rock school script
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Rock School Script
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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-
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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 kids
coming over to my apartment every week.
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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
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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,
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"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?"
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Let's do it!
And the kids were amazing.
There were, like, 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...
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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.
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- 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.
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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
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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.
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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 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.
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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."
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.