Another Proud Dad Moment

Last year, I posted about my beautiful older son, Max, who had performed with his band, Golden Dragon, at the Hard Rock Cafe in the finals of the 2008 RockSTAR Battle of the Bands. His band didn't win, but they did a great job.

This year, Max is in a new band, Loud in the Library, and once again they performed at the Battle of the Bands, held at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip. Video here, although Max isn't very visible behind the drum kit. They had actually written their own song this year, called "We Really Like to Rock." Lyrics:

We really like to rock, we really like to roll!
We really like it loud, we're out of control!
We play after school because we think it's cool!
We play our guitars because we're rock stars!

The House of Blues show was the first of two. At each of these shows, there are 36 bands playing from different schools in the LA Unified School District. Six bands would be selected from each week to perform at the final showcase at Universal CityWalk's Hard Rock Cafe. This year there is no final competition.

There were four bands submitted from Max's school, Cowan Avenue Elementary, led by the fantastic Mark Miller. Just as last year, three of the four bands from Cowan were selected.

Below is the "unofficial" band portait. "Unofficial" because the band's only girl, the keyboard player, was away on vacation. The official portrait will take place at the Hard Rock.

Left to right: Luke (2nd grade), bass; Raymond Anderson, Jr. (1st grade), guitar; Neil O'Laughlin (1st grade), vocals; Max Potruch (1st grade), drums; Nick Scollan (2nd grade), lead guitar; Ramzy Latif (2nd grade), guitar.