Word: tarver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Clay Tarver '88 elegantly sweeps his shoulder-length hair back with his hands and gazes silently into the distance, heads turn in the Adams House dining hall. Guitarist, basketball player and social studies major, Tarver is the closest thing to a sex symbol at Harvard...
...Tarver seems unaffected by his semi-celebrity status in Adams House or the hordes of 16-year-old punkettes who swoon at his concerts at local clubs. His aloof stance may seem pretentious or arrogant, but it's mostly natural shyness even if he does play it up occasionally...
When his friends describe Tarver, they emphasize his humility and his local, "organic" perspective. "He does what he wants to do well, with a complete lack of knowledge of how well he does it," says one friend. "The coolest thing about Clay is his humility--considering how cool everyone thinks...
...level really took a jolt upwards with the start of the Bullet LaVolta. After the delicate sound of the Blake Babies, the decibel sound of Bullet hit you like a well-aimed right from Mike Tyson. Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...
...think anything quite like it has been seen or will be seen for a long time in the Adams House dining hall," said Tarver...