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...impress the audience and the record label judges. “I just hope this isn’t my only 15 minutes of fame,” says José L. Sandoval ’02, a member of North House, a Harvard-based band with Al Bennett ’00, Altay M. Guvench ’03 and Wellesley senior Becky Warren. This Saturday, they will open for Primus in San Francisco, as part of a national battle of the bands run by the Internet Underground Music Association. North House made the final four, and this play...
...phone with Altay, counting down the seconds on the atomic clock. It seemed too good to be true.” Before that, all communication with IUMA had been via e-mail, and the phone call “really made it real,” says Bennett. The band decided to celebrate with a nice dinner, but crowds and lack of parking in Boston led them to Taco Bell...
...with a studio and a producer, who will help create a professional demo to submit to record labels. Already the final four will play at the Fillmore Theater, and “anybody who’s anybody has played there at some point,” says Bennett. “Anybody” such as Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and Oasis. The show will be broadcast over the web at www.iuma.com and RollingStone.com on April 29 at 11 p.m. Sandoval says he’s beginning to feel a little like a rock star...
...Bennett, who began the band with Warren a few years ago, is just amazed to be where they are now. “We never thought we’d get this far,” he says. “Winning at this point is kind of on the back burner.” What’s most important to him is the arrival of his family from Alabama to see him play. “It feels good to have your parents be proud,” he says...
North House, which was named after the former name of Pforzheimer House, started with just Bennett and Warren. Since, the band has grown, played a few gigs and produced its own CD, entitled "Two Stories...