I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.
George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.
You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
We've been here since 1983 as a band.
My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
