Sometimes success comes in different ways and to varying degrees.
In the heart of most music fans growing up, we all want to be rock stars and dream of a day we get to stand on stage in front of 50,000 screaming fans rocking our greatest hits.
The truth is, that this will only happen to less than 1% of us, and most of us will never get further than singing in the shower in front of the dogs and cats.
The stories of Rock Stars are well publicized, but it’s the stories of Jack and Jill Everyday that needs to be told. The stories of getting trapped in an elevator with a rock star whose posters you used to hang on the wall, or getting your garage band back together to open a show for a real life rock star, which brings me to this listener’s Growin’ Up Rock Story.
Listener Story Shared By Dennis Talbott:
“Saw my first concert, Halloween night 1982 … Rush at Roberts Stadium in Evansville IN. Got home that night and my mom ask me what I thought and I said ” I will play that stadium someday.”
Fast forward, after years of garage bands and early bar bands, with little to no success. I gave up playing out for a long time…
Life happens, you grow up and have a family and for me I went to work for Toyota, as the dream fades off into the distance. Then one day the opportunity comes a knockin’ and the company I work for decided to do a battle of the bands at the summer company picnic… I got 75% of my Hair metal band back together and we decided to have a great time with it, so we did the whole spandex and wigs thing and won the damn thing.
Skip up the road 6 months later and we had a company concert featuring John Mellencamp and even though he’s not metal, he is absolutely a rockstar and we got the opportunity to open for him in front of 8,000 people.
It took 25 years, and even though it was not quite what I envisioned when I made the statement, I did what I told my mom I would do and played that Stadium in front of thousands. “Top Of The World Ma!!”
It may have been a small thing to a rock star that plays every night in front of thousands, but to many people who stood in front of the mirror at an early age, this was the equivalent to Madison Square Garden and more than many will even be able to count as their experience.
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