Best high music?

[keithy_19]

What's the best music to listen to when you're under the influence?

[midwestjeff]

The same music you like when you are sober.

[Slumbag]

What's the best music to listen to when you're under the influence?

The same music you like when you are sober.

Absolutely.

Tool.

[razorboy]

What kind of high are we speaking of? You're painting with a broad stroke here.

[Patient zer0]

whacked on shrooms.
pink floyd.
fucking weird.

[landarch]

Even music you don't like sounds better when you're high. You could even discover some new stuff without meaning to. good fun.

[yojimbo7248]

Try Can

[Kublakhan61]

Try Can

Fuckin' A! Tago Mago as an entrance point? In that vein, don't forget Ash Ra Tempel or the more recent, Kinski.

I'd try:
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Satanic Majesties Second Request
Scientist - The Best Album in the World
Endless Boogie - whatever you can find, these guys make stoner rock.


Otherwise, go crazy. I was spinning some NY Philharmonic Tchaikovsky last night...

[GreatAmericanZero]

Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond


over and over and over again

[ToiletCrusher]

http://www.wayoftheleaf.net/music/311/Grassroots/images/grassrts0.gif

Great guitar throughout then the last two songs are so chill.

[yojimbo7248]

Fuckin' A! Tago Mago as an entrance point?

yep or Ege Bamyasi. can't go wrong with either.

[west milly Tom]

So cliché, but Jimi Hendrix, especially Manic Depression and Burning the Midnight Lamp.

[Kublakhan61]

So cliché, but Jimi Hendrix, especially Manic Depression and Burning the Midnight Lamp.

Nothing wrong with Hendrix. If you can ever find it (online) Box Of Gypsies is where to be. It collects both shows from both nights (12/31/69 & 1/1/70) that the Band of Gypsies played at the Fillmore East. Phenomenal takes of Machine Gun on there to send your mind reeling.

[yojimbo7248]

Nothing wrong with Hendrix. If you can ever find it (online) Box Of Gypsies is where to be. It collects both shows from both nights (12/31/69 & 1/1/70) that the Band of Gypsies played at the Fillmore East. Phenomenal takes of Machine Gun on there to send your mind reeling.

or the recording of Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. That is the best version of Voodoo Chile I have ever heard and there is an outstanding Hear My Train.

[Kublakhan61]

or the recording of Hendrix at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969. That is the best version of Voodoo Chile I have ever heard and there is an outstanding Hear My Train.

Is this an official release or a boot? I don't think I've heard this...

[Tallman388]

Nothing wrong with Hendrix. If you can ever find it (online) Box Of Gypsies is where to be. It collects both shows from both nights (12/31/69 & 1/1/70) that the Band of Gypsies played at the Fillmore East. Phenomenal takes of Machine Gun on there to send your mind reeling.

Absolutely!! No matter what I started listening to when I was stoned, I always ended up with Band of Gypsies. It always did the job from beginning to end.

[psycho]

Gojira!!!!

[west milly Tom]

Let's not forget the ever present jimi Hendrix blues album, with the best blues tune ever, "Red House". Amazing recording if you like that tune as much as me.

[yojimbo7248]

Is this an official release or a boot? I don't think I've heard this...

It's a bootleg DVD and you can see most of it on youtube. Great show. The only annoying thing is whoever filmed it put this stupid sparkler effect in the middle of the screen.

[yojimbo7248]

Here is 'fire' from that show and the video doesn't have the sparkler effect that shows up in the other songs. It also tells you in the info bit where to download the full DVD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hwjgB6XgU

[Contra]

Bone Thugs and Harmony, first two albums.

[grlNIN]

You fellas have some questionable music taste.

[MC Pee Pants]

If Im on shrooms, give me some sweet jazz. Not lame ass elevator style shit, New Orleans style jazz, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington or anything with Skerik. I dont want to hear fucking words on shrooms, i cant focus on them.

[instrument]

Subliiiiiimeeeeeeeeee

[DarkHippie]

Anything with multiple parts in the arrangement. Jam band, bluegrass, psychedelic rock, electronica, etc

The added stuff in the background pulls your psyche in multiple directions, which with the enhanced senses given from pot, is a very nice effect. This is why the Grateful Dead and other jam bands are so popular with pot heads. there is so much going on there, its easy to get lost in the music.

[EddieMoscone]

During a trip to San Diego, a friend introduced me to "Kind of Blue" when we were high (on some sweet medical stuff). We ended up listening to it 4 times back to back. It's now a top 5 favorite album of mine, high or straight.

[yojimbo7248]

If Im on shrooms, give me some sweet jazz. Not lame ass elevator style shit, New Orleans style jazz, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington or anything with Skerik. I dont want to hear fucking words on shrooms, i cant focus on them.

I'm with you. Some Ornette Coleman or some of John Coltrane's live stuff from the Village Vanguard.

[Kublakhan61]

I'm with you. Some Ornette Coleman or some of John Coltrane's live stuff from the Village Vanguard.

You guys know Rahsaan Roland Kirk? Far Fucking Out.
Also, lets not forget Albert Ayler. I finally bought the Holy Ghost Box - Ayler playing Coltranes funeral is a beautiful moment on there. (Ornette played as well - but that isn't collected in this box).

[yojimbo7248]

You guys know Rahsaan Roland Kirk? Far Fucking Out.
Also, lets not forget Albert Ayler. I finally bought the Holy Ghost Box - Ayler playing Coltranes funeral is a beautiful moment on there. (Ornette played as well - but that isn't collected in this box).


I don't know Rahsaan Roland Kirk and I know of Albert Ayler but I haven't listened to his music. what would you suggest as a starting point?

[dino_electropolis]

Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond


over and over and over again

Or "Echoes"
or "Time"
or the whole album "Animals"
or, etc, etc....i think you get the point.

[bobrobot]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PFlGiC8oL._SS500_.jpg

It's on Rhapsody on Demand if ya have that. Search under "album" & type "Sapera."

[Furtherman]

If anything Keithy, you should stay above the influence.

[Kublakhan61]

I don't know Rahsaan Roland Kirk and I know of Albert Ayler but I haven't listened to his music. what would you suggest as a starting point?

For Roland Kirk - definitely Volunteered Slavery. No question about it.

For Ayler - it's a lot of skronking horn FREE, FREE jazz but Spiritual Unity is his breakthrough album.

Here is the title track from that Roland Kirk album (he's blind and can play two horns at once - and I mean two totally separate lines on each - he can also circular breathe and go forever).

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EDIT: You might skip over where he walks into the crowd - becuase he isn't on mic then but from about 5 mins and on it's pretty amazing.

[MHasegawa]

anything, doesnt really matter

[hedges]

For Roland Kirk - definitely Volunteered Slavery. No question about it.

For Ayler - it's a lot of skronking horn FREE, FREE jazz but Spiritual Unity is his breakthrough album.

Here is the title track from that Roland Kirk album (he's blind and can play two horns at once - and I mean two totally separate lines on each - he can also circular breathe and go forever).

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EDIT: You might skip over where he walks into the crowd - becuase he isn't on mic then but from about 5 mins and on it's pretty amazing.

There's an interesting story about Kirk in Bill Graham Presents. Roland Kirk was opening for Jethro Tull. "Roland Kirk was getting paid maybe on eighth of what Jethro
Tull was getting. After the first night , Roland Kirk was in a rage the whole time. He would get the audience going by saying 'Who's this?' And then he would play someone's stlye and they would guess. And he would say, 'You funky, stupid white-ass motherfuckers!'
It could have happened to some un-nice guy. Some snot-rag. But Ian Anderson happened to be a nice guy. Roland Kirk would say 'Who's this?' And then he would play all of Jethro Tull's songs in like two minutes. Better than them. And he would say, 'That's right. How come I'm getting paid one eighth of what those guys are getting.'
Just him warming up would make you cry....There was nothing like it in that place ever (Fillmore West).'"

[Franklyn]

I'm with you. Some Ornette Coleman or some of John Coltrane's live stuff from the Village Vanguard.

Gotta go with Ornette Coleman but Sublime is pretty good also. I've been grooving on the Nappy Roots recently.

[yojimbo7248]

For Roland Kirk - definitely Volunteered Slavery. No question about it.

For Ayler - it's a lot of skronking horn FREE, FREE jazz but Spiritual Unity is his breakthrough album.

Here is the title track from that Roland Kirk album (he's blind and can play two horns at once - and I mean two totally separate lines on each - he can also circular breathe and go forever).

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EDIT: You might skip over where he walks into the crowd - becuase he isn't on mic then but from about 5 mins and on it's pretty amazing.

That was fucking amazing. thanks for posting.

[midwestjeff]

What's some of them other high songs we got?

High Time
Rocky Mountain High
Life is a Highway
Dawn's Highway
High on a Mountain Top
Higher Ground
Let's Get the Baby High
Riding High
Highway 61 Revisited
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Highway 51 Blues
High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
Standing on the Moon

[sink]

Galactic
Derrick Trucks Band
Umphrey's McGee
Phish
David Grisman
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Keller Williams
moe.
North Mississippi Allstars
Soulive
String Cheese Incident
Leftover Salmon
Funky Meters
Grateful Dead


Preferably LIVE

Check out XM Jam ON

[drjoek]

There should be a seperate sub catergory for the Grateful Dead in this thread.

The best show to listen to high would be this one
Rotterdam 5/11/72 (http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-05-11.sbd.samaritano.9357.sbeok.shnf)

[hedges]

Besides a lot of the stuff mentioned here already I would have to say Captain Beefheart Spotlight Kid/Clearspot, Big Jack Johnson,Tangerine Dream, the Dead, and The Steve Kimock Band off the top of my head. I'll be seeing North Mississippi All- Stars in about two weeks.

[sink]

There should be a seperate sub catergory for the Grateful Dead in this thread.

The best show to listen to high would be this one
Rotterdam 5/11/72 (http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-05-11.sbd.samaritano.9357.sbeok.shnf)

Europe 72 tour was the best

I'll be seeing North Mississippi All- Stars in about two weeks.


Great fuckin live show

[santino]

Tom Waits!!

[west milly Tom]

Becoming X by The Sneaker Pimps, really sweet as well.

[midwestjeff]

Tom Waits!!

Yeah, definitely "Drunk on the Moon".

But not "Way Down in a Hole".

[Kublakhan61]

There's an interesting story about Kirk in Bill Graham Presents. Roland Kirk was opening for Jethro Tull. "Roland Kirk was getting paid maybe on eighth of what Jethro Tull was getting.

Thanks for that story. I had no idea Kirk toured with Jethro Tull??!

That was fucking amazing. thanks for posting.

So glad you enjoyed it.

[RoyMunson]

it's a Tie
http://zero.co.nz/music/images/b/The%20Beastie%20Boys%20-%20The%20In%20Sound%20From%20Way%20Out!.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E47YHX3YL._AA300_.jpg

Best Tracks "Groove Holmes" "So in Love"

[bigredd]

The same music you like when you are sober.

Word. It's just that much better.

[hedges]

Thanks for that story. I had no idea Kirk toured with Jethro Tull??!.

Just the way Bill Graham put on shows at the Fillmore West, and the lineups he would get together, makes me think this Kirk/Tull show was a one-night deal instead of a tour package.

[scottinnj]

What's the best music to listen to when you're under the influence?

Mars Volta. It's like they wrote while baked on a high made from Turkish hash wrapped in Jamaican weed.


That's high.

[Ricky24]

During a trip to San Diego, a friend introduced me to "Kind of Blue" when we were high (on some sweet medical stuff). We ended up listening to it 4 times back to back. It's now a top 5 favorite album of mine, high or straight.

KIND OF BLUE!!!
Pick an instrument and just follow it the entire album!!!
greatest album ever recorded

[Ithinksno]

I think the best thing to listen to in that frame of mind is O & A replay on your XM 202 --
No, wait, gotta focus man, focus

No one has mentioned Rusted Root yet. Very good accoutrement to that mindframe

[MC Pee Pants]

For Roland Kirk - definitely Volunteered Slavery. No question about it.

For Ayler - it's a lot of skronking horn FREE, FREE jazz but Spiritual Unity is his breakthrough album.

Here is the title track from that Roland Kirk album (he's blind and can play two horns at once - and I mean two totally separate lines on each - he can also circular breathe and go forever).

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EDIT: You might skip over where he walks into the crowd - becuase he isn't on mic then but from about 5 mins and on it's pretty amazing.

God fucking bless you sir for posting this.

[keithy_19]

If anything Keithy, you should stay above the influence.

I've lost that battle sir. I thought the same for some time. But let me tell you, it sure helpes me appreciate shit I normaly don't. And I can honestly say that I'm better for it.

[keithy_19]

God fucking bless you sir for posting this.

qft

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I'll admit I didn't read anyone's responses but I WILL admit:

Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd made me want to explore the world around me. BTW-- The Cloisters are a GREAT place to get high.

Dark Side of The Moon-- just freaked me out and I wound up spending 5 hours wondering if an "incident" happened to me.

One of the last times I was high: 1992 U2 show at Yankee Stadium. It was calming and the world was in perspective. PERFECTION.

That's not my usual response with pot so I gave it up.