The Surfin Safari Band

I remember at an early age receiving my first cassette tape, which happened to be a gift from my mother. This tape contained the album “Surfin’ Safari” by The Beach Boys and was a life-long favorite of my mothers. I would play this tape over and over again, singing along with the band and dancing around to the sounds of the guitar. This was the earliest memory I have where I can clearly recall when my obsession with music began. From this early point, I began diverging into many different genres of music and gained the desire to begin researching all of the artists I came across. There was always a personal connection between the music I loved and the inspiration I received through the artists creating these wonderful compositions.
During the end of my freshmen year at high school my friend Alex contacted me about joining a new band he formed with his classmate Dan. This began a three-year run with our band Days Made Visible and included playing many different live shows. Days Made Visible ended after numerous lineup changes but immediately a new band formed called KODIAK that consisted of Alex and I. This band formed in 2012 and is still currently active. …show more content…
Louis, there is very little being done to raise awareness of the act of digital piracy. I believe that there are many methods to which UMSL could take to address the crisis and encourage students to avoid the act of digital piracy. To discover the effects that digital piracy has on college students I organized a plan to keep my research strictly within college campuses. The biggest groups of downloaders are college students, who are salient for their size as a group as well as their frequency of downloading (Bott, 2006). Research has estimated that one out of three college students downloads music illegally. They are especially problematic because two thirds of those who download do not care whether the music is copyrighted or not (Richmond School of Law,