A short interview clip from a Mick Unplugged YouTube video in which Wendy Moten describes life as a touring musician. She contrasts being a "road dog" (constant travel, modest conditions) with top-tier tours (steady pay, better hotels and organization), emphasizes the importance of work ethic and preparation, and explains she actively made choices to avoid early-career hardships.
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They consider someone like me a road dog means we stay on the road constantly. I would have to say people who are touring musicians are typically people who love being alone, you know, because you're going to spend a lot of long time together. Then you have this other family that you're living with, and they're a little bit like you too. They want to do great work. You know, I've been blessed to be on great tours where it's like a well oil machine. So you get paid on time, you get top dollar, you got the best hotels, you get the best tour, you know, situation. So like that tier that I've been on that you worked hard for, you did the work to reach that. So with that you require and expect a certain quality of life. And then you got the people who just starting out, you may be in your car, you may have to sleep in there, you may have to be in a van. I was making sure that that was not going to be my journey. So I had to do things to make sure, make better choices, be prepared, mainly work ethic, you know, my work ethic, nobody can talk about that.