clover606 said:

so how long did you listen to the jam band before thinking 'lets try another type of music'

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clover606 said:

so how long did you listen to the jam band before thinking 'lets try another type of music'

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ultimo101 said:

Try listening with stereo headphones.

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yageman said:

For me lsd is by far the superior music enhancing drug.

It just makes the music seem like more of a moving and living organism.  I see the connections and interaction between the musicians, and feel the raw and usually undefinable emotion that they convey together as a band(especially bands like phish or mmw, because the are all about "it" whatever it is).  (I think they are from another planet)
I am mainly talking about bands that are all about improvisation.
I can see the music, and feel "it".
If you take a whole lot of lsd though, the music is like a psychedelic shape shifter and the effects can tear the song to pieces, leaving the song hollow aside from the EXXXXXTREEEMELY interesting audio visuals that really leave you wondering about shit that is hard to think about or explain.

  With mushrooms the music takes on a weird cluster of vacuums effect. The phrases become highly emotional for me. and the music is just really intense, colorful, and almost anything you could want from music.
  I dont think it readily offers new was of looking at music the way lsd does.
  If offers new ways of looking at music, but its geared more toward the emotional, rather than the divine complexity of music in general.

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i have to agree here
lsd is the most musical drug i know, besides weed,
but weed gives it more of a hazy and delayed feeling,
whereas on lsd it seems, that sound is processed more slowly and you notice subtle changes more
sound just seems a lot more complex
also, it takes on that synthetic, electronic character, but in a good way
that's why i love electronic music, doesn't matter if sober or tripping, it's just the type of music, that suit s my trips the most
LSD = electronic music for me
and you can even make simple music very complex on lsd, if you want to
you kind of interpret new hidden messages into the music

mushrooms make me dance like a crazy motherfucker
i jump around like if i ate magic mushrooms
but music actually takes on a more simple character
that's why i prefer to listen to faster and simpler stuff like hardcore/tekno/drum'n'bass on mushrooms
and to more complex, flowing, minimal acid-trancey type of stuff on lsd, and i invented a kind of dance on lsd,
that i still practice now, be it sober or not
kind of square dancing, my feet and my hands move synchronised in a very staccato way
but it only works for electronic music above 150 bpm

by the way, yageman, after you mentioning phish a couple of times, i watched phish playing fluffhead at woodbury ski and it's amazingly beautiful, although i usually do not like this kind of music so much
i didn't like the other ones so much though

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i realize there is a lot more to psychedelics than just music enhancement but music is very important to me

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Your right but its odd you should say that the music you listened to while on shrooms didn't seemed enhanced at all.

with me, while I'm on shrooms music becomes EVERYTHING. literally everything, depending on what son I'm listening to it changes the direction of my whole trip and also changes my emotions, feelings and connection with everything around me. thats what i love about it... one of the best experiences Ive had while listening to some really upbeat music on shrooms was when i was sitting in a small forest are with two friends and the trees began to ripple and breath in time with the beat... very cool

i suppose everyones different though, Ive never taken acid so i couldn't comment on how that affects music but for me... on shrooms, its amazing.

the clothes line said:

i then didnt know what to do and the closed eye visuals were scarring me so i decided i had to keep my eyes open and i just sort of felt like there was something i needed to do but i couldnt put my finger on what and then the trip ended.

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