Reply To: JoCo’s Twitters (or tweets, as they say)
Bry: Where were you, musically, when you started high school? What were your musical interests at that point?
When I started high school? Well, I’d been playing drums in the junior high and elementary school band — that was my instrument of choice in school. Snare drum, mostly – there wasn’t any stage band, or jazz band, until high school. But in high school I did continue playing drums – I did snare drums in the concert band, snare drums in the marching band, and for the first couple of years I played jazz drums. I was not a very good jazz drummer as a high school student.
Bry: And now of course you have no real drums.
Now I don’t have any actual drums, yes. And also at that point I was sort of playing stuff on the piano, not really reading music — ’cause that took too long — but playing by ear, stuff on the piano. And I had been learning guitar at that point, sort of playing through various song books, learning chords and practicing playing and singing. And at some point in high school I just sort of transitioned from drums to guitar, because it was easier to carry around and more interesting.