John Carlin
John Carlin
computer computers
Computers was the big boom. I thought I wanted to be a computer engineer. Which is ridiculous. Because I was a musician.
cappella chorus concert drama four garage gave hack high instrument jazz lesson lessons marching music playing private quartet rock singing six string theory together trombone week
They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.
versatile
Mike's more our speed. He's versatile and more laid-back.
became hard harder open rock style types
But Garrett was a rock 'n' roller. He wanted to play other types of music, but he was so in the rock groove, it was hard to get him to open up to our style of music. We made it work, but we became a harder type of band.
wall criminals groups
If you have an Internet-connected system, there's no wall currently that you can build that's high enough or deep enough to keep a dedicated nation-state or even a sophisticated criminal group out of your system.