Most people I meet have this impression that the life of a travelling musician – as we say, “on the road” – is one big joyful experience, seeing new cities and countries, playing before ecstatic crowds, doing well financially, meeting famous people, after hours parties, nuff woman and food and drink, as well as the harder stuff, with the pattern repeated more or less every day, on and on. While the impression is very overblown, it is true that a musician’s life takes him/her into situations that most folks rarely see, and it can be very heady. But there’s another side, which
