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Originally Posted by timtimtim
I think that there music is mediocre.
however there are thousands of bands out there that would love to have the career that they do even if they made no money.
$1000 a day is ridiculous for a bus. My ex-band went on tour with another band and all 6 of us were in a car and trailer. It might have been smelly but it worked.
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Playing devil's advocate here, I haven't heard the band as they looked kind of pre-fab to me with all the My Space ads and such, so I just avoid that type of Spin shit.
Nonetheless, for a band with a contract and stuff, $1000 a day for a bus may not be as bad as that sounds on the surface. We are talking about the cost of gas and a driver being included here. Also, if they choose to sleep in the bus rather than expect hotel rooms, then they are going to save another big chunk of money for behaving less "rock star".
Since the fact they are a two piece keeps coming up as an advantage, lets at least be fair enough to admit there are pros
and cons. If they have to drive from Denver to Santa Fe in one night, then a van begins to look pretty dodgy as they only have two people to do the driving. Of course they can hire someone to drive for them, but in a van loaded with equipment they can't necessarily sleep while they're moving.
Of course, anyone can suffer through the indignities of the road for a jaunt down one of the coasts or maybe even cross country once a year or so. However, if a band has decided that they really are going to do that shit for a living without a job at Kinko's or wherever waiting for them back at home, then it really isn't surprising if they choose to work a few comforts into it so that when they get up onto stage they aren't already exhausted and hating the whole thing. I just don't buy that anyone is so damn indie or whatever the fuck that they continue to draw inspiration from sleeping with their hairy bandmates in their lap year after year.
So challenging a musician because their music sucks is one thing, and perfectly reasonable in my book. But attacking them for being "rock stars" when some NPR reporter asks them about their job and they respond that it is sort of a job at that, I don't really get. Sure if they were bragging about burning up all this money that they don't need to, and claiming they had lots left over to spend on hookers and cocaine, that would be being "rock stars". Instead they seem to be saying that being an opening act on a big bill is not a rock star experience at all.