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Until such problems find resolution, other members hark back to the good old days, and hope that the House of Funk will live up to the Pad parties of yore. Spiegelman searches for Funk-specific terminology: I hesitate to even call them parties, he says, There is just much less talking involved. Its about being sprawled out on a shag rug, being exposed to Scammons music (Scammon maintains an impressive library of funk CDs) as a band. I think a lot of the stuff we play is due to the shared experience there in the wee hours of the night...
Guitarist Ari K. Appel 03 is more concerned with the future of partying at the House of Funk. What were trying to figure out right now, he says, is how to throw a massive rager. Its complicated because the band is so large (11 members), were going to have to play in another room, and have dancing in the den, or pipe up the music from the basement or something. Were still negotiating...
...House was hand-picked for its funk paradise-like features. My goal was to live with people in the band so we could play whenever we felt like it, says Scammon, who works for a computer company. Getting this particular house was very much a band-driven choice...
...House of Funk held its first funky salon after an impressive gig last Friday, in which FinkFankFunk headlined a club for the first time, at Middle East. After the show, Alex and Ben [D. Scheuer 04, lead singer] got all these girls to come back, and some guys, says Andrews. Scammon describes...
...bands motto is something along the lines of Keep bringing the funk to unfunky people. It began about four years ago, as an ill-fated Dixieland trio, says Jake E. Flemming 01, one of the three founding members who has filled the bands tenor chair to overflowing since his early days as a co-founder and distressingly square clarinet player, according to his website bio. Scammon, Flemming and Eric R. Rosenbaum 03 had met in the Harvard Wind Ensemble, and wanted more. To cut a long story short, Flemming claims that they simply said, This is stupid, lets play funk...