Ten Years in Ten Days: The Year 2001
Long before Flight of the Conchords were singing about it, six young men were bringing business time to the world. And by world, I mean the tri-county Central New York area.
In an effort to prove our existence with the ladies of Cicero-North Syracuse High School, six guys from the likes of the math league, glee club, and (d)orchestra joined forces to create an unstoppable musical force. That’s right people, 2001 marked the year of The Businessmen.
The best part of it all was that I had no business playing with these guys. As Kristen (Sciaruto) Embry would be quick to point out, I could barely use a sustain pedal. How was it that I found myself part of the group that would rise to the top of the local high school radio charts?
Simple. I had a performance spot at our high school’s Prevention Night, that’s code for ‘ambiguously themed talent show’.
I was going to form a band to perform a cover of the Tom Jones song, It’s Not Unusual. It was a brilliant plan, which worked basically like this:
- Find trombone and trumpet player
- Create band and play It’s Not Unusual at high school talent show
- Take my pick of any girl in the school (like on The Bachelor)
Instead, my good friend at the time (and future lead singer) convinced me to do otherwise. He said that I should join their band and surrender my spot at the show. He would just hand me a guitar, saying all that mattered is that we would all be in a band together and that the “business would come”. Luckily I weaseled my way in as the piano player once their original member didn’t show up for a practice. Or at least that’s how I like to remember it.
It’s business time people, and my senior year of high school was never to be the same.
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lol…I actually found that CD in my car the other day
Yeah… I think somehow I was conned into selling those at my high school too. When's the next album being released?
lol…I actually found that CD in my car the other day
Yeah… I think somehow I was conned into selling those at my high school too. When's the next album being released?
I still have this CD too… and I still love it.
You guys did branch out to a rather broad Ohio fan-base… me and Melissa Stigliano. 
"Somebody New" is on my Ipod. Truth.
haha Derek I have the 5-song CD somewhere too… I think at some point in college I burned it onto my computer… then came a few transfers of all my songs through the next few computers… and somehow it ended up on my iPod but I haven't even thought about taking it off
First of all..I love that you mentioned perhaps my most favorite song by Flight of the Concords!! Ive been telling people in Boston that Tuesday is the day that we go to your mother’s house for a year, and nobody knows what the hell Im talking about!
Second..I think I actually remember this band, and I think its time for a reunion tour!