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I needed a couple of beers beforehand to combat the nerves, but then I'd need a couple more through the gig and I couldn't play for shit once I was pissed. Nobody seemed to notice but I sure did.
I only really play at home these days. My playing seems to get a bit better after a couple of drinks but that'll be because I've warmed up in the time it's taken to drink them. But then a few drinks more and Mr Spanglehands makes his appearance, as usual.
Drinking and playing tends to develop over a lot of gigs over many years. If you only gig a few times a month then a few beers might affect your playing but after 20 years and thousands of gigs you have to drink quite a bit before it's really noticeable. Like anything there's a sweet spot so it needs a bit of discipline. Our bass player did 13 pints at one gig and he was pretty hammered to the point it was really noticeable so there were words about that
I'd do the same for guitar now probably. In the past when I took my own amp I would limit myself to two beers, one at the start and one in the middle, and reckon I was OK... but I don't drink at all if I'm driving now.
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If there is no backline then I just DI and ask for foldback.
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There's a big distinction between a few beers and getting pissed.
I have a couple of beers sometimes over about 4 hours and I find it can get me in the groove.
I'm not shredding so the height of technical mastery is not required, they are known well rehearsed parts or
Improvising. I can play without beers but I find a couple go down well with playing some music.
As long as the audience don't start analysing I think he's alright. There more likely to remember how into it he was rather than the accuracy of the playing.
Now being pissed on stage is a different matter.
In his late teens he'd get oiled up before the gig until one night on stage when he reached out to pick up his (only) guitar and saw four of them in front of him, and he couldn't pick up any of them. Bloody hell...
Turned out I didn't even have a guitar, I was at a 24 hour Tesco.
Sounds like a dare to me mate...