{"id":7858,"date":"2017-07-20T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:29:32","slug":"aaron-olson-03-from-midi-class-to-l-a-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/aaron-olson-03-from-midi-class-to-l-a-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Olson (’03): from MIDI class to L.A. Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Class of 2003’s Aaron Olson is the lead guitarist for the band L.A. Takedown<\/a>. He was written up recently in the Del Mar Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Aaron Olson (’03)<\/p><\/div>The two things that I did as a kid were music and skateboarding. They would kind of waver on which would be more at the forefront. Once I got to high school, I started meeting more musicians, and all the music classes offered at San Dieguito were a big thing for me. When I started we had Dr. Van Decker. He provided a lot of resources. He brought in a recording arts class; he also started a MIDI class. Those were pretty big for me, to be able to spend two hours a day sitting in recording arts class or working on computer music. With a MIDI I could make impossible music \u2014 just the fastest, unending runs and scales, polyrhythmic stuff that I couldn\u2019t play on my own. I think, in turn, that got me into Philip Glass and Tangerine Dream and things influenced by minimalism. Those were things that weren\u2019t available at many high schools, for sure.<\/p>\n

Did you know then that you wanted to make music professionally?<\/p>\n

Olson: I didn\u2019t admit it to myself but I knew that I loved to make music. I had a band in high school. It was instrumental. We really just played at our battle of the bands. This was at the turn of the 2000s; I was just a teenage kid heading down to Che Cafe at UCSD, where underground bands passing through San Diego would play \u2014 you would see Pinback play there when they were starting out. I was never old enough for Belly Up when I lived there. Same for Casbah. Playing the Casbah [on L.A. Takedown\u2019s recent tour] was kind of kind of like a mini-dream come true, because that\u2019s where all the cool bands would play that I could never go see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Class of 2003’s Aaron Olson is the lead guitarist for the band L.A. Takedown. He was written up recently in the Del Mar Times. Some quotes: The two things that I did as a kid were music and skateboarding. They would kind of waver on which would be more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,1],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-7858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-go-mustangs","category-news","tag-88"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}