Not music related and it's the opposite situation, but Alec Guinness was paid a fee of $150,000 for Star Wars, but also negotiated a 2% cut of the box office takings.
I wanted to do the same. When I was 16 I went to an RAF information day. I was a year too young to join. By the time I was old enough, I'd gone off the idea. I'd wanted to that from about the age of six and suddenly I had no idea what I wanted to be and still don't.
You just know that, as Ugg was crouched over, using a piece of sharp flint to whittle the first spear, someone was standing watching over his shoulder saying "Ugg, not want do like that..."
I always wondered... toolmakers use tools to make more tools, so what did the first toolmaker use to make the first tool? And that's how religions start! 😂
Once I get the room sorted, I'll have to put my bass on a stand. I can't remember the last time I played it. I have my guitars on stands and play them all the time, because they are there and I don't have to drag a case out from under the bed to get at them.
She's electric,
She's from a family full of eccentrics,
And the circles they are all concentric,
In Casablanca, Ilsa liked to say 'Rick'
In my head this rhyme did stick...