I was high on jazz and swing lol The soph teach learned me some Buddy Rich and basically helped shape me as a drummer. He lived an hour away, slept in office couple nights/wk, and visited me in hospital while wearing his Best Buy polo. Also introduced me to this beauty.

THE IDES OF MARCH- "VEHICLE"(LYRICS)

YouTube video by Ron Wells

I was getting into weird new ska things with some other horns

He obvi couldn’t handle the distance and couldn’t afford to move, so he left and the prev teacher came back after the school ~10mi away in another town decided she was a downgrade from the previous one. And with that, we went from challenging music to fcking basic Christmas-ass shit.