Deep Matter – Drink & Suck

Has this ever happened to you? You show up to band rehearsal excited to play and ready to get some work done on your new stuff. You walk into the room and see your bandmate holding a six pack and overflowing pipe and all your hopes and dreams sink to the floor. It’s 7pm on a Tuesday and he’s halfway to Shitsville. For the next 3 hours you watch him slowly and steadily decline into a state of incoherence, going off on random tangents and rambling off terrible ideas on how to rearrange your songs that he won’t even remember tomorrow. 

It’s fun to imagine that we sound like better musicians when we’re loaded. Seeing some of the most successful performers get ripped and play incredible shows might be part of the problem. If they’re doing it, why can’t you? The issue here is that you’re not Slash. You’re not Kurt Cobain or Eric Clapton. And even if you were, how many rockumentaries do you have to watch to know how this is gonna go down? 

No one else thinks you sound better when you play drunk except you. So, do you and your bandmates a favor and wait til after rehearsal.

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