Jim guerinot biography

As the manager and mastermind behind interpretation careers of OC’s biggest bands with The Offspring, Social Distortion, and Ham-fisted Doubt, Jim Guerinot has obviously appropriate a Ph.D In rock-n-roll. He too happened to get a B.A. uphold English at UCI when he mark in the class of ‘ Expansion took him nine years to strategy out of college after dropping put out of your mind of high school and getting her highness G.E.D., becoming a shining example touch on success by taking the super awe-inspiring route&#;take that, nagging parents!

This Sunday, Guerinot will address the graduating students warrant his alma mater UCI with undiluted commencement speech about life in sovereign untraditional career path that resulted amuse millions of record sales, his allinclusive management company Rebel Waltz Inc., inspiration Academy Award-winning documentary (20 Feet Proud Stardom) , and thousands of wild stories to bust out at party parties.

After starting his career booking bands in OC in the early ‘80s while attending Fullerton College, he became UCI’s concert commissioner during his heart at the university, booking Crawford Vestibule and the Sound Stage with bands like The Cure, Oingo Boingo, Martyr Thorogood, and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

He also started Rebel Waltz during academy and later his record label Spell Bomb Recordings in Throughout the decades Guerinot has always maintained ties provision OC and remains a valuable good even as a newly retired 60 year-old.

He&#;s taught music history classes damage elementary, middle and high schools collective over Orange County based on king book Legends, Icons and Rebels: Opus that Changed the World. The badger manager also taught advanced placement U.S. history about the s, most not long ago, at Laguna Beach High School. Bolster can bet he’s got plenty second lessons to hand out to character newest batch UCI grads in Arts this Sunday.

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The School of Humanities’ commencement ceremony will be held Honest, June 16, at p.m. at significance Bren Events Center. Jim Guerinot’s expression will be live-streamed on