Spring Break
URI bass player puts in 'Effort'
Joshua Aromin
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Entertainment
11/21/08 - In a Pawtucket, R.I. basement with dangling wires, exposed insulation and a concrete floor for a stage, the Massachusetts-based band The Effort exploded with energy. Meanwhile, drums pounded the room, guitars wailed away and the singer screamed into the microphone as Jordan Pailthorpe, who just hours earlier was sitting around in philosophy class contributed heart-thumping bass.
Pailthorpe is like other URI students. He commutes from Pawtucket, goes to class, works at the 193 Degrees Coffee House and returns home. But in between school and work, he goes on tour and plays bass with The Effort.
Currently, The Effort plays shows mostly on weekends, but after the fall semester, it is slated for a tour of Europe.
Unfazed by how busy he is, Pailthorpe downplays his schedule. "Honestly, I'm not going to say that I really stress that much, because there are people that do way more than me.," He said.
A 21-year-old freshman at URI, Pailthorpe is in school to become a teacher, after having an unrewarding experience as an audio technician. His previous job left him bummed out and working as a hotel A/V manager.
"I realized how I wasn't making an impact on anything - on anybody, on anything. I was basically just a tool," said Pailthorpe. "I just decided that I can't do it anymore."
Before that, he himself enlisted in the National Guard - though he would later drop out - but now his views seem to be more clear.
These same views are grounded in his desire to impact people, which is partly what drove him to teaching. One of his more ambitious plans is to teach English in South Korea after he receives his bachelor's degree.
"A lot of my moral views have changed between then and I figured that teaching is probably the most ethical thing I can do between all of my different kind of viewpoints now," he said.
That same desire to make an impact extends into why he plays music. Pailthorpe and his band play a brand of music that is significantly complemented by the people that come to see them perform.
Pailthorpe is like other URI students. He commutes from Pawtucket, goes to class, works at the 193 Degrees Coffee House and returns home. But in between school and work, he goes on tour and plays bass with The Effort.
Currently, The Effort plays shows mostly on weekends, but after the fall semester, it is slated for a tour of Europe.
Unfazed by how busy he is, Pailthorpe downplays his schedule. "Honestly, I'm not going to say that I really stress that much, because there are people that do way more than me.," He said.
A 21-year-old freshman at URI, Pailthorpe is in school to become a teacher, after having an unrewarding experience as an audio technician. His previous job left him bummed out and working as a hotel A/V manager.
"I realized how I wasn't making an impact on anything - on anybody, on anything. I was basically just a tool," said Pailthorpe. "I just decided that I can't do it anymore."
Before that, he himself enlisted in the National Guard - though he would later drop out - but now his views seem to be more clear.
These same views are grounded in his desire to impact people, which is partly what drove him to teaching. One of his more ambitious plans is to teach English in South Korea after he receives his bachelor's degree.
"A lot of my moral views have changed between then and I figured that teaching is probably the most ethical thing I can do between all of my different kind of viewpoints now," he said.
That same desire to make an impact extends into why he plays music. Pailthorpe and his band play a brand of music that is significantly complemented by the people that come to see them perform.
