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Michel Solis
3+ albums
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Early Interest in Music: Solis was interested in music at a young age. He showed an Elvis Presley fascination at the age of 10, followed by a Beatles fascination a the age of 11. The first record he bought was Revolver by the Beatles. He began to teach himself to play guitar by learning Beatles' songs. School: Michel Solis attend St Benedict school in Montebello up until grade 8 and then moved 7 miles (11 km) away to the town of Whittier. He did not fit into his new school environment and ended up getting into a lot of trouble as a young teenager. Tower Records: After being expelled from high school he drifted to Hollywood during the punk heyday of 1977. In 1979 he landed a job at Tower Records in West Covina, California as the punk and import record buyer (his cousin was already an employee of the store). He was hired after a 15 minute interview which consisted mostly about how much he liked the Beatles. The store manager was also a Beatle fan and spent most of the interview talking about how she saw the Beatles in 1965. While working at Tower Records he met and befriended a local punk rock star named Rik L Rik, who was a regular customer at the very large record store. Soon they, along with a couple of other Tower Records employees, were going to all of the Hollywood punk shows. They also spent a lot of time at Rik's Covina home. Bands: After years of playing in short lived punk bands, he eventually joined Thee Undertakers which soon disbanded shortly afterwards. He the
