Can you play guitar inebriated?

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Jynx

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I don't know how people like Hendrix and Slash do it. A couple of cans and I can't play for shit.

Last year my girlfriend went to Amsterdam for the weekend. Ironically, I thought this would be a great time to smoke some weed, which I hadn't done in years, and play guitar.

I thought the weed would help get the creative juices flowing. Instead I strummed a few chords and felt like I couldn't be bothered. Fast forward an hour and I'm playing PS5, covered in Dorito dust.

What say you?
 
Yep!

Back in my gigging days is was at least 2 in before I hit the stage.. mostly for nerves tho.

..and it was always someone's turn to bring a case of frosties to practice...
 
I'm ok til beer 23. 24 is just too much. :grin


Haha, never was heavy drinker but when I did it never really improved anything. Just a few was good enough to loosen the nerves.
I did smoke weed but that didn't really help in many ways lol. These days it's coffee or water.
 
Pot can be fantastic when playing without anyone forcing you into anything. And yes, I think it can enhance creativity - but it's got to happen in the right moment and you defenitely don't need to have too much.
In any case, for me it's much more tolerable than alcohol (which I don't drink at all anymore), because with weed, I can actually concentrate on some things, whereas with alcohol I never could.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Pot can be fantastic when playing without anyone forcing you into anything. And yes, I think it can enhance creativity - but it's got to happen in the right moment and you defenitely don't need to have too much.
In any case, for me it's much more tolerable than alcohol (which I don't drink at all anymore), because with weed, I can actually concentrate on some things, whereas with alcohol I never could.
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I liked weed for the creative aspect for many years. It helped you think outside the box a bit more, especially when improv was necessary. But later in years it started become less fun and altered my breathing patterns causing anxiety. I actually feel more creatively productive now then before too. I've played on acid before, but don't really recommend that. :ROFLMAO: Everything sounds amazing though, even ring around the rosies. :grin
 
I think there's a difference between having a couple drinks, and "getting hammered" and playing. The latter, I sure think I'm conjuring the spirits when playing, but if I listen back to recordings.......yikes. :rofl

Pot is somewhat the same, except I think it's a bit more creativity-inducing.
 
FuzzyAce said:
I've played on acid before, but don't really recommend that. :ROFLMAO: Everything sounds amazing though, even ring around the rosies. :grin
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You know you took things a little too far when you look at your strobe tuner and it is spinning in both directions simultaneously. Of course that only happens when you can’t rely on your ears either. Ugh!
 
Chocol8 said:
You know you took things a little too far when you look at your strobe tuner and it is spinning in both directions simultaneously. Of course that only happens when you can’t rely on your ears either. Ugh!
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The fretboard feeling like a swimming pool is kinda weird too. :ROFLMAO:
 
Humbug said:
I'm at the point where just one glass of whisky can make me completely unable to play. It's usually the twelfth.
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In my booze heyday, that possibly would've been nothing.
Still remember those endless wedding functional gigs. Starting at around 4-5pm (champagne in the garden for everyone, us included), pre-dinner with some aperitives (plural of course), main gigging time with beer, late gigging time (1am and on) with whatever German schnaps to enhance the beer experience. These days I can't even understand how we managed packing up at around 4am. But, as if that wasn't enough, when we got home, we were still heading to a bar to have some - uhm - "sunriser"? Poor singer (most often the wife of the keyboarder) who usually had to drive.

Weed is so much better than that.
 
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Stone said:
I cant even play When sober imagine if im half in the bag :rofl
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Yes I can. In fact I have been told on a number of occasions that I was tearing it up when I was 3 sheets to the wind. I find that I feel the music more when drinking and things flow out of me a little easier. It keeps me out of thinking too much and just playing by feeling. Now, singing, that is a bit of a different story. When I start feeling pretty lubed up, I stay away from the microphone for the most part.
 
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