For the past week, the WCE Trio have been spending late-night
brain-storming sessions, in their Gambays' backstage dressing rooms.
The trio, Neils Bohr - flute; Kennesaw "Hui Shan" Landis - piano and bagpiper,
and Hans Klinger - harp, have been playing to dimished audiences (sometimes nobody),
and feel that it's time that they re-form themselves and search-out new musical styles.
Hans Klinger said: "Even our title is uninspiring. And we could start by
re-naming ourselves to something funky".
Landis wants the Trio expanded. "We need some percussion. A drummer
would give us something to set the beat. I've been improvising the drum sounds, and it tires me out. I have to voice those 'ta-sish' cymbals, make lots of rat-tat-tat-tats, and also the deep 'whoomp-ka-BOOMS' of the bass drum".
Neils Bohr said "we need to post advertisements all over the Expatdom, like "strummers, drummers, and groovy tromb-bones players wanted".
Hans wants the Trio to look for a different image. "We need to look like
a band. ZZ-Top look sophisticated. The Stones wear genital-squeezer jeans. Maybe we could try wearing some outrageous gear?".
Neils agreed, and suggested that they wear loon-pants, or skirts, and thus project a transgender image.
But the trio can't decide which musical genre might bring the packed-house crowds back. They've considered Tex-Mex, rock-a-billygoat rock, folk, blues,calypso, and various other styles.
The WCE Trio have been given one week to revamp themselves. PM Mango said that suggestions are needed from Expats. Personally, Mango believes that a
142-piece Glenn Miller-type big band would bring back the swing.
To be continued........
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