When a band's career takes them from playing bars in their region to playing national tours, a strange transformation happens. When you're a bar band, a key part of your success is the youth and attractiveness of the women who come to your gigs. After all one attractive girl who drinks two overpriced mojitos that some guy buys her means more profit to the bar than three guys who drink three beers each. On a national tour, though, this is no longer all that important, and what starts to matter instead is the youth and attractiveness of the women in the band, which promoters previously couldn't give less of a crap about.

Why does it seem that all my music-related observations involve young women, anyway?