With Casey McSocial Complete

La Costa Canyon, 2006: Walton founded the Rock I IV V school club (named for the I–IV–V progression) and played bass in Casey McSocial, his first real band, filling in while Sean Sobash went to college. Publicly traceable in the 2006–2007 San Diego all-ages scene via San Diego Reader listings; the band's 2007 Spotify track "Natalie Brooks" postdates his tenure and is not a Luke Walton recording credit.

In 2006 Walton founded Rock I IV V, a La Costa Canyon school club named for the main chords of rock (the I–IV–V progression), in the same year he joined Casey McSocial on bass.

Casey McSocial has a publicly traceable footprint in the San Diego all-ages circuit. The 2007 track "Natalie Brooks" is on Spotify (Quickstar Productions compilation, ℗ 2007); Walton did not play on that studio recording, but played the song live roughly a hundred times in 2006 while on bass. San Diego Reader archive issues from late 2006 through mid-2007 place the band in the BGO Events / all-ages listings that ran through The Jumping Turtle in San Marcos and similar North County venues.

Luke F. Walton played bass in Casey McSocial for roughly a year in 2006, at and around La Costa Canyon High School, filling in while Sean Sobash — later a professional touring and session bassist with a documented national career — went to college. Todd McClintock played drums. Luke's membership and both bandmates' specific roles are Luke archive memory; no independent public source has been located naming that lineup. The band's 2007 Spotify catalog postdates Luke's tenure; he is not credited on those recordings.

Luke remembers Casey McSocial winning La Costa Canyon's Battle of the Bands, playing LCC homecoming, and playing The Jumping Turtle in San Marcos. These are archive memory: the LCC Battle of the Bands win, homecoming set, and Jumping Turtle show have not been confirmed by an independent school or venue source. A 2009 Coast News profile later described Luke as having won all but one year of the LCC Battle of the Bands — that article is the strongest public corroboration of the arc, covering the full La Costa Canyon run that started here.

Casey McSocial was the first chapter of a four-year LCC circuit. After it: Mannequin (Luke's own original-song band, second place at LCC Battle of the Bands per archive memory and Wikipedia) and Blue Suburbia (classic rock / blues trio, won LCC Battle of the Bands — confirmed in the 2009 Coast News profile). Luke graduated early from La Costa Canyon in January 2009 and used the open semester on Six Months to Make It — a 21-episode vlog (Jan–July 2009) documenting the push from amateur to working musician before USC. Sean Sobash's subsequent touring and session career is documented at Shout Out LA and on iHeart. Todd McClintock later became an Emmy-nominated animation writer from Carlsbad, with credits including Amphibia and work in the Gumball universe.

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