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the rice thresher ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE friday. December 2.2005
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Rice has great musicians. With a
top-five-ranked music school, finding
someone who can sight-read a sonata or
compose a concerto on a whim has never
been a problem. But despite the many
events each week at Alice Pratt Brown
Hall, Rice does not host rock concerts
frequently, and many students do not
get a chance to show off their musical
talents.
Enter KTRU and the second annual
Rice University Battle of the Bands,
which gave students an opportunity to
show off their skills to both fans and
strangers Nov. 19 at the Lovett College
Undergrounds. Five bands competed
and Moxie walked away with a brand-
new, bumper-sticker-laden guitar.
The event left its mark on the Rice
community as a venue for fresh talent
to make its debut. The Thresher
interviewed each of the bands in the
battle to get a closer look at the
rock star side of Rice.
Moxie
Sid Richardson College
sophomore Jordan Myska
Allen|guitar, vocals
Brown College sophomore Evan
Davies j guitar, vocals, piano
Sid sophomore Aaron
Taffet\bass, vocals
Brown junior Andy
Whitten| drums, vocals
How did you meet?
JA: It was a dark and stormy Monday
when Evan, out of the blue, searched
facebook.com for others with the interest
"the NBA on NBC song." Naturally, he
found me.
After a long game of phone tag we
ended up at Taco Cabana together, along
with my roommate Aaron. After this initial
meeting, we searched relentlessly for a
drummer, to no avail.
At this time, Andy was playing drums
with another band, Siddharth a.k.a. The-
saurus a.k.a. Hungry Band Eats I.ai lai's
a.k.a. Fat Boy Raids the "Cookie" Factory
a.k.a. Signal Ridge.
The majority of this polynombic band
graduated; fortunately Andy did not. Andy
and I were casually drinking "stale grape
juice" from the bottle when it dawned on
us: Andy was bandless and we were drum-
merless. The rest is Moxie.
Who are some of your musical influences?
We pretty much only listen to the NBA
on NBC song.
What is your favorite memory with the
band?
The night after our very first show, we
went to Taco Cabana. We had just taken
first at the 2005 KTRU battle of the bands
(and a sweet KTRU guitar) and we were so
Plane of
Existence
proud of it — and the car would not lock —
that we brought it into the dining establish-
ment. Shortly thereafter, the second-place
band showed up at the restaurant. We fell
like assholes.
We decided then and there to change
our name to "The Doucheb***."
What is your favorite original song?
"Don't (Death to Pancakes)" because it
contains ever-widening circles of meaning.
Is there anything else you want to tell the
Thresher?
Yes.
Upcoming gigs:
President's study break, Dec. 4.
Wiess College sophomore John
Kehoe|guitar, vocals
University of Texas sophomore Zach
Boston | drums
Texas State University sophomore
Jason Lockhart|bass
UT junior Dietrich Schmidt|guitar, vocals
When did you get together?
JK: We have been playing together since
Fall 2001. We all went to the same middle
and high schools, and since we were all good
friends before we were bandmates, we have
been a really cohesive group.
Who are some of your musical influences?
My biggest influences personally are Jeff
Buckley and Nirvana.
As a group, our biggest influences also
include the Goo Goo Dolls, A Perfect Circle,
Muse, the Foo Fighters and Incubus.
What is your favorite memory with the
band?
My personal favorite memory with the
band was recording our most recent album
at Lowlight Sound Studios in downtown
Austin. It was great to just hang out with the
other guys and our engineer all day long and
really perfect the songs.
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Anything else
you want to tell
the Thresher?
In high school,
we did not take
ourselves too seriously and when 1
told the guys I was going to college
in Houston, we thought that was
the end of the band.
For the first semester it was,
but over winter break 1 realized it
would not be that hard to come to
Austin once a month or so.
Since then, things have been
different: We have shared the
stage with acts like Bob Schneider
and Monte Montgomery, and our
music is on iTunes Music Store.
Upcoming gigs:
Dec. 4, the pre-game show for
the UT/Duke men's basketball
game at the Frank Erwin Center
in Austin.
We will be performing in Hous-
ton again at the Scout Bar sometime
over winter break, or early in the
spring semester.
In general, we play once or twice
a month, so the best way to keep
up with us is to join our
facebook.com group at Rice.
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Mattie & the Space Commanders
Will Rice College sophomore Jesse Chanjguitar
Baker senior Matthew Escarra| drums
Will Rice senior Ted John|i>ass guitar
Hanszen College junior Nathan Liang\lead guitar
Hanszen senior Matthew Rigney|iead vocals, guitar
Hanszen senior Daniel Wang|guitar
Little
Boogie
2Shoes
Baker College junior Elliot
Cole|bass, vocals
Wiess freshman Danny
Kamins|baritone sax
Architecture student Julien
Jaworski (Baker '05)|drums
When did your band form?
EC: last week.
DK: You're not supposed tell
them that!
EC: Crap. We formed in 1982 in
East St. Ixtuis. If you haven't heard
of us yet, it's because we are really
freaking underground.
DK: Thank you.
How did you meet?
EC: Julien and I are actually
cousins.
JJ: Well, a while back, in a line
somewhere. Ellis Island.
DK: I just go to school here.
What is your favorite original song?
DK: "Eggs In Dabordik."
EC: That song sucks.
JJ: "Get Out Of My House."
EC: Bo-ring!
DK: That's all our songs, dude.
What are your musical
influences?
DK: Soul Coughing
is the obvious one,
I guess.
JJ: We don't like
them, though. We're
above them.
EC: True. What
about Morphine?
DK: Yeah, people
will definitely think of
Morphine.
JJ: But just because
of our instrumenta-
tion. Our style actually
goes way back, though,
to Louis Armstrong and
the Verve.
How did you meet?
ME: Dive at first sight.
Who are some of your musical influences?
Delirious?, Switchfoot, Matt Redman, Lifehouse, U2, Goo
Goo Dolls, Dream Theater, Anberlin
What is your favorite original song?
"Separated." Hie song is light, but the words are heavy.
This song takes on a different personal meaning for each
one of us.
Resultsoftheshow:Moxietookfirst,Planeof Existence
came in second and Little Boogie 2Shoes walked away
with third. The Thresher contacted each of the bands for
an interview; Team Awesome declined to comment.
clockwise from top
The first-place trophy: an electric guitar
covered in KTRU bumper stickers
UT junior Dietrich Schmidt sticks his tongue out
at a bandmate during "Escape."
The KTRU-bot poses as one of three judges for
the evening.
Little Goodie 2Shoes mellows out the crowd
with jazzy instrumental and eccentric
costumes.
Sid Richardson College sophomore Jordan
Allen clutches his guitar as he plays a
harmonica solo during "Existential Funk."
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Obermeyer, Amber. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 93, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 2005, newspaper, December 2, 2005; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443095/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.