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...Half of the people at the Adams House show had never been to Harvard before," Tarver says. Watching 400 people dancing to his music in his house made Tarver "feel like a part of Harvard for the first time," he says. "If the walls could talk they'd have something interesting to say about my time at Harvard...
...Tarver's exposure to music began early, during his childhood in San Antonio, Texas. Coming from a long line of artists--his mother is a painter, and his father is a former artist who serves on the boards of several museums in the San Antonio area, Clay was encouraged to take up singing, violin and cello as a child. In high school he abandoned music for basketball, became MVP of the San Antonio area and played on one of the top All-State Texas teams. He returned to music, and the guitar, when he discovered alternative music in Boston...
...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...
...fall of junior year, Whelan and Tarver joined forces with guitarist Corey Brennan, classics grad student and former member of the hardcore band Meltdown. Drummer Chris Guttmacher ("with an umlaut over every vowel," says Tarver) joined the trio and they wrote "tons of songs in three weeks." All they needed was a singer to sing them...
...from hardcore band Megadosage, refused to play without his army helmet and sang lyrics like "Frankie was a flaming fag." After a few more failed attempts, they stumbled on a "cool guy who had never sung before, but who was really into the same kinds of music we were," Tarver says. Kurt Davis, otherwise known as Yukki, performs in a bathrobe, changes the color of his mane of hair every few weeks and drinks two liters of Jolt cola daily...