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Stephen Dodd
Hi people since I'm going to be doing this often I wanted to take this first blog and make it about my past in music. In 5th grade my mom told me I was going to join the school band which I remember throwing a fit to because I didn't want the band geek title over my head (it's amazing how much I cared about social status at the time). Nevertheless I didn't have a choice so we went in on the day of sign up where you would try out the different instruments and pick out one you liked. I know I tried out allot of them but I only remember playing the saxophone and trombone because I had narrowed down my choices to those, but my final decision was obvious because the guy demonstrating saxophone was a tool, I picked trombone.
Moving into middle school I remember absolutely hating trombone, I'm not sure why though, I think it had to do with the fact that all of my friends at the time were focused more on sports. Regardless this was also the time I first played guitar, my dad and I decided it would be could if I did some private lesson stuff. I remember the first song I learnt was smoke on the water by deep purple. The whole thing was fun especially because my little brother played drums, but after awhile I just wanted to stop, so I did, which is one of my main regrets.. what can you do.
So in highschool was where my interests started to change, I gradually got sick of sports and found myself liking trombone more, also this was a time when my friends we're forming the band I would soon become a part of. Then in sophmore year it happened they needed a bass player and they new I use to play guitar so they asked me and I said yes, which brings a whole new timeline in my life which I'll save for another time. Anyways this was where it all started, it was when my music interests changed, it was when I started to not care what other people thought, it was when I stared looking at the world differently, which sounds cheesy but it's true.
I'll continue this another time.
Thanks for reading!
-Stephen
