So you wanna be a rock and roll star? Heck, so do I. Of course being at the right place at the right time may be the key to becoming one. But having a good look, music, and attitude also play an important roll… Agreed?
Here is some tips to becoming a rock star… Or at least a good popular music musician.
Start Young The fact is most famous rockers get started EARLY. There’s just no way around it… The fans want young people to rock and roll… If your in your 40’s (like me) it may be time to just accept that it’s a hobby and your chances of making the big time are over… You are now a weekend warrior in the clubs or a church musician.
Listen to The Beatles This is almost as good as going to music school. People have told me that they “don’t like the Beatles” well, whatever… But the way they constructed songs for popular music is unbeatable… (pardon the pun) You simply have to have strong well written songs to get attention…Mediocrity is everywhere. You have to stand out with good material.
Be Beautiful With MTV and videos and stuff being a good looking person is mandatory. You may be talented as Buddy Holly, but if you don’t look good…Forget it. I know…Like Metallica says..Sad but true.
Live Performance If your like me and others I know, churning out songs in your home music lab but not playing live means you WILL NOT get heard. You have to start a buzz in your home town to get some local notoriety first. Which brings me to my next point.
Get Famous at Home Many people I have known thought you have to run off to LA or something in order to get famous…They usually end up here in Tulsa UNfamous… That’s just the fact of the matter… If your good you should be able to make it right where your from… Put your home town on the map and quit thinking you have to run off to some big town to make it.
Have a gimick As I said before… You need to stand out. Getting up with your acoustic guitar and singing sweet James Taylor songs is not enouph… You have to be able to “entertain.”That may be with good MC skills and/or props to mezmerize the audiance.
Watch that Party Train I sometime wonder if I would have become a famous rock star if I had not ever attended the Sunday Budweiser Brunch every week… Sex, drugs and rock and roll… A good work ethic without the party stuff can make you go places faster. Better, Stronger.
There are many tips I could think of but I gotta get to bed now… Heck,, I aint’ a rock star or anything… I’d have to pay for coke out of a working man’s salery to stay up all night like a rock star. 🙂
You ever heard that Stevie Nicks needed a little help from a roadie with her cocaine problem? Tis true my friends. That girl knew how to do some blow. Well sort of. This is the deal:
She supposedly had damaged her nose from so much cocaine use… She simply couldn’t do any more…So she had a roadie take a straw and blow it up her ass.
That sounds pretty extreme huh?
How badly could somebody want go get high… Well, this was before the invention of crack which does’t require snorting it.
Those 70’s drug bands played hard… I like Fleetwood Mac better than The Eagles. They were the 2 big drug bands back in the day.
I wonder if the Eagles did as many drugs as the Rumors Gang did?
Do you ever go church hopping? That is shopping around every week to a different church to see what it’s like. It is often hard to find a church that you can connect to and feel your making a difference for the “kingdom” -If that is your calling/goal.
Most of the time when I visit a new church the service is ½ empty. They often have huge sanctuaries’ that were built back when the church was much bigger. They will often have huge numbers of members on the books but they are obviously not sitting in the pew’s. Isn’t that strange?
I have heard it said that if the church doesn’t change soon then it will cease to exist within the next few decades. Church as we know it will be no more. Those Godly looking buildings, steeples, bells, fiery sermons and organs…You know, all that wacky stuff..
What can a believer in God do about this sort of thing? Why not just sit around on Sunday mornings and watch some entertaining Christian TV? You could make a little party out of it and have some friends over with some snacks to enjoy the show. It’s nothing but a good time.
Let’s see… You get 20 phone calls a day on both your cell and home phones… You make sure you have caller ID which usually display any number of unknown area codes or “withheld” caller ID results. – That’s when you don’t answer the phone.
Why? Because you owe those guys a lot of money… You were one of the suckers that bought into the idea that you deserve to have that trip to Hawaii and all those toys for the house. Lifestyles of the rich and famous…For a season.
You don’t have the money to do that stuff on what you make but the banks just keep handing it over… And more on the way as new cards are constantly arriving in the mail “Pre approved”.. It will always have a nice picture of a beach somewhere telling you that you deserve to have good things.
Then after a few months of steak dinners and brand new TV’s and CD’s for the car you are suddenly cut off and a slave to a debt that CANT be paid off without winning some kind of Lottery or Publishers Clearing House. I told them I only made $11.00 per hour. And that I can’t manage money very well. I guess they considered that enough to give me a twenty thousand dollar credit card.
Grab that checkbook sir and let’s do a payment plan right over the phone…We can just automatically take it out of your account for your convenience.
I know it’s a hard thing to face up to. It looks like McCain is going to LOSE. Oklahomans will no doubt have difficulty facing this fact. Oh my God… A black president…What’s the world coming to?
Tonight is the “town hall” debate between those 2 guys. I’ll probably watch some (10 mins maybe) of it and enjoy the show. Heck, the Shield’s new episode is tonight.. I don’t wanna miss that now do I?
I’m gonna be one of the few in OK to vote for Obama. In fact, I’ll vote like I always do. Straight democratic party voting. – The party… Not the man… 🙂 I guess that sounds pretty crazy huh? Like I hear before from so many friends. “Your vote ain’t gonna make no difference anyways.” But I still have to go do it… Ya dig? I’ll probably keep bloging on politics until this mess is over… It’s just way to juicy to let it alone… I am look forward to going back to some pop culture rumours and weird things I may see at Wal Mart however. Peace and flowers
I don’t know where he came from but I been hearing about him since I was a kid. My parents always detested him as he was always causing them some kind of misery. My dad could probably go on and on about the grief he caused here in Oklahoma.
But I don’t just take my dad’s word for it… I just don’t like the way he looks. I was watching a commercial with him walking down a country road here in Oklahoma. He just looks like a shady character. A stubborn republican man that always works for the “right thing” walking down the road frowning…. Just a mean ol’ man that guy… Daddy Inhofe.
His commercial claims that his opponent Andrew Rice is easy on crime and let’s bad people run the streets or something. Whatever… Last month Inhofe was saying something about how Obama doesn’t love his country and shouldn’t be president because of it… He is always saying some kind of weak comments… That Inhofe guy cracks me up..
Still, he manages to win term after term… Strange… It’s an Oklahoma thang… That’s all.
A lot of fun this election year. I got to watch the 2nd half of the vice presidential debate on TV Thursday night… It was a lot of fun. Many people are saying that Palin won. I dunno.
He had on a nice suit and she had some killer red shoes. That’s what I noticed… And of course Palin was looking good as ever. Smiling and talking with that sweet little northern accent. As David Letterman was saying later… Biden was probably imagining her up there naked…Heck wouldn’t YOU?
What is this country going to do? I’m looking forward to finding out…It’s got to get better than what it is… When you hit bottom there’s no where to go but up right?
Will it be McCain and Palin the “Mavericks For Change”
That’s funny…Both camps realize they have to preach change because everybody can’t stand the Bush/Chaney show. It’s time to switch channels… Even Bush’s own party realizes that.
I’m glad the George Bush Show is almost over. But will the new cast really be any better. The Obama camp says it will be just “more of the same” Oh no….Anything but that. If McCain does win I hope he is a “maverick” as Palin claims. Change is good.
Its fair season here in Tulsa again.. I used to love to go to the fair and see the midway lights and laughing rides. It is always fun to look at the new products and unique things the fair has to offer… People watching is particularly entertaining.
But with the economy going down the toilet who can afford to go to the fair? It is a whopping 8 bucks just to walk in the gate. That includes nothing except the privilege of being able to look at exhibits and bizarre people in the crowds. I boycotted the fair last year because the fairgrounds terminated the lease for Bells Amusement park at the drop of a hat. I felt they had done them wrong by just throwing them out on their ear. With little explanation as to why.
So, with that in mind I aint got a couple of big bills to take my family to the state fair this year. Who can afford an $8.00 turkey leg anyways? And it wouldn’t be the same without Bell’s. A Tulsa tradition and landmark that the fair board eliminated for some parking spaces. It just ain’t right – ya dig?
I used to walk around the house singing this song and driving everybody crazy… I remember hearing it when I was a kid.. It sounded so spacey. I have always been into outer space sounding music. Even bands that I don’t like much… If they gotta an outer space song… I’m right there with them.. Ya dig?
This one is particularity funny to me. Take a ride on a rocket… Dig those keyboards… 70’s stadium music… Rock Stars!
I also like Foreigner…Star Rider Those rock stars had some grooves going on right?
The McCain camp says Obama infused debate with ‘necessary partisanship‘ as the bailout fails. Hmmm? Like Obama had anything to do with that mess. I suppose the Republicans are going to spin this great depression stuff on to the democrat’s somehow. What the heck is partisanship anyways?
These banks , wall street and Bush economic policies are crazy. I remember when bush did away with bankruptcy awhile back. Or, he made it harder and more expensive for us poor folks to file it…The credit card companies praised his work on this matter..
Around the same time I remember Bush trying to take my overtime away. Oh, he said I could work it… Just not get paid the time and 1/2. Lets just screw the hell out of us poor working people…Fortunately it didn’t pass the way he wanted it. I still get my overtime to be able to afford a cup of Starbucks once a week.
With this kind of crap going on I don’t see how McCain can win.. Right here at the end of Bush’s term we are going to hell in a handbasket. A financial crisis is at hand… No matter what Obama did or says.
So What’s up? Most people see the banks getting what they diserve anyways for loaning money carelessly to people (like myself) who can’t afford to pay it back. Shame on me…
Maybe the government should hand over a few K to bail me out!
Posted in 2008. I don’t know if McCain was blaming Obama for bailing out the banks back then but I do remember Bush trying to take my overtime away. Fast forward to now (2024) Politics are crazier than ever.
