more dangerous then me driving stoned!!
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You might be right, but I see you're not arguing that driving stoned is just as safe as driving straight.

It's a simple matter of having some respect for the other squishy humans you're pushing a large hunk of metal towards. If you want to get high I don't have an issue with you getting high, I'm just saying do it where you're not going to be a danger to anybody else - which is pretty much anywhere you like except at the controls of machinery.
 
#75
kevteop said:
You might be right, but I see you're not arguing that driving stoned is just as safe as driving straight.

It's a simple matter of having some respect for the other squishy humans you're pushing a large hunk of metal towards. If you want to get high I don't have an issue with you getting high, I'm just saying do it where you're not going to be a danger to anybody else - which is pretty much anywhere you like except at the controls of machinery.
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This is pretty much how I see it, too.

....Except don't get all my gear seized with yours, when you get busted for possession!!!!!


I readily admit that I'm still bitter.
 
#76
Smoking weed and driving is whatever, I dont find it to be a big deal. Shrooms and driving could definitely be, but they take roughly 45 minutes to start affecting you. So if he was say 10 minutes from their practice space thats also no big deal to me. I'm assuming he knows how shrooms work if he's eating them.

Overall funny story, air drumming while sitting at a set is classic.
 
#78
Floyd Eye said:
Drummer shows up to practice stoned on shrooms. Not a big deal. On a gig, then we have a problem.
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For sure. It seems he didnt intend to take shrooms before practice anyway. Id let it slide so long as nothing like that happened again.
I know I wouldnt be productive during practice at all if I had taken them, so I hope it went alright for the rest of you guys.
 
#80
PJMiDi said:
Smoking weed and driving is whatever, I dont find it to be a big deal. Shrooms and driving could definitely be, but they take roughly 45 minutes to start affecting you. So if he was say 10 minutes from their practice space thats also no big deal to me.
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How long it takes to start coming up on shrooms can vary a lot, depending on how recently you last took them, how big a dose you take and how efficient your digestive system is, which is dependent on your diet, how recently (and what) you ate, how hydrated you are, and so on. I spent several years picking shrooms every season and they can start kicking in after 10 or 15 minutes, and depending on the dose you could be extremely high within half an hour, to the point of being unable to judge the distance of your hand infront of your face.

Anyway the guy took his dose when he got pulled over, he had no idea how long the cop was going to stop him for, all he cared about was not getting caught in possession. If he was a friend of mine I would give him hell for doing that.
 

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