Lt. Bob wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:47 pm
CrowsofFritz wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:10 pm
It always amazes me when people can play great while stoned. I could not. I sucked ass.
I sucked ass drunk, too.
I can't get so stoned enough that I would get slow or out of tune or forget anything.
A very good friend, back when I also drank, told me once: I've seen you FUCKED up .... but I never saw you when you couldn't play"
I could even play on acid without messing up.
At one of the jamfests 20 years ago I was drunk and on stage and Chris Harris and EZ and a couple others were off to the side and Harris said, "How does he do that? It's like the drunker he gets, the better he plays!"
I don't drink these days and though I
can play without being stoned I can't imagine why I would want to ..... lol
I definitely have some stories ..... I'll have to go through this thread and see which ones I've told already
I'm usually pretty good at playing either stoned and/or drunk. If it's a "real" gig, I don't push that limit. I suppose I just got used to it playing ice hockey back before I stopped playing.
The social part:
So the night after The Samples we had Matisyahu (again, someone I had no recollection of but some of my friends were familiar with him and even casual fans). I did not offer to smoke with him before but we did discuss sharing a bowl at some point. We didn't; but he insisted on my checking out this wonderful weed of his. So he gave me a couple of buds. It was fantastic.
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The working part:
In this case, his FoH guy insisted on using his X32 Compact. He could have just loaded his scene from that desk and put it in ours but he wouldn't. More work for us
Matisyahu had his vocal go to a looper, which he was controlling on stage (including his delays, reverbs and the level of the various loops). The guitar player has a looper for his guitar and a vocal mic. It was somewhat difficult to get the monitors right based on which each wanted to hear. There was lots of low end building to the point of loud feedback (most likely from the subs feeding the vocal mics summing with the monitors). At various times I actually pulled the monitors out completely. And I'm not sure the band even knew I did it
. Of course, they just might be used to it.
Another hilarious thing; he tried to play one his songs 2 or 3 times but variously couldn't remember when to come in or even the words. So someone from the front row hands him their phone with the song cued up.
he listens to it, laughs and says I'm starting it in the wrong octave. He plays it in the mic so everyone can hear it, puts the phone down and then starts the song again. Messed it up a couple more times, discusses it with the guitar player and the crowd and tries once more... and messed it up again.
Mercifully, he moved along but only after wasting at least 15 mins (which felt much longer to me). Not a bad show but certainly nothing I would have paid to go see.
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. He actually called me while I was having dinner to thank me 
