Members stunningbabe Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I DO! Seriously...I perform a lot better during my 2nd session after downing some white wine. I can 'feel' the music more. My girls and me will be dancing more vigorously and sexily once the alcohol 'kicks' in. It's a weird yet good feeling...LOL! Anyone of you perform better with some alcohol in your body? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbviper4 Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 There's a fine line for me. A beer or two seems to loosen my inhibitions about playing in front of an audience. More than that, and I start worrying about the trainwreck that my gig might become. Stone cold sober is usually the way to go for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Potts Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I don't drink...it's all about glaucoma medicine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fingerpicker Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 do you perform better when tipsy? ALways!There was a time when consuming as much or more shots than anyone at the bar was part of my "act." Not the healthiest way to earn a dime and the music suffered.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members donkey 12 Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I have never tried performing while tipsy or drunk. Perhaps I should try it as I could use all the help I can get... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I DO! Seriously...I perform a lot better during my 2nd session after downing some white wine. I can 'feel' the music more. My girls and me will be dancing more vigorously and sexily once the alcohol 'kicks' in. It's a weird yet good feeling...LOL! Video clip or it didn't happen.... Anyone of you perform better with some alcohol in your body? Probably not, but I THINK i do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gearo999 Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 Nope. I practice and perform sober. If someone buys me a beer during the show I'm ok with one drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stunningbabe Posted August 22, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 Video clip or it didn't happen....Probably not, but I THINK i do. Ok. It didnt happen then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I haven't drank for 33 years,so....nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SusieP Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I never drink alcohol when I'm working. And if a punter or venue owner offers us a drink we only ask for tea or coffee or orange juice or a soda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I don't drink...it's all about glaucoma medicine. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I prefer to wait until I'm back home to treat my glaucoma, myself.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Telecruiser Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I don't drink on the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rodclement Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I prefer to wait until I'm back home to treat my glaucoma, myself.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rodclement Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 We have a tradition of having one shot of chilled Patron at every gig, just one, no more, no less and if anyone sends us a drink, the staff knows to make it water in the glass but to charge the guest whatever they sent us! Makes everyone happy! Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loner Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I can perform equally well drunk or sober. I don't have a preference. I am an alcohol salesman, though, and it's hypocrytical to promote a product I wouldn't use myself. I just demonstrate how to use it correctly! Like on toothpaste commercials where they show a toothbrush that couldn't hold any more toothpaste without it falling off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rodclement Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 We perfom better when the audience drinks more...somehow they think we are better the more they drink... Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted August 22, 2012 Moderators Share Posted August 22, 2012 I will never drink before the second set, a long tradition from being a sound guy. One drink per set, max (my bandmates, however, are not as puritanical as I, and the band was dubbed the 'Booze Channel' by one bartender). Perception is the key, IMHO, and anything that alters mine will have a generaly negative effect on my performance...even if I think I'm doing fantastic...which is also a large part of why I gave up drugs thirty something years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Howie22 Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 Yeah, typically. I mean, I seriously doubt that I actually sing any better or play my guitar any better. However, I do think that I am more "fun" to the audience when I have a few. I'm more interactive and a little less stiff. I rarely have more than one per set. That's mostly because I'm concerned about driving home safely, etc. However, some of my best and most fun gigs have been when I've been served a little more than my "one drink per set" ration!! It is a slippery slope. I can remember one of my very first gigs. I was underage and getting served free beer. I partook - I partook heavily. By the end of the last set, I probably couldn't have told you what day it was, much less what key we were playing in! Probably not my shining moment as a musician. I avoid that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike McLaughlin Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I prefer to wait until I'm back home to treat my glaucoma, myself.. Exactly! I show up sober, and drink maybe 3-4 beers in a 3-4 hour period. Except one night, someone kept buying me shots and I was ten foot tall and bullet proof. I can't tell ya if the music suffered or not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EightString Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I used to get away with it when I was younger, and when I was only doing 3 and 4 chord classics. Not anymore. Jazz and booze don't mix for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joshmac Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I didnt coin all of you old guys for glaucoma medicine users. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Telecruiser Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 One night my wife and I were watching a star studded event on TV with two of former presindents attending etc.. Frank Sinatra came on and he had been drinking, it was easy to tell. My wife looked at me and said, "what type of ego does it take to think people want to hear you perform drunk?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EightString Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 "When you've loved and lost the way Frank has..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted August 22, 2012 Members Share Posted August 22, 2012 I might perform better after a few drinks but I don't generally play better. Although sometimes if I've had a stressful day a beer will stop the self chatter that can interfere with my playing. Of course so would meditation but it's easier to drink a beer in a bar than chant Ommmmmm Many decades ago when I was 17, I played six nights a week in the Strip Clubs around Vancouver. In those days if you had nude dancers you had to have a band. It was some quirky liquor law that worked to the musician's advantage. We would play just about every week, from 7:30 to 2:00 am from Monday to Saturday - sometimes a matinee on Saturday too. I would have one double rum and coke on the very last fifteen minute break. I did that for a year or so until we had an extended stay at a really bad joint filled with hookers, drug addicts, burly drag queens, and over the hill entertainers. It's not that I have anything against any of those people, but as a young kid it was a long way from the fame and fortune I thought should have been heading my way. Suddenly my alcohol consumption went way up and stayed there for a few years, until it hit me I couldn't sustain that pace. Anyway, now if folks are buying, or the house provides drinks, I'll drink 'em (unless I'm driving) but I'm much less of a party person these days - at least on the gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted August 23, 2012 Members Share Posted August 23, 2012 I DO! Seriously...I perform a lot better during my 2nd session after downing some white wine. I can 'feel' the music more. My girls and me will be dancing more vigorously and sexily once the alcohol 'kicks' in. It's a weird yet good feeling...LOL! Anyone of you perform better with some alcohol in your body? I know tons of musicians who THINK they are on fire when they've gotten even slightly lit up. Very seldom the case though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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