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Hammond was also a teaching assistant in an acoustics class. For three years, he played guitar with Shankar Ramaswami '89 and his brother, Thomas M. Hammond '90 in a rock group named "Men of Clay...
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...
...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...
...Quick features some of Harvard's best talent drawn from other Harvard bands. Ben Hammond and Heiberger had played together in Christian and the Infidels--"for two days," Heiberger says--before Heiberger joined Robespierre. Johnson sang with Continuous Funktion, which, as Ramaswami quips, is now "defunked...
This repertoire consists entirely of "very danceable cover tunes," Heiberger says, dropping such names as Prince, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Atlantic Starr, and the Time. "It's funk/dance of the serious variety," Ramaswami says. "The key word is groove," agree the Hammonds...