drunken playing... a celebration!

[Beta Cloud]

so my friends i have to ask...
how well can you play whilst imbibed? like 12 beers in?
i generally make it a point to play live/practice with the band/do all band business without any alcohol in my system at all.
coffee. that's it.
no one likes a drunk ass band doing some silly ass self indulgent bullshit. i get it.
so i gotta' ask- do you hammer em' down when you're playing your set?

so yeah, that said, yes i am drunk as fuck right now. and i made a vid of me playing drunk as fuck. i'm playing a mudhoney tune.
and i want pizza. man do i want me some gotdang' pizza.

terrible.
what about you?

[zachoff]

4 beers max for practice and for shows.  Playing hammered is terrible.

[RacerX]

Yeah, I won't even pick up a guitar past a certain point of drunkenness—what's the point?

[mortlock]

one or two max before a gig. mudhoney songs don't matter, those guys were drunk when they wrote them.

[Beta Cloud]

Yeah, I won't even pick up a guitar past a certain point of drunkenness—what's the point?

right on racer, me too. you just sound like shit, (as i do in the vid), and end up dinging the finish up on it when too high or drunk-
now that i'm no longer drunk, i can be clear, heh. i saw a band play the other night and pound 8 beers in a half hour set. he played great. as for me, i have a nearly supernatural alcohol tolerance, but never get hammered at a show because people are there to enjoy your music and they've payed money to do so.
just curious man, kinda the same as sex, a 'where do you draw the line for performance purposes?' survey of sorts.

also, i'm so very addicted to p90's at this point, (we talked about it on another thread), that i want to put them on all my guitars!
never noticed how unlike other single coils they really are till' i got a guitar with them!

[Beta Cloud]

one or two max before a gig. mudhoney songs don't matter, those guys were drunk when they wrote them.

drunk, rolling, and wet!

[RacerX]

Practice: 2-3 drinks during, none after.

Live: 1 drink before, 1 on the stage with me. More after.

[spookstrickland]

Back in my early days playing in Babies In The Sink, we actually practiced playing drunk so we would not get sloppy playing live after a few....I hot were i could play good pretty fucking buzzed up by our bass player became an alcoholic sadly....maybe not the best idea after all.