From Paul Liberatore at the Marin Independent Journal.
Weir helps make magic in a music bus
Excerpt:
When it was my turn to talk to Weir, I was ushered into the claustrophobic little recording studio in the back of the bus, where he was ensconced, finishing up an interview with a radio reporter.
A longtime supporter of music in the schools, the 59-year-old Rock Hall of Famer had come down from Mill Valley for a couple of days, donating his time to mentor a half-dozen high school students, three of them – Sam Toizer, Cody Zeger and Ten Mowrey – from Redwood High in Larkspur.
“We wrote, recorded and filmed a music video in here yesterday and this morning,” he explained. “It was a great deal of fun. And it sounds pretty damn good.”
The overarching point of the project, Weir went on, is that “it gives these kids a little taste of what it is to make reasonably professional-grade music. And it helps galvanize their writing abilities and their collective abilities. They have to work with each other. Everybody has to make room for everybody else. Everybody has to listen to everybody else.”
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