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Reuben Moss, age eleven, was composing as a pre-schooler and began
studying guitar at age four. He made his debut at age five, performing his
song "I Live In France" at an open mike night at Freight and Salvage
coffee house in Berkeley. He can't remember a time when he wasn't a
guitarist. "I got started when I was two years old. I'd always been playing
air guitar. I got my first guitar when I was four and I took some lessons, and
I've been playing ever since. When I was young, like 3 to 5, I really liked
Eric Clapton. My brother got me listening to lots of other music, like
alternative rock, and my teacher Jim Gleason is a really good guitarist and
he shows me good [cover] songs." How does he get his ideas for original
songs? "They just come to my head, basically. I guess they're in my
head."
Evan Moss, age fourteen, studied classical piano and clarinet before taking up
the drums at age ten. "I always went around drumming, and I always hear
the drums in music. I can hear everything else too, but I don't pay the
most attention to the other parts," he explains. His influences? "Dave
Grohl, when he was still with Nirvana, influenced me. The music I listen to
affects my playing forever. I hear new drum parts and say, 'wow, that's
cool,' and then I modify them and I play them from then on." Asked how
he comes up with his jazz-like drum parts that go beyond the simple
backbeat, Evan says the same thing as his brother: "it just comes to my
head."
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