Big thanks to the Adelphia!

Had a great time in Marietta! The Adelphia is a beautiful room with good acoustics and an awesome staff.  Shaggy the sound man was great to work with.  And big shout out to Rodney Masten and John Radcliff for puttin' us up (and putting up with us- ha)


Like the efficient, road tested band we are we arrived at sound check in 7 different vehicles.  We need to work on that whole going green thing.  However Randraiz drives an awesome hybrid now, so perhaps that makes up for a few of our ecological sins.


Sound check was quick (thanks again Shaggy!) which left us a bit of time to check out the town of Marietta (or nap on the upstairs lounge couches at the Adelphia in some cases...ha).  Marietta is pretty cool.  Seth, Jared, Moriah and I sampled the local beers at the Marietta Brewing Company and walked around town a bit peeking in store windows and whatnot.  There was an awesome red accordion in the window of the music shop that Seth really wanted to take a look at...too bad the shop was closed.  Maybe I'll have to make it back out to Marietta before Christmas to check it out for him.


Gig went well.  Got a bunch people dancing by the end.  It's always hard to win over a new crowd and get them to dance when you first get to a club...strange...but some people eventually got out there and it turned into a really fun party.

Captain T took a bunch of good pics and videos at the event.   All of these are his.  You can check out the rest of the album here.  


Again, big thanks to The Adelphia at the Galley for having us out. 


"He Was a Big Freak"



"I'll Go Crazy"



"Red Hot Momma" 



"She's Not There" 

Marietta! Tonight!

Greetings from sunny Parkersburg.  Young Funk Sung is ready to drop the funk bomb on the Adelphia tonight.  It'll be a special show, not only will my parents be in attendance (who I'm sure will be happy they paid for all that college to watch me binge drink and booty dance), but we will have Randraiz Wharton sitting in on the keys, and the always funky Tim Marks sitting in on Alto Sax.


I write this from the living room of our good friend John Radcliff, the very living room that Seth and I rawked out last night.  House concerts are awesome.  Good times.  I love Mojo/Young Funk Sung weekends.


I hope Marietta brings it tonight, cause I'm wearing this vintage 1960's crotchtacular number that I bought off Etsy.com.  However, I promise to have a better disposition than the model in the photo.  Again, always aiming to make my parents proud.

Sound check at 5.  Looking forward to running into everyone and playing some tunes!  First, lunch with the aforementioned parents somewhere in Parkersburg/Marietta.  See everyone at the show.  (which, by the way, is at the Adelphia- 205 2nd Street in Marietta...we go on 'round 10.)

Oooooooh Shit! Got'damn! Get off your ass and Jam! YFS to take over the Mid Ohio Valley!

Young Funk Sung road trips are always a somewhat complicated but always incredibly fun endeavor.  It's a lot of people and equipment to organize and to neatly fit (ideally) into just a few vehicles.  This weekend, we take on the Mid-Ohio Valley (Marietta, Ohio to be exact) 

Friend to all, notable area musician, and all-around good guy Todd Burge is helping with booking at Marietta's newest venue, The Adelphia at the Galley, so naturally, when I got that call, I gave him a wicked hell yes.  We're always looking to expand our territory a bit, and we hear the the the area has long been suffering from a Funk deficiency...and just as scurvy can be cured by eating a few oranges, we plan on injecting the region with 1 million cc's of raw funk power...remember, Funk not only moves, it re-moves....dig?

The Adelphia has recently hosted Southern Culture on the Skids, Patrick Sweany, and The Sean Carney band, among others.  Here are some photos that I "borrowed" from the Adelphia Facebook page.  What can I say.  I am a heartless pirate.  Looks like a beautiful venue...and it looks tall enough to break out the horn scaffold :)

Yum! Booze!

Thats a pretty big dance floor, lets fill it! (all photos by not me)

Anytime we play someplace completely new, I always have to try so much harder to get people out...know anyone who lives in the Mid-Ohio Valley or wants to travel to hear an awesome band...tell them we'll make it well worth the trip!  

The band will take to the Mid-Ohio Valley in waves.  On Friday, November 5th, Seth, Ian, and I will take our solo/duo talents to Parkersburg for a Blackwater Mojo/Ian B. Walters house concert hosted by the dynamic Mr. John Radcliff.  It'll be a fun little adventure for sure.  John hosts many house concerts, we're honored that he was able to work us into his already busy schedule (he plays with Todd Burge & the Odd Urges, Ovada, and possibly others that I don't know about.)  Good food, good tunes, and good times if you're in the area.  Check it out here.

The rest of the band will likely drive out Saturday, coming from the farthest corners of Randolph, Tucker and Braxton counties.  (ps: Parkersburg is Rob Masten's hometown, so all manners of Masten will be at the Adelphia gig...maybe we'll get some folks out who remember Rob from his glory days as a prominent member of Hot Ice who opened for the New Kids on the Block back in the day.) 

On Facebook?  Invite your friends to this event! Bring your people and lets get crazy!  

YOUNG FUNK SUNG--- Halloween Vids

Captain Took these on my little Flip camera...and they're awesome!


"Pick it Up, Lay it in the Cut/He Was a Big Freak"


"Red Hot Momma"


Dip Trip..."Flip Fantasia"....The Yoda rap :)


The now infamous Jungle Juice Apple Bob!

Happy Halloween!

Still trying to restore the whites of my eyes from their weekend red.  Wowza, what an awesome Halloween weekend.  


I love the buildup to Young Funk Sung Halloween gigs.  Always makes me feel like I'm on some sort of messed version of Project Runway where instead of creating an evening gown for some B-List celebrity I have to create thoroughly random costumes that I hope don't fall apart onstage.  Good times.  


Halloween Part 1 took place at El Gran Sabor...good crowd, good times...it served as a nice warm up for the main event, (i.e. Halloween part 2: electric bugaloo)  the always epic halloween party at Mountain State Brewing Company in Thomas.


I always love driving up to gigs on the Mountain, specifically because it gives us an excuse to go kill time up in Davis and Thomas, shoot the shit, eat a burrito the size of my head and set up our equipment with leisure.  We checked into our room at the Purple Fiddle (Thx, Deana!) and headed over to Mountain State for sound check.  After, everyone headed up to Hellbender Burritos for some beer and some pre-gig grub and watch the cute trick-or-treaters.  (ps: Rob of Hellbenders gives out king-size candy bars for trick or treaters!! Something to remember for next year, parents of Davis/Thomas) 


After dinner, we headed back to the Purple Fiddle to change.  We love staying at the Purple Fiddle Hostel when we're up on the mountain.  Sharing the big 5-bed band rooms is always reminiscent of childhood slumber parties in the fact that you lay it the dark talking, laugh when someone inevitably farts in their sleep, and so on.  Add copious amounts of beer, and you're in for a ridiculous good time.  Rob and Bo rode up with our trusty road manager, Captain T, and everyone else either drove themselves or lives on the mountain, so this trip saw the communal bunk room hosting only Seth and I, Ian, and his fabulous girlfriend Carin.  We changed into our rad Star Wars costumes and hung out until it was time to head over for the show.  


What an awesome night!  We always have the best time at the pub.  Thanks to everyone who made it happen, and the pub for accommodating our madness.  Check out all the photos here, but here are a few of my favs.

(all photos by Captain T)

After the show we headed back to the Purple Fiddle for some more beer drinking and shit-talking (two things we're extra good at.)  I'm pretty sure "Girls, Guns and Glory" the band that played the Purple Fiddle and were also crashing at the Hostel that night, think that we're drunks and assholes. We're not.  We just come on a little strong with the shit talking...Sorry guys, we're really nice people, just nice people who like to get drunk and raise hell.  I swear (we love everyone, even mandolin players!)


Again, Thanks to everyone who was there for the show and everyone!