MikeTalbot wrote:Problem is - many if not most bands are always in transition since players come and go, get fired etc. This means the show or sets, depending upon the bad, are never quite tight. Dangerous to get high and have to fake your way through a tune you barely know.
I did work in one outfit though that was so discilipined we knew our show backwards and forwards. For rehearsals we might learn new songs (some times) then go through the whole show, ironing out any rough edges.
After that, we'd get a bit whacked and play it again, just for grins.
Recordings (including both rehearsals and live gigs) showed that it is probably better to play sober if you want to play good. But if you are going to high - know that material!
Talbot
This reminds me of a quote I saw from Elliot Easton of the Cars back in their heyday. I think it was in Guitar Player Magazine where he said, "If you're going to play stoned, then you need to practice stoned"
I lived by that motto for a lot of forgotten years.
It is what it is until it isn't
