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...seeds of Bullet LaVolta were planted four years ago when Tarver met Bill Whelan '88 in Spanish class and on the basketball court. "I was better at Spanish, he was better at basketball," Tarver recalls. The two talked about forming a band and Tarver taught his friend to play bass guitar. At the end of their sophomore year, both joined WHRB's rock department, described by one somewhat disenchanted member as "a collection of misfits and degenerates who share an almost psychotic knowledge of obscure music." There, Tarver says, he "learned about music from the point of view...
About three months after Davis joined the band, Bullet LaVolta entered the underground Boston music scene--as the band played a show at Adams House and their single "Baggage" brought them airtime on local radio stations and a new, wider audience. That summer, the band produced its first limited release tape...
...August of last year, Kenny Chambers, formerly of the well-known Boston band Moving Targets, replaced Brennan. After their first show in their new incarnation, in November at T.T. the Bear's, Bullet LaVolta signed a contract with Taang! records, a small independent label. Two weeks ago, after a few months' delay, they released their first record. They were recently invited, as one of Boston's best 24 bands, to compete in WBCN's Rumble...
...with the music "intelligentsia," students from Harvard, Emerson and MIT who sport "the Allston Beat look and whose bands break up because one of the membners is going to law school," Instead of denying its Harvard affiliation or faking an anti-intellectual stance, Bullet LaVolta's performance style celebrates the fact that Harvard students can be real musicians...
...Bullet LaVolta's not-quite-punk style evolved in part from Tarver's Texas childhood. "It combines the newest, most underground music I heard once I got to college with the shitty music I listened to in Texas," Tarver says, a bit nostalgic for San Antonio...