Inafi L.A.

The way to Rock Star Status (RSS) is plagued with difficulties. Whatever your own particular Rome may be, the thing is that having an objective in life, having some place that you feel you should get to, is a package that comes with obstacles. These obstacles are the little kinks that should be ironed out in the fabric of your life, but should never be completely taken out, lest you find yourself in the underprivileged position of being a band or musician with nothing left to strive for. Many rock musicians look at obstacles as something that they didn?t deserve in life, as that which they never deserved but still had to learn to live with. But have you ever thought about all those things that you thought shouldn?t have come your way but still did? I?m talking about the simple things: homework when you guitar lessons were a kid; getting grounded when you disobeyed your parents; having to actually practice your instrument in order to become good; paying your dues instead of becoming instantaneously famous. Yes, these are things that at one time or another we thought shouldn?t have come in our way but still did. Why? To put it in the immortal words of Bruce Almighty, because ?that?s the way the cookie crumbles?. Stop thinking that obstacles shouldn?t get in your way. That?s what they?re supposed to do. They?re obstacles! How about musicians stop looking at them as barriers, as walls and look at them as opportunities to be harvested, as learning experiences and challenges. If there is music to be made, then you should make it. The Stones, Led Zep, Bon Jovi? all these artists did NOT stop when things came their way.