Tommy the Hat
511 posts
Dec 19, 2011
8:48 AM
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After yesterday I have to give credit to those who can play drunk. I'm not endorsing it, I'm just sayin'
After my heart attack I stopped drinking. Not that I was always drinking but I never worried too much about it when I did. As long as I wasn't driving. Now I just have a couple of beers and call it quits.
Yesterday I went out and bought a 4 pack of 12 oz brews. These were high powered 11% alcohol brewskies! I ate something and had a beer. Ate some more and had another. I decided to grab my harp and start playing "Help Me." Then I had another beer. Then I got out the camera and began to record. Then I realized I couldn't play! Some things I could and even got out at least one good homegrown lick; but what surrounded the good was a lot of bad.
I kept adding extra beats to the bar and would then miss my cue for the next verse of vocals. (oh yea...I was singing too!) Then I kept screwing up the first line of the second verse " I may have to wash." I kept saying "you have to wash." Then I couldn't end the second solo....that made me miss the last verse. Then the track was ending before I was finished playing...lol. So I had the last beer!
It got worse. I broke the mouse on my wife's computer. I kept playing and it kept getting worse. I no longer was able to play the triplets. Bad enough I don't play them well as it is. I tried to play them slower and they all but disappeared as they became a slur. More of a bad chord! I had finished the beer probably close to an hour already but kept getting more drunk for some reason!
My wife came home from work around 4:00 and found me layed out on the bathroom floor in my basement. She made sure I was ok and I told her to leave me there. Next thing I knew she was waking me up on the floor near the couch (still in the basement) telling my my alarm went off to take my meds. This was at 9:00 pm!
The harp was tough....and bad. I found it funny. Well, until I rethought it today.
Timing the bars and progression in the song was lost.
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Last Edited by on Dec 19, 2011 8:48 AM
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NiteCrawler .
151 posts
Dec 19, 2011
10:13 AM
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Geeze,No offense but have you ever considered O,douls.Did you have a breakfast or a lunch before poppin the brewskies? Did somebody possibly slip you a mickey?What did honey say about the broken mouse?Anyway a least you picked the right tune tune to play,Help Me!
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Buzadero
913 posts
Dec 19, 2011
11:24 AM
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It sounds like you were simply out of practice. Skills get rusty. I think you should get back on the horse.
Fortune favors the bold, God hates a coward, and all that...
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~Buzadero
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Tommy the Hat
512 posts
Dec 19, 2011
11:29 AM
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I need to practice playing drunk!!!
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Buzadero
914 posts
Dec 19, 2011
11:34 AM
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"I need to practice playing drunk!!!"
Precisely. That's the spirit.
Do you need a mentor or support coach?
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~Buzadero
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Tommy the Hat
513 posts
Dec 19, 2011
11:44 AM
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And to think my drink of choice used to be Bacardi 151!
I have been real busy lately and haven't had time to practice much since last month. Actually since I recorded my first time using a "G" harp and posted about it here. I'm going to blame yesterday's bad playing on "being out of practice on the harp." How about that? lol.
Really a strange day. Today? Really a bad day. But I think playing while drinking takes a certain amount of experience and done right may add a little "extra" (at times) to a number. But you straddle a line that is easy to cross and if you cross it, it's all down hill after that. The distance between buzzed and wasted is shorter that it appears and you slip into it before you know it. Very deceptive.
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Tommy
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LittleBubba
136 posts
Dec 19, 2011
12:16 PM
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There's a reason they call some of it "12 BAR blues", lol!
I know that if I drink too much my tongueing gets sluggish for the faster stuff; double tongues are bad enough and triple tongues are absolutely out of the question (and I triple tongue with the TB "taketa" method!).
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walterharp
790 posts
Dec 19, 2011
3:24 PM
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old topic
http://www.modernbluesharmonica.com/board/board_topic/5560960/2088736.htm
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whiskey&harmonicas
11 posts
Dec 20, 2011
9:32 AM
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Better yet, change the reeds while being stone drunk!
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sorin
343 posts
Dec 20, 2011
3:46 PM
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Tommy, thanks for the entertainment , this was funny. Is any chance to upload a video of this on YouTube ? :-p
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Tommy the Hat
517 posts
Dec 20, 2011
3:56 PM
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Sorin, thanks for seeing the humor! Actually the backing track I played to was yours....thanks again. lol
The video is on my Youtube page (the link at the bottom of my posts). Yes, I'm shameless!
Hey, ya gotta take the good with the bad...I've done worse in my life.
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