Can Mary Jane help your playing ?

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sun May 04, 2008 3:08 pm

Do you think smoking hash improves your playing ? or is getting stoned such a different experience every time,as its so dependent on your mood and the quality of the sh*t ,thats its just impossible to say !

RORY

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:27 pm

"Do you think smoking hash improves your playing?"

no.

irishpiper · Post by **irishpiper** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:36 pm

Dionys · Post by **Dionys** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:42 pm

I've never partaken my self, but every single artist I've known from visual to performing musicians produces the worst sh*t they've ever produced when high while thinking it's the bees' knees.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sun May 04, 2008 4:54 pm

I smoked in college but I didn't inhale ...

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:26 pm

Dionys wrote:I've never partaken my self, but every single artist I've known from visual to performing musicians produces the worst sh*t they've ever produced when high while thinking it's the bees' knees.

Tell it to Louis Armstrong.

projektio28 · Post by **projektio28** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:39 pm

I have my B.A. in Music, and during college I was surrounded by people who used everything from marijuana to LSD, you name it, they took it.

I was in the small crowd that abstained from that kind of thing and I have to agree with Dionys here 100%. The people that used the drugs thought they were being "more" creative and amazing than the rest of us.

I'm not saying that my friends and I were in a battle for "who was more creative", those who took drugs and those who did not, but I do think that we were far more humble about our art than the pot smokers.

Matt

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun May 04, 2008 8:35 pm

It doesn't make you more creative, but it makes everything you say or do appear more profound. We recorded ourselves during a typical evening of philosophical debate in order to capture these deep revelations that none of us could remember the next day.

A typical evening on MDA sounded something like:

"Wow! Really."

"Yeah, far out!"

"Yeah, I know what you mean exactly."

"Yeah."

etc.

We weren't so cocky about ourselves or our brilliance from then on.

djm

meemtp · Post by **meemtp** » Sun May 04, 2008 8:50 pm

I do have some home recordings of us playing one night...and there was a positive difference. I think it boils down to the person and their abilities...in other words, no it doesn't help your playing. But, if you are not always playing to your true potential because you're all hung up on it, or half thinking about your bills, or otherwise not letting yourself just "live" in the music, then it CAN strip away the distractions and open your ears more...in small amounts. I don't think it leads to big jumps in ability by any means...just leads to paying more attention the music for a short while sometimes...YMMV.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:15 am

s1m0n wrote:
Dionys wrote:I've never partaken my self, but every single artist I've known from visual to performing musicians produces the worst sh*t they've ever produced when high while thinking it's the bees' knees.
Tell it to Louis Armstrong.

naah.. he used khat.

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:52 am

I smoked a good bit back in college (haven't touched the stuff in probably 6 years now). While I daresay I enjoyed listening to music more while high, I was all thumbs the few times I tried to play my guitar.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Mon May 05, 2008 8:18 am

CHasR wrote:
s1m0n wrote:
Dionys wrote:I've never partaken my self, but every single artist I've known from visual to performing musicians produces the worst sh*t they've ever produced when high while thinking it's the bees' knees.
Tell it to Louis Armstrong.
naah.. he used khat.

Louis smoked pot daily, and was such an entheusiastic fan that he promoted it as a health-giving panacea.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon May 05, 2008 9:17 am

That stuff always put me to sleep... now, anti-freeze on the other hand...

PJ · Post by PJ » Mon May 05, 2008 10:04 am

Seriously, grass, hash, alcohol, etc. are all no good.

For the best results, try whippets.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:07 am

Is that like toking labradors?

djm