How do you sing with that face?
It’s pretty hard to describe what happens at a GQ4 rehearsal. Most of it, taken out of context means absolutely nothing and makes little sense. But when GQ4 gets together, in the context of songs and our particular mood for the evening, let’s say anything can happen.
Anyway, Scott was apparently making a mouth-shape that wasn’t quite right for the sound we were going for. Kelly, being “the ear” and “the eyes”, noticed what Scott was doing and asked, “how do you sing with that face?”
Without needing to hear Scott sing, you too might wonder how he sings with that face!
We continued singing and tried wrapping up with “Thank You Dear Lord for Music”. It’s such a nice song, with cool chords and “rings” as only barbershop can. Well, we could tell it was getting late.
Mc Creamy started singing, then phonetically clustered some sounds together that sounded like, well, if you can imagine a bagpipe that produces vocalizations, you’ve got a pretty good idea. It was only a couple word sounds, but after 2-3/4 hours of being together, this was enough for us to enter a state of sillyness that we usually cannot escape. We know! We’ve been to this state quite often!
We sort of regained our composure and got started again, sounding pretty good, all things considered… then for some reason Scott and Chris looked at each other - right at the end of the song, too! Let’s just say it didn’t end well. It was definitely funny, as when Scott loses it, it’s usually enough to take 1 or 2 of us with him.
I looked over and said, “I guess you can’t sing with that face.”
Well, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it 
Brian - Tenor - GQ4
