“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.”
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We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.
I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.
I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6, 000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.