Musoscribe: "The British Invasion Years Are Now"

The band has done a lot of interviews. Bill Kopp's piece for Musoscribe captured something they don't always manage to put into words themselves.

The headline said it best. The British Invasion Years Are Now. Bill traced the band back to its roots. Two friends, Lee Scott Howard and Bobby M., who'd been playing restaurants and bars and realized that wasn't the future they wanted. As Bobby told him, "We felt we had more to offer; we wanted to do something special."

What they built wasn't a setlist of covers with "no rhyme or reason." It was an evening with a real flow. Open with the British acts that kicked the door open in 1964, segue into the American response… the Monkees, Neil Diamond, Steppenwolf and the rest… then wrap back around to late-period Beatles, circa Abbey Road.

Bill latched onto a detail the four of them are proud of. The sheer density. "We do 35 to 40 songs each night," Bobby explained, noting that '60s songs were often tight three-minute affairs. "You can get a lot of songs into two hours." One song ends, they're rolling straight into the next.

The visuals matter too. Fashion, style, toys, TV shows of the era flashing behind the band. Older fans say, "I almost forgot about that!" Younger ones recognize the songs from a commercial or a video game. The connection lands either way.

The line that stuck was about why they do it. As Bobby put it, at a British Invasion Years show, "you go back in time, and there's nothing to think about other than the joy of the music, peace and love." In a heavy world, a couple of hours like that is worth a lot.

Read Bill's full piece over at Musoscribe. Then come experience it for yourself. Tour dates are here.