Ken co-founded a heavy-metal party band as a self-described hack drummer whose raw, unpolished style was oddly original. His backup vocals were so powerful they blew out the PA. After getting kicked out, he became lead singer for a band called Gangster Barbie, trading drums for wild stage presence and humor.
Did you find that was like, a common theme? Like, you had to.
For the rest of your career, you had to suck your way through it? Yeah. I mean.
Yeah, everybody sucks at some point or forever.
Right?
You don't know you suck unless you suck at first. You know, Ken. Ken's being a little. A little quick with it. But the reality was the band that Ken had started with his friend, that was a real party band, a heavy metal party band. Like, it was all based around parties and fun. So the idea of, like, practicing that wasn't real, you know, it was more like, we're going down, we're going to have a keg, a bottle, a whole bunch of weed, and we're going to, you know, make crazy loud noise until, you know, two in the morning, and then we're going to get out of here. That's really what it was. Ken was a bit of a hack, but he was also really original in the way he played drums. It was completely unnecessary, but the reality was Ken was like one of the backup singers. And every time he got on the mic behind the kit when he was playing, his voice would just devastate the room, blow up the pa. It was so loud and big and everybody knew. Oh, when Ken, like, does a backup or whatever, it's just. Is rad. So when Ken finally got kicked out of our band, the other band down the hall, which was basically Gangster Barbie, they needed a singer. And almost everybody was like, ken's got to do this. Like, he's a singer. Because he was also funny. He was also, like, wild. Like, Ken would fall off the drums during a show. Like, just wild, weird shit. But he had something. So when he went down the hallway, and this is my perspective, the first time I saw them jam, and it was only after like a week or whatever, it was awesome. It was like, truly like, what the fuck is going on here? Like, the room was just. It was good. So that's a little more the. The story. He's being a bit humble and quick with it, but that's kind of how I saw it.
