Not Sayin' Nothin'

Not Sayin' Nothin'

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George and Richard after a fight

Greetings

A Short Halloween Story

It’s Halloween night at the Feeny vs Belding residence. A child wearing a globe costume and toting an orange pail half filled with candy approaches the front door.


*knock, knock*


Inside the house, Zach jumps up from the couch and opens the door.


“Trick or Treat!” comes the demand from the little rounded globe.


Zach holds up a finger as if to say, “one moment,” then swiftly closes the door, spins around in a flurry and exclaims, “doohoohooooods, it’s Halloween and we forgot to buy candy! What are we going to do?”


Da Beej, visibly shaken, sets down the custom bassguitar-trombumpit design blueprints he’d been tinkering with all day. “Hmmm, I could tell the kid a solid B+ quality dad joke,” da Beej offers.


From the kitchen, Kit, who is wearing a sleek black leather jacket, blue jeans, dark shades and exuding vibes that are cool as ice, plucks the tooth-pick from his mouth and says, “I guess I could let the kid take a selfie with me on the Harley.”


“Duders, we’ve got to give the kid something better than that,” Zach responds as just a hint of frantic worry begins to creep into his voice.


“I’ve got it!” proclaims Bigz. “Look under that pile of old songs, there’s got to be something in that stack that is as sweet as candy.”


Zach reaches into the pile of practice recordings, live performance tracks and forgotten JF tapes, fishes around for a moment and then latches onto something. He pulls it out, blows the dust off the cover, rubs it on his sleeve and then peers at the title. He can’t quite make it out but it reads something like “Rec rd d at M ce Mead W  ks.”


“Eh, this’ll do,” Zach says, no longer caring about this premise…I mean, the trick-or-treater.


He opens the door and plops the song into the kid’s candy bucket with a force that actually knocks some candy out of the bucket and onto the ground.


“Gee. Thanks mister,” The little globe-costumed kid remarks sarcastically under his breath.


From the inside of the house, all four members of Feeny vs Belding reply in unison, “You’re welcome…. Planet Earth.”


As soon as the kid is out of sight he takes one look at the song placed in his bucket, disgustingly tosses it aside and vows to return in the night with a carton of eggs.

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The next morning, a paperboy delivers the morning paper to an egg-covered front porch. As he is walking away from the house he notices a song shaped sparkle coming from a shrub just off the path. He reaches through the branches and discovers this gem…

Photo of the band at Mace Mead Works

Band Members

Bigz: Guitar and Vocals

Beej: Bass and Vocals

Kit: Synth and Vocals

Zach: Drums and Vocals