You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.
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I'd been bumming around in bands since my school days.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
I played in a punk rock band in high school called the High Heel Flip Flops. I was the drummer. I played drums for, like, four years.
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.
When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.