Thursday, October 30, 2003

So You Want to be a Roadie. There are worse things than getting paid to travel around the world listening to music and getting laid every night. As it turns out, not only is being a musician unlikely to get you this, being a roadie ain't gonna do it either, no matter who you're out on tour with. That's not to say that the work's not interesting: it certainly can be. There can be easy sex, but there's rarely time for it. And there's certainly travel. Lots of travel. In buses. And no Frequent Bus miles. So if sex, drugs, music, partying and hanging out with famous bands is why you want to be a roadie, your career has the life expectancy of a blind frog with two broken legs crawling across the LA Freeway during rush hour. If you don't mind travel and a lot of hard work that everyone loves to hear you talk about, read on. [kuro5hin.org] 4:58:30 AM

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