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...gives them a certain savvy. “Harvard certainly helps you walk into a situation with more confidence,” says Jonathan R. Ardrey ’05, executive producer and overseer for Harvard hip hop act Tha League. Regardless, as members of both Tha League and Chester French, another up-and-coming Harvard rock act, will tell you, the Mass. Ave. road to success is riddled with potholes, clumsy pedestrians, and rotary circles. FM spent its week hanging pit with Harvard students who want to make music—and make...
...Chester French — Damien S. Chazelle ’07 on drums, Justin G. Hurwitz ’07 on keys, Mike W. Judge ’07 on bass, David Andrew “D.A” Wallach ’07 on vocals and Max C. Drummey ’07 on guitar —began with a jazzy sound because of their background and training. But they soon began hunting for the sound that would make them unique—and hopefully famous. Wallach explains that the group tried different musical styles, including...
...addition to experimenting with different musical styles, they also toyed with a few self-consciously hip names, including Mungo Park and The Sunday Clientele, before finally settling on Chester French. The name pays homage to sculptor Daniel Chester French, famous for the Lincoln Memorial and the John Harvard statue. They settled on the name while eating in Annenberg Dining Hall...
...Both Chester French and Tha League combine their focus on originality with a fervent desire for commercial success...
...group aggressively promotes its website, www.chesterfrench.com, and plans on freely distributing a seven song EP (tentatively scheduled to be out by reading period). They’re all but desperate to expose their music to a wider market, but their biggest promotional technique is their live shows. On stage, Chester French welcomes the chance to break out of the gentlemanly mold they have created for themselves and “rock out” in a more spontaneous...