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Traveling musicians of the past didn’t have bottled water. This is
something I have observed from glimpses of bands backstage in
concert videos, like Led Zeppelin in The Song Remains the Same or
New Order looking awesomely dour (and waterless!) before an ‘85
Tokyo show in Pumped Full of Drugs. Man, you’ll say, has had bottled
water since the Middle Ages. But this is on a totally different scale
of consumption.
Nowadays an average touring musician is confronted with a dilemma: he knows drinking bottled water is not good for the earth, but that drinking bottled water is as habitual to the culture of bus and venue as smoking and
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tattoos AND that while at home he might try to drink solely tap water, he’ll still backslide when he sees a six-pack of Jana with its cute blue handle and its come hither Croatian-pastoral imagery….or he’ll indulge, after a short run, in a tall sweating bottle of Fiji from some faraway island in the South Pacific.
To drink it is to be transported. . . Maybe this isn’t a dilemma after all, but an addiction. What can he do?
He struggles every day with his bottled water habit and tries to be a better man.
A man who drinks from the tap.
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