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Flea
Fleas are insects that form the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth16 October 1962
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.