Though perhaps, as Scarpantoni says, a natural professor, Hamilton still feels at home behind his guitar as well. The bandmates still stay in touch, and Tiny Lights even played a reunion show last year in New York.
“We still jam. We haven’t lost that joy of music,” Scarpantoni says.
Back at the purple house, Hamilton nods his head rhythmically in the bare-walled basement. Jasper sings lead vocals and plucks a bass riff; Henry tops it off with a drum solo.
“They’ve never taken lessons,” Hamilton tries to yell over the din, mostly in vain.
Neither did he.
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—Staff writer Jared T. Lucky can be reached at lucky@college.harvard.edu.