For those of you that thought that music is rock solid and will never be endangered ...... need to read this...
Go to the above link and read for yourself and think twice about what you thought....
Ed
Get Closer To The Music
PLEASE ALWAYS SUPPORT MUSIC IN SCHOOLS OR ON STAGE...
That doesn't surprise me. I know 20 years ago, when I was in High School, band was almost a naughty word - but don't fuck with anything regarding the jocks.
Out of curiosity, how many musicians on here played an instrument or where involved in band in grade school or high school?
I started taking guitar lessons in grade school but never had anything to do with the schools band until high school. In high school I played the bass guitar for a year, then played guitar for stage band, auxillary percussion for concert band and percussion for marching band.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G Gordon Liddy
Piano geek, organ master (heh!), and Drum Major. I got to beat the big bass drum occasionally and would take emily's flute if she wasn't looking. That's it.
I've only ever had two teachers for two of my instruments, and neither lasted longer than two years. One just disappeared, the other ran off and got married. No g'byes. No warning. Should I be offended? were they trying to tell me something?
~*~Esa~*~
I'll be the one left standing behind you, looking the other way as you glance back at what you've lost.
I took a few drum lessons, but quit once I heard "kill 'em all" and went right to guitar. I honestly don't know anyone who was in band that is still a musician today.
I played trumpet in the Duncansville Elementary School band from 1-5 grade. There were 6 of us, including my former Forces bandmate and co-guitar, John Saksa, who played trombone. Brass just didn't cut it and I moved on to guitar. I don't recall anything going on with guitar at high school.
In my yearbook, there is a picture captioned "Senior Musicians". I was not in that pic, although I was the only gigging musician in the school. It sure beat washing dishes and the bar babes were a whole lot more interesting than the school girls.
...Oh, the freedom of the day that yielded to no rule or time...
Just goes to show that Government don't know their ass from a hole in the ground ....!!!
Including the Govern ator.....
Everyone should send Arnold a personal reply....
Send your opinion to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Performance Review.
when I was in elementary school, my parents asked if I wanted to learn an instrument. I said please please please buy me a drumset. Being parents and from this planet, they instead bought me a more "conventional" instrument - an alto sax, and enrolled me in lessons at school. I hated it so badly that on lesson day I used to chuck it in the bushes at the bus stop and tell my teacher I forgot it. Then after school I'd dig it out of the bushes and take it back home and throw it in the closet. Meanwhile I was banging on paint cans with a pair of wooden spoons from moms kitchen. They finally caught on and realized they couldn't force me to learn the sax, so they broke down and bought me an old beat up Ludwig kit. I haven't stopped playing since, and I've been in bands steadily for 10 years now (drumming or singing or both). I don't know what the lesson is here, other than music is a calling for some kids, but you have to let it go where it wants to go. I think schools should offer kids more musical opportunities than conventional concert and jazz and marching bands. We should help them learn to play the music they enjoy, whether its heavy metal or bubble gum pop or country or reggae.
