It is with great relief I can announce that Funkle Ted's first concert actually happened on Thursday night at the Riverside Community Hall with all band members participating and no major malfunctions. Funkle Ted consists of Eric and three friends. They perform many original songs, mostly rock, but there's one rap, a waltz, a death metal (that one actually is mocking a popular song but wow Eric is good at that screaming "singing") and cover their favorite old and current songs. My favorite was their guitar duet waltz which Eric and Tyler composed while camping at the Metolius and first performed for us around the campfire. My favorite cover song was "Mellow Yellow". I especially enjoyed it when Eric played the trumpet on one verse. Eric played the oboe on one song, but skipped the song with the violin part. It's challenging to sing, play the guitar, and then switch back and forth with other instruments as well.
One band member's father had concerns about liability...if someone got hurt, they could sue the parents (since the boys are all under 18)and we would all end up in the poor house. So the day before the concert, he decided his son (guitar player) couldn't play. Eric was determined that the show would go on and spent a half hour talking to him that night. He can be pretty convincing (although he failed to convince me just now that he and Molly should go to a movie after he gets off work at 8:00 tonight). The next day the dad talked to his insurance agent and 4 hours before the concert, gave his son permission. Rather stressful for all.
So at the beginning of the show, Eric says, "I have some important things to tell you. The most important thing is, whatever you do, don't sue us. No matter what happens, please don't sue us or we'll never be able to do this again..." and so on. I looked at the kid's dad and he was sitting there shaking his head which was buried in his hands. I laughed so hard!
They are going to perform next Friday after the "Civil War" (South-West Albany) football game in our youth center.
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I would love to hear Eric's band....actually, I think his comments before sound as exciting. :) Go Eric!
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