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FinkFankFunk has achieved a modest level of success as the campus most notoriously alliterative funk band. Just last weekend it headlined at the Middle East, though many of its gigs remain on the house band for the Dunster goat roast level. Nonetheless, the gentlemen of FFF continue their attempts to live the debauched rock star lifestyle, having purchased a house in which they rehearse, listen to music in a coma-like daze and cavort with females culled from the front row of their shows...
This year the band kissed their funky-smelling Lowell practice room goodbye forever, moving up to funkier headquarters. It now practices at the House of Funk, a spacious house near Kendall Square, with a basement that stands ever play-ready, in the words of co-founding saxophone player Alex G. Scammon...
...band inaugurated the House in early December with a cookout. I just walked in and there were practically satyrs walking around with plates of meat on a tray, recalls bass player Jesse R. Andrews 04. I knew Id stumbled into some sort of funk paradise...
When Incubus began as a high school experiment in 1991, it was a funk outfit, openly ripping off the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus. On 1999's Make Yourself, produced by R.E.M. veteran Scott Litt, the band dispensed with its early jamming tendencies and focused on melody, allowing Boyd's voice and lyric book to step to the front. The single Drive, the group's biggest hit to date, contains the lovely line, "Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there/With open arms and open eyes." It's not surprising that Incubus was the only major act scheduled to perform...
...music—the lyrics are merely a trampoline to get the band bouncing before they head off into the clouds. It all comes together beautifully on “Mr. Oysterhead,” the song that sums everything up both lyrically and musically: From the ludicrously phat funk of the bass, and the high-hat shuffle that used to send Sting into orbit, to the cocky lyrics, “When all else has been done and said / Along comes Mr. Oysterhead / He’s an inspiration to us all.” Indeed he is?...