Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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Hi there, it's Alan Cross, and for the next few weeks of the ongoing history of new music podcast,

we're going back to revisit a series we did a little while ago called 100 Weird Things

About New Rock. This is a 10-part series,

and it explored a lot of topics with each episode dealing with a particular brand of

weirdness, sex, the law, drugs, strange recordings, excess, road stories, bad behavior,

and more. There's a lot that goes into the music that we don't always hear about,

despite what you may hear on the internet.

So it's kind of like my job to fill you in.

You ready for some weirdness?

Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you.

From the outside, being in a famous touring rock band seems to be a pretty glamorous thing, right?

You travel the world, playing for thousands of adoring fans, night after night, and you're

with your gang of buddies. Oh, the gloriousness of it all, the private jets, the media exposure,

the excitement, the perks, the sights, the sex, the drugs, your every whim catered to by people

whose job it is to, well, cater to your every whim. And that really is the reality of it all.

For maybe the top one-tenth of one percent of all the groups in the world, for the other 99.9

percent, going on the road is a trying ordeal that can get

real old, real fast. I mean, think about it. For the entire time you're on tour, you're living in a

bubble, going where you're told to go, doing what you're told to do, and living out of a suitcase

for months on end. You wake up in the van or the bus,

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