A CAPPELLA

[IWOmusic]

Hey Marty,
Did you ever consider recording a cappella ? If not , please explain.
I will take my question off the air now

[martinxavier]

Iwo. If you recall back in 1999 and for a blink of an eye shortly thereafter, two bands ruled the fm dial (aka: Airwaves). Those bands were called Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. They were everywhere. You'd go to the mall and they are blasting over the speakers in the eatery, you go to the arcade and there they were trapped inside a pinball game, you turn the corner and they there are on a multi colored poster selling Cinnabon cinnamon roles (even though the sugary goodness free smells at Cinnabon actually sell themselves. I mean who ever walked past one and didn't SERIOUSLY consider having one!), you're at the checkout counter of you local drugstore and there they are on staring at you from the cover of The Sun and TMZ magazine while you check out. Those 10 dudes were everywhere. And then they multiplied. They had such evil spawn as 98 degrees, Take That over in Europe, and B2K for the hippity hoppers. They all sang Acapella. And they did so beautifully. So beautifully that I could never even attempt. I leave that to the experts... Or expert... Justin Timberlake.

In honesty, if I found a song that I could pull off Acapella and it was moving, I would. I tried it once at the beginning of a show at the VIC theatre on July 1st, 2003. I thought it was going well till the Lovehammers cut me off and powered into the opening song "faded Grey". Whatever, I thought my Bell Biv Devoe rendition was pretty hot. It went like-a-this "It's So Hard... To Say Goodbye... Too Yesterday......EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Remember that one? It was a cool song.

I wish the fans would sing some songs together as a group and do it acapella. Maybe Sleeper or Velvet! That would be cool.

mxc