Word: shankar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also ubiquitous were the H Band, featuring the members of Men of Clay (Ben and Tom Hammond on guitar and bass, respectively, and Shankar Ramaswami on drums) and Fred Heiberger on keyboards. They served as the pick-up group for several of the acts and rocked out on their own with "Trim." This was a piece of driving fusion, with throbbing chromatics, and a bit o' Hendrix in Hammond's solo. This otherwise excellent piece fizzled out, however, in banal repetition of a one-measure motif...
...Hammond left Christian and the Infidels about a year-and-a-half ago to form Men of Clay when his brother Tom came to Harvard. "I knew that if Tom came here we would form a band together. We had been playing together since high school," says Ben Hammond. Shankar Ramaswami '89, Ben Hammond's squash partner at Harvard, completed the trio when they discovered that they shared the same musical tastes and felt influenced by the Police and the Beatles...
...Multi-fingered hands are particularly competitive at the current time," said Shankar S. Sastry, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley...
They came out of it at Harvard, where Ben Hammond met Shankar Ramaswami '89 in a squash class. "He was braggin' and I was braggin'," Ramaswami says, and soon Men of Clay had a new drummer...
Festival of India Celebration: Symphony Hall, Ravi Shankar, sitar, and Alla Rakha, tabia, Friday...