Re: [Harp-L] band drinking, minimal harp content

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't play better drunk, but I do play better after drinking. I have almost always had something to drink when I play, but not to excess.  I  usually have one before starting, then sip one each set. I don't think 3-4 drinks in a span of 3-4 hours is too much. I feel I am less inhibited on solos if I have a couple of drinks. I struggle with "performance anxiety" even after all these times in front of people. Alcohol tones that down.   If I do drink too much, and I have at parties,etc.  my playing is really ragged.   Any band I have ever played in has had members who drank at least a small amount, but I can't imagine anyone keeping a band member who was regularly wasted.

Steve Webb in Minn., where the band I was in no longer exists and I have hardly played harp in the past six months.


---- "John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> This all reminds of a bass player i knew many years ago, who would  
> hit it pretty hard when he played--alcohol among other things.  Then  
> he got his own band. As a band leader his standards apparently became  
> somewhat more elevated.  I hadn't seen him for a while. One day, i  
> ran into him and he started telling about his new band. He proudly  
> informed me, in his gruff gravelly voice, that ever since he formed  
> his own band, "I ain't never fell off the stage and i ain't never  
> been late for a gig!"
> 
> i didn't ask him if he or the other members of the band were allowed  
> to drink, though, and i never actually saw him perform with his own  
> band either.  This had to me over 25 years ago, but his comment was  
> pretty memorable.
> 
> JP
> 
> 
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