The Good Musician

Here’s a fun round of lists we at b5music have been sharing the past week: Name the ten musicians you would not want to switch places with!

The Good Musician is hosting this group project and here’s my personal list:

1. Billy Joe Armstrong

Seriously, the kid has to play the same 4 chords in over 30 sngs at a concert. He’s got fame and money, but musical monotony will catch up sooner or later.

2. Janet Jackson

Besides having your name pulled into dirt by your brother, having to play second fiddle all the time whilst reminding everyone of Mister popstar pedophile thanks to inherited resemblance ain’t no sweet life.

3. Michael Jackson

Need I say more?

4. Britney Spears

Sigh.

5. Amy Winehouse

You know, I actually appreciate people who just are “themselves”, but Amy Winehouse has never shown me the necessary respect for her own music. She may have it, but she sure doesn’t make me feel that she takes anything in life seriously. And thus again we spin into discussion about childish musicians.

6. Joseph Haydn

This fine man lived through the entire span of the Wiener Klassik era of music and beside Mozart, heavily influenced it. The poor guy worked for the count of Esterhazy, who was one wicked guy: He’d have an orchestra ready to play at all times, and he never wanted to hear the same symphony twice. So Mr. Haydn here ended up composing over 100 symphonies, only the last few of his being highly remembered as the London symphonies (which he didn’t write for the count). Mr. Esterhazy desperately needed an iPod.

7. Ringo Starr

Being one of The Beatles is probably in itself a torture, as you can prepare for getting your hair torn out upon landing in America. But being a Beatle and being that guy in the back who plays the drums and no-one cares about anyway – that’s probably no fun.

8. Sean Callery

I think life as Sean Callery could be a happy one. Yet I fret from the notion of having to handyman together a fresh background score for every episode of 24 as much as I do from playing a guitar with no frets and only one string. Life can get heavily boring and tension-packed at the same time if you have to keep on mixing down electronic foreboding sounds to make people anxious about terrorist attacks on Jack Bauer. Still, great music, Sean. But dontcha get tired?

9. Scott Weiland (right)

I used to listen to a lot of Velvet Revolver when they published their first album. Yet, now, after having heard Mr. Weiland sing live (ugh) and read his drug stories, AND seen how thin he is with his slightly anorexic problem, I think I don’t want to be him. I’d like to be Slash though.

10. This guy playing guitar hero

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