Archbishop Mitty High School - Excalibur Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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me for? . . . Folk music, Iplay it because I like it. I don't know, just enjoy playing it. He is not trying to copy a style either. He does not talk a lot about communi- cation, or self expression, he just plays it because it makes him feel good. Rick Costa is a musician whom I have a very strong respect for. I got to know him about one year ago, back in the days of closed campus when you had to sneak over to Queen of Apostles to have a smoke. Rick is the lead guitarist with a group called Stone Free. I-Ie first started playing music in the first grade with the accordian, and continued that instrument through the third grade. I-Ie took up guitar five years ago, and now writes instru- mentation and sings in addition to his guitar Work. Our music does bear resemblance to other types of music, but it is not like any other music you've heard. We've asked people to classify it, but no- body can put a specific label on it. We use hidden meanings and Wmbolic lyrics, but that's as much as you can come to classifying it, other than saying it's a type of rock. I can't think of anybody who has really in- fluenced meg Eric Clapton is' the only guitarist I can really listen to and get into. I can't speak for all music, a lot of people are doing things I don't agree with 10096, but I can tell you where MY head's at. I don't believe in staying in one place too long, be- cause the world is constantly chang- ing and the message has to change. The message helps people see things as they re ally are, and that's what Stone Free is all about. I play music because you do what- ever turns you on and this is what happens to turn me on . . . when I first started playing, I realized I could communicate with my instru- ment. After I got more involved and I started to play professionally, I realized I could transmit vibrations to other people, to people in the audi- ence. . . . that's what music is all about, that's why jam sessions are so fascinating. You can take control of a jam for a while, you don't have to be playing lead, you can get the whole group working on your ideas. But, you can only keep control for so long, and then you need someone else 's ideas. That's what makes mus- ic exciting, everybody's ideas. Music is an art, and like any other art is many-faceted. The attempt to capture the ideas of some of these musicians can only be a glimpse of what there is going on in the commun- ity. Innumerable guitarists, driunmexs, horn players and composers are work- ing with their ideas in this school, and only a few have been mentioned. Come tomorrow many of these ideas may have died or been forgotten, others may have, will have, possibly evolved into something valuable. The artist continues to try to work it out because, in the words of gui- tarist Steve Strunk, You just do what you have to do. --john Mix pm, B.-.u wan. rumrs QHEIRMACY ml he K V I 'x PIWFI , ,1 ,y .... '. ,, . -1 4 ,r vs. ..a Q , o .nw ., A . 1 . '-. .-, 'Wig .. . .qv i-- ' waist!! 5 ' , ..,. Charles Tim james Larry Pete Neil Kip Brown Buchanan Butera Byers Caputo Carroll Ceccarelli i. if ' 'W ki r .V if M . ' A as N yi W- - .-'J' x l 1 F - ..,. it X ' is NM 4 Q' 5 I A lxs... , s fe - s x