Max and Jake were asked to do a year-end senior performance, and threw together a group in 3 days. The audience is waiting!
These are all Jake-written songs, and I think they're PRETTY NICE WORK!
HEY JAKE, LOOK OVER HERE!
Here's their practice, being interrupted by the crazy neighbor lady in her bathrobe at 5:00pm who tells them to park their car somewhere else:
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It was a pretty good night, if you ask me. And it was....
theRETURN OF THE NIKBEATS!
Here we are getting ready. We didn't know if we should play loud or soft, so we just played LOUD. It was almost impossible to turn the music down anyway, we were in one corner of a flat-walled conference room that made it like a giant megaphone:
Megan on the electric double bass, C.M. on drums!
Sophia sings!
Curly Max plays the Strat!
Max watches for evildoers!
Megan looks so incredibly excited. Maybe she's thinking about tomorrow's AP exams....
The NikBeats, making a mess but having fun doing it!
Part of the crowd -
Max & Max do a guitar intro -
Then Sophia lets loose with Stray Cat Strut, and the minute she started singing people started tipping! It was amazing, she filled up the Tip Jar faster than I've ever seen, it was like somebody unplugged a Niagara Falls of $1 bills! (We even got some $20's, thanks!)
And a ripping-quick version of Little Lion Man. This is one of Sophia's favorite songs, she knows all the words and we learned to play it for the first time last week:
Sophia and Max let loose with a psychedelic-crazed version of Paint It Black. This is shot in full resolution, so hit the "expand" button at the bottom right of the YouTube window to get the full screen effect. (Let it load for a few minutes first!)
