Word: axelrod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inspiration comes in a variety of ways, the student composers say. Axelrod says he most often gets ideas for songs when travelling between classes. "I don't need a piano to write music on," he says. However, "Sometimes when you get to a piano it doesn't sound anything like what you thought it would because when you write a song you hear all the parts in your head and the piano is only one instrument," Axelrod adds...
Themes for his songs include: the nuclear arms freeze, the importance of individuality and the disappearance of the institution of love in the modern world. "In order to write a good song it is necessary to take a personal experience that is seen as universal," Axelrod says...
...Axelrod and the rest of the band says they are adamant in their resolve not to compromise their originality in any way. The band strives to bring something new and interesting to the traditional "Top 40 radio" sound. "Some people write songs according to the formulas followed by leading pop songs of today," says Axelrod, adding that these people write only to please the commercial market and make money...
...money. We want to make really good music and get it out to as many people as possible," Axelrod says...
...campus performance and only $850 for on-campus shows, says Andrew E. Bush '88. However, Men of Clay earns $750 for performances both on and off campus, Ben Hammond says. Similarly, The Rhythm Method received $800 when they played last week at New York's China Club, Axelrod says. The money does not go all that far, band members say, because they have to pay about $300 a show for sound equipment...