Write drunk/Record sober?

[DavidK]

Sober is the way to go for me. I putzed around drunk and high for years. I quit drinking and just signed a record deal.

 

[random.hero]

not drunk, but with a good dash of THC and i'll be good...

 

[philboyd studge]

Sober is the way to go for me. I putzed around drunk and high for years. I quit drinking and just signed a record deal.

Couldn't agree more.
Drunk, you think you're getting something done.
Sober, you get it done.

 

[random.hero]

ahh someone stop this thread... it wont go away!

 

[sikter]

"I can't wait to get sober just to get drunk again"
I remember someone said that and it sounded funny than.
The translation is bad but I'm sure most of you will understand it.
I live 4 km away from downtown, my wife doesn't drive, GRRRRR, and we have a little child.
That means I have to be sober all the time.

I drink seldom these days. I remember somebody else took notes when I spontaneously played "new" songs once.
I dont know what happened to those.

 

[mrT]

My trick is that I do my soundcheck Before and then take on the 40 and reefer. lets me get everything going and then be able to relax during recording so I can listen a little better. Cause I don't know about you guys but I HATE wiring/troubleshooting in my studio when I'm fucked up... It sucks balls. I can always get it done but it sucks so bad I wish that I couldn't.

 

[KonradG]

I'd like to apologize for starting this thread. It has spun out of control and will soon need its own website and agent.

Best Regards,
Conrad.

 

[Toker41]

While there is no denial that drugs & alcohol (in particualr drugs) have indeed been part of the artistic process and I suspect have inspired and/or contributed to music which went on to inspire future generations of musicians - is the price to be paid worth it?

The list of fine musicians who have died or who have significant portions of thier creative years compromised as a result of substance abuse is very long.

People like Hendrix, Cobain, etc. etc gave us great music which no doubt was in part inspired by drugs - but they died very young, perhaps before their best music found it's way to the surface (I would suggest that had they achieved sobriety they could have/would have created far better music than they did while "impaired").

The problem with chemicals is the very real potential that a little leads to a lot and once you are at the point of a lot, it is very hard to come back.

I know I thought for years that the negatives of drug & alcohol abuse were a fair trade off for the "creative artistic vision" these substances provided. Turns out that was just the chemicals talking

There is a difference between "drug use", and a "drug problem". Many people use drugs recreationaly, and safely, that do not have a problem. The people that develop problems are usually "addictive personalities" and if it wasn't drugs they they picked as their weapon of self destruction, it would have been something else. To much of anything is a bad thing, and most things in moderation are OK.

Everybody has a different way of touching their creativity. Some need drugs to dull their inhibitions so they can say what they really feel, some don't. Either way, I don't believe drugs and alcohol give "creative artistic vision". A person already had it, or they don't. As I said, though, it may help dull a persons inhibitions so that they may express it more openly.

 

[Mindset]

For me, it doesn't matter if I'm sober or not, when creativity flows, it flows, and I usually do something about it, or write a note to myself for later.

 

[Matt123]

A few brewski's in the studio is always a nice touch

 

[slidey]

sober all the way

only recently for me as I've given up hash

but sobriety every time

& I WILL NOT tolerate drunk people in my studio, regardless of who they are or their background

OK have a couple of beers, no probs. Appear drunk & I'll boot you out

 

[Lozzo]

Nah mate, write sober record drunk.