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Location: Michigan | I think all of us at one time wish that we could be super rock stars or just super famous musicians at one point in our lifes.
I got a feeling if I would of made it big in my teenage years ( THE 60'S )I would of ended up like Jimmy Hendrix or Jim Morrison , put in a pine box at an early age.
I don't think I could of handled the Fame & Fortune back then.
What about you ??? GWB. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | There's no way I'd get on planes or helicopters... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Live Fast Die Young and leave a Beautiful Corpse!
That is the teenage Rock-n-Roll Fantasy...
"Billy rapped all night about his suicide, how he'd kick it in the head when he was twenty-five."
"Johnny died one night, died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleepin' tablets by his head
Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play..."
Naw, I'd be Dead! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Ya mean I'm not????? |
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Location: Utah | If I can't be a real rock star, at least I can pretend. One of my favorite games with the wife is "Rock Star and the Groupie". ;) |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i think i would be most ordinary rock star in whole world ;] |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'd be some weird combination of 'The Motor City Madman' and Valdy.
Wait! I think I was!!!! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | In all seriousness
Most are not that different than you are.
If both people in the business then
if ya act that way the whole star/fan isn't there. They become regular people.
You see who they really are.
I ran the bar area of concert hall that held
2000 to 5000 depending which stage was used.
4 to 7 national acts rolling through a week.
for 3 years. I saw 1 hit wonders to members of the rock & roll hall of fame.
The people who were on the first big records
were more likily to be I'm a star thing.
In looking back on it; its like any group you work with, some ya like, some ya hate, some become aquantences, others friends some are drunks some addicts some nuts.
In general without name dropping some of biggest
acts with true staying power in the busness were
some of the most average down to earth people you could ever meet.
Alot of the wild stories you hear are cooked by managers to keep thier name in press. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I would probably have spent a lot of it lying on my back.....but not in a coffin :eek: .
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Girl.....get off of me.....gotta go on stage now! ;) |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I could see myself having one big hit, followed by a string of failed follow ups. After squandering all of my money on candy and porno, I would end up playing acoustic cover material to drunks in local saloons for very little money.
Oh, wait! That's my real story (except for the "success" part..... :) ) |
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Location: NJ | join th'Club . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | John, you forgot the ending... a spectacular arrest and trial in which BMI and ASCAP make 'an example' of you for not paying royalties on the material and hit you with 10 years and $50k in fines... |
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Location: NJ | . . . then you "find Jesus", put out a half-dozen sh!t albums, and die of a massive brain hemorrhage while hawking a "Best Of" collection on QVC. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I think I like the "candy and porno" version better, but that's just me. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | After the divorce from Pamela Anderson and/or Heather Locklear, I'd disappear, living well off the royalties of our "unauthorized" sex video. |
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Location: NJ | . . . until you (ironically) got your ass sued-off. |
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Location: Tennessee | I think I would have put a Steinway in a sandbox in my living room. Only to return 30 years later to sing embarassingly off-key. |
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| Undoubtedly I would have consumed a shitload of drugs and died.
If fame and fortune arrive late I will consume shitloads of food and wine and die.
I've never been very good at restraint. Look what it took to make me stop smoking. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Since Cliff burst my dream bubble, I'll amend it:
Gave up career as lawyer after 1st and only record went platinum, then had to go back when I lost my shirt and everything else to Pam in the divorce because I hired Cliff's divorce lawyer. (Obviously never had a prenup, because Pam had all the money and I didn't want to hire a lawyer to look out for my interests before the marriage.) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Don't forget the obligatory trips to rehab. |
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Location: NJ | Rehab is for Quitters . . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | So sorry for all of you.
In my rock fantasy I bought a little vineyard next to Tommy Smothers and we spend lazy afternoons trying to remember why we were once famous while playing with our yoyos and comparing wines. |
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Location: NJ | m. jagger/k. richards/m. faithfull)
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I dont think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that Im not that strong
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
Tell me, sister morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I cant crawl across the floor
Ah, cant you see, sister morphine, Im trying to score
Well it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Please, sister morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, cant you see Im fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head
Ah, come on, sister morphine, you better make up my bed
cause you know and I know in the morning Ill be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red. |
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Location: Michigan | Hey Mark,,, did you contract Hepititis from Pam?
That could effect the way your story turns out.
How about this one ,,you got divorced from Pam because she was having an affair with Kid Rock & Tommy Lee during your marriage so you remarried Heather and ended up finding out that you caught Hep-C from Pam & gave it to Heather so Heather divorced you for giving her Hep-C and now you became a homeless/pennyless/diasesed has been Rock-N-Roller OHHHHHHHHH someone else take this story over for me and put a nice twist on it so poor Mark makes a wild comeback or something and maybe they find a cure for him in the end...
Hope this turns out good for you Mark because I know this crowd can be brutal on people.GWB |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Don't forget the obligatory trips to rehab. after wreckin a
Ferrari and only to find did not infact have a licence |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I noticed no mentioned retrospective on VH1. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's after flunking rehab.
Rehab is not for quitters, it's a very viable loophole to escape whatever legal jam you've gotten into.
"Having a great time, I wish you were here,
This rehab place is fine
When you come out this weekend
Bring a Mason jar of shine" |
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Location: NJ | Thassa' GREAT tune!!!
When's that one due t'go "up"?? . . . |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Been there, done that...'76-'83 straight thru 7 nights a week playing gigs across the country and then 87-93 solo: not the same level of fame but the same lifestyle; groupies, and hotel rooms...glad I survived w/o aids...I wouldn't take it back as a gift!
Music is a gift thats best enjoyed when given away!
Got Family? Yes, I do!
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK you guys are turning dreams into reality, but in the worst possible way. I'll just go back to the basement. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Early on, I'd probably be taking drugs and bonkin' as many women as I could. If I lived past 40, I'd probably have a vineyard, and sell my grapes to a winery (see above), visit my friends in rehab (see above), and commiserate with my divorced buddies (see above) over a glass of wine.
Though as it is, I did the same thing. I probably took too many drugs, bonked too many women. I don't own a winery, but I've visited my friends in rehab and commererate with my divorced buddies, so I guess I wouldn't be any different. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There are many things best done in the 'young, dumb, & ugly' phase of our lives. Because they'll kill you (if you're not Keith Richards.) when you're older. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | This is how I'm handling my current fame....
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Location: Michigan | Tim please do something with that tie its horrible.....GWB |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...but it's Paisley! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I died, respirating on Kate Beckinsale. |
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Location: UK | I would mould myself in the Brittany " who ate all the pies " school of rock chick sheek , then i would get myself some DIY bored in my cell prison tatoos Amy Winehouse style
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Location: UK | http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5sahXoj0U
You Got to love her |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Never aspired to be one; recoginized early on that who I was wanted to be a completely different kind of "star"--I only wanted to be the principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic, because my ideal was Stanley Drucker. (I wasn't any more qualified or talented enough to do that any more than being another Janis Joplin, but the long hours of practicing I put in kept me out of all kinds of trouble--for which I am very thankful.)
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HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE BEING A ROCK STAR