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Points: 95 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2005 at 01:31
btw probably my funnest experiece was mushrooms and ill probably do that again. and i agree i would love to try acid at least once. i want to know its ok though first maybe someone can tell me about an acid experience.
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Drugs are not necessary to enjoy prog, only to enhance it!  Just kidding, I don't do any drugs I just drink and I feel it detracts from the music, although other drugs ie shrooms, weed only enhances it.  I think that to be a discriminating music listener, one can't be under the influence of drugs because they take away your discrimination in music and anything has the potential of sounding really good.  If you concentrate your musical listening skills and open your mind to music, drugs are completely unnecessary, and only make it harder to appreciate music using the normal part of your brain.  If you need drugs to enhance music, then you are basically lazy or aren't trained enough to make the music interesting using your normal brain.  Also if you always listen to music while under the influence, it will make music more dull to you when you're sober, but if you train yourself to appreciate it when you're sober it will make it all the more interesting when you are under the influence. :)  If you ask me, drugs ruin music because they make you rely on them to have music be interesting, and one doesn't need them to enjoy prog because the music speaks for itself!

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i agree.
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I don't touch any drugs other than the occasional joint, and most of the time I listen to music stone cold sober and enjoy it to pieces. But I gotta tell ya, listening to your favorite music with a tasty buzz is 100% enjoyable. Now I definitely do not advocate drug use, or rely on it in any way for musical enjoyment, but its true that the slight psychedelic efffect that marijuana has makes listening pretty interesting.

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Originally posted by Harry Hood Harry Hood wrote:

People usually associate jams bands with drugs. My favorite band is Phish, and I've never done drugs.

Frank Zappa never did drugs, and he made some of the craziest music ever.

How true, and he's an example to us all!   He would never let any of his band take drugs either, Lowell George got kicked out within the hour after Zappa found out what he was doing in his coffee break...
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My days of intoxicating myself are well behind me. Prog rock does sound great when you're off your trolley, but to be frank so does most music...

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Originally posted by Nipsey88 Nipsey88 wrote:

I don't touch any drugs other than the occasional joint, and most of the time I listen to music stone cold sober and enjoy it to pieces. But I gotta tell ya, listening to your favorite music with a tasty buzz is 100% enjoyable. Now I definitely do not advocate drug use, or rely on it in any way for musical enjoyment, but its true that the slight psychedelic efffect that marijuana has makes listening pretty interesting.

Now, excuse me while I kiss the sky...Ermm

I took weed a couple of times with my ex-boyfriend. It didn't do ANYTHING for me. Made me depressed the next day but that was it. Ho-hum pretty much.

Drinking is what I occassionally do. OCCASSIONALLLY= RARELY!!! I'm crazy enough as it is. I know a few people who have taken lsd. To be honest, the very idea scares me. I don't want to see the veins in your head!!! Gah!  And drinking doesn't enhance the music at all for me. My imagination does the trick.

Speaking of drinking and music........I was recently in a production of the Revenger's Tragedy (a jacobean satire- think shakespeare+ sex= murder x 100) and we had one musician- a pianist with a synth-board for the background music. On the last night, he came in wasted! and we didn't know until he began playing music we had never heard (think of a cat and mouse running up and down the keyboard) of before at all the wrong places.... The director was in tears but the audience loved it! It wasn't until halfway through the play that the stage-manager realized he had bought wine on stage with him . Dumbarse!

To add insult to aggravation, this pianist looks almost exactly like a typical Ian Anderson.  (I reallly shouldn't be to hard on him, he's really a sweetie. Just not very intelligent.)
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so true, i think i enjoyed listening to hiphop on shrooms

(this was a reply to two posts up.)



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Prog is a drug

(the greatest, actually...)

* My eyes are full but my face is empty *
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The great thing about music is that it makes you feel good and it doesn't damage your health. Unfortunately, the same is not true for drugs. I love beer but I try not to overdo it.


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Well I have to say I am a recreational user. I suppose its all to do with who you are. I'm in a band and we all love to get completly toasted and then jam for a few hours eat pizza and then sit down for 4 or 5 hours and space out to whatever we want to listen to.

I personally think its the best sh*t in the world. However I'm only 18 and i can understand not doing it after say 25 or so.
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Originally posted by Violenza Violenza wrote:

I've never done drugs, nor do I feel a need to try them. My mind's demented enough as it is.

Most non-prog people I meet think I'm a pot head though; with my long hair and my collection of very interesting music.



Ditto entirely!

Edit: Well... not quite. I mean, I've TRIED some drugs. Not been all that impressed though, and my mind's CERTAINLY demented enough as is!


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I did smoke some hasch before, but I developed panick-syndrom from it so I have stopped. Sometimes I use stuff like Valium, sometimes combined with alcohol. I have also experimented whith salvia divinorium, that drug is weird!!!

Buth, further then that, no I don't use any drugs.
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Valium + alcohol is not that healthy!
And yes, Salvia is weird, especially the concentrated extracts!
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Drugs =

Cigarrets =

Alkohol =

Prog =
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Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Drugs =

Cigarrets =

Alkohol =

Prog =


...Alcohol's a drug, you know?
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Drugs =

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Alkohol =

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...Alcohol's a drug, you know?


No, marihuana, cocaine and stuff like that are drugs, but not alkohol. A beer once in a while doesn`t hurt anyone and it doesn`t make you mindless.
 
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Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Wolf Spider Wolf Spider wrote:

Drugs =

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Alkohol =

Prog =


...Alcohol's a drug, you know?


No, marihuana, cocaine and stuff like that are drugs, but not alkohol. A beer once in a while doesn`t hurt anyone and it doesn`t make you mindless.
 


Alcohol is a chemical that affects the workings of the brain - you said yourself, it makes you "mindless". It is OFFICIALY a dictionary-definition example of a drug. It just happens to be legal.
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Originally posted by robertplantowns robertplantowns wrote:

  I think that to be a discriminating music listener, one can't be under the influence of drugs because they take away your discrimination in music and anything has the potential of sounding really good.  If you concentrate your musical listening skills and open your mind to music, drugs are completely unnecessary, and only make it harder to appreciate music using the normal part of your brain.  If you need drugs to enhance music, then you are basically lazy or aren't trained enough to make the music interesting using your normal brain.  Also if you always listen to music while under the influence, it will make music more dull to you when you're sober, but if you train yourself to appreciate it when you're sober it will make it all the more interesting when you are under the influence. :)  If you ask me, drugs ruin music because they make you rely on them to have music be interesting, and one doesn't need them to enjoy prog because the music speaks for itself!


This is a very intelligent response to the topic IMO.
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