Why You’re Dressing For Success All Wrong (And What To Do Instead)
At the age of twenty-two, I decided to save rock ‘n’ roll.
This was in 1999, the year Limp Bizkit and other bro-metal bands ruled the charts, and I hated it. In addition to the horribleness of their sound, their disregard of all that was glamorous about the music I loved was insulting to me. So, I wrote a bunch of songs, got a group of guys together who saw the world the way I did, and put together a stage show that would serve as a corrective to the times.
We had lights. We had confetti cannons. We even had a friend who danced in a cage wearing a gas mask. And we dressed awesome. Tight striped pants. Ascots. Pointy boots. Top hats.
It was a lot of work for a bunch of young scrappers, but we made it happen. We imagined the fantastical onstage world we had concocted to be the next in a line that included David Bowie, George Clinton, and Devo. We wrangled our first gig, called everyone we knew, and got them to call everyone they knew. We were convinced that when people saw our outrageous stage show and flamboyant outfits, word would spread throughout every corner of New York City and beyond.
That’s not what happened...
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5 年Maybe someday, in addition to the ‘Like’ thumbs up, LinkedIn will have a ‘sign o the horns’ but until such time I will tell you that, as always... YOU ROCK!