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B R : I said that?
laughs That’s
awesome.
WBM: Since then,
what has changed, if
anything, and what
are you up to now?
BR: Oh, man. It’s
a drastic change,
actually. I’m working
at a local record
store, Gravity
Records. I really
don’t even surf
anymore. I play in
a band called
Free Clinic.
WBM: What instru-ment
do you play?
B R : I actually sing
and play the guitar.
I’m living with
my drummer
downtown. We’re
working on an
album right now.
Hopefully we’ll have
that done by August
or September.
It’s just a drastic
change, like,
I’m not going to school at the moment to really be able to focus on music.
WBM: How did growing up in Wrightsville Beach affect your current life and
maybe your future life, too?
B R : Well, I’m very thankful. I was born in Winston-Salem and we moved when
I was six years old. It was just like living in paradise for the first couple years, you
know? I don’t know. It was awesome growing up at the beach. Spoiled rotten, that’s
probably what I got out of it.
WBM: Do you think you would have surfed if you had grown up in Winston-
Salem?
B R : Absolutely not. There’s no water.
WBM: When we interview you in eight years, what will you have to say?
B R : Hopefully you will have heard of my band by then, laughs that’s probably
not the case. But that would be what I would hope. — Matt Corpening
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When interviewed by WBM in 2005, Ben Rose
said: “I love it when the waves are good,
there are hot girls on the beach and
it’s nice and sunny outside.”