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

filling in. You ready for some weirdness? Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you. Money is a weird thing.

When you don't have it, it's all you can think about. When you do have it, it's pretty much

the last thing on your mind. It's got to be especially weird for successful musicians.

99.9% of all rock performers come from very modest backgrounds, and for years, they make

sacrifices for their art, hoping and praying that one day they won't have to worry

about where their next meal comes from or how they're going to manage to pay the rent.

But 99.999% of professional musicians will never hit the big time.

They may make an okay living, but they will never be truly rich.

But what about that one-one-thousandth of one percent

that do hit the big time? For them, life changes a lot and changes fast. Suddenly, they're able to do and

have things that they've never, ever dreamed of. Some can handle it and ease into the uber-rich lifestyle with

elegance and grace. Others still use their new positions to do strange, excessive, and

occasionally destructive things. And not surprisingly, things on all sides of the ledger

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