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What are the four steps to rocking?

1. Leather, hair and tatoos; the uglier the better.
2. Amp/speaker combo that completely drowns your bandmates.
3. Show up 45 or more minutes late and then tell the audience to f... off if they boo.
4. Alternate between painful wall of noise and 'back to the crowd' "progressive" noodling.

4a. Laugh as people and reviewers actually take you seriously.

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Step 1.) Get wicked expensive (preferably pointy edged) bass.
Step 2.) Get 20 story amp, crank to 11 (and a half!)
Step 3.) Consume as much alcohol, drugs and contract as many diseases as possible. (you're not famous yet....)
Step 4.) Drop acid during a show, impale self with bass, die. Be famous.
 
1. The bass/guitar should be positioned so that if one were to play naked, the instrument would be covering your manly bits
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(Sock optional)

2. Legs should be spread wider than a St Mary's School Girl
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3. Smash Something
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4. Be digiataly recreated so you can rock on for eternity
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1. Buy a big stubby pick.
2. Take your pointy B.C. Rich (if you don't have one buy one!) and max the strap out to your knees.
3. Take the A, D, and G string off, leaving only the E
4. Downtune the E as far as you can go and play only that note through your 1,000 Ampeg fridges