Let's Start a Band

My entry for Rocktober is to pose a question.  

So, what is that makes people want to start a band?  Is it the love of music, or the promise of fame, fortune, and hot babes?  As much as anyone, including myself,would say it's the former, my hunch is that in 99.99% of the cases, it's the latter.

I mean, before electric guitars, television and American Bandstand, were pre-pubescents across the land begging their parents for a violin so they could start a chamber music quartet? 

Sure, sure there have always been people that aspired to show business, whatever its form at the time.  But what it is about these days that performing something musically in front of a mass audience is now such a pinnacle of success?  And the trashier and less good the music becomes, the more people want to embibe in the industry's excesses. 

Sex, drugs, and yeah!  Sex and drugs!