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Originally Posted by David
There's a kid I know, the drummer in a group I'm in. He's fecked up. He's about 26 years old, didn't attend college. He thinks he's an artist. Know the type? They're rampant among weekend warrior musician types. Anyway, this kid just will not work a job; he says he just isn't "cut out for it." I always smile sort of bemusedly. It's like my grandfather who won't attend funerals after deaths in the family because he "doesn't like them." The rest of us do, granddad?!
That's what I tell Jason: "Working for a living is what they mean by being a responsible adult, Jay." He doesn't get it. He tried working last year at (of all places) Guitar Center. Now, if there's anywhere I would think a musician would want to work if he had to, it would be Guitar Center. Jay lasted about a month there. I had a great laugh when he told me he had quit.
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Would he rather have a job at Guitar Center or McDonald's?
Sounds like one lazy bum. Who supports him? Mommy and daddy?
I had a friend in college who always bitched and moaned on the weekends that he couldn't go out anywhere or buy any food because he was broke. I had never met someone in college who wasn't borke, but he was a rarity. He had never held a job in his life, even while in college, and he had the gall to complain to others that he couldn't afford this or that. I told him once that maybe he should get a job not just because it would give him money, but because it might give him a little purpose instead of just lounging around doing nothing. He told me it was too much work and he didn't have the patience.
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Originally Posted by David
I doubt anyone in Fleetwood Mac did -- or would have wanted to do -- much in the way of full-time workplace employment, particularly in their 20s. So many musicians, especially those who have tasted even a little bit of the Big Time, just won't force themselves to trudge off to work every morning & keep it going for years -- like the rest of us. Maybe Lindsey was just like all these guys like Jason in their 20s. They must have been as numerous then as they are now.
As for Stevie, even if she worked full-time (40 hours a week) at some point, it wouldn't have been longer than about 12 or 13 months, would it? She wouldn't have worked before "Buckingham Nicks" stiffed; it would have been after, when they had been dropped by Polydor. That was in early '74 or so (the album was released in late '73). And LB & SN were put on Fleetwood Mac salary starting in early '75, right? Look out! I mean, people make it sound as if it was really something out of the ordinary . . . "Oh my god, Stevie Nicks held a . . . a . . . JOB!!"
There must have been a recession at the time, because otherwise how could two healthy kids not have been able to support themselves in the Los Angeles area without starving?
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Well, calling a spade a spade, they never really had to work very hard for the success that they achieved. Look at the artists who trudge along through life for years until they finally get a small break. Not those two. Everything fell into their lap pretty damn quickly and I can only imagine how it shaped their view of the world and how spoiled they became because of it. Makes me shudder. Even when Stevie goes on television with her big doe-eyes and tells of being poor and cleaning apartments, I just want to roll my eyes because her parents were always there to catch her, as were Lindsey's. They make themselves sound so impoverished when they probably have no clue as to what living in poverty really is.