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What's yr take on institutions like GIT, PIT etc., where musos go to learn speedy chops and modes'n'stuff? Does anyone ever go on to greater things from these places? Isn't it a bit strange that untutored artists have 'cred', and classically-trained artists have cred in a John Cale sort of way, but commercial-music-school alumni seem to have a black mark against them? I know some people who went to the Vancouver equivalent, some of them write radio adverts etc., but that's about it. Do these places figure at all in the current pop landscape?

― dave q, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only people who have any faith in these places that I've met have all been metallers, and that's all I'm saying.

― DG, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now that NME's on the way out we cd get the Crafts C*uncil to fund INDIE SCHOOL!!

Most of these places have never come to terms w.fact that what you learn when you learn from a RECORD = mostly freeing up of tosh in yr own head... The error = the energy = the truth

The "right" way to rock is derived from social collision of all these delusions hurrah

― mark s, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have no problem with asking people who are better than I am for help. Perhaps a school is an extended version of that? It makes for even less individuality, though.

If they're good musicians who don't all sound alike, more power to them.

― Lyra, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Such schools seem best for churning out the roadie elite: the sorts of sound men and guitar techs who could handle a U2 tour. Which seems a perfectly fine mission to me ...

― Nitsuh, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

are we just talking about any non-classical music schools? if so, i began learning guitar at one and stayed for a number of years, though i did switch to classical at some point. i later taught for a year and a half. i actually did have a number of issues with the specific school in question but i don't think that counts as a stroke against all such schools. they can be quite valuable. why should only classical musicians get pro instruction?

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I visited a friend at Berklee a couple of years ago. Now, I am all for jazz schools, places where younger musicians can go and study with the masters, but the guys who went there for rock n' roll just made me giggle (people paying lots of money to play along to Motley Crue in a practice room). There's something deeply wrong about going to school to take a 'Jimi Hendrix Lab' class.

― Jordan, Saturday, 25 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree, there should be a 'Brainbombs lab class'

― dave q, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In which we endeavor the determine the proper temperature at which to cook "fuckmeat", Swedish style.

The Brainbombs may have talked about fucking Anne Frank, but I bet Yngwie (also Swedish, what's going on here?) really HAS.

― Kris, Sunday, 26 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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