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Original Message 1/32 28-Mar-03 @ 03:32 PM - My Weed Problem
While I watch the TV, I say to myself "I gotta give up the weed". I say "I don't need weed to make tracks. I'm gonna give up and have my last puff this Sunday".
I go to work and get excited about the fact I'm gonna give up weed 'this sunday'. I go into the studio during the week and smoke 'my last quarter' and just mess about on the computer 'getting things ready' for my new life being weed free and actually making some bloody music.
So, it gets to Sunday and I have my 'last big puff' and go through all 'the routines of my last day puffing'. It gets to Sunday night and I pack my 'last' joint with a ten draw cos its my last puff, I'm going to really make an effort 'this time'. I smoke my last joint and go into my studio and stick on Massive Attack "protection", cos that's the right music to listen to whilst having my 'last smoke'. I go to bed and feel excited.
I get up on Monday morning and feel fine. I finish work and rush home to get into the studio all sober. I switch on the PC, load up some drums and say "jesus man, I could really fancy a puff" and "I can't be creative without some weed".
About 7'oclock Monday night, I ring my dealer and get in the car, park on his dodgy estate and buy some weed. I rush home, skin up, last about 20 mins and then turn on the TV.
And so the cycle continues.
D'you think I should just give up music making, resign myself to the fact that this is all just some dream and I ain't never gonna make shit..?
Message 3/32 28-Mar-03 @ 03:50 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
It will take you a couple of weeks to get used to being in the studio but you should do it. Take up some exercise aswell. On a saturday, I go for a swim for an hour or so before I hop onto my computer. Doing exercise gives you energy cos the bloods actually moving around your body. I can do 14 hour sessions straight through.
Do it bud. (no pun intended).
Message 4/32 28-Mar-03 @ 04:06 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
All I do now is get drunk, maybe some sniff and it actually helps my creativity and doesn't sap my energy one iota. I figure it must be the sugar in the beer or something, but I can stay up till 3/4 in the morning just drinking and writing tunes and it is soooo productive.
Do keep giving up on the weed. If you believe that you can give up enough then you can fool your unconscious into truly believing it and it gets easier.
Regards.
Steve.
Message 6/32 28-Mar-03 @ 04:21 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
;)
Message 7/32 28-Mar-03 @ 04:59 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
All that said, if I ever really felt A) I couldn't live without weed... or B) it started having a negative effect on my tunage... I'd drop it... period. Also, while I'll smoke up to do new sounds, riff, arrangements, etc., I'm always straight when I master, and usually when I do mixdowns. It's just too easy for me to miss technical details when I'm stoked with good herb...
Pizza
G
Message 8/32 28-Mar-03 @ 05:00 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 9/32 28-Mar-03 @ 05:02 PM Edit: 28-Mar-03 | 05:03 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Steve.
Message 10/32 28-Mar-03 @ 09:17 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
the cold turkey route ain't for
you! Howabout every other day or something
at first? then you can compare
how it is working stoned and unstoned in the
studio as well.
personally I don't get high hardly at all
anymore, on weed that is. The only
time i like to use it in relation w/ making music
is *after* i've done my
work for the nite...I find that sometimes it's
good to critique a track
whilst stoned, and take notes even...but not
when i'm actually working cos
nothin gets done...
i agree w/ mindspawn tho, it affects each of us
real different- positive and
negative. persoanlly, it's so easy for me to turn
down a spliff- i do it all
the time...but very hard for me to refuse a drink
;-)
good luck
Message 11/32 28-Mar-03 @ 09:22 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
routine- like just f*cking around and have sum
fun w/ fruity loops if u usually use cubase, or
collaborating with someone if u usually work
alone. Probably best if you collaborate w/ a
non-weed smoker ;-) i dunno...i'm just
brainstorming over here.
Get rid of your tv?
Message 12/32 28-Mar-03 @ 10:37 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 14/32 28-Mar-03 @ 11:35 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
I'm skinning up now mind you.... After the break I've managed to wean myself down to a couple at the weekend. Sorted. Enough for a bit of a vibe but so monged I sit here for ages just listening to tunes.
Goodluck dude, try and find a happy medium. Its taken me ten years and I dont know if I'll stick to it but the tunes are coming right on.
Message 15/32 29-Mar-03 @ 02:24 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 16/32 29-Mar-03 @ 04:36 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
its just fucking POT and it is YOU, YOUR MIND, telling you/allowing you to think that you are "addicted"
bullshit
Message 17/32 29-Mar-03 @ 05:10 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 18/32 30-Mar-03 @ 09:12 AM - RE: My Weed Problem
Motivation is strongly tied to neurochemistry.
My advice, excercise and eat right. Just go for a long walk everyday. You might try taking some St. John's Wort. Its an herb that helps depression and anxiety. You can be very depressed and not feel sad at all. It may just manifest its self as feeling lethargic, an inability to make decisions, and procrastination. Try to avoid a lot of sugar and junk food. Eat lots of raw vegetables and adequate protein. I don't object to people using any drug they choose but I found that for myself that they just burn me out more.
Good luck
Good luck.
Message 19/32 30-Mar-03 @ 01:08 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
you're like the ass fucking president of the world... you can't make concrete statements that aren't true, so you make these wishy washy false statements of falsehood to reinforce your paranoid belief system... "oh please tell me it's true, it's so comfortable.."
Message 20/32 30-Mar-03 @ 02:19 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
but the next day she calls me up and asks why i never get depressed
Message 21/32 31-Mar-03 @ 12:26 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 22/32 31-Mar-03 @ 03:11 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 23/32 31-Mar-03 @ 08:42 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Toodles
Message 24/32 01-Apr-03 @ 12:37 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
God knows, I couldn't just sit down infront of the computer (after a day in the office) and start gettin "all creative". The thing is you gotta just sprinkle the weed into the joint. You just need a tiny bit to make your ears (and mind) open up.
As said by others, I never "have a smoke" when I'm mixing or mastering. You end up thinkin it all sounds great and then when you play it back over another system, the balance usually sounds pants.
As said mate, I usually try and do a track a week. I'll have a little smoke on a Sunday and sketch out an idea. I won't get to tied up in small details but rather just try and let things flow out. Then I'll spend the rest of the week (nights) not smokin till the end of the night, using my clear head to build the track, get the groove tight and all that. My smoke at the end of the night usually helps me write notes and ideas down to try the next night. I have the track done by friday night and usually go out. Then I'll use Saturday (unstoned) to mix and master the track. I'll leave it all up till Sunday then listen to it that morning. Then I wack it onto a CDR.
Then I'll go to the gym. I'm usually stoned by 2pm sunday and I'll start getting stoned ideas for the next track. And thats my working week.
No wonder I don't have a grilfriend.
Addicted, I wouldn't worry to much about it. Learn how to use it to YOUR advantage.
Message 25/32 01-Apr-03 @ 01:27 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
( anyway it's the nicotine that your addicted to ... er... and the TV )
Message 26/32 01-Apr-03 @ 05:31 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
weed/dope is good for 'creativity' but not dso good for work - so perhaps try crewating hooks and riffs and ideas with pot, then be dry for the linear composition work, then appraise the work you did 'dry' stoned - it often reveals interesting results.
when you listen stoned, make notes rather than trying to 'fix it' while charged, or if you want to tweak the linear mix while stoned, then save a new copy for the 'stoned mix' and use that to work on.. mebbe also make notes... it's good to vary things, dont let drugs become a habit basicaly.
Message 27/32 04-Apr-03 @ 03:20 AM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 28/32 04-Apr-03 @ 04:03 AM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 29/32 04-Apr-03 @ 11:48 AM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 30/32 04-Apr-03 @ 08:10 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
No one is making you paranoid, weed isn't making you paranoid, YOU are making YOU paranoid. YOU are making YOU watch TV. YOU are making YOU feel unproductive!
Quit playing the victim routine. Fix it, and make 'dem BEATS, yo!
(sorry, must be on some kind of period this week)
e
Message 31/32 04-Apr-03 @ 09:12 PM - RE: My Weed Problem
Message 32/32 07-Apr-03 @ 06:13 AM Edit: 07-Apr-03 | 06:15 AM - RE: My Weed Problem
There is a time and place for it though, I'm right there with K on this so taking a hike in the woods, a walk though the neighborhood or anything that separates the moment is a good thing. Getting high and watching the Cartoon Channel (or the Weather Channel, or The Channel Channel) all afternoon doesn't qualify. I definitely wouldn't think of getting high and trying to work, seems like one would take away from the other. Housework is another story, I can clean some serious mother****** house after a bowl.
If weed is a problem for you consider a look at the underlying reason, it could be you have an addictive personality and if that's the case you could do worse than weed.
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