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Harvard started off strong by sweeping the doubles matches. A healthy Mike Rich teamed up with junior Anthony Barker to score first for Harvard, winning 8-5 at No. 3 over Daren Plookhoy and Ryan Coyle. Co-captain Joe Green and freshman Dave Lingman then clinched the doubles point with an 8-6 defeat of Scott Mayo and Greg Royce at No. 2. Sophomore Cillie Swart and co-captain John Doran sealed the sweep with a win at No. 1, beating Scott Carleton and Chris Shackleton...
...point to prove," Doran said. Harvard coach Dave Fish '72 also agreed that the match was an important...
Given the audience's craving for big names and faces, the choice for host was appropriate: Dave Foley, omnipresent MTV host best-known for his runner-up status on the 1998 Wanna Be a VJ Contest. His notoriety certainly garnered him the job, as Dave seems to have no other connection to the Boston scene. It was entertaining to watch his attempts at playing down his MTV connections and establishing empathy with lesser known Bostonacts. Dave lauded the Boston Music Awards for "righting the wrongs of music awards," even going so far as to say that "in a perfect world...
...ones carousing; one suspects several of the obstreperous performers and presenters imbibed before taking the stage as well. The Shods, presenting Best Country Act, came on stage eating and griping about being kept from their fair share of chocolate-covered strawberries (The award, by the way, went to the Dave Foley Band). The lead vocalist for Half Cocked, upon presentation of an award, queried the audience, "Is anybody drunk out there?" Select members of Tree, presenting Outstanding New Rock Band (won by Star Ghost Dog and Waltham) certainly appeared to be. Tree waltzed onto stage with plastic cups of beer...
...what was left of the audience rose to depart at the end of the ceremony, Dave Holmes implored them "Please, people, support your local music scene." These words would perhaps have rung a little more true had they not been uttered by a spearhead for mainstream music at its finest. As music fans and professionals poured out of the Orpheum and made their way to the Park Street Red Line stop across the street, these words certainly appeared to have little resonance. Boston music fans walked past the man on the platform with the open guitar case bidding them "Welcome...