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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: 100 Weirdest Things in Alt-Rock: Part 4
Description: 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...Oh, 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...And that really is the reality–for maybe the top 1/10 of one per cent of groups in the world...for other 99.9%, going on th...