# @therock on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQjBxEFejG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11637148-therock-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/fa5447d5d6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-11-06T17:59:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) — https://gondola.cc/TheRock

## Caption

🎸🔥
A lil’ flashback to the iconic honky tonk I used to hang out in when I was 15 years old. 
The one and only tootsies_orchid_lounge 🎶🥃

I grew up loving traditional country, blues and hip hop - but when I was 15 living in a lil’ motel room in Nashville - just me and a buddy of mine - I thought I could be a decent country music singer to make a little money not be broke 💵 🎤 

A woman heard me singing in a grocery store (true story) and told me I should go down to Broad street and try and sing in one of the honky tonks to get noticed. 

So that’s what I did. 

Keep in mind I was 15, but I actually looked 57 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

One night at a one of country bars, I bought a car from a crackhead for $40 bucks (original agreement was $75:) - and that beat up Thunderbird turned out to be stolen, of course - and about a month later we were forced out of Nashville.

Wound up moving to the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Bethlehem) where I would FINALLY, get my wayward ass on the right track to become a productive young man. 

And though my 15yr old dream of become a country music legend, never came true... years later, my buddy - the GOAT Willie Nelson would gift me my very first guitar. 

Which I learned to play pretty well. Didn’t matter anyway because I proudly sing in raspy keys that don’t exist 
🎼🤣🙋🏽‍♂️💁🏽‍♂️ 

#themusicrowkid
#crackheadsandthunderbirds
#15goingon50 🥃🙏🏾

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