100 Weirdest Things in Alt-Rock: Part 4

06/21/23 • 29 min

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From the outside, being in a famous touring rock band seems like a glamourous thing...you travel the world, playing for thousands of adoring fans night after night with your gang of buddies...

Oh, the gloriousness of it all...the private jets!...the media exposure!...the excitement!...the perks!...the sites!...the sex!...the drugs!...your every whim catered to by people whose job is to, well, cater to your every whim...

And that really is the reality–for maybe the top 1/10 of one per cent of groups in the world...for other 99.9%, going on the road is a trying ordeal that can get pretty uncomfortable real fast...

I mean, think about it...for the entire time you’re on tour, you’re living in a bubble, going where you’re told to go, doing what you’re told to do and living out of suitcases for months on end...

You can wake up in the van or the bus one morning after the gig and quite literally have no idea what country you’re in, let alone what city...

Then there’s the bad food, the interviews with the same stupid questions all the time, annoying fans, the late nights, too much alcohol, too many drugs and not enough sleep...

The only thing that makes it all worthwhile is the fact you get to play every night...but even that gets old after a while...all you want to do is go home, do the laundry and finally be left alone for a while...

With that kind of working environment, life on the road can get pretty weird...how weird?...let us count the ways...

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From the outside, being in a famous touring rock band seems like a glamourous thing...you travel the world, playing for thousands of adoring fans night after night with your gang of buddies...

And that really is the reality–for maybe the top 1/10 of one per cent of groups in the world...for other 99.9%, going on the road is a trying ordeal that can get pretty uncomfortable real fast...

You can wake up in the van or the bus one morning after the gig and quite literally have no idea what country you’re in, let alone what city...

Then there’s the bad food, the interviews with the same stupid questions all the time, annoying fans, the late nights, too much alcohol, too many drugs and not enough sleep...

With that kind of working environment, life on the road can get pretty weird...how weird?...let us count the ways...

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100 Weirdest Things in Alt-Rock: Part 5

Some things just go together naturally...

A nice sauterne is a fine companion to foie gras that is served with fruit compote...or, if that’s too rich, strawberry jam works well in a sandwich with peanut butter...

And, as even the most casual observer knows that rock music often comes with side order of drugs...

In case you haven’t noticed, rock and drugs often have some kind of symbiotic relationship...

I mean, the self-appointed moralists who want to sanitize life for the rest of us kinda have a point...the world of rock’n’roll is filled with stories of druggy excess and the kind of misery only drugs can offer...

A lot of lives have been ruined or ended by that dangerous combination of rock music and drugs...and more often than not, things can get really weird...really weird...

I have ten stories where rock and drugs have intersected with very strange results...

It’s part five of “100 weird things about new rock”...

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