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09-03-2008, 11:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Rhode Island | | | So I'm off to boarding school...
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Im sort of bored right now so I'd figure I'd write this. I'm off to boarding school for the next 3 years of high school, and I'm worried that the people there (as far as music goes) might not be the musical taste I'm looking for to form a band. On the other hand maybe there are other kids out there like me, but I just don't know. Anyone who went to boarding school have any advice or words of uplifting? |
09-03-2008, 11:13 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | You mean, like, learning how to ride a surfboard? That shouldn't take three years.
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09-03-2008, 11:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Good luck. I'd hate going to boarding school. 
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09-03-2008, 11:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Rhode Island | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga  You mean, like, learning how to ride a surfboard? That shouldn't take three years. | haha no. I meant as far as music and bands were concerned. I guess what I'm trying to say is how would I go about organizing a band if I was so inclined. Quote:
Originally Posted by ROON Good luck. I'd hate going to boarding school. | Well it was either that and stay in my surrent house in RI or get uplifted for a 4th time in my life and move to Washington, D.C. (don't ask) I'm actually sor of excited for it (starts next tuesday) |
09-03-2008, 11:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Just like any other new scene. Find out who is playing in bands or owns equipment or gigging. Be open to musical styles. Sticking with just what you know will reduce your chances of getting in a band or starting one. Talk to everyone. Check out the school band.
Be friendly and interested in what other people are doing. Ask them about themselves. Let them talk and you'll learn a lot. Same goes for the women you'll meet.
Good luck. |
09-04-2008, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by stewart8980 haha no. I meant as far as music and bands were concerned. I guess what I'm trying to say is how would I go about organizing a band if I was so inclined. | The wooshing sound was his sense of humor doing a flyby on your forehead. 
In all seriousness, Stumbo has some great advice. Be friendly and outgoing, meet other people, and be open to new styles. Those traits will also be the best preparation for college you could ever get!
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09-04-2008, 03:14 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | Assumption ? Boarding School builds character , all the best with it. 
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09-04-2008, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Machias/Bangor, Maine | | | Good Luck!
A friend of mine went for the last two years of his high school and he came back a completely different person.
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09-04-2008, 03:24 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Well there are all kinds of boards. Snowboards, kiteboards, wakeboards, skateboards, and then of course, as Munji mentioned there are surfboards. Each one of those boards have a wide variance in lengths and styles. For instance, I have 12 surfboards and I ride each and every one of them. It really depends on the waves. Then of course, there are also 2 x 4's. |
09-04-2008, 03:51 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Then of course, there are also 2 x 4's. | Freestyle ditch jumping. Hell yeah!!!
To the OP, just be open to new stuff. Just because it's new and different, doesn't mean it's wrong. |
09-04-2008, 09:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mrokern The wooshing sound was his sense of humor doing a flyby on your forehead.
In all seriousness, Stumbo has some great advice. Be friendly and outgoing, meet other people, and be open to new styles. Those traits will also be the best preparation for college you could ever get!
-Mark | But be careful. Don't loose sight of who you are. Remember, you'll be in a closed system. Plus, it's a closed HIGH SCHOOL.
There are no corners in the round rooms...
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09-04-2008, 09:19 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by joeinsprings
To the OP, just be open to new stuff. Just because it's new and different, doesn't mean it's wrong.
| I though that only happen to girls in collage? |
09-04-2008, 09:54 PM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gold_member_321 Good Luck!
A friend of mine went for the last two years of his high school and he came back a completely different person. | Was that the guy who had the sex reassignment surgery?
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09-04-2008, 09:58 PM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk I though that only happen to girls in collage? | Hehe! |
09-04-2008, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Bard2dbone Was that the guy who had the sex reassignment surgery? |
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09-04-2008, 10:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Rhode Island | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderscreech But be careful. Don't loose sight of who you are. Remember, you'll be in a closed system. Plus, it's a closed HIGH SCHOOL.
There are no corners in the round rooms... |
True, but by closed system do you mean that they'll have a constant grip on us, cause the school I'm going to, that's farther from the truth. Now there was this one guy, Bowlander... |
09-05-2008, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by stewart8980 True, but by closed system do you mean that they'll have a constant grip on us, cause the school I'm going to, that's farther from the truth. Now there was this one guy, Bowlander... | What i mean is that you wont be able to get away from people. So, basically, you have to kinda like/be neutral towards everybody. POr just do a really good job of concealing the loathing for some of them.
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09-05-2008, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech What i mean is that you wont be able to get away from people. So, basically, you have to kinda like/be neutral towards everybody. POr just do a really good job of concealing the loathing for some of them. | OH I'm really good at that. (not sarcasm) |
09-05-2008, 11:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: boston, ma | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stumbo Just like any other new scene. Find out who is playing in bands or owns equipment or gigging. Be open to musical styles. Sticking with just what you know will reduce your chances of getting in a band or starting one. Talk to everyone. Check out the school band. | Nailed it. I played with my current bandmates in high school for a few cover gigs, playing mostly alt rock stuff for a few shows. Later I played in a pop/reggae band with that same drummer, really not my cup of tea, but it was a good time and we played some cool gigs. Eventually, I ended up getting together with the same drummer from both of those projects and the guitarist from the cover band to form our own band and it's been a great experience.
Just out of curiosity, what school are you attending? I grew up in the lower mass/upper rhode island area, and I had some friends go to different prep schools for high school. |
09-05-2008, 04:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Rhode Island | | | Tabor up in Marion, MA. I live in Westerly, so its one of the closest ones I looked at. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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