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emmagrant01First, *tears* for Adam Yauch. *sniffle* The Beastie Boys were such a huge part of my high schools experience, really formative. License to Ill was such an amazing album, and I spent many hours in my teen years listening to it.
And now we're watching the Guns N Roses tribute, and it stirred up this memory of when I was a junior in high school and we had one of those assemblies where they had some rock band that covered current hits and in between told us not to take drugs. Anyway, I have this memory of being in one of those assemblies and the band played "Sweet Child of Mine," and the ENTIRE student body stood up and started rocking out and singing along.
And that was incredible because I grew up in the south and went to a school where the various racial and socioeconomic groups were very segregated and really didn't socialize at all. Hell, the different groups didn't even listen to the same music. Usually the white kids sat down while the black kids stood up and sang or danced, and the black kids sat down while the white kids stood up and sang or danced. But somehow everyone in that room knew "Sweet Child of Mine" and everyone stood up and sang along. I had never seen anything like it before. It was crazy, and it was one of those moments from my teen years that I'll never forget.
:-)
And now we're watching the Guns N Roses tribute, and it stirred up this memory of when I was a junior in high school and we had one of those assemblies where they had some rock band that covered current hits and in between told us not to take drugs. Anyway, I have this memory of being in one of those assemblies and the band played "Sweet Child of Mine," and the ENTIRE student body stood up and started rocking out and singing along.
And that was incredible because I grew up in the south and went to a school where the various racial and socioeconomic groups were very segregated and really didn't socialize at all. Hell, the different groups didn't even listen to the same music. Usually the white kids sat down while the black kids stood up and sang or danced, and the black kids sat down while the white kids stood up and sang or danced. But somehow everyone in that room knew "Sweet Child of Mine" and everyone stood up and sang along. I had never seen anything like it before. It was crazy, and it was one of those moments from my teen years that I'll never forget.
:-)
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Date: 2012-05-07 02:26 am (UTC)