What Drug/Drugs Inspire The Best Music?

[spawnofthesith]

All of them, but weed and psychedelics are the non problematic ones

 

[Achilles]

psychedelics are the non problematic ones

Not from my experience.
Not just me but based on a large sample base from about 74 thru 82 and then others in hindsight.

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

"What Drug Inspires The Best Music?" is a LOADED question (he he ha ha ha)! It is going to vary from one musician to the next not only in creation but also consumption of music. It can also be affected by what genre you are trying to produce in or listen to. Additionally, we don't really know what most of the music we think is best, was influenced by (unless we think our own music is the best music). If you want to create truly trippy psychedelic music, not reaching for LSD or shrooms would, I believe, limit your potential in that genre ;~))

For me, I smoke daily and have for decades with only a few brief interruptions. Not drinking right now for health reasons. Shrooms are my #1. If I had to choose a single drug for the rest of my life, it would be shrooms every full moon (and maybe an occasional new moon trip if I really needed to travel)!!!

I can say that alcohol has definitely interfered with me and my music making at times! It has inspired on occasion, but is usually more of a hindrance (both mentally and in dexterity). I am pretty much the opposite with the cannabis family. I can name only a couple of instances where it interfered with my music making, but it usually puts me in the head space I want to be in when I pick up any musical instrument ;~)) Cocaine (specifically smoking it), opiates and other "hard" drugs have definitely interfered with both music and life in general, but lucky for me that is all well into the past ;~((

To sum it up (to the melody of the classic Cheech & Chong "Up In Smoke"):
I take a toke
And all my thoughts
Are music notes

 

[PLX]

And all my thoughts
Are music notes

 

[DrewJD82]

I used to have a blast having a few drinks while playing and after seeing Pantera’s Watch It Go in high school, made it a point to be able to play when I was tanked. We used to have drunk band practices on purpose, knowing we’d be getting hammered at shows. That all worked right up until I was 28 or so and stopped drinking like I did previously. Now I have 2 beers and I play like total dogshit.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Having a few drinks definitely makes me a little less reserved which is beneficial for the improvisational nature of my bands music but that’s a slippery slope and fine line that can be crossed very easily into rapidly diminishing returns

I’ve played our last 3 or 4 shows sober of alcohol, and I can’t for certain say it improves my performance much

 

[0XI0]

I wonder what others think are the best drugs for inspiring music and creativity

pussy

and what are the ones that
create more obstacles and challenges than they solve.

pussy

 

[Achilles]

Hey, @0XI0 ..... what's the meaning of life?

 

[0XI0]

Hey, @0XI0 ..... what's the meaning of life?

 

[TSJMajesty]

Ze Frank: "Well the point was gonna be- Don't do drugs. Not a lot of them."

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Nicotine and caffeine.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Not from my experience.
Not just me but based on a large sample base from about 74 thru 82 and then others in hindsight.

Perhaps “less problematic” would be more apt lol

I did have an incident myself some years back that led me to shy away from L, at least to the degree I was tripping all the time, but I still like smaller (not micro lol) doses at concerts and the occasional well planned more extreme trip every year or 2

to be fair, said incident was somewhere in the ballpark of 20 hits which really probably shouldn’t be done by anyone

 

[TSJMajesty]

Perhaps “less problematic” would be more apt lol

I did have an incident myself some years back that led me to shy away from L, at least to the degree I was tripping all the time, but I still like smaller (not micro lol) doses at concerts and the occasional well planned more extreme trip every year or 2

to be fair, said incident was somewhere in the ballpark of 20 hits which really probably shouldn’t be done by anyone

A GF of mine turned me onto acid in my twenties, and we once tripped during a snowstorm, outside, following her dog through the deserted streets of our town. It was freaking hilarious!! We'd come to a stoplight, it would turn red, and one of us would go, "Wait! We gotta stop!" right in the middle of the street, laughing our asses off, waiting for the light to turn green, while the dog walked on up ahead, turning back to look at our dumb asses, as if to say, "Would you guys c'MON!!"

 

[Holden Afart]

When it's snowing and you're riding in a car on acid the snow looks like you're in the millennium falcon in hyperdrive.

 

[Achilles]

A GF of mine turned me onto acid in my twenties, and we once tripped during a snowstorm, outside, following her dog through the deserted streets of our town. It was freaking hilarious!! We'd come to a stoplight, it would turn red, and one of us would go, "Wait! We gotta stop!" right in the middle of the street, laughing our asses off, waiting for the light to turn green, while the dog walked on up ahead, turning back to look at our dumb asses, as if to say, "Would you guys c'MON!!"

Wife and I met at work when we were both 19. We'd dated a couple times before she came to see me play. At the end of the show we got offered acid and figured what the hell. We just walked around town and then watched the sunrise which was pretty WOW! since we'd only dropped a few hours earlier.

Tried going out to breakfast and made it as far as ordering and the food getting served but we had them pack it to go cause we couldn't stop laughing.

 

[LScottK]

In 1976 I dropped acid with some friends and went to see a Kiss concert. It was in the Paramount Theater in Seattle. We had nose bleed seats and Kiss looked like cartoon characters. We were so high that we couldn't stop laughing, so we left. We were all too young to drive (and, in hindsight, too young to be taking acid), so we got on a bus to go home. We all sat in the very back. A guy was sitting about a third of the way towards the front of the bus. One of us noticed that his face was turning red and he looked like he was having a seizure. We started to freak out, and then his girl friend's head popped up from below the seat back. We realized exactly what kind of seizure he was having. Once again we started laughing so hard we had to get off the bus. One of many "strange trips" I had in my teen years.

 

[Aelred]

Roger Dean's album covers were legendary (especially the Yes covers) and an album - even better a double album fold-out - the perfect size for the art.

Mouse and Kelley, HR Giger, Rodney Matthews, Rick Griffin and many more made excellent album cover art that went with the music.

Drop, wait an hour, play the record and look at the cover.

Booze has proably been the most prevalent in music because it is in society. Das Tinklied vom Jammer der Erde is one of my favourite song titles ever. Drinking songs have a long history indeed.

 

[Holden Afart]

Roger Dean's album covers were legendary (especially the Yes covers) and an album - even better a double album fold-out - the perfect size for the art.

Mouse and Kelley, HR Giger, Rodney Matthews, Rick Griffin and many more made excellent album cover art that went with the music.

Drop, wait an hour, play the record and look at the cover.

Booze has proably been the most prevalent in music because it is in society. Das Tinklied vom Jammer der Erde is one of my favourite song titles ever. Drinking songs have a long history indeed.

 

[TSJMajesty]

and an album - even better a double album fold-out - the perfect size for de-seeding your weed.

FIFY

 

[maguchi]

Black tar heroin for me!