![]() ![]() Tim, meanwhile, didn’t quite get it, still perfectly content to listen to Whitechapel. Having only been exposed to older rock music – The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the aforementioned Sabbath – hearing what modern bands could do felt revolutionary, especially when it came to blending solos with more technical riffs.īy the time Tim got to high school, most of his classmates had outgrown their scene phases in favour of pursuing more ‘normie’ pastimes. “I remember trying to understand it and thinking, ‘This is kind of scary,’ because of the screaming and everything, but when it clicked, I was like, ‘Some of these melodies are incredible, the instrumentation is really unique.’” “It was a cool thing all the older kids were into,” he remembers. ![]() Tim was at middle-school at a time where the likes of Chiodos, Taking Back Sunday and From First To Last were all the rage, and was surrounded by peers with long fringes and jeans tight enough to cut off their circulation. By the age of 15, he had completely abandoned the violin. “I saw guitar as an escape from the violin,” he says, and began learning to play songs from his dad’s Black Sabbath collection by ear. “It taught me how to get good at something, which is just focus and discipline and practice.”Īged 10, he saw his dad pull out a guitar one day, having been previously unaware that he played the instrument at all. He hated it, especially since his teachers would often strike his hand with the bow if he made a mistake. Discipline was second nature, drilled into him by hours of violin practice in his early childhood after his mother – a Chinese immigrant determined for her son to make the most of the opportunities available in America – enrolled him in lessons at the age of three. He spent that time practicing guitar, hungry to become the best musician possible. I think the power of manifestation is really important.”īecause of his possession charges, Tim was alone a lot – either on probation, or grounded. I think I did a lot of manifesting when I was a child – in sixth grade, I was just telling people, ‘I’m gonna grow up and be a rock star,’ and just truly believing that. ![]() “The cool thing is,” the now 28-year-old Tim says wryly, “now I have a job where I can smoke weed every day. In a moment of puerile rage, Tim told his school that, eventually, he would get a job where he could get blazed all the time. To his frustration, both times he was caught with only mere crumbs of weed on his person, in his jacket and school locker, but in a state like Texas where drug offences are punished particularly heavily, there were consequences. When he was 16, Polyphia’s Tim Henson got in trouble with the law twice for drug possession. ![]()
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