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7/19/2025, 4:09:40 AM
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As far as drug use goes, I have to be honest:
Drugs fucking work. It’s basically on demand creativity, gains you access to rooms/hangs you’d otherwise be excluded from, and gets audience members to show up at your early shows. I saw one dealer do Trunk Space in Phoenix and half his crowd was buying weed from him in the parking lot. I (allegedly) did the same thing with shrooms and it was like a magic key to better venues and women galore. My notch count is 74 (13 threesomes, 1 foursome) and I’d say a good 1/3 were from the magic drug-musician combo. See pic attached
However, one of my good musician friends lost his mind in coke. He’s actually a shabbos goy and took on their habits, so he’s intolerable. He got blackballed for not getting vaxxed, so they replaced him with a person with a religious exemption (also not vaxxed…). Lots of compliance tests…
Me and him, however, always had a saying:
There are musicians with drug problems and there are drug addicts with a music problem.
Booze is also liquid stage fright reducer. It works and sometimes you need to have SHOW MUST GO ON mentality. I struggle with alcohol but that’s due to genetics and trauma (which is the source of overachieving).
I did get one of the best insults in my life that summed up the low-caste musician lifestyle. I was dealing at St John’s College in Santa Fe, and we met some rich kids. When I told him musician, he said in a TransAtlantic accent, “Oh, I guess someone has to.” Got my ass.
After a while, you start to feel like a clown or what Bill Hicks said - “an amusement engineer”.
Also, everyone gets envious of you when you mention that you’re a musician. Women automatically assume you’re a wild person or a deadbeat (they think I’m a scrub, but I’d rather listen to Matthew Herbert or King Crimson).
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As far as drug use goes, I have to be honest:
Drugs fucking work. It’s basically on demand creativity, gains you access to rooms/hangs you’d otherwise be excluded from, and gets audience members to show up at your early shows. I saw one dealer do Trunk Space in Phoenix and half his crowd was buying weed from him in the parking lot. I (allegedly) did the same thing with shrooms and it was like a magic key to better venues and women galore. My notch count is 74 (13 threesomes, 1 foursome) and I’d say a good 1/3 were from the magic drug-musician combo. See pic attached
However, one of my good musician friends lost his mind in coke. He’s actually a shabbos goy and took on their habits, so he’s intolerable. He got blackballed for not getting vaxxed, so they replaced him with a person with a religious exemption (also not vaxxed…). Lots of compliance tests…
Me and him, however, always had a saying:
There are musicians with drug problems and there are drug addicts with a music problem.
Booze is also liquid stage fright reducer. It works and sometimes you need to have SHOW MUST GO ON mentality. I struggle with alcohol but that’s due to genetics and trauma (which is the source of overachieving).
I did get one of the best insults in my life that summed up the low-caste musician lifestyle. I was dealing at St John’s College in Santa Fe, and we met some rich kids. When I told him musician, he said in a TransAtlantic accent, “Oh, I guess someone has to.” Got my ass.
After a while, you start to feel like a clown or what Bill Hicks said - “an amusement engineer”.
Also, everyone gets envious of you when you mention that you’re a musician. Women automatically assume you’re a wild person or a deadbeat (they think I’m a scrub, but I’d rather listen to Matthew Herbert or King Crimson).
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