That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.
The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.
I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
I do a lot of touring, yes, and I have my whole life ever since I was 19 years old, when I used to tour with Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones, and Jackson Browne as a side musician.
I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.