So, anyhow, you work the road long enough to count on getting a tax refund next year and then the unthinkable happens. You get laid off! Gee, you didn't think you had any job security, did you? In Nashville? But management has been complaining about the costs of taking a band on the road, and the accountant has been looking real worried and drinking too much, and the record company needs some extra liquidity for investments in southern California construction companies. It's not your star's fault, shoot, he owes so much money to his record company and to his backers that he doesn't have any say-so in what's going on. But he tells you you're the best musician he's ever worked with, and when he can get the band back together you'll be the first one he calls.
Being on the road does have certain advantages, though. It's a break from real life, especially if you don't have to drive or handle money or do anything more responsible than play the show, and you can party 'til you puke, or sleep, or meditate, or withdraw from life, or wgambler straw hatsever, as long as you don't scare the star and make him think you're one of those disturbed loners who would be better off working at the Post Office. If you're having problems with a wife, or bills, or your neighbors, or a pesky lawsuit about that apartment you blew up, you can just kind of forget all that stuff until you get home. You can set a mental alarm that goes off an hour before you get back to town that tells you it's time to start worrying again.
No town name was mentioned in the public portion of the MUFON report, which was filed on October 10, 2011. The events occurred on October 7, 2011. The above quotes were edited for clarity.
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