Audio Geek: Going Back to the Woodshed - Flea at USC

I'm just posting this because frankly, sometimes you need a little inspiration.

Flea, the bassist for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, has enrolled as a freshman in the University of Southern California program in Music. Not some radical ersatz program, USC is fairly traditional from what I've heard. Flea always wanted to expand his knowledge of harmony and music's building blocks and now he's doing it. Studying Bach chorales; four-part harmony from the mid-18th century.

Why at 45 years old, with money and fame, and a successful professional musical career pursue the academic study of music?

"I love it!" Flea replies.

Get the full story on Flea going back to school, and the seven-year old Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The bassist founded the conservatory after discovering the eradication of his Los Angeles high school's music program as a result of California's passage of Proposition 13 in 1980. From the September 27, 2008 NPR profile: "Flea Goes Back to School."