[Chris Lago]

Originally Posted by James 'LA' Lugo

I think some of the people who hate the band and say they wouldn't ever want to be successful doing music they didn't love have never been attached to anything with legs before. I could be wrong but I know from my experience with everything from playing in Dokken to being involved with American Idol just the energy of something successful has a life of it's own and can be incredible. If Nickelback asked me to go on a 5 star world tour playing guitar it would probably be some of the greatest times of my life. I think some of the posting on here is either untrue or coming from people who have no idea what they are talking about and have had zero success in music. My experiences with American Idol have been amazing, I've been a part of the show for 2 seasons, I never watched the show once leading up to being asked to host Idol Chat, I detested the show but the experience of being involved in something so huge and so successful has been amazing and I wouldn't change it for anything. It's more fun then staring at a computer screen. Oh yeah and you're surrounded by hot chicks, yeah I'd much rather be on second stage at some festival tour doing my own thing and thinking I'm important. I bet nearly everyone who says they wouldn't do Nickelback would be getting packed before they got off the phone with Chad if they were offered the gig. You have the rest of your life to record the next DSOM and be intense.

My 2 cents

Well said.