"Three, four." "'Kay, this little dude here is gonna rock your ass tonight.!" "Swear to God." "The other guys are gonna rock your asses too." "It's a good one." "It's a good one." "I only got angry six times during nine weeks of rehearsals." "That's gotta mean somethin', all right?" "Thank you guys for comin' tonight." "You guys ready to rock tonight?" "I'm gonna ask for one more big hand, 'cause these kids worked really hard." "You guys can set off the whole thing tonight." "One more big hand." "Come on." "Ladies and gentlemen, our tribute to the guitar gods." "Five, six, five, six, seven, eight." "Hey, did you guys ever see my Silence of the Lambs impression?" " Yes." " Oh, God." "Who's here saw Silence of the Lambs?" " Yes." " That's the best movie of all time." "He does." "He spits, though." "If you don't want spit on you, I'd suggest you move." "Okay." "Very good." "Very good." "Guys, you gotta watch this." "Come on." "Stop!" "Put the lotion in the basket!" "It puts the lotion in the basket, or it gets the hose!" "It puts the lotion in the basket, or it gets the hose!" "Put the fuckin' lotion in the basket!" "Thank you." "I'm qualified to teach- I'm probably not qualified to teach." "But I have people on staff with music degrees, for those parents" "I'm self-quali- I mean, I'm a really good teacher." "I just say that 'cause I am." "I mean, I just- It comes naturally to me." "And I've honed my craft over the years." "You know" " Some people can just play." "I can just teach." "And I'll teach all day." "I'll teach you somethin' right now." "Okay?" "I'll teach you how to take a punch." "It started out with just 17 kids coming over to my apartment every week." "I thought they gettin' real good." "I had a practice space when I was with my band." "So I said, "Okay, kids, let's get together on Saturday and jam."" "And we did, and the kids were awful." "All those scales and chords and songs they learned were useless." "I'm a stubborn son of a bitch." "So I said, "Okay, we're gettin' together every Saturday until you guys get this."" "Then it was only three or four Saturdays later... where the kids I was bringin' to the thing were so much better." "All the strings" "Big ideas I was able to express in concrete terms that kids could understand." "So" " And I loved it." "It wasn'tjust like, "Since my band didn't make it..." "I'll teach guitar, and I'll be all bitter."" "I was like, you know, "This is cool." "And I don't have to carry equipment."" "It was only a matter of time from there that a friend of mine... who had heard us jamming and working on things said..." ""Why don't you guys play at my art opening?"" "Let's do it!" "And the kids were amazing." "There were, like, 200 people there." "There was, like, glass windows outside, and people were six deep outside." "At that point, I was like, "Okay, this is somethin' here."" " Tucker, just do it." " Okay, fine." "I wanna be a musician when I grow up... because I wanna go on tour." "And that's the reason why I wanna be a musician." "I want-Wait." "What was the question you asked?" "I wanna be a musician when I grow up so I can- so I can, like, go to concerts..." " Hello." " Get free tickets to go to places." " Hello." " And things like that." "AC/DC's really simple." "And all you do is- One and two and three and four." "One and two and three and four." "Collins twins." "You know, I think they" " They go to school." "I think it's hard for them to practice a lot on their own." "But they don't" " I'm not sayin'- They're nine-year-olds." "They need to work a little more on music." "One thing I don't really like is people appreciating the novelty of playing music." "So, even if you're nine" "I mean, that's the whole point of what we do here is not..." ""Come look at kids play music."" "It's, "Come and look at kids play music well. "" "I learned a long time ago... if you don't tell a kid what they can't do, they may never find out." "I'm not gonna cut them short and say..." ""You're nine." "Let's put you on stage and not turn your volume up."" "You know." "Who knows?" "Maybe Tucker can play drums." "And maybe all it takes is someone believing in them... in a way where it's, like, all you gotta do is practice." "You know, C.J. Makes it hard for everybody else." "C.J.'s 12, and look how good he is." "I'm gonna be in a band." "I'm gonna be writin' songs." "Yeah, I'm gonna sell millions." "Stuff, hopefully." "We tried baseball, and I think he tried soft- soccer?" " Uh-huh." " Soccer." "And martial arts, and that's really not his thing." "For him, I mean, the guitar is it." "When he started playing guitar, I asked him what he wanted to be." "He said, "I wanna be a rock star."" "At the time, he was good enough." "I didn't see any reason why, you know, I would discourage him from doing that." "C.J. Is gonna make us all a lot of money." "Couldn't ask for more in a kid." "Soft-spoken, kind, smart, hardworking, talented." "Not only does he have the talent... but I've never seen focus in somebody that age." "Pretty much after every performance, I could say I try" "I wanna do better than that, even though that was good." "I want to strive to be perfect." "Yeah, I'm kind of a perfection- perfectionist." "Whenever I do coffeehouses and stufflike that..." "I play, like, Sheryl Crow and all the folky stuff... then stuff that I wrote, which is not always rock." "Because, my voice, actually, kind of shines with folky things." "You know, like Sheryl Crow and the Dixie Chicks." "Madi's a pain in my ass, okay?" "Madi has all the support" " I don't think that girl was told no once in her life." "Madi's a girl who came to me... and she walked right in, in front of a room full of people... picked up an acoustic guitar and sang a Sheryl Crow song." "And I was amazed that a teenage girl would have the courage... to sing a Sheryl Crow song." "I gasped that she would sing a Sheryl Crow song." "You know what I mean?" "If I had to bet on the five kids who were gonna make it... in some way I'd say Madi's one." "She's confident." "She's, you know, she has a good look." "She-A little dated, but it works." "She can play guitar." "She can sing." "She could probably make it without my help." "My concern is, is she gonna make it as, you know,." "Jewel?" "Or is she gonna make it as." "Joni Mitchell... who could fuckin'play guitar?" "I'll tell you what." "I'm William H. O'Connor." "I was born Caesarean birth." "My head was too big to come out of my mother's uterus... and the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck." "I have received, I think, brain damage from that, they think." "And from one to three, I had to wear a neck brace... because my head was too big." "And I had to sleep standing- sitting up like the Elephant Man." "Otherwise, blood would rush to my head and I would die." "I was misdiagnosed as retarded and entered the sixth- Kindergarten at age seven." "Other kids would tease me, call me stupid and retarded." "I had to go to special L.D. Classes for reading and writing." "Up till five, I wasn't given a chance for anything... and I wasn't allowed to leave my house." "I spent most of my time with my mother, who has one hand... and she taught me how to draw." "And, basically, that's what I do with my life." "I'm an artist." "I like to draw." "I've attempted suicide a lot- since very young." "I can remember when I was little... wrapping the extension cord of the vacuum cleaner around my neck... and trying to jump off the banister." "One of my only friends was a member of Rock School... and I went to see him at a performance." "I was sitting off by myself and Paul Green actually asked me to join Rock School." "He is a piss-poor musician." "I mean, and he's, like, "I wanna be challenged this season."" "I gave him some challenging songs and I would" "I would be stunned if he learns half his songs correctly." "And we'll see." "I think I greatly overestimated Will's ability to better himself." "Here's some of his bass songs." "Will's like, "I want a challenge." Here's a challenge" "Will you stop making fun of Will for the night?" "'Cause he's clearly upset." "It's or-fay the ovie-may." "See?" "I kind of see Paul as a role model for me." "'Cause he was someone who, much like me, didn't have a very good home life... and left his house at 15." "And built this whole music empire for himself." "If it wasn't for Rock School... and a few other things, I'd probably be dead, honestly." "And I'm barely alive now." "Okay, the fourth, when it bends, makes you sound like." "Jimi Hendrix." "So you know that's in your arsenal." "Whenever you're playin' a solo, you go to that, 'cause you know that does that." "So then, like" "Five-five." "Evil." "Devil's-The devil's interval." "Evil" "And then like" "Major seven." "Fairy" "Devil" "Not devil." "So, basically, I have two goals with the kids." "Get the kids to, realize their potential musically... to get 'em as good as possible... and then to get 'em out on stage in front of as many people as possible." "So, you know, my only real interest in any of these kids... is to really see what they can do once you strip away the fear and the laziness." "Watch Will." "Five bucks says he doesn't get any of his songs right." "Will, is it because you're talently deficient?" " 'Cause I don't practice enough." " You don't practice at all." "To get the second goal, we have our all-star program." "Right now, we're doing the music of Frank Zappa." "Zappa a lot of times enters in modes and blues and jazz and the classical ideas." "So the whole goal, initially, is to get as good as possible." "Then, when you're really seasoned- I mean, and seasoned" "These 16-year-olds are very, you know... sophisticated musicians." "Everything leads towards then playing Zappa, and I become their manager, in essence." "And I try to get them as good of gigs as possible." "Okay." "Here's what we're gonna do." "We're gonna learn the music." "We're gonna learn the music real fast." "And I say this every time, and I'm like an alcoholic." "I say this time things are gonna be different, and things aren't different." "We're scheduling rehearsals right at the end." "We're like, let's try the song as crappy as possible." "Get it up on stage." "So that I don't have to cut you from your songs... and your parents, like, "I paid all that money, and my kid was only in two songs." "Why?"" "I have to explain to 'em, your kid's lazy." "They smoke dope." "They don't practice." "You know what I mean?" "So let's not get into that." "And practice early and often." "One, two, three, four." "One, two, three, four." "Try that." "Two, one, two." " Yes." "Now you gotta practice it." " I gotta practice it." "Here, follow me." "Here's what I do." "This is an average day for me." "Come along." "I go in, and I'll visit in on students, and I'll berate them." "'Cause we have a very sophisticated game of good cop, bad cop." "So I'll go in... to Dylan's lesson here, and talk to Cat... and tell her a couple things I don't like." "Then, when I leave, I can assure you Dylan's, like, "We'll show him."" " Hi, Cat." "This is Cat Sherman." " Hi." "Cat's got much rock heart in her heart." "The heart of rock and roll beats within that breast." "But yet, due to some, I'll say, parental issues, or something... she's afraid to unleash it on the crowd." "But this show, Guitar Gods, she will unleash it, as you lay waste in her wake." "Look at her." "Doesn't she look rock and roll?" "She has, sort, of that Chris Robinson, future heroin addict look about her?" "Thanks." "Cool." "Do you remember what we did the last time, though?" " With the" " Yeah." "Where we were counting?" "Let me hear you do that." "All right." "One and" " One and two and two and three." "Hold on." "One and two and three and four and five and six and seven and" "One and two and three and four." "One and two and three and four." "And then from that dot to the other dot." "Which strings though?" "So, it's two-two-two notes in a row on the fifth fret." "Do that much." "Then..." "No, wait." "It's" " All right." "Let's play it, then." " Okay." "Try it." "You know, I never say, "Turn that down." Or everything stops." "If you wanna play your music, turn it up to 11." "I don't care." "You know, I love it." "When I was young, all I wanted to be was a rock star, you know?" "I wanted to be famous and be a rock star." "Now I get to kinda sorta live vicariously through my kids." "Why don't you play some Sabbath?" "I don't really know "Paranoid" that well." "I think Paul called me a soccer mom, only without the soccer." "You know?" "I'm like, "Did you practice?" I didn't hear you." "I can't hear you." "Nobody gets credit for practicing unless I hear it." "You know?" "It's like, "Turn your amp up." "Lemme hear you practice." "Do it again."" "I don't know what it's supposed to sound like." "So, I'm, like, "That sounds right."" "I would like to think that what Paul is doing" "It should be bringing, like, families together." "You know, parents and kids." "Mom?" "Set the table, would you?" " Mom." " Come on." "Get the forks and knives out." "Not sit." "Get the forks and knives out." "You're capable." "My mom's into this thing where she tries to show people... that we have some semblance of a normal life." " We really don't." " That's right." "We fake it." "Yeah, right." "Ordinarily, I wouldn't be doing any work around the house." " He does too." " At all." "So what are you playing right now for Rock School, the '80s show?" ""Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Bad," "Land Down Under."" "You wouldn't really know it." "It's not your generation." " No, it's not my music." " You know Girl's" "I didn't know anything about Rock School until this year." "It's not the Sorbonne." "It's not studying atJuilliard." "But those interests aren't what William is." "Do I see William becoming a great musician?" "I don't know." "You do like to perform, don't you?" " Mom, Jesus Christ." "Don't cross me." " Don't cross you?" "I think in the future, though, by the time I'm 30, I could be decent." "Not good but decent at the bass." " Is that your goal?" " Yeah." "By 30?" "Not by 30." "I don't even know if I'll be alive then, honestly." "You know, the old, "We're with a group... we go sit on the tree stump by ourselves and hope someone talks to us."" "That's Will's life, you know what I mean?" "I don't buy it for a minute." "Another thing I do with Will is I listen to what he says." "And he hates that." "And he loves it." "So he'll make a statement." "And I'm like, "Really?"" "And it drives him nuts, and he eventually goes away." "But, you know, I don't think people listen to him." "He's trying to play that 16-year-old coffee shop intellectual, mopey, droopy" "But, you know." "That's a role for a 1980s movie." " Do you yell at Paul?" " No." "I'm afraid of Paul." " He has more of a temper than you have?" " Sure." "That's his way of keeping you guys in control, huh?" " No." "He's just fuckin' crazy." " Well" "Don't you think he'd have to have a lot of energy... to keep track of how many 16, 17, 18-year-olds?" "Yeah, yeah." " That much I" " Sure." "So, for as crazy as he may or may not be, I give him a lot of credit." "Yeah, sure." "I do too." "He's a great guy." " I don't have a problem with him." " Yeah." "He's always been nice to me." "He's different around the parents." "Die, scoundrel!" "Kneel!" " Say it!" "Say it!" " All hail Paul." "Good." "One, two." "You mess up once, I'll fuckin' punch your face out, all right?" " Okay." " Okay." "One, two, three, four." "You have to love this." "Do you love this song?" "Do you love Dio?" "Do you love Satan?" " Do you love Satan?" " Yes." "I love you." "I want you to rock." "That's all." "I want to give you..." "the gift of rock." "Do you love, like, hot women and rock music and all that?" "'Cause that's what Satan gives us." "To tempt us..." "from what we should be doing." "Like, the whole trend in education now is, you don't compare children." "I do." "She's better than you." " Okay." " Okay." "Bye." "You know what the problem is, Shannon?" "You're pretty good at singing." "You're pretty good at keyboards." "You're pretty good at vocals." "You know?" "But you're not as good as the Zappa keyboard players." "You're not as good as the Zappa vocalists... and you're not as good as the Zappa guitar players." " Just fuckin' do what I say for a change!" " Okay, okay." " You wanna dump crying today?" " No." " Don't look at your fingers!" " All right." "Girls look at their fingers." "You wanna be a girl guitar player?" " No." " You wanna be in the Bangles?" "You even stop working for one second, you're out." "You're out of Rock School." "All right?" "I'm gonna hunt your dad." "I'm gonna kill your family." "All right?" "I am." "I will kill your family." "I will send Angelo and Johnny to your house, kill your family." "And they will bathe in the blood, all right?" "Bloodbath?" "This chair does not need to be here." "You know, you're not loud enough." "You're not loud enough, okay?" "I told you to come in and take care of the keyboards, okay?" "Get, you know, your feet in back." "Let's set us up." "I mean, I'm not your fuckin' roadie." "I'm really not." "You know what, John?" "You know what?" "Fuck you, John." " You know what?" "Just go." "Just go." " What?" "You-You know" "I just told you what to play!" "Just get the fuck out of here, okay?" "Who the fuck do you- I'm your fuckin' teacher." "Okay?" "I own the best fuckin' music school in the city." "In the fuckin' east coast!" "When I first joined, I was horrified." "I was like, "What did I join?" "What is this?" "Some cult?"" "I think Paul wants us to think it's fun and serious." "Paul is" "He's like a second dad to me." "It's kind of weird." "He is the best teacher I've ever had." "And he pushes you." "'Cause he knows what each student thinks." "Like, he knows if you think you're too good... or he knows if you don't think you're good enough." "He, like, always tells me I suck and stuff." "That kinda gets me to, like, practice a lot more and stuff." "And he still tells me I suck." "So, he treats you how you need to be treated... to get yourself to be the best guitar player, singer, whatever, that you can be." "God, Paul has been so influential on my musical taste... because before we came into Rock School..." " we were listening to Bush and stuff." " And 311." "Before, I was into, like, Korn and Limp Bizkit, and crap like that." "He definitely has that random thought thing going on- when he teaches the kids, but I think they like it." "It's a lovable quirk that he's mentally disturbed." "He yells and screams." "And I know I don't react very well to that type of teaching." "I gotta tell you, he scared me to death, 'cause he kept yelling' at people." "The bottom line is, you can't argue with success." "He's able to bring out things in some of these kids that, honestly, I don't see." "Yeah, his, definitely, his method is" "He tries to get on the kid's level." "Okay." "This is a Vietnam picture I'm workin' on." "It's about four buddies" "The narrator, Fatty, Brooklyn, and the Kid." "Okay?" "They're basically running gumbo duty up the Yang Kwai river, you know." "Sort of like Behind Enemy Lines, that kind of thing." "And he plays a Vietnamese regular, V.C., Vietcong, all that." "Who, we actually let go earlier in the movie 'cause we're a platoon with a heart." "But after we let him go, he actually kills Fatty later in the picture, okay?" "So, now, we've captured him again." "And okay." "You're playin' Brooklyn." "I'm the narrator, right?" "We're askin' him where the guns are." "'Cause they're in the village somewhere, but we can't find them." "Where are the guns?" "Where are the guns?" "Where are the fuckin' guns?" " Where are the guns?" "Where are the guns?" " He doesn't understand you!" "He doesn't understand me?" "You understand me, don't you?" "You understood how to kill Fatty!" "You understood that, didn't you?" "Thank you." "I need more coffee." "A long time ago, in fact, I had to reconcile the..." "Paul the guitar player with Paul the guitar teacher." "'Cause our goals are very different." "If I succeed as Paul the guitar teacher..." "I'm making kids who are, frankly, better guitar players than me... which Paul the guitar player doesn't like at all." "Sometimes a kid'll get good... and I'll start practicing'to stay a couple steps ahead of them." "Probably what got me started in rock music... was what got a lot of people started." "One, I loved music growing'up." "Two, I noticed that if I played guitar, people noticed me." "Music and, sort of, playing guitar sort of came easy to me." "I noticed that it set me apart from people, and I enjoyed that." "I really feel like Paul... was and is, like, a genius musician." "Man, the stuffhe used to write for the band was really incredible." "I mean, really innovative and amazing." "You know the movie Almost Famous?" "Saw that movie, great movie." "It's just a feel-good movie." "You're smilin'." "With all the music and the good feelings in that movie..." "I realized I still wanted to be a rock star... but I wanted to be a rock star in 1972." "Like, I'd never want to be a rock star now, you know?" "So, like, I get to do music, live off it, not have to cut fish for a living." "And at the same time... not have all the attendant pratfalls of being a musician in today's age." "Okay." "That gentleman's name is Napoleon Murphy-Brock." "I got ahold ofhim last night." "I talked to him." "And I said, "If you could tell the kids one thing"" "At some point, I'm gonna bring him here, and he's gonna talk to you kids." "'Cause maybe you'll listen to him." "You know what I'm sayin'?" "'Cause he only played, you know, in the Zappa band and... is awesome." "And he said this." "I swear to God." "Verbatim." "When he performs, he realizes that those people out in the audience... could have sat home and watched TV that night." "But they came to see you, and they deserve a show." "And not a plaid-shirt- and-baseball-hat-and-jeans... we're-just-three-guys-playing- three-chords-up-here show." "'Cause that shit sucks." "And it has no staying power." "Okay?" "But a real show." "He said the best way to have the audience love what you do... is you love it and let it show." "And I'm not tellin' you this." "Napoleon Murphy-Brock's tellin' you this." "You went to see Zappa back in the day, he's gonna" "You buy your ticket, he's goin' out and gonna put on three hours... and you're not gonna be bored for one second." "That's what I'm tryin' to teach you guys to do." "I'm tryin' to teach you guys to be way above any of that stuff that's there now." "You know my dream, right?" "Rolling Stone magazine, 2007." "Where did all these bands come from?" "And they start tracing people back to me." "And all of a sudden there's this new movement of significant music." "As an educational tool, it's ended up being perfect." "I'll cast a kid." "I'll say here, you are assigned to the hardest Zappa song ever." "Then, when they don't have it after a couple of weeks..." "I'll say, "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Are you watching TV?" "Go practice your song."" "So, never do I indicate, "You shouldn't be doin' this."" "So they think, "I can do this if I just practice."" "And then they do practice." "And then they can do it." "So the next thing you know, we're playing Zappa tunes... with saxophones and xylophones... and vocal harmonies, and, forget what the question was." "I think after you listen to music like Frank Zappa... and you play it, and you've like, "Yes." "I can master that song."" "And then you listen to, like, 311, you're like, that's such a simple song." "It's really an honor to be a part of something like that." "And I'm so excited that Paul is actually putting this out there and saying..." ""Hey, guys, look at what these kids can do." You know?" "Zappa's gonna continue from now." "It's gonna be the, you know" "You practice, you get in this." "You get in this, cool things happen." "If you're not gonna work for me and you're not gonna listen..." "I have no use for you." "Okay?" "And the people who do work for me, I'm gonna fuckin' hook up so awesome." "The Zappa kids are playing the Trocadero three times between now and June 1." "Okay?" "We're playing Borders bookshop on Saturday." "We're gonna rock the fuckin' bookshelves." "I'm takin' 'em to Germany, okay?" "We got asked to play the Zappanale Festival in Germany... which is, like, this huge, just, crazy Zappa festival." "I don't know if it's gonna be some kind of free-for-all... crazy Zappa people everywhere." "I hope I don't get too nervous... because I heard there was gonna be thousands of people there." "No, I'm definitely not going to Germany." " Why do you say it like that?" " What?" "No." "I don't know." "It's like the forbidden fruit that you'll never taste." "Like, these are the good kids, and these are the rewards." "You suck, and you'll never get shit." "We're gonna play with Napoleon Murphy-Brock and Ike Willis... and all these famous Zappa people." "I'm, like, half nervous, half excited." "I just know it's gonna turn out to be... like, one of the best playing experiences of my life... 'cause we're gonna be playing with these-my heroes." "Paul actually usually bashes on me more about being a Quaker than anything else." "It's okay." "Quakerism for me, like, I have been going to meetings since I was seven." "I was in a lot of leadership positions... and was really out there, doing, you know, service... in homeless communities... andjust lots of peace activism." "I don't do Quakerism stuff that much anymore... because I'm more involved here, and I really hate my school." "And I really hate the area that I live in... so I look forward to coming to Rock School and hanging out with my friends here." "I couldn't let this show go a month, two months... without putting it on stage." "Basically tonight's a tune-up for everything that comes after tonight." "You guys, if not tonight, then very soon, we'll have the best show in town." "Really." "I mean, go out and see some bands." "Then you'll just realize how fuckin' awesome we are." "And not even we" " Me." "No." "You." "And not all of you." "But most of you." "Okay?" "Her solos-You know, she- In rehearsal, her solos are great." "At the show, she just stands there." "No one's even noticing she's playing a solo." "Last night" " Did you see what I did Sunday night?" "And she was pissed." "But her solo sounded good for once." "I mean, be a fuckin'rock star." "I always say that at the beginning of rehearsals." "If you don't wanna be great, let me know." "If you're just here to have a little fun, I mean, we'll do that, you know?" "But Madi's keeps insisting, you know, "I'm gonna be great."" "Okay." "Then, be great." "He picks out stuff that he knows will piss her off." "Then when he does it, it does piss her off... which really is just so stupid." "No, you missin' those two for shit-ass $5.50-an-hour job?" "$6.75." "Please, Paul Come on, Paul." "I'll pay $6.75 just to punch your mom in the face, all right?" "Perfect example is the Quaker rap thing... which, prior to her being found out by Rock School... was something that she was excited about and enjoyed." "I met these guys who are the friendly gangsters." "It's just a bunch of guys that got together five years ago when they were all really young." "And they werejust, like, "God, hymns suck so much."" "And so, they started rapping them outside." "And they're "Oh, whatever." "Raise your hands in the air." "Oh, Jesus."" "It actually all started 'cause there was this song..." "I learned at a Quaker conference called, "Come and Fill Me Up."" "It's a modern Christian hymn... but it has some pretty blatant sexual undertones." "I've, like, rapped it before just as a joke, so I was, like, all right." "We can do that." "So we did it." "And everybody went wild for it.!" "And we pulled out, like, a hymnal and just ended up pulling out... all these random Quaker hymns that we all knew and just rapped 'em." "Everybody loved it." "And that was the year we met "Sha-freaka," a.k.a. Madi." "When true simplicity is gained" "To bow, to bend we shan't be ashamed" "To turn, turn It will be our delight" "Just by turning, turning we come 'round right" "When true" "'Cause Madi's always busy, like, doin' her Frank Zappa shit, and goin' to Germany." "See, I have this idea that we should go to Germany with her." "And we could set up on stage with them... and just, like, refuse to stop playing until Madi played a show with us." "But Madi said that wasn't a good idea." "Madi Diaz, she's out of the show." "Rock with the friendly gangsters." "Hello, Germany!" "If you see an old lady crossing the street" "Give her a hand Don't be rude" "Now shejust thinks it's totally bogus because he's made such fun of it, right?" "She just thinks it's bullshit." "And that sucks." "I told her that the other day." "I said, "You know, Madilyn, you've taken something" "You've let them take something that you enjoyed and ruin it."" "Saturday nights we feed the poor" "Sunday we feed 'em some more" "I want to utilize children's learning ability... while trying to make them not be children." "You know what I mean?" "So the perfect student is one who's still a child... and still has that love and joy, but somehow has a work ethic." "Only my class knows that I'm pretty good at guitar." "They were like, "Wow, you should be on Star Search or something."" "For him, a lot of the times I have to diffuse the pressure." "He puts pressure on himself at school too." "He came home with a "B" and he was distraught." "And I'm, like, "B's are okay." "You know, it's okay to have fun."" "And sometimes he just thinks, "No."" "These are things that he needs to do in order to make it." "I actually am very much against... kids "making it" at a certain age." "'Cause no one under the age of 17 has ever made any significant music... or had a career after that." "I almost feel like what we do is, is let them cut their teeth and have- and simulate the music career... while they wait to have their heart really broken." "Is this what you want to do with the rest of your life?" "Yeah." "Definitely." "The mirror's down here." "Come here, buddy." "You're crazy." "Come here." "Look up." "Look up." "There's really no other way for me to do this." "We're going to" "We're going to be doing a show called Black Sabbath." "It seems like it might be very hard." " Not too heavy." " Not too heavy, I promise." "There must be some inherent gene in women... that lets us be able to handle the whole makeup thing." "'Cause the boys don't have it." "The two songs that I sing in it is "Iron Man" and..." "I also sing "Into the Void."" "So sing "Into the Void" for me." "Rocket engines burning fuel so fast" " Up into" " No, that's not the point." "With timing." "Rocket engines burning fuel so fast" "Up into the night sky they blast" " Mom!" " Yes." "Can I have a cross and my eyes look cool?" " Can you have a cross on your forehead?" " Yes." " I want a pentagram." " I'm not giving you a pentagram." " A pentagram." " I'm not giving you a pentagram." "Or a 666 or anything like that." "Tucker thinks he's done?" "I just gotta write Ozzy on his knuckles, and then we're done." " What about those lines that go right there?" " I'm gonna put them on." "I probably need to get this sharpened, though, to do the lines in the Z's." " Yup." "I know what you mean." " You know what I mean?" "I'm going to be playing a song- playing one song on guitar and it's called "Paranoid."" "And it's gonna be very hard, I think." "'Cause it's a very fast song." "And I'm singing two songs." "One song is "Iron Man" that me and Tucker both sing." "And the other song I sing is called "Sweet Leaf" which is about pot." "Didn't realize" "I can't forget you" "For your surprise" "You introduced me to my mind" "Asa, I'm about to spray Aqua Net all over your hair." "I don't know." "Maybe I can get the front to stay up" "Mom, tell him when he can open his" "This next hour and a half is the most important time." "Now is the time we can do the most damage or good to the show." "If you reallyjust focus and go over last-minute details... we can really hammer this into a really good show." "I will make sure that you look amazing up here tonight." "Tonight's not about rock and roll." "It's not about you guys." "It's not about me." "Tonight is about Satan." "Okay?" "Yeah!" "To the glowing sun" "Through the empires of eternal void" "Freedom from the final suicide" "On the seventh" "Look, look, look." "When you're onstage- When you're onstage..." "I'll be sitting in the front, right?" "You're gonna be nodding and doing your whole thing, your little Ozzy bop." "Then when I go like this, we're gonna sing together." "Rocket engines burning'fuel so fast" "Up into the night sky they blast" "You're right on time." "Do you know what I mean?" "You're in time with the music, so you have it." "Guys, guys." "We can laugh at ourselves... but now we're gonna play some Sabbath and it's no laughing matter." "I love you guys." "Whatever you do, it's all right with me." "We'll talk Monday." "When I say, go, we're gonna say, "Six, six, eight, neighbor of the beast."" "Okay?" "Six, six, eight, neighbor of the beast." "One, two, three!" "Six, six, eight, neighbor of the beast!" "These kids are really brave, and I think they worked really hard." "I think they're a little scared tonight, so I wanna give 'em a big hand... just for havin' the guts and the diligence to get up here and do this, okay?" "Two, three, four." "All right, now!" "Won't you listen" "When I first met you" "Didn't realize" "I can't forget you" "Yes." "On the cymbals." "Finish with my woman" "'Cause she couldn't help me with my mind" "People think I'm insane" "Because I am frowning all the time" "Rocket engines burning fuel so fast" "Up into the night sky they blast" "Through the universe the engines whine" "Could it be the end of man and time" "Back on earth the flame oflife burns low" "Everywhere is misery and woe" "Pollution kills the air the land and sea" "Man prepares to meet his destiny" "You know when you know you practiced enough?" "When you can play your song perfectly... with a fuckin' World War III going on around you." "And I don't care, 'cause hopefully you'll practice in the future." "But you know what you guys did?" "You let those guys see you sweat tonight." "And you never do that." "You let 'em see you sweat." "Okay?" "Here's what we're gonna do." "We're gonna play pretend." "We're gonna pretend that the first set was a joke... and we were just pretending we were kids... and pretending we didn't know what amps we were plugged into... or what microphones to use... or where the smoke was coming from, or what the lyrics are." "But guess what." "Nobody went home." "They want to be rocked tonight." "And we've got about one song to show them we're not fuckin' around." "We're gonna do the songs too wild, and they're gonna say..." ""What the fuck was that first set?" "Where did those kids go?" "Who are these new kids?" You hear me?" " Yeah." " If you don't believe that, leave now." "If you think this is all a joke, leave now." "'Cause you know what I do?" "I make really good musicians." "That's what I do for a living." "That's why I am who I am." "And I'll tell you how to do it." "Smile, fuck them, fuck you and just play your songs." "If you mess up, you meant to mess up." "Okay?" "Thank you." "Heavy boots oflead" "Fills his victims full of dread" "Running as fast as they can" "Iron man lives again" "Always been an ambitious person, and, you know, wanna do special things." "I've always loved kids." "I've always loved teaching." "I mean, I'm just- I teach all the time." "Can you sayJethro Tull?" "Jethro Tull?" "Watch this." "He likes it when Daddy rocks the fat beats." "Right?" "November 20 of 2002, I had a son" "Walden McKinley Green." "He's a very cool boy, and in some sense has changed me." "Lisa wouldn't say so." "Lisa says I go on about my life like nothing ever happened." "But I'll tell you." "I mean, it makes- It puts things in perspective, you know." "It's, like, the next step." "You know, I love kids, and now I have my own." "And now I have an excuse to coach Little League in a couple years... so it's not weird." "Good." "Classical music, that's, like, a thing now." "You know, you play classical music for your baby to make them really smart." "I really just think it was so boring to him." "And then we put Frank Zappa on one day... and he was like- he was, like, kicking his legs, smiling and just laughing." "And he loves Frank Zappa, which Paul's very happy about." " All those acoustics" " Extreme." "On a serious note, keep a little whatever- whatever it is you do... in your heart for C.J., who had an operation yesterday on his leg." "He has a bone disorder, and his- he was walking around for a month... with his leg out of his hip socket." "Yeah." "And he can't come tonight, he can't come tomorrow... but he will be playing the show on Sunday, but he has to sit down to play." " Wow, that's great." " C.J." "And maybe it'll be like the start of a tradition... and he'll be, like, a sit-down guitar player." "Can anybody name a sit-down guitar player?" " Yeah, C.J.!" " C.J.!" "Bottom left." "Bottom left." "Bottom left." "That's right, right there." "I was thinking about it... and do I really wanna do this?" "But I knew my dream was to, like, be a rock star, you know." "It was like" " I mean, I was thinking I might not wanna do this... but I think I'm gonna have to." "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. C.J. Tywoniak." "Fresh from an operation on his legs... three days ago?" " Friday, right?" "Last Thursday?" " Yeah." "Then he told the doctor he would wait unless he could play the show tonight." "So, let's give him a big hand." "The thing I tell the kids a lot lately is... in one sense, music is the most selfish act." "But if you can actually get up there and play music... and make people smile, there's nothing like that." "And if I create kids who go out there and play music selfishly... and in spite of themselves and make other people happy by doing that... and make themselves happy... and understand that when you'rejust playing music... to create music, you're at your best... that's enough." "Let me tell you something else." "I'm gonna be a jerk for a minute." "The Philly Enquirer is coming in here tomorrow." "They're gonna come a few times." "They're gonna write a story in the Sunday Magazine." "Okay?" "About me." "The circulation of the Sunday Enquirer is like two million people." "I'm gonna have a million new students." "Okay?" "You know what that means?" "Apocalypse for most of you." "It's the end, motherfuckers." "Basically, I got a call out of the blue one day..." "Melissa Dribben, Philadelphia Enquirer." "They wanna do an article, so, you know, I had her come in and you know... maybe as this movie will show, I'm not that good at editing myself... when people with pens and recording devices are around." "I met the lady that wrote the article... and she was... fucking weird in the head." "First of all, I mean, it was written with the composition of a fourth grader... rambling and outright long." "She misquoted me, created the quote." "Also, she called me a sad Eeyore of Rock School, which was okay." "But the major underlying point of the article... and what struck a chord with my mother..." "is that there was" "It outright said that there was a Will O'Connor Award... for the kid most likely to kill himself." "Why is it the Will O'Connor Award?" "Because when you meet Will O'Connor, he says, "Hi." "My name's Paul Green."" "I'm Paul Green." "He says, "Hi." "My name's Will I tried to kill myself three times."" "And then he tells the stories, and they're funny stories." "And if they're funny to him, they're okay to me." "When Paul does it, it's all right, because it's in the close quarters of Rock School." "And my parents certainly didn't know about it." "They kinda think Paul's an immature child." "He really needs to be more of an adult in the way he handles his business." "They call him a Peter Pan." "He likes to appeal to children." "He never wants to grow up." "He can't be an adult in real society, so he surrounds himself with children... where he can be the hero." "He said, "My mom's not gonna pay for lessons." "She's furious and thinking of suing you."" "It took a lot of doing and work for her not to get a lawyer on my part." "In fact, the irony is is that since Will joined Rock School... all chance of him attempting suicide pretty much ran out the door... because in this place he found, you know, it's a breeding" "Not a breeding ground." "It's a meeting place for misfits of all shape and sizes." "No." "No "Purple Rain."" " "Purple Daze."" " No "Purple Rain," no." "Why don't you fuckin' do the songs you don't know?" "No "Purple Rain."" " Paul, what do you want me to do?" " I want you to know the song!" " I know the song." " I want you to know the keyboard!" "Get people in your songs together... and teach them so you are all playing the same parts." "I want people to understand when they sound good and listen to their own parts... and have some fuckin' pride in this shit." "That's a mess." "Don't fuckin' shake your head." "He'll bash heads with me a lot, you know, around other people." "But when it's just the two of us, or like three of us hanging out... you know, me and, like, one other person and Paul, he'll tell me... you know, like, you know I don't hate you." "Did you ever get together with the people on this song once?" " Yes, I did." " How come they don't know how it goes?" "I don't know, Paul. 'Cause they don't know how to play their instruments maybe." "Oh, and you're so fuckin' hot." "All right?" "I don't know, Paul." "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to get the people and have them learn their songs!" "I'm doing everything I can." "That's what I've been saying since the beginning!" "You weren't even playing the right parts." "I kept cuing you, and you wouldn't play it." "Madi would have been out ofhere a long time ago... if I didn't feel I had something to teach her and owed it to her to teach her." "So, the net loss that she brings to my program..." "I mean, really, as far as morale and sort of influence... is disregarded because I really feel like Madi is an extraordinary talent." "That's what I've been saying." "Bullshit." "Ask Lee if I've talked to her once this whole time." " This rehearsal!" " Goddamn it." "Bite my ass." "All right." "Why aren't you working?" "I gave you a new song." "Why aren't you working with people?" "It gets mixed up sometimes." "Sometimes my friends say..." ""You're talking to me like you talk to the kids." I do that sometimes." "But Paul Green, the dude, is a simple guy." "You know, he likes- You know, I mean" "When I am able to leave work behind, I go home." "I like, you know, watching movies." "I like watching basketball." "I like making a fire." "You know, it's like I tell the kids about performing... it's a lot of me..." "is performing, you know." "I mean, sometimes I'm really mad." "And then sometimes I'm just faking it to get people's attention." "I kinda have, you know, I kinda play both sides... because, you know, as a 12-year-old, I was the nerdy little kid." "And then as a 16-year-old, I was kind of the cool guy guitar player." "So I kind of have a little bit of both, but with the fat bald guy mixed in." "On the other hand, these kids are literally part of something that's the best." "Not the only, but the best of its kind, you know." "There's very, very few times where you get to be the best in life." "And I know my ego's as big as the whole universe." "If I couldn't be the best guitar player, I've invented something new... so I could be the best at it." "Do it!" "Yeah!" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I can't sleep at night" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I don't know where I'm goin', yeah" "Oh, yeah You really got me now" "You got me so I can't sleep at night" "You really got me." "You really got me You really got me" "Please, don't ever let me be" "I only wanna be by your side" "Please, don't ever let me be" "I only wanna be by your side" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I don't know where I'm goin', yeah" "Oh, yeah You really got me now" "You got me so I can't sleep at night" "You really got me." "You really got me You really got me" "Oh, no, no, no" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'" "Ow.!" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I can't sleep at night" "Girl, you really got me now" "You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', yeah" "Oh, yeah you really got me now" "You got me so I can't sleep at night" "You really got me." "You really got me You really got me" "C.J. Will be signing autographs in the lounge... five dollars each after the show." "I think the show's awesome." "I think C.J.'s awesome." "I don't care, like, über musicians, you know." "And not, you know, not at the expense of the happiness of the kid." "I think there's a true happiness... that comes with the confidence of being that creative... and exceptional." "That is, you know, it's sublime." "And so at the same time, not like- I don't wanna create, like... miserable geniuses." "I wanna create, you know, happy geniuses." "Be yourself!" "Big!" "Wait, wait." "Wait!" "Beat!" "Wanna set you free I need you here by me because" "Rock School's really built in the hierarchy." "And the way it's supposed to be looked at, the hierarchy... is you strive to be that good." "But often times it's very disillusioning... when you try and you're not that good." "And you don't-And it's not even feasible for you to be that good." "And you kinda get- I just feel that there's a lot of kids... that kinda get lost in the web that is Rock School." "It's how it ends." "Mike!" "What the fuck!" "What the fuck are you learn- What the fuck!" "With the guitar going" "That is how it ends, but that wasn't the ending!" "If you guys can reasonably get through the song... meaning don't stop the song before it's over" "I realize I made a mistake." "Just realizing you made a mistake is not enough!" "Don't fuckin' make mistakes!" "Not on "Rebel Yell."" "Okay." "I've got" " Come here." "I have to deal with this, okay?" "This I have to worry about." "I should not have to worry about you." " Okay." " Understand?" "This is waiting for me to see how his song's going." "How are your songs?" " Good." " No, they're not." "Kids don't always strive for the best... and Paul thinks his tactics work best over everything." "And brute force and shrieking at children... is always the best route to get them to practice." "I actually had a really long speech with the kids the other night." "And what I told them was, you know, they're not my friends." "And I understand that and never expected them to be, you know." "I mean, they don't even understand what friendship is." "I know I'm a big fat jerk, all right?" "I know." "I know I am." "I know." "I have to get up and look at myself in the mirror every day." "I don't see fuckin' Eric Svalgard in the mirror." "I see me." "Okay?" "But I also know the couple times I'm trying not to be a big fat jerk... you kids are horrible, you're evil, you're manipulative little fucks." "I'm their friend." "And, you know, there's not a kid in the school who won't... when the chips are on the table, choose their peers... and this sounds weird, but their parents... or an easy way out over me." "You know, as much as I do and all that." "You understand, it's just what kids are." "So kids will put the knife right in, and that's fine." "I mean, if I was sensitive about that, I'd be in the wrong business." "But, at the same time, I have a deep affection for many of these kids." "'Cause you can't do this job without investing yourself in the kids." "Christ." "It has to be on a 45-degree angle pointing in... 'cause we have square tips here." "But they come in other fashions." "I feel I felt more solace and more contention in music... in the music I chose to listen to... not the music Paul felt I should and that Paul felt I should learn." "Though learning it helped me, to some extent, to become a better musician... which is, I suppose, the underlying purpose of it all." "Me and Paul parted ways on the best possible terms." "I mean, I cried almost a little bit kind of, but not really... and I don't wanna talk about it in that sense." "But Paul was very respectful." "He just approached me... and he was, like, "Do you wanna be in Rock School anymore?"" "And I guess it was more of, like, that was his way of saying..." ""You're not paying, you don't wanna work... and you're not gonna get good. "" "Maybe Paul honestly saw me as a lost kid... and that he felt like he should give me help... 'cause I was a pretty fucked-up kid." "So, I mean, do you- do you miss it?" "Do I?" "I do, but not to the extent that I'd ever go back." "I feel like that part of my life is over." "One, two, three." "One, t" " Listen to me." "One, two, three, four." "There it is." "Okay?" "It's not on four." "It's on four and." "One, two, three, four." "No!" "Why are you hitting that before the song?" "This is my, on so many levels, was sort of my little reward." "One, two, three, four." "And now this is sort of the end point." "This is, "Look at the work I've done with these kids. "" "Sing it into the mike!" "Sing into the mike!" "That's not an unimportant part of the song." "That's the shining moment." "Who told you not to play that?" "Everyone's sick of keyboard girls over there." "We gotta raise the ante." "We're going to Germany." "And, you know, I get to put them on stage... in front of people who know and understand this music." "And I have a feeling that we're gonna be the best act there." "We just find that bottle." "We were walking around" "Am I, like, burping out on my bed?" " No, not really." " You sure?" "Okay, fact number one:" "Bad Doberan's already packed." "There's gonna be tons of people at this festival." "Fact number two:" "We have other people on the schedule." "People are like, "Who?" We're playing right after Ike Willis." "And we're playing right before Napoleon Murphy-Brock and all this stuff." "And I just ran into some English guys downtown, who were, like, practicing." "And I was like, "Oh, hey, I'm doing the festival too."" "They're like, "Oh, whatever." And I was like, "Where's the"" "'Cause I knew the office with someone." "They're like, "It's around here somewhere."" "Disrespect, okay?" "They're disrespecting you guys." "I'm dead serious." "We have to fuckin' destroy everybody." "We have to destroy them like we destroyed the Germans in World War I." "Like we destroyed the Germans in World War II." "Okay?" "And like we run their economy now." "Okay, anyway." "Anyway, listen." "We've had fun." "We're gonna get out." "When we wake up tomorrow, it's work, okay?" "It is work." "You guys are gonna practice for three hours tomorrow." "You're gonna practice for three hours on Saturday." "And you're gonna do nothing but warm up on Sunday." "All right?" "There is no excuses, okay?" "You're gonna work on some vocal harmonies with Lauren." " I got some." " Okay." "You're gonna just" "Like sometimes you nail those parts of"Inca Roads," sometimes you don't." "You're gonna just have to guarantee." "You know what I'm saying?" "We pull off"Inca Roads"" " I wanted to end with it, but I'm not quite" "So, I moved it earlier in the set." "But we pull "Inca Roads" off, everybody, the crowd is just gonna go nuts." " No, we'll work on it." " If we're just good... if we're just amazing, it ain't gonna happen." "We have to be the best band at Zappanale." "Hey, oh" "Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" "And if you think that we're gonna rock somebody say, "Oh, yeah"" " Oh, yeah." " Hey" "Guys?" "Somebody say, "Oh, yeah"" " Oh, yeah." " Good morning" "Rise and shine" "Let's go wake the ladies up." "Everybody decent?" "Good morning It's your birthday" "We're gonna party like it's your birthday" "Who wants to rock Oh, yeah" "Stop." "Oh, God." "There's all these people that like Zappa and all this shit." "I don't wanna, like, mess it up and everything." "We have too much on our shoulders." "I just hope people show up to the show." "And I hope we don't screw up, 'cause they all know Zappa material." "It's not-We don't play late enough for everyone to be drunk and not care." "That's how I feel." " So, come on." "Let's do this." " All right." "As far as the kids go, I met them in Philadelphia." "I was on tour with Project/Object last year." "When we got to Philadelphia, they said, "Oh, here's this guy named Paul Green... with these kids, and they play Frank Zappa music." "And they're from the age of nine to 17."" "And I went, "And they do what?"" ""Yeah, they play Frank Zappa music." "Oh, really?" "Which songs do they play?"" "And they gave us a list of the songs, and I went, "No, they don't play that."" " Good." " One, two, three, four." "And all I can say about the effect that it had on us... is that, you know, we could have captured a lot of flies in our mouth... because we stood there and listened to them like this." "I know what I had to go through to learn those songs." "And for them to learn them and be able to perform them at the level that they do... you know, it's quite inspiring." "And yes, I think it will be an historical event... that I play with them on "Inca Roads" of all songs." "It helps me understand a lot of what I did with Frank on the- on the albums that I did." "It helps me to understand, you know... why I had intuitions to do it a certain way... or why, you know, I had such a level of tenacity and, you know, intensity." "Because I was preparing teaching tools for them." "But we didn't know it at the time." "But when I saw them, and I went, like, "Oh, that's why." "Now I understand."" "On Ruth, on Ruth Ha, ha, that's Ruth" "I think we got a winner." "Okay, what's gonna happen, as soon as we break here and these guys start playing... we're gonna get all the gear right by there, okay?" "On "Inca Roads," we're gonna do the opposite thing." "We're gonna put the saxophone on the left side." "You're out of tune, your song gets cut, okay?" "Okay, keyboard players, don't turn down during your solos." "Play with distortion." "You always play with distortion." "Play with distortion." "One, two, three." "Okay?" " How many guitars are there?" " I already went through this." "Two." "Don't just be dumb when you're not" "Do something when you're not playing, okay?" "With Mike's drum solo ending with a flourish of some type..." "I will count off one, two, three, four." "Ladies and gentlemen, the Paul Green School of Rock... from Philadelphia." "Three hundred years ago I thought I might get some sleep" "I stretched myself out on an antique bed" "And my spirit did a midnight creep" "You know I'll never sleep no more" "It seemed to me like itjust ain't wise" "Did you ever wake up in the morning" "With a Zomby Woof behind your eyes" "Just about as evil as you could be" "I am the Zomby Woof" "I'm the creature all the ladies been talkin'about" "I am the Zomby Woof" "They all seek for shelter when I come charging'out" "Tellin'you all the Zomby troof" "Here am is the Zomby Woof" "Tellin'you all the Zomby troof" "Here am is" "All together now!" "Let's go!" "Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there" "Just to land in the Andes" "Was it round and did it have" "A motor" "Or was it something different" "Sure was something different." "I ain't never seen nothing like this in my entire life." " Why'd you go sharpen it?" " Whose python boots are those anyway?" "On Ruth, on Ruth Ha, ha, that's Ruth" "Let's hear it for the School of Rock." "It feels pretty good." "Yeah." "Was it first time you was in concert?" "Oh, yeah." "It was my first time." "I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that, man." "And the work that you're doing..." " I hope you continue with this, man." " Yes." "They're phenomenal." "Thoroughly enjoyable." "And they chose some of the hardest music in the world to learn." "It doesn't get any better than that." "You get me to my knees, hey, that's it." "That's everything." "It brought me to my knees." "God bless every one of them." "The greatest success of my life." "Right there- Oh, my baby" "Then the greatest success of my life." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "God bless you all." "Good night." "Thanks, everybody." "Good night." "Thanks, Paul." "You're the man." "Thank you." "Most of us or some of us will be back next year." "We will see you." "Thanks to Wolfheart, Jim Cohen" "Rock School is many things to many people." "And to me, it was a life-changing event." "Oh, I don't like that." "Let me try again." "My dream is still to be a rock star." "I wanna be, like, a legend." "And as far as coming to that- to that goal..." "I have to say I just got a little bit closer." "Paul is not Rock School." "Rock School is bigger than Paul." "And I think he knows it." "No, I don't like that." "This is gonna sound cheesy, but, you know, you can do anything." "I didn't think I could play half of the riffs that I can play." "When I first got here I was fucking playing Sheryl Crow, you know." "I was strumming open "D" chords and, you know..." "Paul taught me that, you know..." "I could think about things and figure things out for myself." "Not just, you know, like the normal songs." "I can figure Zappa out, you know." "I could play this shit and make it sound like it's supposed to be played." "I wouldn't say it was a learning thing so much as it was an experience." "Something that I will always remember is, like, my youth and things like that." "And the friendships I've made there are lasting." "And as a social misfit, that's been very crucial to my development." "I just, you know, I hope it was a great experience, you know." "I hope, and I hope they see that life can be more than... you know, whatever, you know." "I hope they can see that they're capable of amazing things." "And that, you know, really are, you know" "I don't mean to be cheesy... but our humanity is tied up in things like playing music." "That's where our humanity is." "That's why we're not chimps." "I wouldn't mind being a chimp, but we are human." "So, you know, like I always say, if you major in the humanities" "The humanities are philosophy and poetry and literature and music." "And that's what makes us human." "And to hone our crafts is to hone our humanity, you know." "And hopefully they'll continue to do that." "If I was giving you guys the opportunity to end the movie... by saying one- anything you guys wanted to say... it could be about Rock School, it could be about anything... this would be the last thing after you watch the whole movie... you guys would be up there as the last people on the screen..." " what would you say?" " Look at the camera and say it." "Lean in." "Tell the American audience what you want them to know about Rock School." " If Don gave me- gave me a chance" " Tucker and I." "If Don gave Tucker and I a chance to say the last thing... in the end of- of the movie..." "I would say "Party on."" "If Don gave- gave me a chance... to be the last person in the documentary on Rock School..." "I'd say "Long live rock."" "Well, we got no choice" "All you girls and boys" "Making all that noise" "'Cause they found new toys" "Well, we can't salute you Can't find a flag" "If that don't suit ya that's a drag" "School's out for summer" "Yeah" "School's out forever" "School's been blown to pieces" "No more pencils" "No more books" "No more teacher's" "Dirty looks" "Oh, yeah" "If it's good, I will change my attitude, and we'll do an hour of solid" "If it's bad, we all come right back in this room" "Paul, but don't be" "And I tell the story of how I lost my virginity, okay?" "And it wasn't- it wasn't a nice story." "It wasn't a nice story." " It smelled like nicotine and" " Ahh!" "Stop!" " Whale oil." " Stop." "School's out for summer" "Yeah" "School's out forever" "School's been blown to pieces" "No more pencils" "No more books" "No more teacher's" "Dirty looks" "Out for summer" "Out till fall" "We might not come back at all" "School's out forever" "School's out for summer" "School's out with fever" "My school's out completely" "My life would probably be really boring... if I wasn't in Rock School." "Rock School is, like, probably my favorite place in the entire world." "Hottest band in town."