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What advice should I give?

Or get some super hot chilis and brush a couple of old harps down with the oil real good and then "accidentally" leave a them their when you leave. :bawl::bawl::bawl:

j/k

Get a harp (is that a harmonica?) and slice a few habaneros with it. Get that oil all over!!! (Of course, wear gloves and wash wll after)
Set it on the table at rehearsal, and tell them 'Whatever you do, don't stick this one in your $^%#!'
Of course, they'll do it!
Ooooweeeeee!
Plus, getting that stuff on their fingers.....then their eyes!
Oh, think of the joy!
 
Oh, that loveable Irish humour. Ha ha ha. Or not.

The young guy needs to learn that some people are just a total waste of time, and others are not. Have nothing to do with the ones that are. The guys described here are poison - avoid.
 
If everyone is picking on him, which to be honest is bullying, you need to tell him to leave, you need to warn parents and other people of authority in school. If it happens in the studio, it likely happens in school. It could escalate.

My personal advice would be to beat the **** out of whoever has been pushing him around. Break a guitar neck.

+1!! I've been the victim of psychological bullying in bands before but NEVER physical to this extent...I'd GTFO of there ASAP and break something valuable on the way!!
 
Get a harp (is that a harmonica?) and slice a few habaneros with it. Get that oil all over!!! (Of course, wear gloves and wash wll after)
Set it on the table at rehearsal, and tell them 'Whatever you do, don't stick this one in your $^%#!'
Of course, they'll do it!
Ooooweeeeee!
Plus, getting that stuff on their fingers.....then their eyes!
Oh, think of the joy!

Ha-ha!! I like that one...even better, you could go for Nagga's or Bhut Jolokia (but you've GOT to make sure its the most evil bastard who picks it up...maybe the leader with the fat arse? Scrunch a chilli up and stick it up there when he next does it!)