Props to CP for making the choice - <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/14/after-whitney-houston-musicians-wonder-whos-next/">great article here</a>

Most fans have no understanding of the physical challenge of touring. That these artists are living a dream is true and beside the point. The roar of the crowd is seductive and lucrative, but to hear it there’s a price to pay. You perform at the edge of your physical and emotional capabilities or as Kelly Price said, by the end of a show, “We’re drained physically, spiritually and emotionally and need to be poured back into.” But instead they’re jumping on a bus or a plane and doing it again a night or two later and repeating this pattern for months on end. Questlove said, “If you’re traveling by plane, I can definitely see sleep deprivation happening because plane trips are not long enough to get quality sleep. But on a tour bus you’re going 70 mph over bumps, and you have to be mentally trained to do it. I know people who want to go home after three days. To make it, you have to desensitize yourself and be a robot. I’m 60% human and 40% work machine.”
