any Musicians out there?

I play drums. Jazz.

I think that playing stoned messes me up, but nobody seems to notice.
Last week, I was jamming with these dudes on one song for 20 minutes (which seemed like an eternity because of the time dilation) and afterwards, I was sure I'd get a boot.....but everyone was like, "Wow, great job man!".
And they were serious.

When I'm playing stoned, my mind will wander, my focus is strange, and I'll have all these great musical ideas....but I'm not sure if it's something that I already played....or if I played the things that I thought I played, or "was it just a hallucination??". And I'll wonder if the ideas are that great anyway....because I realise that I'm stoned, and that my genius ideas may actually be retarded.

So, how does smoking affect *your* playing?


Thanks,
Stevo the newb

I play guitar both bass and regular and other random stuff
Never had the chance to play while high though :tear:
I'm sure it will be better than when I am completely shitfaced though

My friend can testify...I am a bassist and I can shred some mutha fuckin slap bass when I am stoned. I MURDERED some chili peppers songs when I was blitzed one day...
One of my friends looks at my bass and then looks at me and says...
"Foskers...you should play your bass..."
I said in my stoned way... "I SHOULD shouldn't i?"
with that...I picked it up...and the miracle happened...I played better than I ever had...and I felt like I wasn't even trying. I was looking around and talking and everything was great...but I was RIPPED...

haha i was there foskers i can shred out some licks when blitzed

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Originally Posted by zakkula

haha i was there foskers i can shred out some licks when blitzed

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We both can bro...we are good shit.
XD
Especially when blitzed...

bass; im a better musician...enough said.

I play guitar but what i experience while playing high is very similar to what you get. I'm in a jam band and its almost completely on my shoulders to keep our sound fresh. One time I decided to toke before a session and we jammed for a whole hour straight(felt like a week) and my drummer and bassist told me i came up with some of the most awesome creative shit they ever heard out of me.. which is funny because my mind was wandering the whole time and I forgot everything i even played!

i have recorded a couple songs fried and they turned out ok to me, then i put em on myspace and everyone had them as their profile songs and was like sweet man i was like thank mary j

I once smoked a jay with my friend before going to play guitar with our little "band". It's not really a band, just some friends who like to get together and jam sometime.. But anyway, he drums and he couldn't drum for shit. He kept falling over and laughing and we got this other kid to play. We were playing dani california and I couldn't remember the solo for the life of me. I started to play some random notes and started laughing. Nobody was really mad because they all knew we were high, but it was embarrassing nonetheless.

However, I find if I start playing guitar for a while.. Ten minutes or so (enough to get into it), and THEN I toke, I can play pretty much fine.. A little more creative on the soloing end as well..

I play guitar, bass, and keyboard. We were smoking a bowl this one time and they wanted me to play the keyboard the whole time based on the mood of the room. It was fucking hilarious. That however got boring for me after about ten minutes.