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Road to Rock or Rocky Road?

December 6th, 2002

Xris writes:

At what point in your musical journery did you guys realize you rock?


Trevor
I think it was at Gym Jam nearly 7 years ago.


Steve
I got my first guitar just after I turned 17. Immediately I hooked up with my friend Mark who also had a guitar and we started writing lots of songs about high school janitors (we didn't have girlfriends yet...give us some slack).

Later that year we played a show at our school's coffeehouse and got all these requests to play our best known tune, "If I Was a Janitor". When those grade nine girls started throwing their training bras on stage, I knew at that very moment this was the reason I was put on earth.


Paul
Does a mailman know that he delivers mail? Does a garbage man know that he picks up garbage? I think at one point in your life you wake up one morning and say "This is what I was born to do". For us it was ROCK.

More specifiacally: November 18, 1996.


Chris
All I can say is this.

Buying three albums, and listening to them religiously while doing my grade seven paper route.

1. Guns'N'Roses-Appetite For Destruction
2. Body Count-self titled
3. SKID ROW-self titled

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