Can a musician be a jock?

Can a musician be a jock?

Or is it safer for a jock to become a musician?

Maybe it’s the same thing as acting.

It seems okay for musicians to become actors,

but a big taboo if actors try to become musicians.

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I guess some of the things musicians and jocks have in common especially when they are teenagers are:

They boath can’t spell.

They ain’t good in school.

They’re in it to get the chicks.

Fashion is everything.

And

Alcohol is everything.

I was recently interviewed by ABC radio and syndicated to over 4,200 radio stations across the States (and syndicated on internet and Europe as well – sounds like a plug don’t it :), where one of the questions in front of so many was:

“So, I heard you also exercise, what’s with that”?

It kind of caught me off guard because I’d never really thought of it before. But I guess if stereotyping is allowed, then:

yeah, musicians are skinny cigarette smoking, beer drinking, family deprived punks. Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll baby YEAH!

While sports jocks are fitness training, dumb and cocky Papa’s boys.

I answered that radio question by saying, “exercise cleans the body, while music cleans the soul”. Perhaps ABC’s Fame Games realized they were heading into a dark zone, they edited that whole section out and the whole question fortunately never aired.

Perhaps for the better.

There is some harmony in there somewhere I believe. Well, for me anyways.

Maybe even a sports song like the Saturday night hockey Theme.