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"High School Garage Band Stories"

"18 and Life"

When I was in high school, I briefly played bass in a high school glam metal "band." I say "band," because I'd also say that we played "music," as in we really sucked, never played out, and didn't last very long. To give you some idea of what this "band" was like, we had a song called "Delinquents," only we spelled it "Delinkwints." Other than that, I think we tried to cover Motley Crue songs. I always hated Motley Crue. I thought being in the band might get me laid, but it didn't.

Anyway, so one day we're "practicing" in the drummer's basement. I'll call the "drummer" George. Some guy we all knew showed up and started shooting his BB gun into George's basement window. He broke the window, so George called the cops. When the cops showed up, they asked if we knew how to play "18 and Life" by Skid Row.

Then the Cops said, "You better keep the music down, that could be why they were shooting at you."

I said, "No. They just don't like George."

"Underage Meets Skid Row"

Actually, I sort of played bass in yet another glam rock high school "band." The "singer" of this "band" named the "band" "Underage." I was pretty embarrassed by the name, but the singer knew a lot of girls, so I thought maybe I'd get laid. I didn't.

Anyway, the singer claimed that his sister dated the guitarist in Skid Row and used to tell all these stories that weren't even half believable. One day he was telling people that our band hung out with Skid Row in the city and Skid Row took us to their recording studio, but had to blindfold us so we wouldn't know where it was. Needless to say, that never happened.

"Plagiarism"

Allegedly a singer for a high school band went to hear another band play. After the other band played a 12 bar blues rife, the singer went up to the guitarist and accused him of stealing his band's music.