Money is a weird thing...when you don’t have it, it’s all you can think about...when you do have it, it’s the last thing on your mind...

It’s gotta be especially weird for successful musicians...99.9% of all rock performers come from very modest backgrounds...for years, they make sacrifices for their art, hoping and praying that one day, they won’t have to worry about where their next meal comes from or how they’re gonna manage to pay the rent....

But 99.99% of professional musicians will never hit the big time...they may make an okay living, but they’ll never be rich...

But what about that 1/100th of 1 per cent that do hit the big time?...for them, life changes a lot and it changes fast...suddenly, they’re able to do and have things that they never even dreamed of...

Some can handle it and ease into the über-rich lifestyle with elegance and grace...others–well, not so much...others still use their positions to do strange, excessive and occasionally destructive things...

And, not surprisingly, things on all sides of the ledger can get quite weird...

This is part 9 of “100 weird things about new rock”...it’s 10 tales of wealth, success and excess.

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