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Weird local fact that I didn't know about until last year. All of the local high schools don't hire live bands for their dances anymore, and for a while now. The kids want their music more "perfect", so they hire a DJ to spin electonic tracks. This simple enough pronouncement from one of the local kids just blew me away. Garage bands that played schools were the breeding ground for talented musicians in the past. I find this to be a very strange turn of cultural events.



Sad to read about this.

One of our high point of the year when I was at school was to listen to our buddies who have been practicing all year long for performing at the "end of the school year's show". There were classical acts as well and rock'n'roll ones.

Of all of them , I think only one became relatively famous as he was asked to be the drummer for The Box, local canadian band. I'm not sure how it turned out as we graduated and moved on...

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