To drink or not to drink?

[Posh]

I keep swinging between all out debauchery and strict abstinence. I can't decide whether to be a drunken fool or a sober, healthy Posh.

What I want to know is: Should I get drunk at Minus 3 gigs?

I probably play better when drunk or stoned (it just all seems to flow better), and I'm more likely to dance like a lunatic.

On the other hand, it's not helping with my diet if I drink 8 bottles of Newcastle Brown in a night, and guitar hero types are supposed to be rake thin (which I am most assuredly not these days... gimme a few months and I'll get there).

So which is it to be? Drunken madness or sensible sobriety?

[Stu]

Heh...

How about "somewhere in between"?

As dreadful as some of our shows so far might have been, and as much as we tend to muck about up there, I think it's important to keep a certain air of professionalism about playing a gig. There's nothing worse than seeing a band you know are shit-hot go up and make rambling drunken idiots of themselves... I've seen some great bands (especially locally) make a shambling embarrasment of themselves, just because they went a bit over-the-top with the pre-show drinking, and it's a shame.

At the same time, there's nothing wrong with knocking back a few to get you in the mood. As you say, having a beer or five helps get it flowing... lightens you up a bit, makes you a little less ridgid and nervous-looking. I pretty much always have at least a couple of beers before playing, both for that reason and for lack of having anything else to do before showtime, and I find it much easier to perform if I'm relaxed.

The trick, I think, is to balance it. Cuff may tell you one of his favourite gigs was when we went on last a couple of months ago, and had been drinking with the Aforementioned since earlier in the afternoon. He was pretty steamin'... but at the same time, he played pretty much everything spot-on, and had a lot of fun with it, it wasn't stilted or forced at all. Talked too much crap (heh), but it was a fun show, and I think it showed.

I guess it's OK to take it to whatever limit you can without getting so intoxicated you can't play properly. Remind me to show you the video of 'the first Minus3 gig aka too many black russians' to see exactly how bad it can get if you go over the top... but if you're asking specifically if we mind you having a drink before playing a Minus3 show, then of course we don't... feel free. This is rawk n' roll after all, right?

[Tanaka]

Think of it this Way


Elvis
Jim Morrison
Ozzy Osbourne
Ted Nudgent

what are there results to Too much drink or Food

they either still made it big, but with health problems one even died because of it and, one is still trying to make big in europe and never will.

One now has brain damage and tried to kill his wife

and one urinated on stage looking a Reck causing a Riot

on the other hand do too little i can start comparing you to anything from Blue to about a hundred Toss Pots.

I say Balance and Be yourself, if anything try and be the person you want to be, not what other want you to be if you excerise more you can party more is what i always say

"One fact you won't know if your kidneys pack in, until 90% is damaged beyond repair so NO Moon Shine Vodka"

[Tanaka]

or just drink a little before playing to get the gut rot.

then afterwards swallow back my friend and let the Ales Ciders Beers Lagers and Vodkas be your Best of Friends

[Posh]

Cuff actually plays better when he's absolutely pished. Feck knows how he manages that...

Yeah, good call on the whole 'balancing it' thing. I'm getting better at drinking 'in moderation', at just drinking enough to be relaxed and not be totally rat-arsed, so I'll try that at the forthcoming gigs.

[Posh]

Maybe I should go the Ted Nugent route and replace drink and food with guns and hunting...

[Tanaka]

Take a Big Glass of Milk it will Line your Stomach so you can handle a Bit more Drink with a Little Less Pain

[Tanaka]

Originally posted by EvilRockPosh
Maybe I should go the Ted Nugent route and replace drink and food with guns and hunting...

Do not go the way of the redneck brother it is unholy come back to the amber glow of Drink Drinkkkkkk

[Posh]

Is that milk thing true? That would explain so much, as when I'm not drinking booze I drink shitloads of milk, and maybe this is why I can drink so much and not get hungover or anything... Innaresting.

[Stu]

Originally posted by EvilRockPosh
Innaresting.

Are you drunk?

[Posh]

Heheh... no. I've drank so much over the last five years that I now slur *all* the time.

[sheepdug]

hard to say - i guesss try and be yourself ... some players as you say are awesome when wasted....some are so bad they are funny !!! so who knows.. go wiff da flow !


sdug

[Mulac]

I almost have a set routine now. 2 or 3 pints of strongbow depending on how long i have before playing does the trick. four can be done, if we're on late. maybe i'm a lightweight but when it gets to 5 or more the performance is in the hands of the gods.

[Tanaka]

Milk is thick Fatty Substence with Vitmin C it lines your stomach and is not only a refreshing fluid but an actual Meal like Substence hence why Babys drink a shit load.

If you drink lots of Fizzy Drinks your Body will naturally Crave Milk, since there is Too much sugar in fizzy Drinks.

Alcohol has less effec if you have a Meal and Milk sticks to your stomach quicker and easier than a meal, thus slightyl better protection, so have a Pint of milk a Chees Burger out of Mc D's and you can handle alot more than most.

Also Irn bru was original made as an hang over cure, because you lose a lot of iron when and Glucose when you Drink Alcohol Iron because of the Alcohol Glucose for, the over boundrie in movment due to being drunk

[Posh]

Informative : )