What would You call "Your doping" for bass playing?

[nilorius]

What would You call "Your doping" for bass playing? Mine - some gin+tonic or good whiskey, cognac! Yours........?

[Geek99]

Free time ? That’s a luxury 

 

 

[nilorius]

1 minute ago, Geek99 said:

Free time ? That’s a luxury 

 

 

Anytime.....anyplace.

[lozkerr]

None. I never touch booze before or during a rehearsal or gig. Happy to have a few small sherries afterwards, though.

[jazzyvee]

None, don't drink alcohol at all and don't like gigging on a full tummy either.  So i guess it's just the natural adrenaline that starts pumping before a gig.

[Steve Browning]

A lime and soda for me. Might have a small bottle of beer if it's in the dressing room fridge.

[Dad3353]

No need for any artifices here; I'm just glad to still be breathing and able to play. S'not true of every day, though. 

[chris_b]

Usually water (no ice), or maybe a ginger beer.

[nilorius]

4 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

No need for any artifices here; I'm just glad to still be breathing and able to play. S'not true of every day, though. 

Don't worry, not wrong only they who doesn't do anything at all !!!

[BigRedX]

Playing music I love.

 

Best high ever.

[lidl e]

A good drummer. And weed.

[FinnDave]

Most of the few gigs I play these days are in pubs, and we often get offered free drinks, which if I am not driving I will happily accept.

[miles'tone]

A very good night's sleep the night before is all I need these days.

Same goes for everyday actually 😄

[msb]

Might have a beer when I get home after the gig. Not a drug user.

 

I really hadn’t planned to become so moderate. Not really sure just how it happened. I’m ok with it.

[Bassassin]

I learned a loooong time ago that any marginally noticeable quantity of alcohol or drugs in my system trigger an immediate disconnect between brain & hands, and I just play absolute rubbish. Pint of water by the bottom of the mic stand, & that's it.

[Jackroadkill]

Water here, too.  Maybe Lucozade if I'm feeling especially louche.

[LowB_FTW]

A nice cup of tea.

If I'm feeling particularly good that day I may have a biscuit or two for dunking as well.

 

Mark

[tauzero]

Orange juice and soda, maybe a pint of ale later and possibly a second while taking down. I used to drink a bit more when Mrs Zero was driving us home but I find I no longer have the urge. Probably a scotch or two when I get home, doing the post-gig wind down (gigs are sufficiently infrequent that I still do that).

[Guest]

Full fat coke, no ice. 

 

I like the grog but as I get older even moderate amounts give me awful headaches so I'm off it for good. It's really annoying, because our regular rehearsal venue is a bar at a football club and we get free booze in exchange for a free gig from us ince a year. They open the bar, lock us in and come back three hours later, by which time our rhythm guitarist is so blasted he has to leave his car there. Meanwhile I might sup a can or two of coke, or perhaps Schwepes lemonade.

[Rayman]

Back in the day, as the front man mostly, then later bass and vocals, I was pretty silly. Let's just leave that there. 

 

Now, like Bassassin, I've worked out that playing well live does not equate to anything more than water during the gig, and if I'm not driving, a couple of whisky after.

[Lozz196]

Been dry for nearly 16 years now, back in the drinking years it didn`t really matter what it was as long as it would achieve its aim, which was getting me drunk.

[Reggaebass]

Haven’t touched alcohol for nearly 10 years now ,but when I did it definitely didn’t work well with playing, I’d forget the notes ,be out of time and generally just sound dreadful.. not much different to now really 😁

[Cat Burrito]

Used to be a beer. These days it's just practice! 

[Bassman1974]

I gave up alcohol many years ago, and have only started gigging the last year or so. It's always iced water for me. I like to be hydrated when I'm jumping around and enjoying playing. Afterwards, it's just tea.

[Leonard Smalls]

I think that if you're playing rock'n'roll you have to make sure you're both rocking and rolling... So I have two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.