Can Stephen King sing?
PORTZLINE: Um … he’s passable! Like a lot of singers, he has more personality and stage presence than singing ability. The more musically talented people in the band were mystery writer Greg Iles, who is a phenomenal guitar player, Mitch Album, who plays really, really good keyboard and sings very well – and Dave Barry is an excellent guitarist and singer. They were surprisingly good! They only had a couple of ringers – a drummer who was a professional musician, some brass, oh, and I can’t think of his name, he co-wrote a book with Dave Barry, a kid’s book – it was like a take-off on Peter Pan or a sequel to Peter Pan, or something like that, I can’t think of his name, but he plays bass. [Ridley Pearson] Anyway I sat there for like an hour and a half watching them rehearse and took a lot of notes on it because I thought maybe I’d get a story out of it someday. I never did write it, but I have all these great notes – things like Stephen King improvising lyrics to one of the songs. and
