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"Clayton Stroope, vocalist of the Bay Area-based Thriving Ivory, isn\u2019t worried about the death of the rock star.\"Why would you ever want to be drunk, playing sloppily, looking like you don\u2019t care?\" says Stroope, 25, whose band celebrates its first major release, a self-titled CD, Friday at the Great American Music Hall.Best known for the Live 105 hit \"Angels on the Moon,\" the group is ready for its close-up: \"For the last couple of years, we\u2019ve been in limbo, but in the last couple of months, it\u2019s become what we\u2019ve always wanted it to become,\" he says on the phone from Pleasanton, referring to the great treatment the band\u2019s been getting from its label, Wind-up Records.Thriving Ivory, which aspires to reach the level of Coldplay or U2, was born several years ago at UC Santa Barbara, where songwriter Scott Jason, whose parents exposed him to show tunes, met Stroope, who was brought up on classic rock.The pair then teamed with guitarist Drew Cribley, bassist Bret Cohune and drummer Paul Niedermier. They played parties at college, but didn\u2019t take the music seriously until they came back to the Bay Area, home to most of the group\u2019s members.\"It kind of became real to us,\" says Stroope, who \"was supposed to be a sociologist,\" while his band mates studied psychology.Working day jobs \u2014 everything from waiting tables to telemarketing \u2014 the guys, after borrowing money from their folks, made a recording in Cribley\u2019s parents\u2019 basement."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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