{"id":736,"date":"2008-10-05T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T02:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-10-05T22:06:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T02:06:32","slug":"once-an-outcast-in-school-he-finds-fulfillment-in-a-new-wave-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Once An Outcast In School, He Finds Fulfillment In A New Wave Band."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess, in a sense, we all found fulfillment of a sorts in a New Wave band; either by watching our local heroes at Scorgies or actually finding the nerve to get up on stage and make noise of our own.\u00a0 John Pusateri sent me this article, along with a TON of scans documenting the early scene in the late Seventies. I&#8217;m posting this article first because Gary&#8217;s story is, in essence, everybody&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"#000000;\">HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3>By Sarah Kortum<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_738\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gary-trainer.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[736]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rockinrochester.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/gary-trainer-228x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Trainer of New Math \" width=\"228\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Trainer of New Math <\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1970, Gary Trainer (now bass guitar player and song writer for the popular, local new wave band <strong>New Math<\/strong>) found himself standing on the Pacific Coast highway, guitar in hand, hitching a ride up to San Francisco. One month earlier, he had graduated from East High School, wearing a peace symbol on his graduation gown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scorgies.com\/kortumarticle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess, in a sense, we all found fulfillment of a sorts in a New Wave band; either by watching our local heroes at Scorgies or actually finding the nerve to get up on stage and make noise of our own.\u00a0 John Pusateri sent me this article, along with a TON of scans documenting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,88,137,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scorgies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}