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[Their] educational roots go back to 1968, when Scelsa and Millang, after playing in rock bands through high school, moved to Los Angeles 'to get closer to the music business,' Millang said. To pay the rent, they found jobs in special education classes as teacher assistants where 'they would ask us to bring our guitars in and we would stop cleaning paintbrushes and start singing to the kids.'
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