Odd experience #452: Attended the premier of a new band called Stay Tuned. They cover tv theme songs. The show was at the Jewel Box in Belltown. It was a hot hot Saturday night and the venue was small – like 40 people only small. We dallied and failed to get a good seat so we had to sit in the front row. I tried to suppress my giggles and smug superiority but it was hard.
The three piece band, who by day are the IT department at a local company, actually sound pretty good – but they have a couple things to work out:
1) Turn the mikes down after the songs – or kill the sweaty heavy breathing drummer’s mike off so we don’t have to listen to him wheeze.
2) It is rock and roll but you don’t have to use your entire body to depress the keyboard keys.
3) You can NOT mosh to the theme from Alice, anyone trying to do so is mocking the band!
4) If you aren’t famous (and aren’t going to be famous) you don’t have to use aliases. Picking a stage name makes you MORE of a nerd.
5) Don’t cough into a live mike.
6) If you’re going to stick with the TV theme song genre you might want to go with something less arcane than the theme to F-troop. Hello!? Brady Bunch has universal appeal, Facts of Life, theme to MASH, or the Greatest American Hero are snappy and cool.
These guys should write their own songs and throw a tv theme song to keep up the connection to the name of the band. If they had performed at least one original tune even if it was an alternate version of a tv theme song like Friends -10 years later or Love Boat: the gay cruise I wouldn't be so snarky about their genre.
End of rant…I will link off to the band’s website – but it is not an implied endorsement
http://www.staytunedtheband.com
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