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Music / Musik » alt.fan.frank-zappa » FZ reference in the Baltimore Sun
| FZ reference in the Baltimore Sun [message #218759] |
Sa, 11 Februar 2006 22:28 |
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-li.scene09feb0 9,0,4899229.story?coll=bal-live-headlines
or pasted for your convenience
The real School of Rock
By Sam Sessa
Sun reporter
Originally published February 9, 2006
CJ Tywoniak wants to be a rock star for the rest of his life.
Almost every teenage boy gets the notion, drags Mom and Dad down to the
music store, buys a cheap guitar and takes a couple lessons. At 15, CJ
is a few steps ahead.
CJ and a handful of fellow adolescents are the School of Rock
All-Stars, a classic rock cover band culled from music teacher Paul
Green's School of Rock Music. Think the 2003 film School of Rock (not
technically related, but you get the idea), but with Paul Green as Jack
Black and CJ as kid guitarist Zack. Green's School of Rock Music
existed before the film (his first school opened in Philadelphia in
1998), and trains its students through band practices and onstage
performances -- not by locking them in practice rooms noodling endless
finger exercises. The All-Stars perform tonight at Sonar and tomorrow
at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Va., with Adrian Belew, who was a
guitarist for Frank Zappa, David Bowie and King Crimson.
When he was 5, CJ saw his stepdad playing guitar and wanted to try it.
His parents didn't think he was quite ready.
"I was kind of a little short fry then," he said.
CJ let his musical inclinations marinate for five years, and at 10, his
parents caved. They bought him an acoustic guitar and supported him
with praise, advice, music lessons and more gear. After two years, his
guitar teacher heard buzz about a new kind of after-school music class
offered in Philadelphia. CJ met Green, signed up and made the hourlong
trek from his Downingtown, Pa., home to Philadelphia once a week.
"When I got there, Paul actually helped me to realize my potential as a
musician, and that's what actually made me bloom," CJ said. "Before
Rock School, I had the materials, but I didn't know what to make with
them."
Green remembers the CJ from three years ago as "small, pudgy and shy."
Green said CJ's parents brought him to Rock School advertised as a
prodigy of sorts, and while he had great finger dexterity, it was all
from practice scales -- not performing.
"We started getting him that game experience -- how to take those great
chops and actually put them into music, control your tone and actually
make music that sounds good," Green said.
For the first year, CJ struggled with applying the music theory he knew
in a live setting with other musicians, Green said. Then he started to
grow into Green's expectations.
"Children's brains are amazing," Green said. "They can learn languages
and mathematical concepts way beyond what us old fogies can. I learned
very early on as high as I set the bar, the kids will go to it every
time. If nothing else with CJ, I just saw what he could do and set the
bar so far up and left him no choice but to go for it."
CJ went for it. He practiced relentlessly (he still practices about
three hours per day) and gradually built up a stage presence. His first
concert, he timidly stood on stage and played.
"I was just kind of this little Ewok-looking kid," he said.
By CJ's sixth concert, he'd grown long hair and knew how to use it --
swirling it around and head-banging like a heavy-metal hero.
Rock School and its students sparked national interest, and Green
jumped at the opportunity to open programs in other states. Green, a
failed rock star himself, rang professional rockers such as Alice
Cooper and Yes guitarist Jon Anderson and had them sit in with the
kids. He formed the All-Stars, taught them Frank Zappa tunes and took
them to Germany's Zappanale Festival. Rock School, a documentary
released last year, chronicles their saga.
Today, Green oversees 12 schools with a total of about 100 employees
and more than 1,000 students. CJ has one or two more years before he
graduates Rock School, finishes high school, heads off to college --
Berkeley, he hopes -- and gets famous. When he's not gigging with the
All-Stars, he writes his own songs and jams with his Downingtown band,
Mach 6.
While Green would love to see CJ become a professional musician, he
thinks the whole rock star thing might not be CJ's bag.
"When CJ says he wants to be a rock star, I kind of cringe a little,
because being a rock star takes a lot of luck, selling out and a lot of
things you can't control," Green said. "What CJ can control is being a
phenomenal musician. Maybe he's a studio guy. Maybe he's a composer for
soundtracks and things like that."
Green's goal with Rock School isn't to raise 1,000 rock stars, he said.
It's not supposed to raise professional cover musicians either, he
said.
"If any of these kids are in a cover band in three years, I'll
personally hunt them down," Green said.
Rock School's ultimate lesson is something like this: "For the average
kid who comes into my school, we're teaching them that if you pick up
the guitar and practice, you'll find something on that instrument to
express yourself with," he said. "Furthermore, if you work hard and are
honest and get over your fear, you can do amazing things."
sam.sessa [at] baltsun.com
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| Re: FZ reference in the Baltimore Sun [message #224546 ] |
Mo, 13 Februar 2006 16:47 |
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marc rosen wrote:
> http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-li.scene09feb0 9,0,4899229.story?coll=bal-live-headlines
>
> or pasted for your convenience
>
> The real School of Rock
> By Sam Sessa
> Sun reporter
> Originally published February 9, 2006
> CJ Tywoniak wants to be a rock star for the rest of his life.
>
> Almost every teenage boy gets the notion, drags Mom and Dad down to the
> music store, buys a cheap guitar and takes a couple lessons. At 15, CJ
> is a few steps ahead.
>
>
>
> CJ and a handful of fellow adolescents are the School of Rock
> All-Stars, a classic rock cover band culled from music teacher Paul
> Green's School of Rock Music. Think the 2003 film School of Rock (not
> technically related, but you get the idea), but with Paul Green as Jack
> Black and CJ as kid guitarist Zack. Green's School of Rock Music
> existed before the film (his first school opened in Philadelphia in
> 1998), and trains its students through band practices and onstage
> performances -- not by locking them in practice rooms noodling endless
> finger exercises. The All-Stars perform tonight at Sonar and tomorrow
> at the State Theatre in Falls Church, Va., with Adrian Belew, who was a
> guitarist for Frank Zappa, David Bowie and King Crimson.
>
> When he was 5, CJ saw his stepdad playing guitar and wanted to try it.
> His parents didn't think he was quite ready.
>
> "I was kind of a little short fry then," he said.
>
> CJ let his musical inclinations marinate for five years, and at 10, his
> parents caved. They bought him an acoustic guitar and supported him
> with praise, advice, music lessons and more gear. After two years, his
> guitar teacher heard buzz about a new kind of after-school music class
> offered in Philadelphia. CJ met Green, signed up and made the hourlong
> trek from his Downingtown, Pa., home to Philadelphia once a week.
>
> "When I got there, Paul actually helped me to realize my potential as a
> musician, and that's what actually made me bloom," CJ said. "Before
> Rock School, I had the materials, but I didn't know what to make with
> them."
>
> Green remembers the CJ from three years ago as "small, pudgy and shy."
> Green said CJ's parents brought him to Rock School advertised as a
> prodigy of sorts, and while he had great finger dexterity, it was all
> from practice scales -- not performing.
>
> "We started getting him that game experience -- how to take those great
> chops and actually put them into music, control your tone and actually
> make music that sounds good," Green said.
>
> For the first year, CJ struggled with applying the music theory he knew
> in a live setting with other musicians, Green said. Then he started to
> grow into Green's expectations.
>
> "Children's brains are amazing," Green said. "They can learn languages
> and mathematical concepts way beyond what us old fogies can. I learned
> very early on as high as I set the bar, the kids will go to it every
> time. If nothing else with CJ, I just saw what he could do and set the
> bar so far up and left him no choice but to go for it."
>
> CJ went for it. He practiced relentlessly (he still practices about
> three hours per day) and gradually built up a stage presence. His first
> concert, he timidly stood on stage and played.
>
> "I was just kind of this little Ewok-looking kid," he said.
>
> By CJ's sixth concert, he'd grown long hair and knew how to use it --
> swirling it around and head-banging like a heavy-metal hero.
>
> Rock School and its students sparked national interest, and Green
> jumped at the opportunity to open programs in other states. Green, a
> failed rock star himself, rang professional rockers such as Alice
> Cooper and Yes guitarist Jon Anderson and had them sit in with the
> kids. He formed the All-Stars, taught them Frank Zappa tunes and took
> them to Germany's Zappanale Festival. Rock School, a documentary
> released last year, chronicles their saga.
>
> Today, Green oversees 12 schools with a total of about 100 employees
> and more than 1,000 students. CJ has one or two more years before he
> graduates Rock School, finishes high school, heads off to college --
> Berkeley, he hopes -- and gets famous. When he's not gigging with the
> All-Stars, he writes his own songs and jams with his Downingtown band,
> Mach 6.
>
> While Green would love to see CJ become a professional musician, he
> thinks the whole rock star thing might not be CJ's bag.
>
> "When CJ says he wants to be a rock star, I kind of cringe a little,
> because being a rock star takes a lot of luck, selling out and a lot of
> things you can't control," Green said. "What CJ can control is being a
> phenomenal musician. Maybe he's a studio guy. Maybe he's a composer for
> soundtracks and things like that."
>
> Green's goal with Rock School isn't to raise 1,000 rock stars, he said.
> It's not supposed to raise professional cover musicians either, he
> said.
>
> "If any of these kids are in a cover band in three years, I'll
> personally hunt them down," Green said.
>
> Rock School's ultimate lesson is something like this: "For the average
> kid who comes into my school, we're teaching them that if you pick up
> the guitar and practice, you'll find something on that instrument to
> express yourself with," he said. "Furthermore, if you work hard and are
> honest and get over your fear, you can do amazing things."
>
>
> sam.sessa [at] baltsun.com
Adrian Belew Guitar Workshop at The Paul Green School Of Rock
Downingtown, PA:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=82203
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