It was the studio, and they asked me to come in the next week to start interning. I silenced the phone but called back as soon as the ceremony was finished. A guy asked me to call him back the next day to talk about possibly interning there, but every time I called he was too busy to talk.Īfter two weeks of calling every day, I was on stage graduating when my phone rang. I had a list of all the studios in LA, so I picked one randomly - Frontpage Recorders - and called. Toward the end of my time at Citrus College, I had a homework assignment to call up a studio and find out how much it would cost and how long it would take to record an album. My band was a regular at all the Hollywood music venues such as the Roxy Theatre and the Whiskey A Go-Go, but our biggest show was opening up for the Vans Warped Tour in 1999 with artists such as Eminem, Blink 182 and Black Eyed Peas. Trying to be like my dad and older brother, I started playing trumpet in middle school and for a few years of high school, but I never had the passion to practise much so I switched to bass guitar and joined a rock band.Īfter high school, I joined a punk band while also enrolling in a new recording arts program at Citrus College in Glendora, California. To this day, the sound of a trumpet will make me tired. My grandfather, father and brother were all trumpet players, and I routinely slept to the sound of my dad practising. I grew up the youngest of four kids in LA.