The Student Teachers

Rock & roll started out as teenage music, and punk rock was supposed to be about encouraging fans to make their own music; the Student Teachers were the band on New York City's new wave scene in the late 1970s that put these two ideas together, a handful of kids who made their way into one of America's hippest music communities by being in the right place at the right time. The band's story began in 1977 when Bill Arning, a 16-year-old music fan learning to play the keyboard, went to see John Cale play a show at New York City's punk mecca CBGB, and met two other teenagers atte...