I know that you’re obviously doing very well in your life if you can afford to stay at a hotel this nice, and I congratulate you. When the show’s over, you’ll go upstairs to your luxury suite and get in bed next to your hot girlfriend, then wake up tomorrow and do whatever the fuck you want. In a couple days, you’ll jet back to your mansion and go back to making tons and tons of money. Good for you.
When the show’s over for me, on the other hand, I have to pack up all my equipment, squeeze into a pickup with three other guys and drive two hours back to an apartment in the ghetto (that I can barely afford), pick the meat off of a chicken carcass, and then go to bed, alone. You see, I sacrificed everything I had in order to devote my life to music. I left my 6-figure job, my house, my friends, my family, everything.
Being able to rock out on stage once or twice a week with my band is one of the few luxuries I have left. So, you understand why I’m a little reluctant to share it with you.
If, on the other hand, you had been willing to share a little bit of your wealth with me and the band, like by maybe, I don’t know, tipping, that might change my mind.
You are so right young man love your attitude keep up the good work and don’t pay attention to ingnorant people
So, if I have read this right:
Those that choose success and live in a mansion, go on holiday, stay in a luxury suite, have a hot girlfriend can do whatever the fuck they like ONLY when they pay for it? I say this because you said, you’d probably be OK with it, if they would share their wealth.
Surely, regardless of their status, they should have respect for other human beings, irrespective of whether that human being is a struggling, ghetto living, musician that willingly chose (for good or bad) to give up his 6-figure job, his house, his friends, and his family to play music.
It seems that you justify your ‘how dare you take my mic away’ standpoint based upon your situation.
False logic. I don’t respect you because of the choices you made. I respect you because you have earned my respect for how you treat me, and I hope that the feeling is mutual.
But telling others what they should or should not do, because you feel righteous based upon how much you have up to be where you are today, is just wrong. Show others, don’t tell.
After all, who knows what sacrifices your drunk friend had to make to become the asshole he is today.
You know I love you Joe and I am grateful of your friendship and your music, but come on, we all live with the choices we make and we all have to deal with drunk morons once in a while, if our only penance is living in paradise year round!
I read your statement as: You can walk over me, providing you have the cash to do so.
Bad form.
I didn’t say he was an asshole nor did I say he was walking over me.
The point I was trying to make is that the life he has chosen affords him all sorts of privileges. I’m sure he’s worked really hard to earn those privileges, and I’m happy for him.
But the one privilege he has not earned is the privilege of being the front man of a rock and roll band. You want to be a rockstar, you got to pay your dues. You don’t just get to show up and say “Let me sing this song. Oh come on, I asked nicely!”
I’m still paying my dues and I doubt I’ll ever stop.
And yes, being a struggling musician means sometimes I do things I don’t want to do for tips. Like sing Do You Think I’m Sexy by Rod Stewart. Or let amateurs borrow the mic.
Yeah, Joe, making people aware of proper etiquette while attending a performance is really bad form! I’ll be back with a lengthy, self-righteous critique of your self-righteousness.