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GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
edited July 2008 in The Porch
How does he do it? I'm not the worlds biggest drinker but I know the difference between a wine buzz and any other buzz. I like wine, but it basically makes me tired, especially a whole bottle of red. Yet this guy is out there with crazy energy. Oh I don't get it, who cares...
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    libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I don't get it either..lol..I have a couple glasses and Im drowsy as hell. :D
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    Inhiding230Inhiding230 Posts: 362
    I guess it has a different effect on everyone. It has the same effect on me as it does with Ed, I have lots of energy and could stay up all night when I drink wine. Although I don't like red wine, I only drink whites.

    How much wine do you think he actually drinks during a show?
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    vedderfan10vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    One of his wine bottles is filled with gatorade and water...and he also drinks tea and water while he's drinking wine...He knows what he's doing...
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    Inhiding230Inhiding230 Posts: 362
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    One of his wine bottles is filled with gatorade and water...and he also drinks tea and water while he's drinking wine...He knows what he's doing...

    I wondered because he always seems like he is totally together, maybe a little buzzed but certainly not as wasted as he should be if he drank multiple bottles of wine.
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    red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    Gmoney wrote:
    How does he do it? I'm not the worlds biggest drinker but I know the difference between a wine buzz and any other buzz. I like wine, but it basically makes me tired, especially a whole bottle of red. Yet this guy is out there with crazy energy. Oh I don't get it, who cares...
    It also depends on the persons tolerance level. For Alcohol Ed could have a pretty high tolerance. The more you drink over time the more your body can take in before the effects kick in. Basically, someone who just started drinking could be puking after lets say 3 beers (It used to happen to me when drinking one after the other). My tolerence has increased quite a bit over the years, though binge drinking I do realize is very unhealthy.
    The bottle of wine Ed drinks is probably equivalent to 5 glasses of wine assuming the glass was completely full. I'm pretty sure he does have water up there too, and over a span of a 2-2.5 hr show He drinks it pretty slowly between songs.
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    cookiescookies Posts: 113
    LOL LOL the things we wonder about are to funny :)
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    TangerineTangerine Posts: 880
    Ed's definitely not always drinking wine on stage. When he held up the bottle at Mansfield II it was pretty clear it wasn't wine in the bottle (the liquid was actually pretty clear, so I think it was gatorade or very watered down wine). Although IMO he got on stage that night with a good buzz going already and I'm pretty sure he threw up on the side stage about the 3rd song or so in after all the jumping around so I'm sure it does take it's toll on him, but he's definitely not drinking another bottle or two during the show.

    I'm a big wine drinker and I couldn't see myself downing a bottle + and being able to perform as well as Ed does. Someone did make a point that your tolerance level increases the more you drink however if Ed drank as much as we think he does every night during the tour he'd be a raging alcoholic in which case his tolerance would actually begin to decrease.
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    westsidepiewestsidepie Posts: 627
    Tangerine wrote:
    Ed's definitely not always drinking wine on stage. When he held up the bottle at Mansfield II it was pretty clear it wasn't wine in the bottle (the liquid was actually pretty clear, so I think it was gatorade or very watered down wine). Although IMO he got on stage that night with a good buzz going already and I'm pretty sure he threw up on the side stage about the 3rd song or so in after all the jumping around so I'm sure it does take it's toll on him, but he's definitely not drinking another bottle or two during the show.

    I'm a big wine drinker and I couldn't see myself downing a bottle + and being able to perform as well as Ed does. Someone did make a point that your tolerance level increases the more you drink however if Ed drank as much as we think he does every night during the tour he'd be a raging alcoholic in which case his tolerance would actually begin to decrease.

    It is not just building up a tolerance to alcohol that allows one person's poison to become another's nectar, although that does play a role. For example, scientific studies have definitely proven that the effects of alcohol for women are stronger than for men. It is not just the difference in body mass. Women actually metabolize alcohol differently than men metabolize it. Also, why does one person become an alcoholic and another not, even though they drink the same amount of liquor? Individual chemistry determines a lot. I can drink hard liquor like juice. The most alcohol I ever consumed was when I was 19, I had 24 tequila sunrises as part of a drinking contest. And I am not an alcoholic, because that was more than twenty years ago. I haven't drunk hard liquor for at least twenty years, because I just don't enjoy it. However, to this day, I cannot drink two glasses of red wine without feeling like I need to go to bed.
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    Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Ed definitely has a high tolerance

    i think it's more to help loosen up his vocal chords than to get smashed.
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    westsidepiewestsidepie Posts: 627
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Ed definitely has a high tolerance

    i think it's more to help loosen up his vocal chords than to get smashed.

    I think this is probably true. The more relaxed the vocal cords, the less damage you will do to them. This is why a lot of performers take beta blockers, to help keep them relaxed. The problem with alcohol for this purpose it also deadens you to any damage you might be doing by straining, because you cannot feel the pain as intensely.
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    FatalFatal Posts: 821
    I'm sure that i read somewhere that the wine thing was a bit of an act...oh im sure he drinks "some" wine on stage during a show, but not nearly as much as he may lead on.

    Then again, i never saw any wine at all during his 2 Vancouver solo shows...did he break out the wine bottle during any of the other solo gigs?
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    SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,880
    I bet he drinks all of it. I just finished college and the amount he drinks doesn't impress me all that much lol. Like seriously, its very doable.
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    LostdoggieLostdoggie Posts: 257
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I bet he drinks all of it. I just finished college and the amount he drinks doesn't impress me all that much lol. Like seriously, its very doable.


    I was thinking the same thing...
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    TangerineTangerine Posts: 880
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I bet he drinks all of it. I just finished college and the amount he drinks doesn't impress me all that much lol. Like seriously, its very doable.

    Yeah you just finished college so you're what 23, 24 at most? Fast forward 10-20 years and lets see if you say the same thing. ;) I could drink a hell of a lot more in my late teens/early 20s than I can now.
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    Yellow BedwetterYellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    seren327 wrote:
    I wondered because he always seems like he is totally together, maybe a little buzzed but certainly not as wasted as he should be if he drank multiple bottles of wine.

    certainly never as wasted as the lead singer of the Counting Crows
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    SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,880
    Tangerine wrote:
    Yeah you just finished college so you're what 23, 24 at most? Fast forward 10-20 years and lets see if you say the same thing. ;) I could drink a hell of a lot more in my late teens/early 20s than I can now.

    I'm 22 and yes my tolerance is going down year by year. And my liver is grateful for that.
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    South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,708
    I think his special wine contains Guarana and Taurine :)
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    TangerineTangerine Posts: 880
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    I'm 22 and yes my tolerance is going down year by year. And my liver is grateful for that.

    If you're drinking just as much as before and your tolerance is weakening that's not a good thing!
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    PJammer4lifePJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,596
    If you add a little weed and some wine then your sense of hearing really is heightened..when I play guitar and have this combo I really am in a zone. Wine acts as a kind of multiplier aid at times.
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    MilestoneMilestone Posts: 1,117
    Vedderfan10 wrote:
    One of his wine bottles is filled with gatorade and water...and he also drinks tea and water while he's drinking wine...He knows what he's doing...


    He's a real chemist.
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    MilestoneMilestone Posts: 1,117
    Yellow Bedwetter wrote:
    certainly never as wasted as the lead singer of the Counting Crows


    If you had said "The Black Crowes", I might have agreed with you.
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