Life Outside the Lab: Aspiring Musician/Technician Poised to Hit the Big Time
Posted Apr 28, 2011 in Labs & Profiles
When technician Derrick Gaddis and his band, Midnight Clear, entered CBS' Living Room...LIVE! Battle of the Bands contest last June they did it just for fun. But about three months later, the rock-and-roll group found it was the last band standing. "We hoped it would go well and we remained optimistic, but we didn't expect to win," says Gaddis, who is a technician at Dental South Inc. in Gainesville, Georgia, holds a music degree and teaches guitar lessons at a local music store.
In order to compete in the competition, the band submitted a three-minute music video of its original song, You Should Have. The show producers received thousands of entries and selected 39 videos--including Midnight Clear's--for the show. Each week, CBS aired three of the videos on The Early Show, viewers at home voted for their favorite and the winning band moved on to the next round. At the end of the 13-week series, Midnight Clear was declared the winner,...
