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...skillful as they are, the assembled band cannot replicate the chemistry of Matthews’ regular gig, particularly the infectious energy injected by drummer Carter Beauford. Chief Phish Trey Anastasio and longtime collaborator Tim Reynolds provide some agile guitar licks, but at times bring Devil rather close to standard guitar rock. This is not all bad—“Save Me” sounds like it could have come off Anastasio’s solo album, only graced by Matthews’ infinitely superior vocals...
...want to blow people away,” says guitarist and lead singer Matthew C. Boch ’06. “We want to move ourselves forward. We want to kill our first real gig when we play...
...noise pop” band featuring four members of the Harvard Lampoon, played one concert late last year—a talent show in which, the band is proud to say, they served as the finale—and continued rehearsing throughout the summer in preparation for their comeback gig at the Quincy Cage on Sept...
...afternoon, after deciding his music-store job was too awful to go to anymore. He sold the six panels he drew that day to a local magazine, then others to the Seattle Times and later got a syndication deal through the San Francisco Chronicle. Though he liked the gig--and knew he was good at it--his love has always been jazz guitar, which he plays for several hours a day, occasionally sneaking into a band with friends to play at local weddings...
Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist whose ambitions for his amateur band far overshadow his merely adequate musical abilities. After a typically disastrous bar gig, Finn is thrown out of the band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. But the God of Rock, to whom Finn seems to pray regularly, has bigger plans for his disciple and grants him a subbing job at a prestigious private school. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers...