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In middle school, Larry Hardesty
(vocals, rhythm guitar) aspired to be a composer and listened
exclusively to classical music. At the dawn of home video, Larry's
mother took the advice of her brother in law and bought a CED
player instead of a VCR. When video stores stopped carrying CEDs, Larry
and his sisters fell back on the dozen or so their step-uncle
had given them. Larry watched most of them--like High Noon and Goldfinger--over and over but had no time for The Compleat Beatles.
His sisters, however, did, and one day Larry was wandering through the
living room when a fragment of "Norwegian Wood" came on the TV. He
stopped, transfixed, and within a year, he was listening exclusively to
the Beatles.
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Brant Grieshaber
(electric guitar) majored in film scoring at the Berklee College of
Music, where despite detours into composition and music production, he
still found time to study guitar with Garrison Fewell. Later, as a grad
student at the Boston Conservatory, he studied composition with Osvaldo Golijov. In addition to his work with the Hopeful Monsters, Brant leads the fusion band the Ra Quintet and his own jazz trio and plays guitar for the Daniel Bennett Group. He also runs and serves as chief engineer at Boston Recording Studio, plays solo classical guitar, repairs guitars, and teaches guitar in Boston. His website is rbrantg.com. |