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So, you're sitting there watching life pass you by. Everyone else you know is doing so well and you're wondering how the hell do they all have their shit together at my age and I don't. You ponder this question for a miniute while sipping on your Natty Light, then you say to yourself "maybe I'm just destined to live an ordinary mundane life" while also thinking about running away and living in the woods by yourself with six dogs. Eventually you run out of Natties and decide to make a quick beer run. On your way to the seven eleven your car radio blasts the same Maroon 5 song that you've heard a million times before. Then you have an [[epiphany->the spark]].

After you purchase your budget beer you start thinking "maybe I don't have to live better than every one, maybe I just need to live bigger". You rush back home and call up the boys and say "Guys, it's time to start a freaking [[band->the boys]]".

Your boys holler back "Dude, we're [[in->choosing instruments]]".

The only question now is, what instrument will you choose? [[Guitar->guitar]] [[Bass->bass]] [[Lead Vocals->lead vocals]] [[Drums->drums]]

Alright so you've chosen to be the guitar player First things first, you need a badass guitar player name, I'm thinking something like.... Adam. Alright Adam, lets got out a write some sick ass rifts and solos until your finger [[bleed->guitar 2]]. <img src="large.png">

What do you call a guy who hand out with a bunch of musicians? A bass player, and for whatever reast that's what you chose to be. You must really enjoy being the last person to get laid after a concert. Oh well. First up, you need an authentic bass player name, a name that people will forget the second they hear it, I'm thinking something like... Greg. Alright Greg, lets go bust out some gnarly bass [[rifts->bass 2]]. <img src="bass.jpg">

Good choice on choosing lead vocals, you must really love attention. So you've made the choice to be the face of the band. Are you ready to be one of the most egotistical assholes on the planet? If so, lets continue. First off you need a unique singer name, lets go with something like... Morgan. Alright Morgan, you are the head honcho of the entire band. Everything derives from how well you can sing and the lyrics you write, lets get [[it->lead vocals 2]]. <img src="mic.png">

Alright so you chose to be the drummer, without hesitation, your name is Chad. Alright Chad, what you lack in a personality you make up for by killing it on drums. In fact drumming is the only thing you really care about, which is good because you are the heartbeat of the entire band. If the drums are bad, the song is going to sound like shit, plain and [[simple->drums 2]]. <img src="drums.jpg">

After over a year of you writing some tasty ass guitar rifts and solos, while preforming small gig after small gig and practicing in your dad's garage, you guys finally meet a music producer who asks if y'all want to sign on to his lable. In unison you all say "[[Fuck yeah->guitar 3]]".

After over a year of you writing some sick bass rifts while preforming small gig after small gig and practing in your friends dad's garage, you guys finally meet a music producer who wants to sign you to his label. In unison you all say "[[Fuck yeah->bass 3]]".(but not you because.... you know)

After over a year of you writing and dinging some sweet ass meoldies and hooking peeople with your chorus lines, while preforming small gig after small gig and practicing in your friends dad's garage, you guys finally meet a music producer who wants to sign you to his lable. In unison, you all say "[[Fuck yeah->lead vocals 3]]"

After over a year of you blasting some dope ass beats while preforming small gig after small gig and practicing in your friends dad's garage you guys finally meet a music producer who wants to sign you to his lable. In unison, you all say "[[Fuck yeah->drums 3]]" (Only you said it the loudest, and you had to make sure everyone knew)

So you follow one of the other bands lead singer to his buddy's house. Everything is goung pretty casual at first, there are drinks, gnarly music, pretty girls, then the singer whips out a heroine needle. Him, hid buddy and some of the girls there elect to partake. Then, he asks you if you want to try it. Feeling peer presured and knowing you're the life of the party you try it and you really enjoy it [[it->g opt 1]].

So you say "nah bro we got a busy day tomorrow" then you go back to your tour bus, relax for a minute, maybe knock back a couple of cold ones and keep working on some catchy rifts in the mean [[time->g opt 21]].

After a few weeks of recording and rocking the hell out, you finally dish out y'all's 12 track debut album. And it is a wild [[success->guitar 4]].

A month later you finally get booked to go on tour and your bands climb to stardom officially begins. (So much for a bland mundane life right) While on tour at one of your first shows you are presented with the option either to party with some fellow musicians who were playing at the same vanue, or to go back to your trailer and keep writtingand working on future songs. Which do you pick Adam? [[Party->guitar opt 1]] [[Write->guitar opt 2]]

After a few weeks of recording and slapping the hell out of your bass, you finally dish out y'all's 12 track debut album. And it is a wild [[success->bass 4]]

A month later you finally get booked to go on tour and your bands climb to stardom officially begins. (So much for a bland mundane life right) While on tour at one of your first few shows you are presented with an option to either party with some fellow muscians who were plying at the same venue as you or go bak to your trailer and keep writing for future songs. Which do you pick Greg? [[Party->bass opt 1]] [[Write->bass opt 2]]

After a few weeks of recording and you singing your damn throat off, you finally dish out y'all's 12 track debut album. And it is a wild [[success->lead vocals 4]].

A month later you finally get booked to go on tour and your bands climb to stardom officially begins. (So much for a bland mundane life right) While on tour at one of your first few shows you are presented with and option to either party or go back to your trailer and keep writing lyrics for future projects. Which do you pick Morgan? [[Party->lead vocals opt 1]] [[Write->lead vocals opt 2]]

After a few weeks of recording you bashing the hell out of your drums set and recording some sick beats, you finally dish out y'all's 12 track debut album. And it is a wild [[sucess->drums 4]].

A month later you finally get booked to go on tour and your bands climb to stardom officially begins. (So much for a bland mundane life right) While on tour at one of your first few shows you are presented with and option to either party or go back to your trailer and keep writing beats for future projects. Which do you pick Chad? [[Party->drums opt 1]] [[Write->drums opt 2]]

While continuing on your tour, you keep meeting up with other members of other bands and going out partying with them. However, the night always ends the same, you end up passing out in a strange place after shooting up heroine, which you later find a dealer that give you sweet [[ hook ups->g opt 2]]

After you've been kicked out of the band you head home and hang out alone for quite some time and then get faced with a decision to either go to rehab or dont go to rehab. Which will it be? [[rehab->rehab]] [[no rehab->no rehab]]

This goes on for a while until you become an addict and start missing shows that the band as a whole later has to cancel. The other guys get together and make a business decision to kick you out of the [[band->g opt 3]]

You make the ultimate life choice and and decide to go to rehab to get cleaned up. After a very long and challenging process in your life you finally complete all 12 steps in your addiction recovery program. 6 sober months later you go you call the guys back up, and tell them that you are completly clean. They tell you that they are very proud of you changing your life around but they have already found another guitar player to replace you but are still very happy for you none the [[less->life after rock]].

You choose not to go to rehab and forego the help that you so desparately need and continue to shoot up. Then one day you take just a little too much then overdose and die choking on your own vomit alone on your apartment No one even knows your dead until a week later when your landlord walks in wanting to knwo why your late on rent this month, only to see your cold rotting corpse in the living room. The landlord freaks out of course then dials 911. An ambulance show up and take you to the morgue where they call your next of kin. Your family, fans and your former bandmates show up to your funeral bawling their absolute eyes out feeling guilt and regret for seein you go down this path, knowing you needed help and not doing a damn thing about it. Good part is, you were burried with your favorite guitar for all of eternity. Only if you knew what you could have been.

After respectifully being denied reentry to the band you live out the rest of your life as a drug counslor, trying to pursuade others to not go down the same path that you did, while also teaching guitar lessons on the side.

After about a year and a half of touring around the country and rocking every face that you saw. You go back home for a minute to relax. A few months later, you and the boys decide to get back into the recording studio and work on the bitchin rifts that you wrote while on tour. A few months go by and you officially drop your seccond album, and it really doesn't go over that [[well->g opt 22]].

Your band manager books y'all another tour, people are still showing up and buying merchandise but the fans kinda tune out anything off the new album. Half the time people are really only showing up for the other bands. This goes on throughout the tour, you're able to get the fans excited but not like it once was. Now you're all faced with another choice. Do we quit, or continue to make another album? [[quit->quit]] or [[make another album->make another album]]?

You all make a business decision to discontinue writing music together as a band. You go off in y'all's own separate directions but still maintain a great relationhip with one another. Y'all had a good run but couldn't manage the pressure of a second album.

You take some time off to rethink your writing stragety to hopefully draw the audience back in. After a while with some tasty hooks that you really dig and you're hopeing the audience responds the same way. You and the boys group back up, record and drop a third album. This album does better but unfortunately it's not enough to get the audience back on your side. One again you are faced with the decision to either keep making music or retire. Which do you pick? [[quit->quit 2]] [[make another album->album 3]]

Y'all try to go back to back to the sound the first album had. The one that everyone really like to HOPEFULLY get the audience back this time. But now it just sounds like a wattered down version your old selves. Almost like you're just doing this all for another [[paycheck->retirement ]].

Well, you gave it a shot. You mught not have reached the fame you desired, but you will always have the memories of playing on stage with your best friends. Friends that have become more than family to you. At the end of the day, you accomplished your goal to live bigger.

You decide to do yourselves and your listeners a favor by not pumping out anymore music. Y'all gave it 4 albums but never quite made it to the point of stardom that you really desired. But hey, at least you can say that you went for it all.

You make the ultimate life choice and and decide to go to rehab to get cleaned up. After a very long and challenging process in your life you finally complete all 12 steps in your addiction recovery program. 6 sober months later you go you call the guys back up, and tell them that you are completly clean. They tell you that they are very proud of you changing your life around but they have already found another bass player to replace you but are still very happy for you none the [[less-> life after rock 2]].

You make the ultimate life choice and and decide to go to rehab to get cleaned up. After a very long and challenging process in your life you finally complete all 12 steps in your addiction recovery program. 6 sober months later you go you call the guys back up, and tell them that you are completly clean. They tell you that they are very proud of you changing your life around but they have already found another singer to replace you but are still very happy for you none the [[less->life after rock 3]]

You make the ultimate life choice and and decide to go to rehab to get cleaned up. After a very long and challenging process in your life you finally complete all 12 steps in your addiction recovery program. 6 sober months later you go you call the guys back up, and tell them that you are completly clean. They tell you that they are very proud of you changing your life around but they have already found another drummer to replace you, but are still very happy for you none the [[less->life after rock 4]]