Marijuana: gateway drug to music appreication

[Enrique]

in some more advanced civilizations, music appreciation teachers will direct their students to smoke marijuana before listening to musical pieces.

[Scuba]

1. Happening now.

[hifiguy]

2. Back in the 1970s I found that I could concentrate

on music far more intensely after a little of the herb. It even allowed me to figure out complex bass parts I was trying to learn because I was able to mentally separate individual instruments more effectively than when straight.

[mitchtv]

3. the first time I heard

Russian Easter Overture. It was great. very good advice

[Enrique]

4. you mean the first time you heard it

or the first time you really heard it.

[mitchtv]

5. both

it's been a favorite ever since ( I was a teen)

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. First time I heard the Emperor Concerto.....

and the first time I watched people play a game of GO..
I remember both incidences quite clearly decades later.

[woofless]

6. Conversely, I can remember getting wasted on hash

in the barracks in Turkey and coming to the conclusion that "Iron Man" was art. Hell at that point WALKING was art.

Woof

[kentauros]

8. I'd fail the class.

I simply cannot smoke, no matter what the substance (closes up my airways immediately.)

I think my empathetic and emotional responses are strong enough (or open enough) not to have to resort to substances other than whatever my body can produce on its own

[DFW]

9. Second that

Lincoln once said that a cigarette was a stinking weed with fire on one end and a fool on the other.

If you smoke anything, fine with me. I don't want or need it. I play, and listen to plenty of music
without anything burning except my concentration.

This is definitely a "whatever floats your boat" type of issue.

[intaglio]

10. For those who cannot smoke there are other alternatives

It can be dissolved in alcohol or a fats like chocolate. There also vaporisers, which I just posted about. Obviously if THC is illegal where you live such methods should not be used.

[kentauros]

11. I can also put myself into a pretty deep meditative state

without the added chemicals. Often music does that to me anyway

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. 1974. Germany. Went to a friend's apt and smoked some hash. Listened to Nazareth albums for HOURS.

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The next day, I went to the PX, found & bought three Nazareth albums.
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Took 'em home and listened to 'em straight.
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Geez... did those guys SUCK!!!!
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Great hash, though.
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True story.
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