Jamie’s Blogs

TGB Bassist Jamie’s time at Berklee

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  • 17/03/2015

If second chances are a rarity then third chances seldom come about. My recent, temporary relocation to the US came off the back of one such third chance. In my mind Berklee College of Music had become the metaphorical carrot hanging on the end of a stick: the ever-present morsel dangling tantalisingly close to my face, yet still that bit too far away to reach. I’d applied twice before and both times I was deemed not to be of sufficient enough standard to be admitted. Quite why I placed so much emphasis on getting into that school I don’t know, but for whatever reason I did and being told...

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