September 5, 2009
Five Years!
It is hard to believe that Moderately Bright Four has been in existence for five wonderful years! If we were a child, we would be starting kindergarten. Let’s see… fifth anniversary. I’ll look it up… Hmmm, it’s celebrated with gifts of wood. Toothpicks? Chopsticks? A cord of logs? Perhaps a suite of new furniture?
It doesn’t seem possible that it was five years ago when Ro, sweating with nervousness from all her various pores, walked into the first rehearsal, which was for all intents and purposes, an audition. It was our first song, “My Girl,” with Jeff starting with his “Dimmmm dit didip didip” bass line, Steve’s impeccable solo “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day” and then Ro & Audrey echoing in harmony “On a cloudy day.” The harmony was perfect and we all stopped simultaneously and exclaimed, “We can do this!” And the rest is history!
We have seen each other through good times and bad, through sickness and health, for richer and for poorer, and the harmony and camaraderie always pull us out of whatever slumps we’re in, individually or collectively.
Interviewer: So, Moderately Bright Four, what have been your favorite experiences over the past five years as a group?
Steve: It would have to be our first outdoor concert at Flanders Park. As we started our set , the thunderclouds rolled in, rain started to splatter, and it was clear that we would have to cancel. Luckily, Temple Hatikvah was right next door, and we convinced our audience to drive over so we could continue the concert over there. I don’t think I’ve ever sweated so much racing to take down our equipment in a thunderstorm and scrambling to set it all up again in record time.
Audrey: I love all of the hilarity whenever we attempt to sing “M-O-T-H-E-R.” Every time we try it, some disaster occurs and we end the song twitching on the floor shrieking in fits of laughter. It is truly a dreadful song to begin with, with awful lyrics, and when that’s topped with our spelling out “MOTHRA” or substituting “E is for the enemas that she gave me” there is no hope we will ever perform that song well unless we are all at gunpoint.
Ro: Ever the serious one, I would have to say singing the Star Spangled Banner at the Somerset Patriots stadium with all our fans waving, well, fans at us from the stands. That was quite a thrill and I’m eternally grateful that I didn’t wet my pants from nervousness while being broadcast on a JumboTron. Oh yes, and I like to write the blog.
Jeff: Dum diddip diddup dum. Bum doo. Bop didda bop. Rip di diddle dip bo…
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