2 decades in the entertainment industry: pt1
In all of my years in “showbiz”, I can’t say I know it all, But I’ve learned alot.
Not just about entertaining people either. I think that I have learned more about myself
through work than I would have anywhere else. Nearing my 20th year in “the business”
I still have just as many if not more questions as I did when I got started an the ripe age of
13. Of course then I thought I had it all figured out. I actually had it figured out when I was
about 4 years old. Yours truly was going to play drums for the rock band KISS. Well, I’m not
Peter Criss, Eric Carr or Eric Singer. I have however, played drums in a number of rock bands.
None of witch ever made it past the local bar scene, but most played a Kiss song or two.
With the entertainment industry you get both the best and the worst of people. Relationships,
both personal and professional have been formed and broken. Through the years many good people
that I’ve known have lost everything while some very despicable souls have excelled. This
isn’t always the case and just as often the opposite. One thing that I am sure of is that success
is relative to definition and determination with a little dash of chance. I’m not just referring
to becoming a “rock star”. I certainly am not nor have ever been one. This theory applies to any
walk of life that someone chooses, stumbles into or is just stuck dealing with for any amount of
time. To quote someone who’s name currently escapes me, “life is 10% what happens to you and 90%
how you deal with it.”
Much, much more to come on this subject……..
Arnie