Harbus

Issue date: 9/4/01 Section: Features

A couple years ago, Amanda Krantz stepped back and looked at where she wanted to go in life. By day she was an engineer for the US Air Force teaching at the Air Force Academy, and by night she was playing drums in a local Denver band, and she loved performing. She concluded that she was going to leave the Air Force when her commitment ended, and that she would pursue a career in music. If that didn’t work out, she might try to go to business school....

As you might guess, Krantz has now arrived at HBS, and has been pleasantly surprised to find that the two paths might not be as mutually exclusive as she thought. Her new band, Corporate Whore, made their triumphant debut at the HBS Orientation Show on the day before classes began for the Class of 2003.

The band sat down with Harbus Editors Michael Echenberg and Jordan Kayloe at Daedalus for drinks 24 hours after they rocked the Orientation Show. The six of us snuggled into the comfy couches in the corner of the second floor, after passing many first year students shouting hellos to the band members. Corporate Whore are:

* Neil Edwards, rhythm guitar. London, England, UK. Math major, Cambridge. Edwards’ classcard says something about livestock planning, which might explain why the band’s oldest member is also single.

* James Jarrett, lead guitar. Raised in Kentucky, did five years as an electrical engineer for the US Navy.

* Amanda Krantz, drums. Reared in Cleveland, Ohio, the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll. Six years as an electrical engineer for the US Air Force.

* Jon Waggoner, vocals. From Arkansas, with the accent to prove it. Four years as an engineer for GE and Honeywell.
Harbus: Everyone wants to know how you pulled the band together so quickly.

AK: Jon and I met on the message boards that were set up for the incoming class, and Neil chimed in from England. Then James and I were in the same study group during the Analytics program. We’re all engineers, actually. But don’t let everyone think we’re just geeks. We’re also all very athletic.

JJ: Amanda and I were able to practice during Analytics, and luckily Jon was already in town too. Neil didn’t show up until last week, however. It’s amazing how quickly he was able to learn all the songs.

NE: Yeah, and I haven’t played very much since college. When I arrived I found out we had a gig yesterday, and I hadn’t even heard of half the songs on our play list. For f***’s sake. Those songs haven’t made it across the ocean.

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