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What We Say: “I was a scrawny, dopey kid—the worst athlete on the face of the planet,” says Wakey!Wakey! frontman Mike Grubbs. “You know tee ball? I got to first base one time.”
Good thing Grubbs had a burgundy baby grand to wail on instead, the centerpiece of a Partridge-like music room that also housed a French horn, clarinet, violin and autoharp. Grubbs started climbing scales and chords here when he was 5. Back then, his mother—a longtime piano teacher and choir director—would ask the kids to sight read songs before they could even think of eating cereal. And homework, why, that was something you did simply to score more bench time.
“For every subject done,” he says, “I could play the piano for an hour. It was almost like video games for me.” The games got a bit more complicated in high school, as Grubbs stumbled upon the songbooks of Billy Joel and Elton John. Not to mention the arena-ready anthems of Led Zeppelin. That unholy trinity, combined with the three B’s—Bach, Beethoven and Brahms—was enough to steer Grubbs away from the church music he was forced to focus on from an early age.
“One of my main influences now is the fact that I didn’t have someone teach me proper jazz or rock playing,” explains Grubbs. “I had no idea how to put a song together; no one telling me, ‘Hey, you should check out Gershwin,’ but it was all so fascinating to me. So I found my own style by experimenting with what works and what doesn’t.”
Before Grubbs could tap his true voice through a string of buzz-stirring Wakey!Wakey! releases on Family Records (two live LPs, a free collection of covers and last spring’s War Sweater EP)
Good thing Grubbs had a burgundy baby grand to wail on instead, the centerpiece of a Partridge-like music room that also housed a French horn, clarinet, violin and autoharp. Grubbs started climbing scales and chords here when he was 5. Back then, his mother—a longtime piano teacher and choir director—would ask the kids to sight read songs before they could even think of eating cereal. And homework, why, that was something you did simply to score more bench time.
“For every subject done,” he says, “I could play the piano for an hour. It was almost like video games for me.” The games got a bit more complicated in high school, as Grubbs stumbled upon the songbooks of Billy Joel and Elton John. Not to mention the arena-ready anthems of Led Zeppelin. That unholy trinity, combined with the three B’s—Bach, Beethoven and Brahms—was enough to steer Grubbs away from the church music he was forced to focus on from an early age.
“One of my main influences now is the fact that I didn’t have someone teach me proper jazz or rock playing,” explains Grubbs. “I had no idea how to put a song together; no one telling me, ‘Hey, you should check out Gershwin,’ but it was all so fascinating to me. So I found my own style by experimenting with what works and what doesn’t.”
Before Grubbs could tap his true voice through a string of buzz-stirring Wakey!Wakey! releases on Family Records (two live LPs, a free collection of covers and last spring’s War Sweater EP)
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Topener пишет:
Join the group! http://www.last.fm/group/Wakey!Wakey! Amazing how fast the number of plays raises!
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yalikamatwomoob пишет:
blog w/ square pe g http://outroversion.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/holleradoheligoatsdarchiveswakeywakey/
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thekingliveson пишет:
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I watch OTH anyways and kept on reading about him being in a band, finally checked it out the other day and haven't stopped listening to it since. bought a copy of the studio album and there live one, aswell as the War Sweater EP and just waiting for them to arrive now :3 I really hope for big things for him, he is just amazing on the piano and singing..his lyrics are just beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 Grubbs
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Det__90 пишет:
:3
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Pavel_p4elz пишет:
:3
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x_noisekisses пишет:
So happy I came across his album. I love it!
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Topener пишет:
http://www.last.fm/group/Wakey!Wakey!
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justin421459249 пишет:
amazing album！！<333333333
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supernovva пишет:
wow, best discovery of 2010
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Lurch_ пишет:
Wakey!Wakey! @ a-life
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yayqueenyy пишет:
simply amazing.
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Luis_MAG пишет:
You can listen to Brooklyn on Spotify
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Jon02 пишет:
Can somebody send the his 'Two Headed Boy' cover please?
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goodbyediana пишет:
Love him <3 though i cannot seem to find "brooklyn" anywhere
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bkbarros пишет:
either do i.. ↓
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phab пишет:
Ha, didn't know he's the bartender playing in One Tree Hill! :D
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scottskins пишет:
i've listened to war sweater 270 times in the last 6 months, does that mean i account for more than half the last.fm listens?!
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RockOfVictory пишет:
Their live album is well worth the FREE download at Amie Street http://amiestreet.com/music/wakey-wakey/live-at-bowery-ballroom-free-album/
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lostchapstick пишет:
where can i get all these covers he has done? would anyone be so nice to give them to me?
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mel-opho-be пишет:
You can find some Wakey Wakey music downloads on our website -- Grubbs is working on a studio album right now.
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