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hippie_cune
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guitar and drugs...
#5961632 - 08/14/06 02:37 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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so who else plays guitar around here?
what do you guys like to do while gooked? on any drug really..
when im high, i really just like playing sweet melodies, like some george harrison lines (something, here comes the sun) or some blind melon - no rain.
but when im on shrooms i turn on my amp and jam some scales (and random nonsense) on this effect i created (i have G-DEC [reverse delay set at 1350ms]) its very trippy.. everything you play is reversed and then loops continuously until its been drowned out. ive sat with my guitar for hours gettin lost in squeaks, squeals, and jangly guitars comming from the amp.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: hippie_cune]
#5961800 - 08/14/06 04:09 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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thats a really cool sounding effect, do you think you could upload a lil some some.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: hippie_cune]
#5961883 - 08/14/06 05:27 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Back in high school man, all i use to do is get high, listen to Primus and play bass. So much fun, it really got me into playin bass. Then once i stopped smokin i realized i didnt know much about notes and scales, or theory in general, so i stopped. Got a Warwick Corvette Rockbass, havent played it for a good year or so. Still gettin high though, ha
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Abrainspot]
#5961900 - 08/14/06 05:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I wanna get good at guitar but its something that doesnt happen over night...I havent tried playing while messed up, but it sounds like fun
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sysD
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When I'm high/kinda drunk, I jam sometimes. Music seems to flow out from my fingers into my guitar, I can play much more fluidly and chords seem to blend together better.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: sysD]
#5962152 - 08/14/06 09:44 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I love playing the guitar when high, although I wish I had a better guitar and amp, but regardless it is still fun. My bro has a drum set and I love to play on it when baked.
I haven't played while tripping, although I can imagine that being fun as hell.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: hippie_cune]
#5962349 - 08/14/06 10:57 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Playing stoned is a beautiful thing, especially once you understand how to use it to your advantage.
I play mostly improvisationally and I couldnt do what I do when I'm playing best if i hadn't had the stoned experiences to light the way. Hearing melodies in my head and chasing them down is a joy. The ability to get entirely lost in my inner world is great. It doesnt flow perfectly every time, but when it does what a pleasure.
Little mistakes and duffs reverberate through my mind and create innovative phrases and transitions on good days. I'm not all that great, but when its good I can tell. Playing stoned won't make you immediately better on its own (can you say trainwreck?) but harnessed and practiced it can augment your sound and feeling nicely. The best part is opening your eyes and being surprised at all that just came out.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: toastandjam]
#5962401 - 08/14/06 11:19 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i play guitars... just about any type... acoustic, 12-string, electric, bass... got a room full of them 
playing while stoned or otherwise under the influence is indeed good fun but not so productive. there's a penomena known as state-dependent learning. if you play under the influence of something often enough, your "improvement" tends to link to the state of mind you're in at the time, and unfortunately goes away when you try to repeat it sober... and relying on substances to play your best may not be the best idea. i've in fact put aside the MJ in the past year or so to focus on creative hobbies with a clear head, and found it to work out better for me in the long run... pot makes me lazy. aside from that, make a recording some time of your drug-influenced jam sessions and listen to them on a later date, they don't always sound as cool as they did at the time 
i play electric in a band and despite the fact we're all potheads (or once were in my case) and regular psychedelic users, its strictly a no-no for any of us to come to practice under the influence. we do enjoy sharing the experiences together to become more like-minded as a group, but there's a time for it, and the time isn't when we're trying to get some work done. a few beers are the exception, seems to help relax the muscles and relaxed grips and movements definitely help your playing
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: creamcorn]
#5963207 - 08/14/06 03:56 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i really liked being able to hear my own music and make it up in my mind when i first started getting stoned.
i really should have respected the herb better and fine tuned these abilities, instead of blazing all the time an dlosing hold of them.
hear meaning with the ears, not "imagine" but hear.
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Spooge
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: creamcorn]
#5963303 - 08/14/06 04:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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its strictly a no-no for any of us to come to practice under the influence. we do enjoy sharing the experiences together to become more like-minded as a group, but there's a time for it, and the time isn't when we're trying to get some work done
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a few beers are the exception
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If it's strictly a no no for you and your group to be under the influence...why's alcohol allowed? I'm not preaching, I drink more than I toke now, but both those substances in my eyes have equal downfalls. Of course, each to his preference, but that statement just seemed sort of contridictary(sp?)
Should of maybe put it like this "its strictly a no-no for any of us to come to practice under the influence of Marijuana, but a few beers is alright"
I understand what you are saying about state-dependent learning though and I can relate a little bit.
I have quite excessive experience playing stoned, drunk and usually both. I think it comes down to fun factor for me. I find it much more satisfying playing under the influence of those substances and I find I've made recordings I can never come close to touching.
I've playing tripping a fair amount and even though I make some incredibly fresh stuff....it's not played very well, but at least the thoughts there.
I will suggest to learn scales and theory on sober time and bring it to the table when you want to have some fun
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thatiAM
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Spooge]
#5963307 - 08/14/06 04:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Drinking impairs my guitar abilities FAR more than herb does. I find that I can still play fine (mostly) while tripping, but it becomes fun to just bend random notes and do lots of vibrato, instead of actually playing a tune. It's like, "Yeah, I could play that solo, or...Bleeeuwuhwhhwhwhwhahhwhhhhhfdlkskxkjxljf" and just make sound.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: thatiAM]
#5963373 - 08/14/06 04:56 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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thatiAM said: Drinking impairs my guitar abilities FAR more than herb does. I find that I can still play fine (mostly) while tripping, but it becomes fun to just bend random notes and do lots of vibrato, instead of actually playing a tune. It's like, "Yeah, I could play that solo, or...Bleeeuwuhwhhwhwhwhahhwhhhhhfdlkskxkjxljf" and just make sound.
The fine tuned and expertly blended product of those things, when practiced and honed, defines some of the best music I've ever heard or experienced.
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: toastandjam]
#5963406 - 08/14/06 05:06 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Dude I love jamming on anything, I have a pretty cool setup I suppose, I play anything, crazy electric, or mellow acoustic riffs, matter of fact, the first time I shroomed I went into my peak playing some acoustic by an outside bonfire, it just feels so good like you're becoming the music itself, I love it. As for being unproductive, hah, fuck that, whenever I'm high or drunk I make up some of my best work, its great! Yay for drugs!
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Spooge
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Yea, my best experience was outside the city pretty far at a forestry campsite with 5 friends. I was on 2 grams of mushroom, about 3 beer and also had a few tokes as well. First time I'd ever drank with the shrooms.
I played guitar for everyone around the campfire, well more like for myself, for 3 hours. Just random stuff, bluesish zztop style rock and lots of other types of bluesy stuff. I got lost in the music and staring at the fire. I think I made a trip report about it a long time ago. What an experience. I then took off with the guitar, strapped on my back and went for a walk...walking on the music baby!
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Spooge]
#5964447 - 08/14/06 10:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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My boss used to play drums for a legit local band around here... And he said some days while recording the band and the producer would actually get stoned together... Basically because anytime you can change your perspective on something you may be stuck on, it's prolly a good thing.
Tho I do agree that you shouldn't make it a huge habbit- it's actually true that if you study for the test drunk, you should take the test drunk... but you'll do worse than sober / sober.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: DyeGreen]
#5964469 - 08/14/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was still coming down from shrooms when I took my US history regents this past year and I got a 97 on it, and I didn't even study for it and I slept through most of class. I second my past statement. Yay drugs. Peace
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creamcorn
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Spooge]
#5964550 - 08/14/06 10:59 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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entityexperiment said: If it's strictly a no no for you and your group to be under the influence...why's alcohol allowed? I'm not preaching, I drink more than I toke now, but both those substances in my eyes have equal downfalls. Of course, each to his preference, but that statement just seemed sort of contridictary(sp?)
Should of maybe put it like this "its strictly a no-no for any of us to come to practice under the influence of Marijuana, but a few beers is alright"
yeah well its a few beers as in, somebody picks up a 6 pack for the 3 of us who drink beer (our singer drinks water heh). not like we're gettin shitfaced. no smokin til after practice! our drummer used to have a coke thing a few years back too... so i guess im speaking in relative terms, id much rather have him drink 2 beers than come to practice all coked up...
in those amounts it really does calm the nerves and relax the arm/hand muscles for me at least... drinking much past the point of mild buzz starts to detract though for sure...
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: creamcorn]
#5964841 - 08/15/06 12:09 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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that's cool. Toking relaxes my muscles actually a lot better then a beer or two.
hehe your remind me of some guys I know though. For a minute I thought maybe you were one of them. They all are the same way. But your not from B.C. hey?
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Ashland
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Spooge]
#5964937 - 08/15/06 12:36 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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My personal opinion is that I play worse when I'm under the influence of cannabis. Creatively I think I might have some ideas pop into my head that otherwise wouldn't have been thought of, but for the most part - in terms of composing - I prefer to write sober.
Then again, I think of music as more of an art form, and when I get "in the zone" it seems more powerful to me than any drug can be. But hey, that's just how I feel
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Ashland]
#5965080 - 08/15/06 01:32 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i feel when im tripping that playing my guitar is like playing god. i love to jam and improvise so once the mushies or acid or kickin i pick up my guitar plug in... put on some echo for good measure and just jam out. it feels like im creating a living entity when i come up with a melody. i guess its cause when you play your literally making something and creating something that wouldnot be there unless u urself made it happen. if that makes sense. its just so awsome. i do agree with other people though that while tripping its so easy just to fuck around with a little riff and bend and throw in vibratos and not really go many places with it but it sound amazing at the time and so powerful because ur creating something out of nothign!
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: LedHead]
#5965186 - 08/15/06 03:54 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I feel like I play my guitar better when I am stoned music just seems to flow while your stoned, and when I am tripping on acid or mushrooms I play good aswell it almost feels like I am not doing anything i just let go,and my fingers have a mind of there own.
I espically love playing while tripping because I love seeing sound waves coming out of my guitar and I love to really feel what I am playing.
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toastandjam
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: LedHead]
#5967733 - 08/15/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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LedHead said: i feel when im tripping that playing my guitar is like playing god.
*snip!*
it feels like im creating a living entity when i come up with a melody. i guess its cause when you play your literally making something and creating something that wouldnot be there unless u urself made it happen.
*snip!*
if that makes sense.
I love your phrasing of your sentiments. This feels really familiar to me -- musically creating something in the musical dimension, emotion, imagination, vision. The clearer the creation, the better and clearer the music. You make living entities? Fascinating. I make landscapes. Think aerial mountains, forests, snowy woods leading to cabins and things. We should get the two together.
Makes sense to me.
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
Edited by toastandjam (08/15/06 09:39 PM)
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yageman
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: toastandjam]
#5967798 - 08/15/06 10:00 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I play mostly jazz.
I make little ornaments that I can hang on my wall, or hold in my hand.....
The music I play comes from a very weird place when tripping. SOme drugs work better than others. Mescaline for example Is one drug that makes me worse/less interesting/sloppy from a listeners point of view.
LSD is in my opinion a very musical drug. The audio-visuals lend them selves to some pretty fine works of art.
When tripping, I almost only improvise. I have found god through the guitar. And I mean that. It is sacred to me. I think something divine plays through me while tripping. I say that because its not me playing anymore, its everyone.......(Me you and all other forms of intelligent life).
I connect on a level that is so deep that it would take volumes for me to explain why every word I have said is true. Im sure some others feel the same way.
Pure metaphysics express a form of god through music....
Ya, im pretty serious when it comes to music.
-------------------- [quote]Me_Roy said: You moron. Material is material is material. No 'thing' fixes any situation. If anything were so simple we would be living in a much better world.[/quote] <-----the dumbest thing I have ever read in my life. Thanks shroomery.
Edited by yageman (08/15/06 11:28 PM)
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yageman
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: yageman]
#5968099 - 08/15/06 11:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sorry for the extra post.
Seriously though........ If Im not at that point of egoless musicianship, I still love to argue with my guitar about everthing under the sun.
-------------------- [quote]Me_Roy said: You moron. Material is material is material. No 'thing' fixes any situation. If anything were so simple we would be living in a much better world.[/quote] <-----the dumbest thing I have ever read in my life. Thanks shroomery.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: yageman]
#5971941 - 08/17/06 02:05 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've been playing out, making music for a while, and here are my observations:
1. Playing after more than three or four beers, your shit WILL suffer. The first couple get you ready, get you in that social spot, bantering with the audience, a silly smile on your face, ten foot tall and tazer proof. Any more, you'll have fun, but your playing will probably suck.
2. Playing stoned is okay, unless you gotta sing. If you do, your voice goes to shit, trust me. Record yourself and see. (Or if you get the FEAR when you take more than a couple hits, but this usually only happens to those of us who've eaten too much LSD).
3. For writing purposes, fire up a doob or munch some caps witcha mates. You'll make new connections, go places you hadn't planned, come up with phrasings and rhythms you normally wouldn't. You can break out of patterns easily.
4. For rehearsing and refining what your stoned ass wrote, caffeine works wonders. Everything else, you'll end up with the state-dependent learning effect, which ain't good.
Your first duty is to the audience and yourself, not to your need to be high, so know thyself, know thy instrument, and spread the love that is music.
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yageman
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Derelict]
#5971942 - 08/17/06 02:08 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Derelict said: I've been playing out, making music for a while, and here are my observations:
1. Playing after more than three or four beers, your shit WILL suffer. The first couple get you ready, get you in that social spot, bantering with the audience, a silly smile on your face, ten foot tall and tazer proof. Any more, you'll have fun, but your playing will probably suck.
2. Playing stoned is okay, unless you gotta sing. If you do, your voice goes to shit, trust me. Record yourself and see. (Or if you get the FEAR when you take more than a couple hits, but this usually only happens to those of us who've eaten too much LSD).
3. For writing purposes, fire up a doob or munch some caps witcha mates. You'll make new connections, go places you hadn't planned, come up with phrasings and rhythms you normally wouldn't. You can break out of patterns easily.
4. For rehearsing and refining what your stoned ass wrote, caffeine works wonders. Everything else, you'll end up with the state-dependent learning effect, which ain't good.
Your first duty is to the audience and yourself, not to your need to be high, so know thyself, know thy instrument, and spread the love that is music.
Much of that post annoys me. That shit aint concrete man.....
Some of it makes some sense.
Its just so damn subjective. You would be hard pressed to find someone who would say, "your singing will suffer, trust me" for example.
So I like you, but your experiences are not that important when it comes to categorizing drugs in that way.
-------------------- [quote]Me_Roy said: You moron. Material is material is material. No 'thing' fixes any situation. If anything were so simple we would be living in a much better world.[/quote] <-----the dumbest thing I have ever read in my life. Thanks shroomery.
Edited by yageman (08/17/06 06:28 PM)
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: yageman]
#5972466 - 08/17/06 10:38 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I play for usually atleast 2 hours a day straight. Most always I'm high. I don't have an effects peddle, or a quality amp anymore so I stick to acoustic. I mostly just lay down a 1-6 chord progression then I jam out trying something new on the scale every run through. I plan on purchasing me a new amp and a GNX4 within the next month........ unless I get a banjo instead.
Any guitarists out there mess with digitech's GNX4 much? I use to have the rp6 multi-effects peddle and loved it.
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: hippie_cune]
#5972830 - 08/17/06 01:14 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I love to play guitar when I am altered. It allows me to feel every single nuance of the instrument. All the sounds you can get out of one note... It blows my mind.
A little while back, I was working for this touring Christian band. We recorded a couple cds, toured a lot, and I made lots of money. Like almost too much for playing music.
We had set up a few weekends in the studio to get all the guitar and drum tracks recorded. One of the days, I decided to take acid (without them knowing of course ) and divided a hit of super good blotter into 4 pieces, taking a peice every 2 hours starting at 8am. By 11am I was really high; A lot higher than I thought I'd get, which was a nice surprise really.
We had been working about 2 hours now, but havent layed down any guitar tracks, only drums. I am sitting in the booth with the producer and the guy who hired me, tripping quite nicely, and the producer turns to me and says "are you ready?"
I said I was, and I got set up. I remember sitting in this huge isolation box, with amazing woodgrain panels, blue sound matting and my Soldano SLO stack turned way up. Everything was fucking beautiful. I noticed that it was approaching 12, so once I got set up, I took a smoke break (I smoked back then). I went upstairs, had a smoke, and took another quarter hit of acid. Five minutes later I was back downstairs, and everything was ready to go.
Everything went so well. I felt like a superhuman guitar player in my lair, creating sonic dreamscapes for all to see. It was an amazing experience. I could see the sound, and I could see it getting sucked into the mike, like water going down a drain. It looked amazing. Musical smoke I called it.
It was awesome. I got the nickname First-Take for one of the songs. We set up the tracks, and decided to do a testrun to get back into the groove of the song. My job was to improvise a Pat Metheny kind of light jazz sound over this really cool progression. We finished the testrun, they said to me "Does that tone work for you?" And sure enough, after listening back to it, it worked perfectly.
I took the other hit at 2pm, and recorded straight to 10pm. It was so much fun. The CD turned out great, and we got signed to this christian label based in Toronto, and funny enough, the ones I was on acid for (the ones I got to write completely) were the only ones that made it the radio. If the people only knew 
I played some gigs with a few other bands, but the one that I was leading turned out the most amazing stories. Everybody was cool, and we all smoked weed and took mushrooms. There are far to many stories to write about, so I will spare you the details. Lets just say that doing acid on stage in front of 500-1000 people is the craziest goddamn thing in the world! Gotta love Jam Band festivals! We played a Trippy psychedelic ambient jazzrockfunk fusion. Its kind of hard to explain. All improvised with basic skeletons setup to give some flow to the music. We hired a lighting crew to give us some enhancements. Nothing fancy but they were trippy as hell, and to be entirely honest, we hired the lightning crew more for us, but everybody seemed to like it.
Now I teach guitar. Its fun, but I probably couldnt teach while tripping. That would be pretty funny though 
Anyways, I have typed enough.
Peace 
Edited by Quoiyaien (08/17/06 01:48 PM)
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Quoiyaien]
#5972847 - 08/17/06 01:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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On shrooms I can't do anything like guitar. I'm a guitarist tho, I'm an insane freestyler when Im drunk or high lol. Guitar is my passion.
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toastandjam
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Edgekrusher]
#5972858 - 08/17/06 01:22 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edgekrusher said: I play for usually atleast 2 hours a day straight. Most always I'm high. I don't have an effects peddle, or a quality amp anymore so I stick to acoustic. I mostly just lay down a 1-6 chord progression then I jam out trying something new on the scale every run through. I plan on purchasing me a new amp and a GNX4 within the next month........ unless I get a banjo instead.
Any guitarists out there mess with digitech's GNX4 much? I use to have the rp6 multi-effects peddle and loved it.
How long have you been playing? You mentioned not having a pedal and an amp anymore-- did you used to? What'd you have\use? If you're not familiar with effects, then yeah, the GNX pedals are great for getting into them and being experimental with your tone and sounds and things. The GNX4 has that 4track recorder built into it. That's where you'll get your kicks and paybacks if you ask me.
The GNX4 is just too much stuff and not enough of what i want for it to be useful to me. I get distracted with all the stuff, useful or not. If I were going to spend a couple hundred dollars on a pedal, I'd save a little more and get something really decent, a roland synth or something.
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DrGeek
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: toastandjam]
#5972907 - 08/17/06 01:40 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't have a lot of experience playing on any drugs, but a couple times I've played along to a CD when I was drunk and I felt much more connected to the music than usual. I felt like I did when I actually played live, on stage. The one time I played stoned, I was also drunk, and I actually turned out a cool version of Paranoid with my brother on drums, and an absolutely shittacular, slow, droning metal song.
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Edgekrusher
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: toastandjam]
#5973399 - 08/17/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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toastandjam said: How long have you been playing? You mentioned not having a pedal and an amp anymore-- did you used to? What'd you have\use?
If I were going to spend a couple hundred dollars on a pedal, I'd save a little more and get something really decent, a roland synth or something.
I've been playing for 6 years or so, although I've owned an electric strat for 8. Took me awhile to get into it, but I play daily now. Just for the past 2 or 3 years I have really neglected my electric. I pawned off my Digitech RP6 pedal and my amp (Marshall) a few years back since I never played with it.... Loved the damn thing though, and now that cash isn't much of a problem I'm just trying to get back into playing more electric.... as in buying the equipment to make it worth playing.
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Spooge
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Derelict]
#5973698 - 08/17/06 05:45 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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For rehearsing and refining what your stoned ass wrote, caffeine works wonders. Everything else, you'll end up with the state-dependent learning effect, which ain't good
umm wouldn't that make you state-dependent on caffiene for rehearsing and refining? I love how some drugs are so socially acceptable to some. Everyone has their own opinon and that's cool though 
My observations:
1. Playing stoned, doesn't matter how stoned in my case, WILL make me personally play a lot better. Drinking more than 8 beers will personally make me play much shittier.
2. Playing while tripped out will free me of my "writer's block", so to say. It's very very enjoyable, even if it might sound like crap to an outsider.
3. Keep everything in moderation and you aren't going to be state-dependant on anything.
Listening to music under the influence of certain drugs is amazing, creating music under the influence of certain drugs...priceless
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Spooge]
#5975764 - 08/18/06 12:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yageman, you're right. I should've said "In my experience..." or "these are my personal, subjective observations."
I still stand by the business about smoking bud detracting from vocal tone quality.
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Spooge
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Re: guitar and drugs... [Re: Derelict]
#5976714 - 08/18/06 06:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yea, I wouldn't know about how it can effect your vocal tone...Even sober...I don't have one 
Not a singer, just a guitarist. I could see how it would though.
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