posted these to my twitter (ripteeth) but heres some rough drafts for metalocalypse charms im gonna be making!!! ill be posting more updates to my twit
You know, I think that the guys had to be passionate about music at some point.
Sure they all claim that the whole point of forming a band was just for getting rich and famous, and for most of the series it does seem like their passion for their own craftsmanship took a backseat (way, way back over there) and the only thing they ever cared about was money and partying and doing drugs. But if that had been their only purpose from the beginning, they wouldn't have become musicians in the first place. They could have done a number of other things in order to achieve that. And while I can see that the reason they didn't is that they're canonically too stupid to, say, successfully scam people back when they were just nobodies, I think that that only partially explains it.
I really believe that at one early point in their careers they took to their instruments with a genuine, purely artistic intention and a spark of inspiration and wonder in their eyes. Maybe they even had other successful musicians whom they looked up to (even if they would never admit it). And I think that even at their worst, that part of them was always deep inside them still.
I really enjoy thinking of them as artists who at some point truly enjoyed and believed in what they were creating. And I think that after AOTD that part of them might even slowly pop back up.