Benson 2010: We're Putting the Band Back Together !

by: elwood

Wed Sep 29, 2010 at 21:02:03 PM EDT

Craig assembled the group back in 2003-2004.  Critics said their titles made them sound like a Village People cover band: the Senate President, the Attorney General, the HHS Commissioner. But oh! when they started to play!

Remember (Lost My) Right to Choose Blues?  Craig wrote the tune but the lyrics were by Two-Time Tom Eaton. That "pro-choice" intro followed by the slow dance backwards, silently nodding while his bandmates sang out the votes to criminalize choice?  Eaton's moonwalk was reminiscent of Motown in the gracefulness of its choreography - at least, Motown in the Hummer era.




Craig and Tom introduced the song but Kelly took it to the top of the charts.  And what single-minded dedication it took!  Another AG might have been distracted by minutiae - you know, Ponzi schemes n' stuff. Not Kelly.  She took the act on the road.  The doubters told her to slow down - the legislature, the new Governor. But she was going to keep singing until she got that audition with the Supremes - no matter what it cost!




It was bandmate John Stephen who inspired Kelly's "Damn the cost, full speed ahead!" moves.  His anthemic (There Must Be) 70 Million Ways to Bust a Budget made carping about a few million bucks to promote her favorite songs seem stodgy.



Craig won't be on stage for the reunion tour - comparisons to Brian Wilson are not near-fetched.
But the band will be rockin' with all their old hits!

If this is the music you grew up with, it will bring back memories you thought had faded away!

Special treat: For her encore, we understand Ayotte will do a solo of Bobby Fuller's classic I Fought the Law (And the Law Won).