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Over black coffee, the tall, thin, boyishly charming lead singer of the Harvard-based band Chester French nonchalantly mulled over the reasons he and his bandmates will be performing at Sanders Theatre this Friday. “Despite the attention we get during shows, we have a hard time getting girls,” laments DA Wallach ’07. “That is really why I am doing this...
...Drummey ’07, the quiet, equally handsome brunette guitar player chimes in, “And he speaks for all of us when he says that, so please quote him on that.” The members of Chester French—a rock band composed of Harvard College students Justin Hurwitz ’07 (keyboards), Fuj Judge ’07 (bass guitar), Damien Chazelle ’07 (drums), Wallach and Drummey— promise that their live show this Friday, following the performance of the a capella group, the Harvard Din & Tonics...
Wallach explains, “You can pop in a CD if you just want to hear people play music.” Thus, the band always aims to pack something extra into their live performances. They assure that, as with all of their performances, Friday’s event will be chockful of improvisational antics, including some “crazy instrumental stuff that is not on the record...
...popularity of the band is any indicator of Chester French’s cachet, the group’s recent fan group, designed on the popular collegiate social network, www.thefacebook.com paints a promising picture. At press time, the membership for the band’s fan base on the website tops eight hundred students. The buzz about the band has been so great since their last album that the group already has a follow-up album in the works. The boys hope to have the full album recorded and released within the next two months...
While Chester French is enjoying its rising campus stardom, Wallach confesses, the band members’ social lives have deteriorated due to the long hours required for the nurturing of their band’s development. With eyes betraying a ragged tiredness, guitarist Drummey says, “We spend all of out time working on our music, [and lately] trying to get this album together...