I'm with the band....

Seriously?? For a while I thought the phrase was cute. When WITH the band meant something different than the t-shirt. Tonight i watched the Little BIG Town special on GAC and somehow i got sad and angry. Music looks glamorous and fairy tale... but its not. long hours... late nights... distant towns and strange women take their tole on the entertainer's real life. The GROUPIE is as much to blame as the musician for an indiscretion.... but there is NEVER any excuse... "honey i didn't KNOW" she was 1 7 is NOT an excuse... its stalling. And I fell for it for 3more years. The Little Big town song... it so echoed how i felt about music in the beginning... and it is what I laugh at now. There are so many people I want to love in music. So many people I saw through the the rose colored glasses of love and country music romance. I wonder how many of my friends were as fake as my dreams?