I'm with you on the pop star thing. It's really irritating sometimes when I think ok...I'm 43, I've been playing guitar since I was 12 and can play just about anything. But cause of the luck of the draw and other commitments, never had any real success in 'the business'.
11:30 p.m. comes along and some young bunch of teens come on the Jay Leno show with a band with a guitar player that sounds worse than I did 25 years ago and I just wanna grab that kid and kick him. It's like, I'm 100 times better than this guy, I've struggled all my life to play as well as I can, but I'm stuck here in this stupid basement listening to the neighbors dog bark while this kid who sounds like crap with his guitar hanging around his ankles is selling millions of records.
I've learned along the way that talent alone ain't gonna get you there. It's who you know and how you play the game. (And having long hair and being skinny is a sure fire way to success no matter how bad you are)

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