Being a Star Trek fan from the beginning, this is spot on, and a fantastic performance. Great barbershop harmony AND a nice tribute to the original series.
Fantastic performance guys. Excellent writing and done well. I don’t know how anyone familiar with Star Trek could NOT like this. Great barbershop harmony, and a great original Star Trek series tribute.
You can really see the thought and hard work that has gone into not only rehearsal and personal vocal practice but also the whole piece from lyrics to music!
I love the comments about the judges. Unfortunately, it seems that you seldom hear barbershop harmony performed as it was written, for the sake of entertainment. Instead, they have "competitions" involving quartets and choruses, with awkward, overwrought "choreography" and endless key changes, tempo variations, and sundry vocal tricks to impress the JUDGES. I hate the stuff you hear at barbershop competitions. Why do barbershop singers seem to feel a greater need to "compete" than to "perform" as entertainment?
I think you completely misunderstand the context of barbershop. barbershop singing originated around barbershops when men broke out into impromptu singing and improvised harmony--- for entertainment. Barbershop is an oral tradition of music, not written. Full arrangements in barbershop style didn't come until much later. "Performed as it was written" is contrary to the very nature of barbershop. the lines and dots on the page are not music; the sound from the voices and the joy in the room is music.
I am a former member of Dapper Dans from Disneyland and let me tell you...LOVED IT!! do you guys have a website ? THanks for posting...very funny indeed! You guys also did some dapper Dan songs too :) Sincerely Rob DAPPER DANS 1980 Disneyland.
If starfleet had all looked like these guys they would have had to vastly increase the energy output of the ship's reactors to compensate for the weight stress on the ship's hull.
While I've always been a fan of barbershop quartets, I've found humor is an integral part of many acts.....However, I've never seen an act before that made me laugh so hard I snorted soda....goodness, that stings.......Great job, fellas.
Hi Jack. My question was a bit of an inside joke aimed at Martin, who is an old dear friend of mine. It was sort of a poke at the whole society's name change issue; the notion were were all supposed to forget the old acronym as we went forward.
The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. I think. Anyway, it's called the BHS now, the Barbershop Harmony Society now, have a look at their website.
I'd rather sex up someone who has the talent/creativity to do barbershop quartet Trek songs than someone who can only come up with tired old nerds = virgins "jokes" in youtube comments.
