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Undeterred, Klein would continue to scour the campus for other female undergraduates similarly vexed by the prevalence of men in Harvard’s rock scene. By her second semester, she had put together the five-piece band that would become Plan B for the Type...
...Choi ’07 and drummer Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07 were fellow compers for Record Hospital, the underground rock program on student radio station WHRB. Klein met bassist Tessa B. Johung ’07 through a mutual friend. The fifth member of the band she found close to home: her roommate Karima M. Porter ’07 agreed to sing and play guitar, although she had never before picked up the instrument...
Klein says the five women’s foremost goal was to “inspire a degree of confidence in young women on campus.” The band members say they were bothered by the absence of women in rock groups at Harvard and wanted to bring a new dimension to the campus scene...
Strapped for rehearsal space, Klein and Hufstedler engaged in some preliminary practices in the Weld laundry room. Future practices were similar guerrilla affairs, a lack of money and equipment leading the band towards unorthodox solutions...
Choi recalls how the band adapted to the absence of microphone stands: By taping their makeshift microphone to a Harvard-issued floor lamp. The band members had cheap instruments and small practice amps, and Choi says the first time she actually held a real microphone with the group was at their first show, a performance in the Quincy Cage that was, in Hufstedler’s words, “a total bomb.” The show was plagued by broken strings and other assorted equipment problems. At the time Porter had been playing guitar for less than...