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"Who's Your Daddy!": A Playlist For Today's Rock & Roll FathersFor better or worse, we've come a long way from the days when rock & roll was an entirely pure form of generational rebellion. Even in my lifetime, I've seen fathers go from older dudes who yelled, "Turn that racket down!" to roving bands of aging dads in jeans and t-shirts who are more likely to ask the kids if they can sit in and jam with their emo bands. Where I live, when a dad tells you that he's taking his kid hunting, he generally means record hunting at Amoeba Music. I've been thinking about these issues lately because four talented dads in my neighborhood -- Freddy Curci, Rick Neigher, Adam Gorgoni and Chris Cote -- got together recently and formed an acapella group that's fittingly called Who's Your Daddy! These are all men with distinguished credits in music, as well as film and television, who have gotten together to raise their voices for fun and profit too. In theory, I confess that I was scared. In practice, these gentlemen have produced one of the best and most joyous albums I've heard all year. Their debut album -- also called Who's Your Daddy! -- is full of vivid, inventive and high-flying vocal versions of rock, pop and soul standards from The Cars' "Let's Go" to Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" to Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star" to The Doobie Brothers "Long Train Runnin'" and a concluding medley of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Someone To Love." The results are uniformly spectacular -- a perfect mature blend of middle-aged Glee and middle aged crazy. How cool can a bunch of dads singing without instruments be, you ask? So damn good that our kids like it too. Check out Who's Your Daddy! at http://www.whosyourdaddymusic.com
“WHO’S YOUR DADDY?” isn’t just Jerry Springer’s favorite question. It’s also the name of the most unique, rockin' and successful a cappella singing group in America – well, in the northwestern third of the San Fernando Valley, anyway.
Formed one year ago by three longtime friends and another guy who brought the sandwiches, W.Y.D. -- which is a short and hip way of saying “Who’s Your Daddy!” – brings a whole new approach to performing those amazing songs that made our fists pump and our Mullets sway back in the day.
Now, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Hey, what’s so special about four dudes who think they’re so hot they can put out an album? (Okay, it’s a CD, if you want to get all modern about it.) Well, there’s a couple of good answers. First is, “Who the hell do you think you are, asking us a question like that?” Second is, we’re really good singers. So good, in fact, that we don’t even need musical instruments to accompany us. Which is why it’s called a cappella singing in the first place, Mister Ask-A-Million-Questions. Anyway. If you really want statistics; Read More.
FAN QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "I don't like anything.....but I love Who's Your Daddy!" ---Steve Sudbrink (Mayor, Virginia, Illinois)
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