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David James Elliott

"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

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"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."

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David James Elliott
"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
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