I have seen the future and it sounds great
Last Friday night I attended a benefit at the Roxy organized by a group of ninth graders at Crossroads who call themselves HEADTHIEF. The money they were raising that night was for "Keep a child alive" an organization that is respoding the AIDS pandemic in Africa particularly as it affects children (www.keepachildalive.org).
Let me cut to the chase here: I saw some incredibly talented ninth-graders performing. Doing so reminded me that Steve Winwood, Bob Weir, Jackson Browne and so many others were the same age when they started performing professionally.
Among the Crossroads 9th graders including Nick Shapiro, a vocalist with more than passing nod to Jim Morrison, who is also a stellar and guitarist and drummer Henry Fagenson, also known on Facebook as Henry Was, son of Don Was (ne Don Fagenson) and Deacon Frey, a great singer and even more amazing guitarist.
They played some numbers together, and then they backed up some of the celebrity guests such as Daniel Powter (you had a bad day).
They also played with some of their accomplished parents.
What was great about seeing Henry Fagenson playing on stage with Don Was, in a performance with Glenn Frey and his son Deacon Frey, was to see the joy in the Dad's faces. That was priceless.
But let me tell you, as the Who so famously put it, The Kids are alright. Deacon took leads on vocals and guitar on such songs "Take it Easy" and "Hotel California", while Henry kept the beat and Nick Shapiro had some amazing solos, leading Glenn Frey to remark, "Once again, I'm the third best guitar player on stage."
It was a great night. If these kids are the future, then, as said in the headline, the future sounds good indeed.
Let me cut to the chase here: I saw some incredibly talented ninth-graders performing. Doing so reminded me that Steve Winwood, Bob Weir, Jackson Browne and so many others were the same age when they started performing professionally.
Among the Crossroads 9th graders including Nick Shapiro, a vocalist with more than passing nod to Jim Morrison, who is also a stellar and guitarist and drummer Henry Fagenson, also known on Facebook as Henry Was, son of Don Was (ne Don Fagenson) and Deacon Frey, a great singer and even more amazing guitarist.
They played some numbers together, and then they backed up some of the celebrity guests such as Daniel Powter (you had a bad day).
They also played with some of their accomplished parents.
What was great about seeing Henry Fagenson playing on stage with Don Was, in a performance with Glenn Frey and his son Deacon Frey, was to see the joy in the Dad's faces. That was priceless.
But let me tell you, as the Who so famously put it, The Kids are alright. Deacon took leads on vocals and guitar on such songs "Take it Easy" and "Hotel California", while Henry kept the beat and Nick Shapiro had some amazing solos, leading Glenn Frey to remark, "Once again, I'm the third best guitar player on stage."
It was a great night. If these kids are the future, then, as said in the headline, the future sounds good indeed.
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