12.09.11
The Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts was transformed into a unnerve arena on Saturday night, with rock music from every decade since the 60s echoing throughout the corridor courtesy of the UConn Rock Ensemble. An audience of around 100, made up of both UConn students and kinsmen members of the performers, crowded the folding seat arrondissement close to the stage before the show started at 7:30. The 16-piece conglomeration consisted of a diverse field of instruments, including guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and synthesizers, trombones, trumpets, distinct types of saxophones and several vocalists, with many members playing several instruments.
Drummer Jonathan Singngam shuffled onto grade to start off the first song with a three-minute drum solo. He was followed by the totality's president, Robert Barney, on guitar and vocals and bassist Andrew Fredericksen, who launched into Twisted Sister's 80s glam metal time-honoured, "We're Not Gonna Take It." The rest of the ensemble then filed out onto stage for A-Ha's "Take on Me," with the horn divide up playing the synth part from the original recording. Vocalist Malcom McGannon, whose expression sounded remarkably similar to Robert Plant's, took over for the next full aggregate song, "Howlin' for You" by the Black Keys.
Source: UConn Daily Campus