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Russ Gershon's resume must list at least nine professions.Russ Gershon's resume must list at least nine professions. In alphabetical order, he is a bandleader, player and producer; an entrepreneur; a composer; a jazz musician; a punk rocker; a saxophonist; and a touring musician. Your typical Harvard over-achiever? Yes. Your typical Harvard graduate? Not a chance...
...Crimsonrecently sat down with Gershon, to hear about punk rock at Harvard, life on the road and what it's like to be a grown-up rock star...
...bands that have recently received extensive coverage from these zines are No Doubt and Korn. Eight years ago, neither could ever imagine being elevated to such a lofty status. No Doubt was still skankin' it up in Orange County, Calif., intimately tied to the punk-rock-ska-reggae stylings of Long Beachers Bradley Nowell and Sublime. If No Doubt was recognized at all, it was for their collaborations with Sublime on "Total Hate" and "Saw Red," certainly not for their first self-titled release. Gwen Stefani was hardly a sex icon, but rather trapped within a wardrobe that borrowed from...
...seen No Doubt only four short years ago in a small club in Providence, and the crowd was nothing like this one. They were bigger, older, rougher, more ska-core and punk. The floor then was not violent by Rage Against the Machine standards, catering more to the more gentle colliding of a skank pit. At that time, the opening band was Goldfinger, a light-hearted, prankish, oft-nude precursor to Blink-182. This time, the openers were not nearly as friendly. But the presence of the Suicide Machines did not scare off any of the teenage girls. Rather...
...series of altruistic actions that were first in my concert history. In a similar vein, the bouncers broke up even the smallest mosh pits, a sure sign that Avalon and No Doubt wanted the show to be family fun, a musical Make-a-Wish foundation set to ska-punk-pop. No Doubt rocked, but the crowd hardly moved...