A Day in the Life…of a (Healthy) Rock Star (Full article here)
Rock stars are stressed out, overbooked, and perpetually living on someone else’s schedule. Sound familiar? This description may sound like your life, especially if you travel for your job or you’re a parent living around the rhythm of your kids...
Artists on tour typically stay up late after a show, often until 4 a.m., because they’re on a natural adrenaline high, and then they get up early the next morning to move to the next city. In some cases they will sleep on the bus that takes them to the next city, and then wake up early in the next concert location to begin their pre-show interviews.Sound check ends around 7 p.m., which is when artists disappear into their dressing rooms to get changed and ready for the show.
One of the most common misconceptions about rock stars is that they’re living completely self-destructive lives, with massive amounts of sex and drugs backstage before shows.
That’s not really happening. If for no other reason than their yoga teacher or nanny or partner is in the way. By the time artists are in their 30s, their girlfriends and wives are on tour with them, and by the 40s, you’ve got the entire family.
At a Rolling Stones concert and overheard a group of 40-something, overweight, caps-to-cover-the-balding, health-challenged guys making fun of the band. They were saying things like, “How old are these guys” Are they going to come out on stage in wheelchairs?” I butted in, “Have you ever seen the Stones before? Apparently not! For the next four hours Mick Jagger will be running across this football field without stopping. He performs like this four nights per week. I don’t think he will need help getting to the stage.”
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