ApologetiX Concert!
gotten a bit conservative in my old age --"Turn down that music!" (I've got kids.) After a bit of jammin, Karl gave a little glance at the audience who wasn't really paying lots of attention, and he picked, 'If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands." He looked, and rolled his eyes at the lack of response, then picked it again. The audience responded with a fair CLAP CLAP. He did it again, and got a bigger response. Then Karl played Stump the Band with the audience. Members of the audience shouted out names of musical artists and Karl did an impression of them --not always with his guitar (Backstreet Boys -a stomp and arm and fist drawn down across face). By 6:47, it was standing-room-only (due to shyness of some). We crowded in, and the volunteers brought in more chairs --folding, plastic stacking, and whatever they could find. They filled up. The show began.
"J", the lead vocalist was great! He jumped in with the front-row kids of the youth group, and got them into the act. Karl got volunteers on stage and had a ball with them. They had to learn a simple part, then the group went on with the song. Toward the end of one song, Karl took off his guitar and put it around Heather's neck and she finished off the song for him. The group got the audience so warmly involved my face nearly hurt from the smiling. They really had fun with their audience. --And Greg Brady, you were great, too (you had to have been there)!
(I just previewed this article, and figured I'd better hurry up, since it's getting a bit lengthy.) Their song line-up included: "Every Crown Has Its Thorns," "Good Book Boogie," and "I Love Apostle Paul" "--he put a lot of lines in the good book baby." They covered from Elvis and the Hollies to Metallica and artists in between and around. They told jokes, or maybe they weren't jokes --The bass player (Keith Haynie) might really be planning on becoming the first Spice Boy as Old Spice, and the drummer's (Bill Rieger) influence on the drums* might really be Animal of the Muppets. Keith seemed a bit more subdued than the rest --just a friendly-lookin' kid and serious musician. (I say "kid" because I think I caught that he was born in 1958. I was born '57. I'm not
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