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By Sara Garcia
Posted: 9/29/04 Section: Features
Some parents accept their children's yearnings to be rock stars as a passing phase, but others shudder in fear as they watch their 12-year-olds bounce on their beds screaming along with blaring rock music and strumming an air guitar.
Many of these parents may hope their children never get involved with the world of touring, constant parties and lack of privacy that seem to go hand-in-hand with the career of a rock musician. Seeing their children head off to college may help them breathe sighs of relief, confident they've reared children who will give up their rock-star fantasies, earn college degrees and enter the working world.
Green St. Records is a campus organization and the only student-run record label at any of the Big Ten schools. The label refuses to dismiss these early-childhood desires to create and perform music as a passing phase. The third part of their three-fold mission reads: "To provide an opportunity for talented student musicians to share their art with the university community and to provide an outlet for which to spark a career in the music business."
On Sept. 18, they gave four local bands the opportunity to play for almost 500 people at the second-biggest venue in the Champaign-Urbana area - the Canopy Club.
"I love working with bands and seeing the process through from start to finish," said Josh Morton, president of the label's public relations and junior in LAS.
Morton and his roommate Jason Drucker, junior in engineering, dreamt up the idea of forming the first student-run record label at the University. They put their plan into action with the help of Jonathan Rozen, junior in communications, and Aaron Rosenthal, senior in finance. The record label signed 12 out of 45 local bands that applied online and sent in tapes or videos during the fall 2003 semester, the first year for the label.
To be considered, one-fourth of a band's members must be full-time University students. When they are accepted, they are signed to Green St. Records for one academic year and have the opportunity to apply again.
Many of these parents may hope their children never get involved with the world of touring, constant parties and lack of privacy that seem to go hand-in-hand with the career of a rock musician. Seeing their children head off to college may help them breathe sighs of relief, confident they've reared children who will give up their rock-star fantasies, earn college degrees and enter the working world.
Green St. Records is a campus organization and the only student-run record label at any of the Big Ten schools. The label refuses to dismiss these early-childhood desires to create and perform music as a passing phase. The third part of their three-fold mission reads: "To provide an opportunity for talented student musicians to share their art with the university community and to provide an outlet for which to spark a career in the music business."
On Sept. 18, they gave four local bands the opportunity to play for almost 500 people at the second-biggest venue in the Champaign-Urbana area - the Canopy Club.
"I love working with bands and seeing the process through from start to finish," said Josh Morton, president of the label's public relations and junior in LAS.
Morton and his roommate Jason Drucker, junior in engineering, dreamt up the idea of forming the first student-run record label at the University. They put their plan into action with the help of Jonathan Rozen, junior in communications, and Aaron Rosenthal, senior in finance. The record label signed 12 out of 45 local bands that applied online and sent in tapes or videos during the fall 2003 semester, the first year for the label.
To be considered, one-fourth of a band's members must be full-time University students. When they are accepted, they are signed to Green St. Records for one academic year and have the opportunity to apply again.
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