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What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience?

In this post let's consider alcohol, nicotine, and coffee drugs, as they are, along with the usual suspects that can get you arrested in most US states and beheaded in Saudi Arabia. I live in Victoria, Canada, which has more marijuana shops than Starbucks, and we have tons of Starbucks. In 10 minutes, I can walk from my house to four dispensaries, which will sell to anyone over 18. OK, enough bragging, For me, a puff, and just one puff (I don't like getting stoned) can be the best tweak ever. A glass of wine is also a fine compliment. Too much alcohol will increase my enjoyment (because I'm drunk) but put Phil Spector in the room (wall of sound and loss of the stuff I value in my system, such as clarity).
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sevs
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@exron thats why I consider myself blessed by being musically illiterate: I wont be able to "see" any mistakes while listening to Bruckner under Celibidache (and being live recordings there must be many!). 
My take on this great thread is the same as from a week before: "under the influence" I listen to the music I totally do Not care when being "myself"... I can even listen to Lady Gaga and Yello while drinking Becks/Stoli!!!! Trying some of the tips from this thread is on my "to do list": maybe Kanye West is not that bad, after all, The Atlantic mag hailed him as Mozart of the 21st century!?!?...

exron
111 posts
 
Hey sevs, I also consider myself blessed, but did you know that I actually was just kidding' around ? Just to make a point here, one does not see mistakes when one listens to music, one hears it.
I suspect most of us like the occasional weed, whiskey, beer, wine, or whatever to listen to a good album but I would say most of us listen usually sober a great majority of the time, but it is fun listening being tipped every now an then LOL.  All the best sevs.
exron
111 posts
 
You know sevs, your right, sometimes I actually see mistakes when listening to music while under ( no pun intended ), it's a riot.
While on the subject of music, I can't believe the crap that is being put out these days and passed as music.
wolf_garcia
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As a musician for about 5 decades, I've noticed I don't make mistakes…they're more like dissonant musical choices.
sevs
301 posts
 
@exron I always thought that the crap flowing thru "Top 30" on the radio or the recommendations nowadays for Prog Rock is my problem of being old and being "imprinted" (Konrad Lorenz term, not mine) with tunes from the 60ies and 70-ies. A few months ago I followed the tip from The Atlantic Monthly (do I sound like a sales-guy for this mag?) and bought "Inside the Hit Factory". Reads like a horror story to me, but at least now I know that I am OK, and everybody else who listens to this corporate-produced crap are nuts. 
Well, at least we still have some Dinosaurs survivors and now a few youngsters like Steven Wilson and Wilco to update our "rock'n'roll" collections. 
Back to this thread: even being "under" I still prefer vinyl and cassette boombox to digital, no amount of nicotine/alcohol can change that!
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