184 - Berklee College of Music - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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What really happens when you go to one of the most famous music schools in the world? In this episode, Sharon pulls back the curtain on her time at Berklee College of Music as Scott digs into the highs, the lows, and the stuff you don’t hear in the brochures. From late-night jam sessions to lessons learned side by side with other hungry young musicians, Sharon reflects on how community—not curriculum—shaped her most. If you’ve ever wondered what it actually means to come up in a place like Be...

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0:00.0	Check this out, Sharon.
0:04.0	This is, I'm diving straight into my, my, my, my memories of, what would you call it?
0:10.8	Like, Berkeley frenzia.
0:13.3	Is a friendzia?
0:15.0	Is that a thing?
0:15.9	Frenzia?
0:16.9	I don't know.
0:17.7	I had a Berkeley frenzy.
0:19.7	And a couple of my friends did as well, right, where like Berkeley, because this was before the internet.
0:26.5	This was, you know.
0:27.6	Early 90s?
0:28.5	Let me have a look on this magazine.
0:32.5	Or like mid 90s.
0:34.1	It doesn't have a date on the magazine.
0:37.9	Does anybody watching this know when this magazine,
0:42.1	bass play with Phil Lesh on the phone?
0:44.1	When did this come out?
0:45.6	Because there is an article from, like about Berkeley, sorry, in it.
0:56.8	And some of the people that you know, by the if anybody's watching this Sharon went to Berkeley obviously I didn't just for context and we thought
1:02.1	it'd be fun to and I've got chat GPT or involved in this as well but which I think it's going to be
1:08.6	cool because it's organized some wicked questions.
1:18.2	But as a young bass player, I used to, like, look at this article and kind of like, I'm sure there'll be like drool marks on this page somewhere. I can't be like looking at, oh my, if I could
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