"You Can't Beat My Funk in the Trunk" Timmy The Sherpa (12-03-2004 at Full Sail Live)
Posted May 22, 2006
Hiya Folks! Now technically it's still Monday, so I didn't miss my self imposed deadline to post something today, but I'm not sure how many of you will be up to hear it tonight..Oh well, at least you can't call me a liar.
Tonight I'm dishing up a heaping helping of Timmy The Sherpa (mmmm, Tiimmy The Sherpa.) For those of you who were around during the band's short existance, or maybe those of you who have heard stories about us, you should know that we had a pretty goofy sense of humor that came through our music. Case in point..."You Can't Beat My Funk in the Trunk". One day we were all over at McGuizz's apartment for practice, and Jon King our guitar player came up with the chord progression for this tune. Since it was an instrumental we couldn't really pull a song name out of the lyrics, so what were we to call this little diddy? Fortunatley for us, McGuizz had a poster from a wild game store in Michigan that had little picture of a deer and made a reference to it's "junk in the trunk". Well of course, with a slight variation, this would have to become the song title!
We played "Funk in the Trunk" at nearly every show we did, but this one seems to be the best played and mixed. In fact, this is the first song I've posted here that I haven't edited or remixed in Pro Tools, so thank you Show Production students for saving me some work!
This show was somewhat odd for us because our percussionist/vocalist Soulman was in a lab (in the same building actually, he and his class came out on break to see us play), so we didn't have quite the same power as in some other shows and we were also somewhat limited on material. All in all though it wasn't a bad night and this was one of the highlights.
Well I hope you enjoy the music and I look forward to sharing more with you. I've promised you something special this week, a unique duo of songs that will hopefully be up by Friday. I'll also work on getting a new MRW clip up on Wednesday. Who knows, you may even get a video out of me sometime this week (wow, what a generous guy I am.) Goodnight!
