Roy Phillips:  

CLASS OF 1989
East detroit, MI

Roy's Story

Life Well it's been a long time since the day's of Oakwood JR High School. I moved on like others did to East Detroit High School. After I finished 11th Grade I ended up going to Florida in the summer to see my mother like I used to do every year but this time I stayed in Florida, I didn't finish school and ended up getting several jobs. I finally found one that allowed me to get a car and have some cash to spend on music such as Queensryche, Megadeth etc..I got a few more different jobs and finally started working on a Golf Course. I ended up there for 12 years. I got more serious about music and saved up for a guitar and bought a Fender Stratocaster. Lost a ton of weight and got into a few bands here in Ft Myers Florida. The more serious band was called Villin and we did Metal covers and some originals in the bars around here. Usually we would play 4 nights a week from 9pm - 1am then get up and go to work(some of us) lol We recorded a Demo for $2500 but we could never quite figure out what we really wanted so after 4 or 5 years that broke up and I played in a few more bands until I got burned out of the music scene and just started teaching from my home and trying to do some solo stuff. I got tired of that and dropped playing and st...Expand for more
arted learning about computers. I got the call that my Dad died back in Detroit so the next thing I know I find myself on a plane back "home" By this time Ironically they lived right behind Oakwood jr high so when I got to the house I put on my jacket (it was freezing) and started to walk around the school remembering old times :) After the funeral I flew back to Florida and decided I needed to make some changes. I enrolled in college for Microsoft MCSE course and my teacher turned me onto my current job and Sony electronics doing computer phone support. I quit the MSCE course because I really hated Microsoft anyways and was way more into Linux Operating systems..Here at Sony I became a specialist and transferred over to the Business and Professional group where we do support for newsroom cameras, editing decks etc...I want to make more money so I'll probably look for another job soon. The pay in florida isn't that good and it's hard to get motivated sometimes. Music is what I really love anyways. I still miss my boys from East Detroit though :( we had a lot of good times. Pat "skin" Blackburn Darrell "squibbles" schenskinski?(cant remember his last name) Robert Nutting, Troy "loaf" The Pierce brothers, Larry Parrish, Compos pool hall.
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