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Long before Matt Skiba helped found Alkaline Trio or became the pensive, prolific artist he is today, the 37-year-old, like many of us, was conscripted into the childhood duty of piano lessons.
"My mom forced me and my sister to play piano for three years when we were like six or seven years old, maybe a little older," he says. "Yeah, I played piano before guitar. But I first started playing guitar because my mom would play acoustic and I'd try to bang around and play on her guitar a little."
As the seed of punk rock was just starting to germinate in the young Skiba, he learned that guitar lessons weren't for him either.
"I took one-and-a-half guitar lessons and my music teacher was this total dick," he recalls, "And he was trying to show me scales and all this technical stuff and I was like, 'I don't need this to play "Richard Hung Himself" by D.I.' I just wanted to learn how to play punk songs, which you can do at home and figure out on your own so I opted for that."
After flying back home to L.A. from New York where he had collaborated on an art exhibition with friend and artist Heather Gabel (who designed the Alkaline Trio heart-and-skull logo), Skiba spoke to Punknews interviewer Gen Handley about his musical roots, as well as the story behind the song "Radio" and how Dave Grohl's Studio 606 lost its virginity to the HELL.
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