weed and you bass playing

[electracoyote]

People tolerance varies a lot, I'm 28 and I use 250mg to get a good buzz. 10mg is like a sip of bud light

That post should come with a warning label.

Now, we are talking edibles, correct? They metabolize differently.

When it became legal in Colorado, a guy ate a big chunk of a 100mg candy edible, saw visions, and killed his wife.

I think the best advice with edibles is, start with 10mg and slowly work your way up without hurting yourself or anyone around you.

 

[4stringfarley]

There was a period of time that I would tell you smoking weed, or drinking made me play better. I got away from smoking after witnessing some pretty bad instances with weed and peoples underlying mental disorders. I'll still have some drinks, but not when playing. If I crack open a beer during practicing it'll take me a couple hours to drink it, if I have a few drinks prior to practice I don't bother picking an instrument up, it won't be a productive session.
Personally the drug that works for me best when writing and playing is a good meal, a cup of hot Barry's Irish blend tea, and an Aleeve

 

[vvvmmm]

Generally, if your unimpaired life is bad, your impaired life will be worse. Think about it. If one needs drugs and/or alcohol to make their life good, I'd say they have a problem.

And if yer unimpaired life is good?

Or just sometimes boring?

Or mebbe, say, ya just get annoyed with some stuff/folks?

 

[MegaSwing]

Herb seems to have the effect of making your playing sound more interesting—but mostly to yourself.

 

[vvvmmm]

When it became legal in Colorado, a guy ate a big chunk of a 100mg candy edible, saw visions, and killed his wife.

I bet there's more to the story than that isolated factoid.

 

[ThinCrappyTone]

If you use weed does it effect your bass playing in a positive or negative way?
For me it really helps when I am learning theory and practicing scales arpeggios etc. I am more into it and feel more aware of what is happening. But playing cover songs for some reason it messes me up. I forget certain parts, loose focus and generally do not play as good.
Just wondering how it effects you?

I'd say, if used in the right context at the right time, it can be an enhancement. But the opposite can also be true. As a long time stoner, um... ah...what were we just talking about?

 

[Acoop]

Since all drugs feed off ones anxiety and since a persons anxiety is constantly changing, it's hard to imagine someone thinking getting high will help my playing. ... It reduces you reaction time so there goes your groove. ... It distracts so there goes memory. ... If it's what you need then wait. ... Life's too short trying to remember if you had a good time.

 

[Killing Floor]

8 pages and still going. If we can banter about this surely we can bring back the "balls" thread!

But maybe because it's one of the 3 legs of the stool? Sex and Rock'n'Roll being the others.

"As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll." Mick Shrimpton

 

[brushfirewolf]

I think the argument for weed having a positive affect on playing would be that it makes you more creative, particularly when improvising or writing, and not play better in a technical sense. But that is subjective.

My substance of choice for bass playing is a fat cup of freshly brewed coffee.

 

[bassbones2]

I was no lightweight in my day, I can tell you the nights that I thought I was really “on” and we totally rocked it.....well the recorded results prove otherwise.

Just my experience, not telling you what to do.

JB

 

[AFalseDichotomy]

My substance of choice for bass playing is a fat cup of freshly brewed coffee.

It's just "make me smart and fast" juice, how could it not be good for playing bass?

 

[40Hz]

@wraub - before I spend a good hour slogging through all those links you posted, do any of them support BassBrad’s earlier statement:

Here's the difference between weed and booze: after over 200,000 years of on and off use we have built in canaboid receptors in our brain cells and that's the avenue weed uses to effect you.

Which implies (a) humans have in fact been using cannabis on and off for 200 thousand years; and (b) we have evolved brain receptors tailored to be affected specifically by cannabis as a result.

I’m not questioning there are brain receptors that respond to THC. The fact we are affected by it clearly shows there are. But I don’t think they were put there just for that - or that we evolved them because we were supposedly using cannabis throughout human existence.

That was my question. Not whether or not there are receptors affected; or that cannabis might have been used for various purposes at various times and places besides that of smoking it with the intent of producing altered states of consciousness.

 

[cataract]

Is OP a cop I’m hanging up the phone now sorry wrong number

 

[dbsfgyd1]

The Beatles were so f***ing high they let Ringo sing a few tunes.
-Bill Hicks

Rings songs: I’m pretty sure it was more about the royalties more than adverse decisions while stoned.

 

[Sixgunn]

And if yer unimpaired life is good?

Or just sometimes boring?

Or mebbe, say, ya just get annoyed with some stuff/folks?

I have found that drugs and/or alcohol are not good ways to deal with boredom or annoyances.

 

[JimmyM]

Don't ask, don't tell, don't worry about it.

 

[bassbully]

Not for me. I can’t even walk when high let alone play bass.

 

[murphy]

Just think how great Bob Marley's band woulda been!

Do you know for a fact that Family Man and his brother played high?

 

[buldog5151bass]

Any time you play impaired, you are impaired. Lots of people I know who listened to recordings of them playing stoned sound worse than they thought they would sound.

 

[mcnach]

You may think you are learning and remembering but in reality cannabis effects your memory, and not in a positive way.

Like most substances, it depends on the amounts and frequency, just like it's not the same having a couple of beers here and there and drinking a bottle of vodka for dinner.

Some weed (and not all 'weed' is the same) in moderation can be a great booster of creativity and help focus.

I'm not saying you have to do it, but when people find that what they do has a positive effect in them, give them some credit instead of assuming you just know better than them.