I don't have a problem with it. They are paying me by the hour after all.

There is always one straight member of a band. It's never the singer strangely, but just have a quiet word if that stuff is really impeding progress.

You can't be too uptight about that shit.

I'm a little shy, but HEY YOU GUYS !! my first post here, long time lurker blah blah.. WAVE EMOTICON..

What's with the in-flux of new posters all of a sudden? I like it, I like it.

My friend and I were watching videos of our favorite bands last night, and it dawned on us (at the same time, actually) that ALL of our favorite artists were incredibly wasted 100% of the time when they were in concert (i know this took us long enough, right?).

I don't know how I feel about that. I guess it's just bolstering my opinion that I should never have anything to do with the artists I admire, since I don't have much in common with most of them anyways.

jupiter wrote:James Hettfield wrote a good portion of St. Anger while in rehab.
For some, drugs are imperative.

But Jaymz never really did hard drugs as far as I know; he was primarily a massive boozehound.

Marsupialized wrote:What's with the in-flux of new posters all of a sudden? I like it, I like it.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I wonder if this place got a high-profile mention somewhere....(though the guy in this thread did say he was lurking for a while)

can be very dangerous for the equipment (and general cleanliness), but can be very inspiring for the workflow. the tradeoff is generally pretty unpredictable.

lemur68 wrote:

jupiter wrote:James Hettfield wrote a good portion of St. Anger while in rehab.
For some, drugs are imperative.

But Jaymz never really did hard drugs as far as I know; he was primarily a massive boozehound.

He said got into coke after the black album

Marsupialized wrote:

lemur68 wrote:

jupiter wrote:James Hettfield wrote a good portion of St. Anger while in rehab.
For some, drugs are imperative.

But Jaymz never really did hard drugs as far as I know; he was primarily a massive boozehound.

He said got into coke after the black album

which might explain a few things about their subsequent output. yknow mustaine quit coke/etc right before rust in peace, and that album's great. yayo doesn't seem to do good things for those fellas.

i can picture one of them doing a line and saying "hey man, ya know all those riffs we've been writing? all those riffs we just kept making heavier and heavier? well fuck, it's gotta stop sometime, we need to shift our focus. we need to write songs the way motley crue does. hey wait, i hear their producer is up for hire..."

's a funny one. i suppose everyone works in different ways but i am increasingly drawn to the opinion that drug induced creativity, for many, is a delusional attempt to adopt the mindset of their esteemed predecessors. that's ok but a. you are not Hendrix (or whoever) and b. you are operating in a completely different social context. the net effect is a faux 60s (or whatever) soundalike, which in my view hastens the degeneration of our artform into its decadent stage.

anyway, i'm already agitated enough to write whizz style stuff, acid and mushrooms would be an absolute joke (did an experiment with cubase once - don't think it's physically possible to get any more arythmic than that. the sound of chimps), coke? too expensive (i'm fucking poor, right?), and the only time i seriously experimented with dope (for the Yanks read weed/hash) i rewrote The Rain Parade's No Easy Way Down while listening to it but didn't realise til i reread it the next morning, thereby proving to myself that it was a drug that made me very stupid. now i'm old and getting grey i value and strive for clarity as much as possible so i am straight while being creative. perhaps things are too clear when you're young so a little fuzzing up is more desirable.

dunno. fuck it. gotta go now - taking our Dorian to his sports day. representing the county at 200 metres and javelin. then off to shop.

the net effect of this thread is that i really want some drugs now. thanks.

The first time I was in a real studio (Neve board, 2" tape, serious fuckin' studio), the no smoking policy was one of the first things the engineer mentioned - after all, it dirties up the electronics after a while.
Fair enough, I thought. "However," the engineer continued, "the studio owner has never had anything against marijuana being smoked in the studio."

This pro pot decree coming directly from the owner struck me as sort of odd- first of all because I've hardly ever heard of an entrepreneur in the US explicitly condoning drug use on the property he's invested untold thousands in.
But mainly, it implied that the owner felt that being stoned in the studio was a good way to go about things (maybe it leads bands to rack up more hours). This was back at a time when I smoked a lot of weed, but even I was profoundly aware of how janky my playing got with a buzz on.

Be that as it may, I've heard a lot of recordings by local bands which were markedly impaired by nothing stronger than a little THC. For instance, there was a rap group that insisted on playing high in the studio and their whole album had to be digitally reconstructed 'cause they were too stoned to rap on beat.