Your band is a t-shirt company

That Band you saw. Ya, they are a t-shirt company that happens to get on stage. Their performance is a sales call. The lyrics a pitch to get you to "buy our merch in the back", a CEO/Founder telling their story about how they had a life changing idea to sell B2B software tools that will change the world.

The lyrics you got tattooed on your forearm, is getting a tattoo of a Powerpoint you loved. The community at the show sharing the experience, is the webinar in a basement. To sell you a t-shirt, or hoodie.

The world is a beautiful place, and we are no longer afraid to do commerce. Getting over the fact that in order to make this band thing work, you need to slog across the country in a van with your bandmates (co-workers), hoping people show up to see you and pay to buy the t-shirts you made with a logo.

Pedro the Lion wrote Bands with Managers

Bands with managers are going places Bands with messy hair and smooth white faces You don't believe when I say It won't be alright Vans with fifteen passengers are rolling over But I trust t. william walsh And I'm not afraid to die

Replacing Band with Brands, ands switch the "I trust t. william walsh" to "I trust m. elliot Zuckerberg"

You get this.

Brands with (ad)managers are going places Brands with messy hair and smooth white faces You don't believe when I say It won't be alright Vans with fifeteen passengers are rolling over But I trust m. elliot zuckerberg And I'm not afraid to die

Warp Tour and Coachella is a t-shirt convention. Each set is a sales pitch to buy the product. Warp Tour is an in person webinar.

If you wouldn't get in a van with your friends to drive around trying to sell your widget, what are you even doing with your life?

The joy and stories from the road, the nostalgia of "remember that time we drove through that snow storm in that chevy cavalier with all our gear, and the defroster stopped working so we had to drive like Ace Ventrua through the storm." I miss those days, man.

Looking back at my time in bands, I was a terrible t-shirt sales man.