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Can a pop band be said to have a “pedigree”? Can there be a “supergroup” in which no one is actually famous? To answer these questions we delve into the strange case of The Lucky Few. Try to keep up…
Guitarist/vocalist Tony Waddy of Splitsville got to know drummer/stand-up comedian Joe Parsons of Myracle Brah while the two groups were touring together in Europe. Vocalist/bassist/keyboardist/slash-and-hyphen-enthusiast Paul Krysiak was a member of both bands at the time. (Still with us?) Those two Baltimore-based outfits already had years and miles under their belts as highly regarded standard bearers of “power-pop”. Their albums had more than once shared space at the top of various Best Of lists, in music publications from Montreal to Madrid. They had already shared countless stages on multiple continents, so a side-project combining members of the two seemed natural, perhaps even inevitable.
The Lucky Few continue in the tuneful, guitar-pop footsteps of Splitsville, whom Baltimore City Paper called “a perfectly harmonized sound injected with a confident, almost reckless spirit” and The Onion dubbed a “burst of awesomeness”. They pepper that sound with influences ranging from Queen to Bernstein and propel it all forward with a driving, muscular rhythm section that puts the punctuation on every nuance of their thoughtful, carefully-crafted lyrics. And that's nothing compared to their live show.
I think the Luchy Few should sponsor the Danish Women National team in Ultimate Frisbee ... Ever thought about that? You could even get the expensive big spot on our behinds... And we would take the Lucky Few all over Europe this summer... :-)
Top Five Reasons Why I Hate the Lucky Few song 'Snowplows'
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(thanks to the late, great Frank Zappa for inspiration)
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