Craig Finn (Concert Quote)
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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There is a business aspect to the band as well as a musical performance. And, you know, that part can be hard. And what does it look like when it's hard? Well, I mean, just standard money stuff, you know? I mean, like, here's an example. You book a show, it's in another state, and you make a budget. And when you go to book the flights, they're 30% more than... What you budgeted for. Yeah.
And you're like, oh, we aren't going to make very much money on this show. And that's like a very sober 1 p.m. conversation. But it's pretty easy for me anyways to have that conversation and be a little disappointed at 1 p.m. And then at 9 p.m. when it's time to get on stage to turn up the amp and be like, well, this is great. This part's great.
Still kind of bummed in the back of my mind about the 30% over budget on the flights. Yeah. But, like, I can forget about that easily for the next two hours. Sometimes, again, it's not ticket sales, it's the expenses, you know? Or, you know, there's a lot of business stuff that is kind of boring, but it is part of being in the band, you know?
And especially for me as someone who gets involved in that.
Yeah, I do because, you know, I turned 50. I'm 51 now, but, you know, like when I get together with friends from college, I mean, like the whole study has allowed me to do amazing things, but I'm certainly not anywhere near wealthy. And it's probably another path would have led me to more wealth or more stability or something. And so, yeah, when you're getting together with the guys that – 51.
And your friend's talking about sending his kid off to college and then they're going to go down to their beach house. And you're like, well, there's a part of me that says that sounds nice. I understand I didn't pursue that, you know, but there is a part that's like, well, that does sound nice. And those are people who follow more of like the Amex path. Yeah. Yeah. Some sort of traditional path.
Well, there's this funny thing that I was thinking of on the way over here because I knew what we were going to talk about a little bit. And every once in a while, I'd say like 10 times in my career, I've been cornered by this guy.
guy not a different guy each time but a type of guy yeah who really has like these pointed questions about like what you have and and you get the feeling that he's trying to figure out like trying to make himself feel better you know like what do you mean well like you know so so like how much money how much money you guys make you know like and it's like wow i'm not telling you i'm i just met you you know and yeah yeah so when you quit your job like they really want to know like how this all works and you get the feeling that's like
maybe they're trying to justify their own last 30 years or something, you know? That's so interesting. Like, if they knew how much you made and they knew they made more, then... If they knew exactly how poor you were, they could feel better about themselves. That's such a brutal conversation. I know, and it's really, it's like, dude, I'm getting away from you.
But, like, there's a type of guy, and let's be honest, it's always a guy, that will really press for that.
So you believe that it is possible to like your job? I absolutely do. I think that the hang-ups really come, I don't want to say from ambition because I think ambition is healthy, but from this kind of envy or coveting. And I think that it's very easy to like, no matter who you are and what you do, it's very easy for the goalposts to move.
To be like, okay, well, like, oh, that band's selling out this room and we only sold out this room. It's like, you sold out? Like, there's like a thousand people here. Yeah. And they're all singing the words. So I think it's important to kind of train yourself not to like look for that, you know, like other shiny object. I mean, it's like... things come and go.
But I mean, it is also a very natural human instinct to be like, I want more. So I do think you have to kind of remind yourself to be grateful and be present in that moment.
Yeah.
So my question on this is – this seems like somewhat – it's very anecdotal. But when I was growing up, it was considered – kind of common knowledge that the first time you smoked weed, it didn't work. I remember this. And I always wondered if there's anything to that or if it's just the first time you smoked weed, you most likely got a hold of bad weed.
Like, I didn't smoke cigarettes. Right. Well, that was always the thing. But it also felt like the way they were explaining it, that you're kind of like. You're putting in the experience. You're making a deposit at the bank. Yeah. It was only the second time or the third time that it was going to pay off. Did you, the first time you smoked weed, did you get high? No. Interesting.
But I don't think it was the first few times. Yeah. And, you know, every once in a while you'd be like, some guy would be like, I got high for the first time. And you kind of wouldn't believe him. Yes. You know? So I'm wondering, now that we have all this legalization, I'm wondering if there's any science to this or any answer. That's a really good question. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
Well, I hope we get an answer.
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