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If there’s one life lesson that I’ve discovered that I would say is worth anything, it’s that following through on your dumbest, most unrealistic ideas can produce legitimately valuable experiences. I was actually thinking about this the other day when I decided to actually put some effort into one of the highly conceptual cover bands I’ve had floating around in my head for a while, like Hot Wings (the music of Paul McCartney & Wings in the style of ZZ Top), the Smashing Pupkins (a Smashing Pumpkins cover band with a singer who impersonates Robert De Niro’s character from The King of Comedy), or the as-yet-unnamed Lifter Puller cover band (where the conceptual punch line is that we practice very hard to sound just like Lifter Puller, but since very few people know what Lifter Puller sounded like no one would know).
