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From the outside, being in a famous touring rock band seems like a glamourous thing...you travel the world, playing for thousands of adoring fans night after night with your gang of buddies...\nOh, the gloriousness of it all...the private jets!...the media exposure!...the excitement!...the perks!...the sites!...the sex!...the drugs!...your every whim catered to by people whose job is to, well, cater to your every whim...\nAnd that really is the reality\u2013for maybe the top 1/10 of one per cent of groups in the world...for other 99.9%, going on the road is a trying ordeal that can get pretty uncomfortable real fast...\nI mean, think about it...for the entire time you\u2019re on tour, you\u2019re living in a bubble, going where you\u2019re told to go, doing what you\u2019re told to do and living out of suitcases for months on end...\nYou can wake up in the van or the bus one morning after the gig and quite literally have no idea what country you\u2019re in, let alone what city...\nThen there\u2019s the bad food, the interviews with the same stupid questions all the time, annoying fans, the late nights, too much alcohol, too many drugs and not enough sleep...\nThe only thing that makes it all worthwhile is the fact you get to play every night...but even that gets old after a while...all you want to do is go home, do the laundry and finally be left alone for a while...\nWith that kind of working environment, life on the road can get pretty weird...how weird?...let us count the ways...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices