Jimmy Guttermans 33 Rules of Bad Music Making, part 2: the NEW list for the 21st Century

This thread is for responding to the list as the bottom of this post.
It's your opportunity to think up 33 NEW rules. The old list (from 1991) is obviously outdated and need replacing. Sooooo.... what would YOUR 33 Rules be?

THE 33 1/3 RULES OF ROCK AND ROLL
If you violate these rules, you will make bad rock and roll and a couple of guys looking for a quick buck will write about you.

1. Do not retain a band's name if the most important member(s) has left the group. Does anybody (even Pete Townshend) really like anything the Who have recorded since Keith Moon died in 1978?
   
2. Do not sing a song about Elvis, especially if you have never been in a recording studio before.
   
3. Do not record for Arista Records. In the late eighties, Clive Davis's label was a haven for art-rock has-beens eager for one last pillage, like GTR and the Kantner-Balin-Casady Band (both of which broke up after one album) and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (pending). Arista's flagship "new" artists of the time, particularly Milli Vanilli, were cynical exploitation units.
   
4. Rock-and-roll songs with an orchestral choir are bound to be horrible. (Sole exception; the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want")
   
5. Rock lyrics are not poetry (especially if Sting or Bono write them).
   
6. The quality of a rock-and-roll song is inversely proportional to the number of instruments on it (unless you're Van Morrison).
   
7. Supergroups never are.
   
8. Rock stars are not actors.
   
9. Actors are not rock stars.
   
10. White rock-and-roll stars who talk about their R&B roots are probably lying. Similarly, anyone born after April 1954 who records at the Sun Studio is a poseur. Furthermore, a return to roots is not necessarily a good thing. Listened to John Lennon's Rock 'n' Roll lately?
    
11. Don't sing a song about your dead parent, especially if tht parent was a celebrity. This is the Hank Williams, Jr., rule.
    
12. Elvis is dead.
    
13. Do Not Go to Art School
    
14. The more controversial the cause embraced, the more likely the star may actually be committed to it. Do you know anyone in favour of hunger or homelessness?
    
15. Whatever you do, Jerry Lee Lewis (or GG Allin) has already done it. Probably better, too.
    
16. A list is not a song. (Most blatant recent violation: Billy Joel's evasive"We Didn't Start the Fire.")
    
17. Established artists should not allow family members into the band.
    
18. There is no reason besides greed for an established performer to accept corporate sponsorship.
    
19. Live records should reflect what a performance actually sounded like when it occured. We loved the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense until we found out how many studios were used for postproduction.
    
20. Videos are commercials.
    
21. Good politics are not what makes good lyrics.
    
22. Formidable technical proficiency is never sufficient. This explains why art rock is always bad.
    
23. Neither is formidable hair. (Exception: Little Richard.)
    
24. Do not hang out with Jeff Lynne or Dave Stewart. They will produce your record, you will take part in periodic psychedelic revivals, and you will start dressing like them. Do you want to wear a paisley vest and cowboy boots that badly?
    
25. Cult artists are frequently just as boring and predictable as mainstream ones. This is also called the Robyn Hitchcock rule.
    
26. Heavy Metal should be fast.
    
27. Punk Happened. (Note Tense.)
    
28. If you recorded more than three albums, someone will someday compile a boxed set dedicated to your oeuvre and Rolling Stone will give it four stars and call it a "grand summary, especially valuable on pristine CD."
    
29. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an oxymoron. If you want your work to be recognized in a musuem, learn to paint.
    
30. Admit you're balding.
    
31. Love is not all you need. Psychedelic lyrics never ring true after you've come down.
    
32. Do not record cover versions of Motown or Stax/Volt hits.
    
33. Rock and roll is but one part of the music being made on this planet. Rockers who think they are changing the world are in fact only reaching a small part of it.
    

and finally...

33 1/3 Do not die before Albert Goldman.

Attack, Attack, Attack...and when in doubt, Attack Again...