10 Points for BEST ANSWER!How to psychedelic drugs affect songwriting? Please give details.?

Answer 1

lol.....love, from what i know of psychedelic effects, i would speculate that mild use may be possibly helpful in the creativity of song material....but i could not imagine that heavy tripping would be of any benefit in the actual writing of any material...since the ability to concentrate would be drastically reduced to the point of following a thought pattern of completion would be next to impossible......unless the event was recorded and taped and transcribed later as a tool of idea generation,

the military did extensive testing on psychedelic drug affects on soldiers only to find there was no possible way to incorporate it usefully as a source of psyche improving or enhancing benefit...

although i am certain that there are many songs that came from the 60's-70's that were the accomplishments of drug induced writings i could only venture, imagine the brilliance that could have come from a sober and unihibited mental faculty to create more awesome music....

many of the artists from that era were brilliant, yet drug related issues either prematurely ended their careers due to overdose or unreliability.....sadly more truthful than any benefit from drug inspired music writing..........

Answer 2

people who can write songs in the first place and then take psychedelic drugs can probably write psychedelic songs but someone who can't write decent songs beforehand won't be able to do any better afterward.

as for the psychedelic experience of drugs itself, its over rated. I smoked a lot of weed and did LSD and magic mushrooms many times in the 70's and 80's. the most pschedelic thing i experienced was buildings shimmereing in the heat waves that were more obvious to me. the biggest effect of drugs is losing a sense of your responsibilities and feeling free. then falling asdleep just as its getting good

you see more vibrant color and you imagine things are more surreal than they are, but to an outsider you make no sense. just watch a cheech and chong movie

you will not get the insight to write anything like the poignant poetry of pink floyd's dark side of the moon or the wall .

you have to be straight to be a coherent writer. a fertile imagination will serve you better than the drugs. the most they do is free you of inhibitions but that can be dangerous.

you won't write a song while you are stoned, thats sounds while you listen to it sober, anything like you thought it did when you were high.

unless as I said you are a musical and poetic genius in which case you DON'T NEED the drugs anyway.

Answer 3

1) Can create halucinations that the songwriter can incorporate into their lyrics, which makes for some pretty interesting imagery.

2) Songwriters under the influence can also go the other way and begin to look at simple things a lot more creatively, leading up to songs structered around simple words or thoughts.

Answer 4

Psychedelic drugs affect songwriting because they generally make your thoughts much more abstract and creative. You're not as logical when you're high, which means you're more likely to have more far-out ideas, that may or may not make sense.

Answer 5

They are known to inspire songwriters to write songs on what the writers have experianced in their drugtrips such as the beatles. And in one rare councidence the 1 hit wonder in a gadavida was writen by a writer so high he couldn't pronounce in the garden of eiden correctly!

Answer 6

Psychedelics promote free-associative states, which can help in the creative stage of songwriting by altering associations that might be made otherwise.

Answer 7

drugs give you an out of body experience. sometimes whe an artist is trying to write a song he/she thinks too hard and comes up with nothing. however when on any type of drug they arent thinking normally therefore they are somewhat writing from a different perspective. kind of like viewing the world at a different angle

Answer 8

well, they help as far as getting ideals, but when you write while youre on them youll notice that sometimes you get distracted by little things and they dont really make sense when you read them when youre not high, also, the rhythm is better cause your mind, even though on the abstract level actually follows a pattern so youll want to rhyme more..enjoy

Answer 9

The smallest things seems so big.
You may be writing about one thing and it will seem like another... it's crazy.
It's like steriods of the mind..

Answer 10

they are never as good the next day inless your sid barett