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JM05 TOURING ROCK BAND

CREDITS

Written by Jason Morningstar

Edited by Steve Segedy

Touring Rock Band was Playset of the Month, January 2010.

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“When you play, play hard .” - Theodore Roosevelt



THE SCORE

“I AM A GOLDEN GOD!”

It’s all about the music, man. It’s about becoming famous. It’s about

the chicks, the drugs, the fans. It’s about burning bright and dyingyoung, leaving behind a legend!

Or maybe it’s about paying for the hotel room once the stupid legend

has left the building.

Touring Rock Band is an over-the-top collection of iconic rock and roll

glories and unwholesome lunacy. It’s about golden gods rising to fame

and falling back into addiction, stupidity and squalid failure.

MOVIE NIGHT

Almost Famous. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains. Paanch.



relationships...

1 FAMILY

1 Brother and sister

2 Brothers or sisters

3 “Blood brothers”

4 Cousins

5 Twins

6 Faked family

2 GOOD FRIENDS

1 Best friends since grade school

2 Best friends since yesterday

3 Tour bus friends

4 The collective soul of the band

5 Creative challengers

6 Friends with benefits

3 THE GRIND

1 Boss / roadie

2 Boss / wardrobe and merch

3 Tour manager / dude under manager’s thumb

4 Boss / off-stage session musician

5 Tour assistant manager / guitar tech

6 Boss / weird guy with tool bag



...in A TOURING ROCK BAND

4 PARASITES

1 Dealer / drug fiend

2 Sidekicks of The Great One

3 Reporter / tour personnel

4 Roadies

5 Local celebrity / tour personnel

6 Musician’s teenager / tour personnel

5 TROUBLE

1 Undercover cop / tour personnel

2 Protective parent / tour personnel

3 Underage fan / tour personnel

4 Insane stalker / tour personnel

5 Tour personnel who violently hate each other

6 Former member of the band / tour personnel

6 BAD FRIENDS

1 You owe him your life

2 He owes you his career

3 Manipulator / victim

4 Public enemies, private friends

5 Friends by court-ordered consent decree

6 Public friends, private enemies



NEEDS...

1 TO GET FUCKED

1 By a groupie, right the hell now

2 To prove you are straight

3 To win a bet

4 In a new and unsavory way not even Led Zeppelin attempted

5 By your estranged sweetheart

6 By the one person who can refuse you

2 TO GET WASTED

1 Because your promoter told you to get in the papers

2 As a cry for help

3 With some cool local teenagers

4 Just to make it through

5 With a friendly drug dealer

6 To handle the pressure of a TV interview

3 TO GET PILES OF CASH

1 By ripping off the rest of the band

2 By signing a solo contract

3 With the help of faith healer Tito Luna

4 By following your cousin’s advice

5 By keeping the band together no matter what

6 With a sideline energy drink deal




4 TO GET REVENGE

1 On these toolbags that call themselves artists

2 For the humiliation you endure every day

3 On your fucking manager

4 On that strutting primadonna

5 For ignoring your creative contributions forever

6 Because nobody calls you a poser

5 TO GET RESPECT

1 By showing the world that you have no limits

2 By winning an American Music Award

3 From the band, because you deserve … respect

4 From the crew, who laugh behind your back

5 From your family, who think you are a failure

6 By bringing the light of Christ to the tour

6 TO GET OUT

1 Of certain promises you made to certain dangerous people

2 Of a debt you owe and can’t repay

3 Of your fuckin’ contract

4 Of your fuckin’ marriage

5 Of your menial role, and thereby thrust into greatness

6 Of your responsibility - permanently



LOCATIONS...

1 THE TOUR BUS

1 Bathroom

2 Bedroom

3 Driver’s seat and door well

4 Video game lounge

5 The roof, in motion

6 The capacious but empty liquor cabinet

2 THE ARENA

1 Above the stage

2 In the wings

3 Beneath the stage with the pyro package

4 The green room, with snacks

5 On stage, before an angry crowd

6 In the mosh pit

3 WHEREVER THE HELL WE ARE TODAY

1 A Circle-K Cafeteria

2 A dodgy truck stop

3 An elementary school

4 A used CD store

5 “Musician’s Buddy” megastore

6 An industrial trash incinerator




4 DETROIT

1 A greasy all-ages club in Ferndale

2 A luxury suite above the Palace of Auburn Hills arena

3 A shabby bungalow in Hamtramck

4 The studio of WRIF at five in the morning

5 A Canadian 25 foot powerboat on Lake St. Clair

6 Cargo terminal at Detroit Metro Airport

5 LOS ANGELES

1 The laundry room of the LA Airport Hilton

2 The American Music Awards ceremony

3 A powered wheelchair showroom in Ventura

4 A crack house in East Los Angeles

5 The Wilshire Community Police Station

6 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

6 CHADWICK, IDAHO

1 Cerulean Skies Studio

2 The Sucker Creek Spawning Channel

3 A barn, on fire

4 The bed of an F-150 pickup, underwater

5 A dog-fighting ring behind a trailer park

6 The Mayor’s house on Plessy Street



OBJECTS...

1 SICK AS HELL

1 A crate of illegal blue-light lasers

2 A sniper rifle

3 A digital camera with a stuffed memory card

4 Lyle Lovett

5 A minimally-trained grizzly bear

6 A spear-fishing gun

2 ROCKIN’

1 A Scab-Man costume

2 An extraordinarily precious guitar

3 A trailer full of theatrical lights

4 The extra box shipped with the drum kit

5 A pyrotechnic bomb-pot

6 “Flight” rigging and angel wings

3 ROLLIN’

1 A 20 gallon tub of porn DVDs

2 A bong made out of a 13-year-old girls’ skull

3 A heat-sealed Mylar sack of weed

4 Polyhedral dice made out of real rubies

5 A case of top shelf whiskey bottles

6 An unlabeled chemical paste in a locked Pelican box




4 FUCKIN’ AWESOME

1 Ronnie James Dio’s wristbands

2 A “full body burn” stunt suit

3 An African dictator’s Learjet 25

4 A mountain of cocaine

5 Bondage gear

6 A Maserati Quatroporte III

5 DUDE, NO WAY

1 Somebody’s heroin works

2 A district attorney’s misplaced notes

3 A threatening email message

4 An unfortunate X-Ray

5 A pit bull kennel with a wonky lock

6 Advance copy of a scathing expose on the band

6 FUCKIN’ WEAK

1 A restraining order

2 A Ford Fiesta

3 The Manager’s true account books

4 The pager number of doom

5 A scrapbook of Janet Jackson clippings

6 A truckload of telephone handsets



A goat-throwing

INSTA-setup

Relationships in A ROCK BAND

For three players…

*Bad friends: He owes you his career

*The grind: Boss / off-stage session musician

*Family: Twins

For four players, add…

*Trouble: Tour personnel who violently hate each other

For five players, add…

*Good friends: The collective soul of the band

Needs in A ROCK BAND

For three players…

*To get respect: By winning an American Music Award

For four or five players, add…

*To get revenge: For the humiliation you endure every day

OBJECTS in A ROCK BAND

For three or four players…

*Fuckin’ awesome: A “full body burn” stunt suit

For five players, add…

*Dude No Way: Advance copy of a scathing expose on the band

LOCATIONS in A ROCK BAND

For three, four or five players…

*Los Angeles: The American Music Awards ceremony

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