Best drugs + music experience (you can remember)

Actually, that meditation system cd sounds like really mellow Spacemen/E.A.R.

Mudhoney "Superfuzz & Bigmuff" on mushrooms
Earth 2 on mushrooms
Monster Magnet "Tab" on acid

Obviously this all took place quite some time ago.

And more surprisingly, mushrooms + Prince, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic was pretty inspiring. Especially his cover of "Everyday Is a Winding Road" with Larry Graham on the backing vocals.

Yo Fiestas! Where's the party at?!!

So closed minded.

XTRMNTR on pills is pretty nice.

i only drink and cigarette'it, now. that does me fine

Oh, and I remember doing whippets to the first Warp Records comp back in college, with LFO, Nightmares On Wax's "Aftermath" and the like. Short thrills, but VERY memorable.

lsd and aikea guinea (cocteaus) on new year's eve 1991 after being at some crap kiddie goth club in the suburbs, back home and in bed, at one bit it sounded like liz's vocal cords turned into silk ribbons and spilled all over my face

peaking on LSD + weed + master musicians of jajouka OH FUCK I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS instant train to PARANOIAVILLE

Pet Shop Boys on ecstacy, Glastonbury 2000.

Eat Static on speed and acid, Leicester 1995.

mmm.

acid + speed, Phish's 8 hour New Year's Eve set, 1999, in southern Florida. Weather was perfect, every single person you saw was completely fcuked up, and the music was great.

That happened to me 2 or 3 times when I was about 8 years old, minus the drugs. Just watching the tv, in some state between asleep and awake, and my POV would rise to the ceiling and wander around, looking down. Awesome, but for some reason I never wanted to tell friends or family about it.

I had to find that song.

And this was Before Teh Internets, so finding it was not going to be easy, since all I remembered was the chorus and that it was beyond gorgeous and filled your body with pure oceanic joy and expressed in chords the lovestalgia I felt for everyone I was about to lose that Senior Week.

And I wouldn't have, except that I happened to put on Screamadelica a few days later, which was not unusual, since I had been listening to it at least once a week that spring. And oh yeah, heh heh, whaddya know, there's that song. The one I thought I'd never heard before. "Come Together." Drugs do funny things to your head.

The best drugs + musical experience I EVER had was definitely Butthole Surfers live on 2 hits of white blotter and smoking pot.

Bootsy Collins "Player of The Year" sounds pretty neat on Vicodin right now. Not the best or anything. Like a moist, stretchy cartoon. This would've been cool on acid.

X + Acid = Candyflip at Primal Scream (Screamadelica) Saturday Night March 7, 1992. Words can’t describe this night.

Mushrooms + (meeting) Timothy Leary at E.A.R. aka Sonic Boom at the Troubador on Santa Monica Blvd. Told myself that if I don’t talk with him I will HATE myself for the rest of my life. So I did for at least 15 minutes…

And…

god! how do you even remember that?

Took too many mushrooms, felt incredibly fucking sick (physically), put on Past Masters Vol. 1 (Day Tripper, specifically) in an attempt to make myself feel better, felt oddly transported to the early 60s -- everything looked black and white somehow, it sounded completely fresh, like nothing I had ever heard -- sang and danced around like a fool, playing air tambourine, generally freaking out, etc., then went outside and puked my guts out, and felt great for the rest of the day.

Mushrooms + beautiful, empty beach + comfy beach chair + Kid A on a boombox = heaven on Earth.

just remember when slacker's mix of "roaches" came on, the whole fucking place felt like it was going to explode from all the tension and energy

Oddly enough, the most intense musical experience I ever had was when I drove through a white-out snowstorm listening to Vibrant Forms by Fluxion. I went into a deep trance state and lost track of time. 30 minutes on the road felt like three hours. I have synesthesia and I remember time slowing down and visually moving deeper and deeper into the texture and rhythm of the music. It was like looking at music with a lupe, and then being able to double the magnification and finding even more detail.

It sounds stupid when I type it on ILM, but it was one of the most mind blowing musical experiences I have ever had. I was completely sober and had been for months. I easily competes with any musical experience I have had on acid.

I think Byron Gysin must have had a similar experience when he went into a trance state while riding a bus down a tree-lined path at exactly the right speed. That was the inspiration for his Dream Machine. His trance came from light patterns coming through the trees. Mine came from the sensory deprivation of the heavy snowstorm. I would take that experience over music on drugs any day of the week.

1. LSD + Esctasy + Spectrum + a very special person + sex
2. DMT + Sonic Boom noodling on a keyboard, living room
3. Heroin + Spiritualized live show

That would be a few tablespoons worth of mace, a spice similar to nutmeg (which will do the job also); they come from the same tree. It appears to affect people differently - literal hallucinations are rare, while some folks (like a friend of mine) experience nothing at all except heartburn. For me, it used to be a pot substitute, with all the same effects. Not as immediately gratifying (takes 4-5 hours for the effects to creep up) but lasts an insanely long time, like up to 24-30 hours.

Morning Glory seeds? Awful, mostly! Tried 'em twice as a teen (unforgettably foul taste): cramps, nausea/vomiting. Feeling tired and yet hyper simultaneously. All music sounded creepy and unpleasant, except, strangely, Cecil Taylor.

Don't do drugs, kids!

1. LSD + Esctasy + Spectrum + a very special person + sex
2. DMT + Sonic Boom noodling on a keyboard, living room
3. Heroin + Spiritualized live show

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worst exp.- smoked formaldahyde (sp?) and was made to listen to Rusted Roots first album...it was hell in slow, stifling motion. that first song, drum trip or something like that, made me wish i was sleeping...

worst: an acid tab at big day out in 94 or 95, nick cave in particular. nearly ended up going to hospital.