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...many rock musicians, but hissituations as a member of the mainstream Smiley'sBone is much different from those of hard-core andpunk bands. These bands, centered around WHRB,Dunster and Adams Houses, with a strong off-campuscontingent as well, are taken care of by anenterprising senior named Doug DeMay, and hisorganization, the Harvard Independent MusicSociety (HIMS...
...wonder that he is. DeMay, a seniormajoring in economics, is the founder of the HIMS,what he calls "a connecting organization" Histasks include finding practice spaces, gettingshows together, borrowing a P.A. from the UC forvarious shows and connecting bands with hispersonal record label, 100% Breakfast! Records."Everyone was doing their own thing haphazardly,"he says of the music scene before the HIMS. "Iwanted an organization that would get bandstogether...
Other bands under the nurturing eye of DeMayare Mopar, Fat Day and a first-year band calledHypertrophie Shitstraw. Singer/guitarist John J.Donahue '94, of Toddler, says he was "inspired byDoug DeMay" to take up the guitar and form a band...
Bands share musicians, practice spaces,instruments and equipment with one another, as allof these things are hard to come by at Harvard.Though groups average four hours a week ofpractice time, DeMay and Zach B. Sitter '94 playin both Mopar and Fat Day, Kelefa T. Sanneh '97plays in Mopar and Hypertrophie Shitstraw, Matt A.Donahue '97 plays in Toddler and Hypertrophie andAdam E. Rosen '95 plays in Mopar and Neverlovers."The main difference" between playing withNeverlovers as opposed to Mopar, says Rosen, "isthe songs are a lot slower so it's less physicallytaxing." Rosen says he must exercise regularly to"build...
Tuesday nights the play list tends to be more melodic but punchy, while Wednesdays are also somewhat more accessible to non-hard-core fans. Thursday nights are characterized as noisier and artier, while on Fridays, Douglas DeMay '94 plays gut-level, hard-core, emotional stuff to a very loyal audience. On Saturday night the Record Hospital becomes "Rhythm 95," and the music changes to a combination of rap, hip hop, dance hall and funk. Sunday nights the station returns to Record Hospital and plays songs that are more closely tied to the punk movement of the late 1970s...