I WAS THINKING OF RULES WHICH GOVERNED OUR BEHAVIOR AS MARIJUANA USERS AND SCORERS.
THERE WAS TO BE NO FREAKING OUT ON PEOPLE OR ON THE POLICE. OLDER SMOKERS CONVINCED US THAT ANY BAD OR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR WOULD BE A SOURCE OF UNWANTED ATTENTION BY AUTHORITIES. AS MARIJUANA AND HASH CONSUMERS ANY OF US COULD EASILY BE ARRESTED AND JAILED. WE WERE NOT TO DRIVE LOUD OR DILAPITATED VEHICLES TO ANY PLACE WHERE WE MIGHT SCORE MAJIJUANA OR MOSTLY HASH THEN, DRESSING INCONSPICOUSLY AND MOST OF ALL NOT CONFLICTING WITH POLICE.
This reminded me of `` Rock Rules``, a series of guidelines which were designed to keep music dynamic interesting and moving. I will write about this subject after I read my notebook from 1990 or so. Many of the rules developed from eliminating the tendancies which undisciplined musicians and under rehearsed musicians fell under the influence of while playing live, writing or jamming on old tunes or working out new compositions.
Keeping the beat and keeping the speed up and not digressing and failing to return to the root progression and composing leads relavent to the melody and the lyrics just to start with.
I have to write something else now which I will post as the rules of Behavior in the Marijuana Culture might have been useful to Musicians as well. Perhaps it would have kept some of the Rowdiest out of trouble.








