(03-26-2012, 01:52 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote: (03-26-2012, 12:34 AM)john Wrote: (03-25-2012, 06:37 PM)cherelann Wrote: Thank you for posting, John. I had never heard of Myles before the Haley connection. His voice is to die for & the singer/songwriter album he is working on sounds like something I would love. Also, I am from WA so I have to support a home grown artist...
You're welcome. I didn't know Myles either, but he has an amazing voice. I just came upon the interview and thought I'd share it.
Since he made the Spokane reference, I was curious and read the Wikipedia info on him. (I grew up in the area and lived in Spokane a few years, before going to graduate school and eventually moving to Seattle.) He went to school at Mead (in Spokane), which had had a fairly sad music program back in my day (I didn't go there, but it's band was ahead mine in a parade, and I got to hear how lacking in energy it was.) By the time he would have been in high school, Mead had gotten a new band director and it's music program was really blossoming. (I'm not particularly fond of marching bands, but in the '80's, this band was smokin' hot!)
He followed that by attending a community college in the area that had some much respected and well known (for Spokane) musicians as instructors. Thus, he's cut his teeth in some fairly good music programs.
LOL Music programs do not make the musician.
The high school I went to in Bellevue didn't even have a music program it's first yr. My class was the first freshman class of the school...it had limited classes/extracuriculars. They had one the next year and there was always this guy hangin' out there on the drums. He was a class ahead of me, but was always nice and friendly...always in the music room with his drums.
After I graduated, a few years later, I saw him, Scott Mercado, was on MTV as the drummer for the grunge band Candlebox! LOL (real nice guy, hard worker and deserved his success.
