drugs, alcohol, and your music

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:46 am

I can't drink alcohol at all while making music, my earing gets really fucked up already with the first red wine glass (red wine is the only alcohol I sometimes drink)
grass is my love/hate.
while sometimes being lightly stoned takes you a bit further in creativity, it makes me slack, so I have hard time finishing a song when I got stoned.
When I do mixdown sessions I do not smoke anything until I'm done, then I rewiev my work after a joint.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:22 am

I know someone who actually stopped smoking pot during rehearsals or gigs because of ableton. he said that otherwise it would be too confusing to him because of the many things he needs to think of while playing with live.

grassnose · Post by **grassnose** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:41 am

I totally dig smoking pot to produce, but to perform, I'd be totally sober (maybe a beer to loosin' me up)

But yeah, pot helps to stay focused on certain aspects of a track and it also facilitates experimentation.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:24 pm

I've heard it can be fun to write music with some herb, some people probably do it all the time. Maybe even performing too sometimes I bet. They probably even have a couple beers or glasses of wine too I bet.

Interesting the things you hear around here.

deckme(N)tal · Post by **deckme(N)tal** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:18 pm

I only consume alcool outside my house...so no drinking involved on production..i quitted joints years ago...
and when i perform i drink (a couple of beers) and chainsmoke cigarettes....the only problem is that i cover my stuff(computer/turntables) with that damn ash...
anyway most of the times i can not smoke because i prohibited by law in Italy...

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:07 pm

I usually chain smoke during outdoor DJ gigs too. I've found for indoor gigs a good 10 minute+ white label mix works well for a smoke/bar/bathroom break because the crowd generally stays the same on the dance floor or even grows. But there's nothing quite like the "excitement" of being in the middle of a piss and you hear the song glitching (in a bad way). Shit! Shit! Shit!!!

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:19 pm

I write to release the voices in my head.

If I get high, they stop.

I can't write if I don't hear the voices.

When I can't write, the voices get louder and louder.

Sometimes I get high because the voices are too loud.

Sometimes I cry when the voices come out.

I feel good when I don't hear the voices.

I feel better when I get the voices out.

I get high from drugs.

I get higher from music.

And the world goes................pop!

chrysalis33rpm · Post by **chrysalis33rpm** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:59 pm

Tarekith wrote:I've heard it can be fun to write music with some herb, some people probably do it all the time. Maybe even performing too sometimes I bet. They probably even have a couple beers or glasses of wine too I bet.

Interesting the things you hear around here.

That about sums it up.

Someday I'll have my shit together and be able to drop breath freshener and play Live...but right now I am too easily confused....

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:41 pm

condra wrote:In the words of Mark from Peep Show:

Listen, .. there are systems for a reason in this world.

Economic stability, interest rates, growth...

Its not all a conspiracy to keep you in little boxes alright?!... It's only the miracle of consumer capitalism that means youre not lying in your own shit, dying at 43 with rotten teeth, and a little pill with a chicken on it is not going to change that..

now come on, FUCK OFF.

That is the fucking BEST show. I caught one episode while in Newcastle, UK - guest teaching at the university. We don't get it in Sweden so I had to order the DVDs from Amazon. Can't wait for season 4 to be released.

pixelbox · Post by **pixelbox** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:04 pm

I can't seem to write, play, or produce until I've had a vinegar and water enema. When I don't have an enema, the voices in my ass stop, and thus I can't create. I need my enema or my music will suffer.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:08 pm

jez3122 · Post by **jez3122** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:11 pm

i find that gettin stoned and drinkin helps with gettin the initial ideas down in the session view...
but when your in the arangement view fuckin around with structure and effects and stuff you need to be straight.....cause when ya stoned most things sound good until you listen to it the next day.....

jez3122 · Post by **jez3122** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:13 pm

SubFunk wrote:mdma

i can't write on this, i've tried many times...
you just get pre occupied and end up goin to a club.

dom · Post by **dom** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:18 pm

sparklepuff wrote:WTF is that? Sensory depravation chamber?

looks like. also called floating tank, samadhi tank or isolation tank.
does just that: isolates all your senses (sound, touch, temperature, feel for gravity etc).

glu: do you own one?

cheers,
dom

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:34 pm

dom wrote:
sparklepuff wrote:WTF is that? Sensory depravation chamber?
looks like. also called floating tank, samadhi tank or isolation tank.
does just that: isolates all your senses (sound, touch, temperature, feel for gravity etc).

glu: do you own one?

cheers,
dom

thats some kinky shit man...

europeans..

drugs, alcohol, and your music

Which best describes your writing and gigging?