Can some specific drugs or alcohol help enjoying more the music listening experience?
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Back in the day If I could only Remember my Name - David Crosby, cannabis/hash, headphones was a trip.
I still love that album!
Tim
I still love that album!
Tim
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An a whole lot more...
* You forgot some other 'grand artists' like Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Amy Winehouse,
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and many many more...
Luv is the drug.
Lord
Not to start a fight but I would not put Amy in this august company .. Good artist working on becoming very good ... not yet great let alone to be in this listing of giants ... sad nonetheless
My audio enhancement of choice is an excellent California cabernet called Silver Spoon. It both widens and deepens the sound stage, and significantly improves resolution and microdynamics. When measured for a recent review, though, SS showed no alchohol content at all (...)
Tim
Tim,
Thanks for telling. Since it has no alcohol content I am going to try it in my VPI 17 LP cleaning machine.
Research shows that if you want to drink less, turn down the music:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-sweeter-noise-impairs-judgement-intake.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-sweeter-noise-impairs-judgement-intake.html
Miles did get clean, and I'n not sure Hendrix necessarily belongs on that list, since most of what I can find out about his life suggests that drug use was not a main feature of it, unlike the others discussed. It might have become so if he had lived longer.
Miles never did get clean. He went cold turkey in the 50's from hard core heroin abuse. After that, he used narcotics occasionally and did everything else to the point of psychosis i.e. alcohol, cocaine, speed, nicotine, etc. etc but just never got as deep into heroin as he had before. It was a point of pride with him that he "kicked" heroin and went through a major withdrawal without assistance, but that is not the same as clean.
He stated on more than one occasion that he did not believe drugs helped him with his music. He regretted his cocaine abuse, which made him paranoid and contributed to the destruction of his relationships.
Cicely Tyson, who was his last wife, stated the opinion that he contracted AIDS when he went into his period of "retirement" and self destructive debauching for several years. I never heard that this was ever confirmed publicly.
He stated on more than one occasion that he did not believe drugs helped him with his music. He regretted his cocaine abuse, which made him paranoid and contributed to the destruction of his relationships.
Cicely Tyson, who was his last wife, stated the opinion that he contracted AIDS when he went into his period of "retirement" and self destructive debauching for several years. I never heard that this was ever confirmed publicly.
A friend of mine who was Miles' personal chef in the late '80's, and was himself a practicing heroin addict at that time, felt that Miles was clean (not in recovery, just clean) in those years. It was probably transient.
It may just be semantics. Heroin users may think "clean" is just not being on heroin to the point of physical addiction, while everything else is fair game. I suppose one might say that Miles was at best intermittently free of "serious" mind altering and addictive substances, but probably always drank, smoked, blew pot or did whatever.
You can call me Bob, Frantz. :b
* Amy is already considered like a 'grand female singer of the Jazz'.
And she'll climb even higher, in particular in death...
Tequila for Rock, Bourbon for Blues, Cognac for Classical. I guess it's a "set the mood" kinda thing more than anything else. Red Wine just makes me sleepy for some reason, I prefer it with meals.
I still prefer being sober if I am by myself. Alchohol doesn't make listening better in anyway for me except perhaps by making me less critical. Seeing as I can count the times I've ever drank alone, apparently I never needed much help in switching off "critical mode" when I want to anyhow. In a social setting however.........party on!
I still prefer being sober if I am by myself. Alchohol doesn't make listening better in anyway for me except perhaps by making me less critical. Seeing as I can count the times I've ever drank alone, apparently I never needed much help in switching off "critical mode" when I want to anyhow. In a social setting however.........party on!
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