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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i saw Faith No More live - Mike Patton was so drunk that he fell down like 10 times over the course of the concert
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When I was young I used to think it was great that bands were so fucked up onstage. And at that time (the 1970's) it was kind of a cultural badge of honor.
But now, I have to wonder WHY they couldn't just play onstage sober for a couple of hours?
I mean WTF?
Why did bands have to be totally fucking wasted by 9 p.m. and play like shit?
It seems like the logical thing would be to go out and kick ass on stage. You're done by 11 p.m., THEN grab all the groupie whores backstage and get fucking wasted off your ass in a big drug and sex orgy.
Just seems dumb, now that I'm older, that bands did that.
Hell, I'm guilty of it too when I toured in my cover bands.
We played 7 nights a week. And usually played 4 to 5 sets a night. By the third set (around midnight/ 1 a.m.) we would be pretty fucked up.
Of course you can play at a certain level of proficiency even if you can barely count to "4". But you play 100 times better when your sober and instead of struggling to barely make it through a song....you are stretching out and pushing your limits.