Fairfax High School

So yeah, I graduated from Hollywood High School.

I went to Fairfax High School.

Mm.

I, um, yeah, I mean, I, I, I was there until I was about, I wanna say, like, 18?

Okay? Like, it's very Hispanic.

I went to Fairfax High School, very Black and Hispanic all around.

So I didn't feel, like, discrimination.

I didn't feel like I didn't fit in.

Well, Dave, I'd love to maybe have you take us back to the beginning.

You grew up in Hollywood, Fairfax High, at really just this incredible flourishing in music history, just punk rock, rock, incredible iconic rock musicians coming out of this very, very small community all at the same time.

You were right in the middle of it.

So, you know, rewind us to your, a little bit of your youth and like, what was it like growing up in that area?

Even when I was saying I started trying to sing in punk rock bands, and even back then, I remember Slash had this three-piece band called Titus Sloan.

And they would play like Fairfax.

That's another thing, you know, going back to real quick is Fairfax High was the awesome thing about it was there was an amphitheater in the middle of the quad and they would have bands play there at lunchtime at school, like Slash's three-piece band, Titus Sloan, played there at lunchtime.

That was not