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...they start to be more familiar with each other, they're going to sound real good." Noelani R. Rodriguez '83, bassist for The Girl Next Door, says of the younger groups. Rodriguez also played with Hand to Mouth and Rhythm Co., and organized dances with live bands under the pseudonym of the Performing Arts Committee...
When Noelani Rodriguez, better known as Lonnie plays her bass guitar. She seems the consummate ham some one not likely to be interested in much beyond a dynamic performance Playing funky and often eccentric countermelodies, she mugs with band members and bounces around the stage with a maniacal energy out of proportion to her diminutive height...
...Rodriguez is more than a rock and roll hot dog. She has for two years promoted a wide variety of campus concerts without the assistance of House committees. Using a "pseudonym," the Performing Arts Committee. She has arranged performances simply by signing on two or three bands, getting permission to play somewhere on campus and plastering the Square with posters. While Rodriguez booked other bands more often than her own, she says matter-of-faculty that she enjoyed "not having to run into other people that were organizers." This year she played with a group called The Girl Next Door...
...Rodriguez began learning guitar at the age of seven from her father, who was also learning the instrument at the time. Each day he taught his daughter the chords he had learned. "He'd say 'This is a B, this is an A--isn't this great?'" Rodriguez recalls with a smile. The family moved to Southern California, but Rodriguez played only as a hobby, never performing in public...
...Harvard, she met Martha Hackett '83, lead vocalist for The Girl Next Door, and together they began working on rock acts. Hackett, a powerful and popular singer, already had a guitar player and was looking for a bassist, so Rodriguez promptly switched instruments...