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I broke a two pint rule I set for myself a long time ago and played loads of wrong notes in the wrong places. There's YouTube footage of me sweating buckets and nervously rubbing my face. Luckily there was three guitarists in the band and nobody in the audience.
Indeed. The one time I saw Free he was too stoned to function, hardly played a note.
Acid might but I've never tried gigging while tripping.
I do like a little drink whilst I'm recording now. All above board and legal as they say. Not too much either or it stops play.
Spirits are out for me though when gigging .... wine is OK but I wouldn't touch spirits. With beer you feel the effect linearly with time, with spirits you can be fine one minute and completely wankered the next ... at least I can be.
The bass player in my main band is a beer monster, did 13 pints at one gig - The Colonial Bar, Horndean in 2004 ish ... he's a big fella mind!
I watched a video of Clapton playing on the OGWT a couple of weeks ago (Guitar heroes at the BBC?) and I remember thinking "I bet he thinks this is great"...
Also I would never eat less than 2 hours before stage time.
Saying that, in my last band the drummer was a horrific drinker... It really did destroy his life and he had to move back to Poland.. but he was a very natural drummer and he was drunk all gigs.. two gigs were rarely the same (even with the same setlist) but it was mostly fun. The singer and bassist was also always stoned.
One time the drummer was so fucked that we literally played one drum beat for the entire gig.. didn't even stop between songs. I mean, it was a good beat and we adapted everything on the fly so it worked out ok
We made a core setlist at that point, a reduced set that could be played no matter what condition we were in. We played those songs in practice so many times that it was habit and no thinking required. Fun fact, played them perfectly while coughing up blood with fun undiagnosed (until doctors later) illness!
So, practice is the key