Big Bands from Small Towns
b'Let me say from the outset that I have nothing against small towns\\u2026I grew up in one myself\\u2026population: 2000\\u2026it was in the middle of the Canadian prairies\\u2026the nearest big city was Winnipeg\\u2026after that, you had to go at least 500 miles before you hit any major population centre\\u2026\\n\\nI also want to make sure to let you know that I think living in a small town is a not bad idea\\u2026it\\u2019s not\\u2026it can be a wonderful, low-stress, low-cost secure existence\\u2026a lot of the people I went to school with still live in my small town\\u2026\\n\\nBut there are those who want out, people who want to experience more of the world\\u2026they find their lot dull, a dead-end, too far from where the action is\\u2026but how to escape?...that\\u2019s the problem\\u2026\\n\\nOne way would be to just buy a bus ticket and hit the highway\\u2026you could join the armed forces\\u2026or maybe you could form a band, write song songs and become world famous\\u2026yeah, that\\u2019ll never happen\\u2026or could it?...\\n\\nThere\\u2019s this old saying that all you need to change the world\\u2014your world\\u2014is three chords and an attitude\\u2026and it doesn\\u2019t matter where you\\u2019re from\\u2026you can be from the smallest town the map\\u2014even a town too small to be on a map\\u2014but if you get in with the right bunch of people and manage to pull together some good songs, who knows what might happen?...\\n\\nHere\\u2026let me give you some concrete examples\\u2026you don\\u2019t have to be from L.A. or London or some other big city\\u2026you can be from\\u2014wherever\\u2026these are some big, big bands who actually came from small, small towns\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'