Poughkeepsie
Live:
The “Beat Club” of the Hudson Valley
By Peter Aaron
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After
an introduction by Dell, the guitar-bass-sax-keys-drums quintet
knocks out a couple of light, Dave Matthews-esque pop tunes as the
control-room monitors offer varying shots of the individual musicians
and of the group playing together. And then it’s time for
a few words from the local sponsors. While the rest of the band
goes for pizza in the green room, singer-guitaristDavid Htoo-Levine
stays.
When
the cameras come back on, he’s sitting next to Dell for a
short interview. They talk about the group’srecent successes
and its debut CD, recorded with the studio time that came with the
Garage Rumble victory. Htoo-Levine is, not surprisingly, excited
about the upcoming Mountain Jam appearance, and Dell picks up on
this asking him about the festival headliners
that have influenced The Warhol Crowd.
“We’re
really looking forward to it,” Htoo-Levine enthuses. “These
are some of the bands that we listened to when we were starting
out and now we’re going to be opening for them.”
More
commercials follow, and then the band is back for another number.
Next, the camera is back. Dell thanks the fivesome for playing and
plugs the Mountain Jam gig as the screen fades to a shot of the
group’s CD cover. Then it’s one more song, roll credits,
and wrap. (A recording of the show will be rebroadcast that night
and later in the week.) For all of the intense toil and fuss that
its dedicated crew puts forth behind the scenes at “Poughkeepsie
Live” every week, the program goes by blindingly fast.
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