- You have to be careful for days in advance to make sure your voice isn't shot the gig night, i.e. not smoke much, drink lots of fluids and still chances are the voice will anyway be way less than at its best

- You have to spend all day with the thing; get the stuff ready and packed and then do the lugging at maybe 5 in the afternoon, soundcheck at seven, and then wait until maybe 11 or midnight to actually get to playing, AND not even be able to drink lots of beer before you have played, so you just sit around pissed with nothing to do for hours on end

- You're at the very lowest ebb of your performance levels at gig time, i.e. 11.pm. or so, which is when you normally go to bed, so you're already bummed out and tired before the show even starts

- Even if the gig starts super early like at 10 p.m. or something, you're still super tired because you spent the night before sleepless due to stressing about the gig

- You can't eat much stuff during the night because you don't a.) want it because you're nervous for the gig b.) you don't want to look like a snake that's just eaten on stage

- At the actual gig there's maybe 5% chance someone actually likes you and cheers, but more like 90% chance someone will ask you to play some top-40 songs you never even heard of

- You're likely to lose some cord of piece of gear on the gig, or get some beer poured on your amp

- You're likely to have to strip the stage right after the gig and in 50% of cases also lug everything into the van where it'll freeze overnight then OR alternatively you have to be there at seven in the morning to clear everything away

- You get to drinking beer properly only after the gig, by when it's at least midnight, so when the bar closes at four you've got like 3 hours of sleep left before you have to get up terribly hung over

- When it's all done you realize your share of the pay is roughly enough to pay for a new pack of strings and a third of the beer you drank after the gig at the bar