Word: rudder
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Founded by Christian A. Rudder ’98 and Justin A. Rice ’99, Bishop Allen defies the seemingly indelible line that separates Ivy League from rock ’n’ roll. Backed by Miller and bassist Bonnie A. Karin, who graduated from Brown in 2001, Rice and Rudder serve up light, catchy rock fare, honed over four years in Cambridge...
...It’s a day-job. It’s an entrepreneurial venture. It’s a band,” says Rudder, who recently quit his job to devote himself full-time to managing Bishop Allen. “It’s been taking off in the last month, but there was a load of groundwork and busting our ass for a long time...
...groundwork began in 1995, when Rudder and Rice met in a discussion section at Harvard. Soon after, they founded their first band together: The Pissed Officers...
...were highly unprofessional. We were just some idiots playing music,” Rudder says. The band was known for its ability to play 17 “really, really fast” songs in seven minutes...
...OneWorld told the America's Cup Arbitration Panel the designs were stolen by a former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point. Still, dueling on the high seas would be nothing without an element of skulduggery. So nervous are the teams about others pinching their keel and rudder designs that whenever the boats are lifted out of the water they shroud the hulls in huge curtains. Those curtains were very much in evidence dockside in Auckland last week, as the competing syndicates worked on design modifications to extract extra speed from wind and water. The next round robin...