Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't H.R. Puf'nstuf. It wasn't even Oreo Doublestuff. By 8:00 last Saturday night, people were talking anxiously, especially the thousand fans at Sanders Theatre, about the Din & Tonics and their mysterious "Free Stuff" Jam. By 11:00, everyone at the concert was armed with a fantastic doorprize. And the Dins were being hailed as the "hottest group on campus...
Sponsored by Piedmont Airlines, the concert's "free stuff" motif conjured up exotic images: a round-the-world ticket, a spring break trip, perhaps even a week with the Dins in Bangkok on their 1988 summer tour. What the Dins' peers, parents and other sophisticated patrons received was much more creative: cucumbers, Dippity Doo, a can of tuna and a thousand other trinkets...
Even aside from the stuff, though, the jam was the best a capella concert at Harvard in recent memory. The Dins performed everything from a song with a South African beat to a heavy metal medley. Even members of other Harvard singing groups conceded that the concert was unique, and that the Dins flowed seamlessly among diverse and unusual singing and dancing styles...
...result, something almost never experienced at an a capella concert, was an electrified standing ovation. Almost never, that is, until they got an even louder and longer one for their heavy metal, strobe-light and steam extravaganza. This medley, which included songs like "Born to be Wild" and "Back in Black," was arranged in typical Din fashion, says Beckett. "Everybody was involved and threw in something...
...into the groups," says Callbacks founder Hickman. "We decided to found our own singing club. We started out with 15 or 20 people singing informally on Thursday and Sunday nights, but by second semester we became more serious, expanded our repertoire, and eventually opened for the Veritones spring concert...