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Originally Posted by derrico1  One of the indispensable players. . .
(1) develops tinnitus, stage fright, depression, or allergic reaction to second-hand smoke.
(2) is seriously hurt after a groupie encounter ends badly.
(3) realizes that the "band" is about to become a band (that is, that a casual band is threatening to become successful, and thus represent actual responsibility).
(4) joins a radical sect, and insists bandmates follow.
(5) is electrocuted on stage.
(6) is arrested.
(7) gets a 9-5 job.
(8) plays one time too many with guns, drugs, booze, fast cars, under-age girls, and/or fire.
Or,
(9) entire band is seriously screwed over by the major label contract that they had seen as the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. |
Nearly all of these apply to at least one person in a band I've been in. Sad.
The smoke allergy was me.
A guitarist I used to jam with regularly with hooked up with a girl from the audience who ended up being even crazier than most of my parade of insane ex-girlfriends. The scars are fairly faded now.
The guitarist and I from my longest-term and most successful band once electrocuted each other pretty badly during a show. He had changed his strings and had all the excess hanging off the end of his Tele. He turned around andd they trailed across me. That's when I found out that our amps disagreed as to what was ground.
Fortunately the joined-a-cult guy was from a friends band, not ours.
We all got regular jobs. We're old.
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