Instrumental Break

One year ago, I was the keyboardist/rapper—yes, rapper—in Jeremy King's band Mass Ave with John Fritz. My choice to leave wasn't creative differences, by any means, but my previously blogged-about relocation to NYC. Actually, two years ago I was the drummer in Jeremy King's band Mass Ave. At any rate, there were a few songs where we decided an extra guitar would fatten the sound a little better than a keyboard. Well, I was just never 'there'. I would learn a song but between playing drums for Evita which opens with a funeral mass, writing a Latin mass for The Yonkofa Project, and learning changes for the keyboard numbers in a Mass Ave. set, the guitar stuff just didn't stick.

I realize it sounds like I'm just bragging about my broad talents…I am. But with enough decency and humility to say I wasn't perfect. Wasn't being the operative word. Thanks to F@#king Up Everything I've been playing an axe onstage (is that how one says it? Playing an axe?), in front of an audience, five times a weekend for the past three weeks. And we have another amazing two weekends! Hello, perfection.

John Fritz and Jeremy King were certainly instrumental—no pun intended—in this, as well as Matt Hinkley's well-documented scores, and Eric's fun and rockin' songs. I think I'm just about ready to give this instrument a full time position on my résumé!

I hope this show has been half as educational for the cast and audience as it has been for me.

See you at the show,
Taylor J. Williams (Musical Director)