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But this was no ordinary assembly, because the sole reason they were there was to hear their peers jam on stage. The school gathered in the cafeteria like any normal assembly. This would be our one and only gig as a band, coming at the tail end of the school year, spring 1983. Any seventh-grade band can make its way through Á¢€Å“Any Way you Want It.Á¢€ IÁ¢€â„¢m not sure what that says about the musicality of Journey, but they were one of the most popular bands in the world in the early ’80s, so they were doing something right.įor months we jammed in the basement until word got around that we were actually pretty good and our school principal asked us to play in front of the entire student body of Chestnut School. There are only a couple chords the verses and chorus are easy to sing and the most difficult part of the number is the guitar solo. The basic rock song written by the mainstream rock bandÁ¢€â„¢s lead singer, Steve Perry, and guitar virtuoso, Neal Schon, was the Á¢€Å“Smoke on the Water,Á¢€ the Á¢€Å“Rocky Mountain WayÁ¢€ of our day. Our best number was JourneyÁ¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“Any Way You Want ItÁ¢€ from their 1980 album, Departure.
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Being seventh graders, we only learned, like, six songs, all of them pretty basic rock and roll, plus we wrote an original instrumental. But his brother owned a bass guitar so he volunteered play the instrument for us. Ross was a good drummer better than me, in fact. I recall four of us - Kevin on lead vocals, Craig on guitar, Ross on bass, and myself. With BuddÁ¢€â„¢s permission (and my parentsÁ¢€â„¢ reluctant consent) I was allowed to use his drums for band rehearsals held in the Malchus basement. By seventh grade, enough of my classmates knew I could keep the beat and play along on the radio to the popular songs of the day that I was asked to join my first rock band. Coordinating the hi-hat with the bass drum and snare came natural to me drumming was in my blood.
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Throughout fifth and sixth grade, while I was required to play the bells in school band, at home I began learning how to play BuddÁ¢€â„¢s drums. That was one of the best decisions I made early in life. The drums called to me, so much so that the summer before fifth grade I made the ballsy choice of telling my dad, my clarinet teacher, that I didnÁ¢€â„¢t want to play a woodwind instrument and instead wanted to be a drummer. As a prepubescent boy, I would study those drums when he wasnÁ¢€â„¢t looking, much like the cavemen inspected that black monolith in Stanley KubrickÁ¢€â„¢s film, mouth gaping, curious and hesitant to touch them for fear of what might happen to me.
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My brotherÁ¢€â„¢s black five-piece Rogers drum set stood in our basement like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey: Mysterious, imposing and full of wonder.