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chester september 2008 . french performing on treasure island in california in -lsb- http://www.chesterfrench.com www.chesterfrench.com -rsb- the neptunes , supa dups , travis barker 2003 -- 2013 star trak , interscope , k-lp karmaloop chester french
 yes maxwell drummey david-andrew 'd . a. ' wallach group_or_band indie alternative hip hop pop , synthpop , neo-psychedelia , futurepop , chester french in treasure island , california.jpg cambridge , massachusetts , united states chester french
chester french

chester french was an american indie pop band consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter david-andrew 'd .
a. ' wallach and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter maxwell drummey .
they met as college students at harvard university , naming their band after sculptor daniel chester french , who designed the statue at the lincoln memorial , the john harvard statue , as well as the minuteman statue at the lexington/concord battlegrounds in massachusetts .
milwaukee-raised wallach and boston native drummey quickly found a lot of shared ground in musical tastes and philosophies and before long formed a band with three other classmates , playing various campus functions , eventually moving in a direction heavily influenced by classic british northern soul .
over the summer both stayed in cambridge , working hard at songwriting .
but when school resumed , they realized that the material went way beyond the basic guitar-bass-drums-piano format of the band , and the duo continued the work themselves , wallach handling most of the vocals , drummey performing much of the music on multiple instruments , supplemented with the occasional special guest -- and both taking production and engineering duties for recordings .
