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...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...
...have a new, more adventurous sensibility, says Flemming. Some members attribute the improvement to the lead singer, Scheuer, who joined last fall. After holding fruitless auditions for a new lead singer in early fall last year, the band caught wind of a rumor that somewhere in the freshman class there was a funky freshman who could match the craziness of our dress and tightness of our playing with a kick-ass stage presence, recounts Appel. He gave us a direction to go in, and has been a great force in rehearsal. Singing was not really a priority. We were just...
...Middle East gig, Scheuer lived up to this expectation. He climbed the pipes on the ceiling and jumped down into the audience numerous times. The girls gyrating in the audience edged one another forward to get close to him. When he threw a disposable camera into the pit, they were eager to provide him with mementos of their presence at the show...
...band has pushed forward the musical style of many of its members from the keyboardist, Alex Zander Gordon 04, who learned to play fewer notes and be funkier, to Scheuer, who has had to meld his rock and roll background into the spirit of funk. The band is full of jazz musicians who play funk and funk musicians who play jazz, he says. Its about listening and adaption of music for the good of the group...
...some point it was plain we were getting somewhere, says Scammon, explaining his purchase of the House of Funk. Knowing how long it took to get this going so well...to do it all again seemed so unecessary. The lease is only for a year, but, as Scheuer says, Were not going to end FinkFankFunk right now, because were on a funk odyssey, and its not going to end until were old and crippled...