Happy Ending semi-unplugged at Best Video June 18

Schedule

Fri Jun 18 2021 at 05:00 pm

Location

Best Video Film & Cultural Center | Hamden, CT

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Happy Ending plays it's first semi-unplugged show ever on the Best Video Film & Cultural Center deck on Fri., June 18. The show starts at 5 PM.
For the first time in his 65 years, Hank will play the entire show on acoustic guitar—no fuzz pedals! Tom will play a stripped-down drum kit to keep the volume down.
The group expects to play six songs never before in their sets—two new songs, two songs from Hank Hoffman’s side solo project The Alex Butter Field (as well as three other Alex Butter Field songs they have played before), and two covers.
Happy Ending has released three albums. The most recent, “Electricity for the Youth of Today,” was recorded live at Best Video Performance Space in December of 2013. The vinyl LP and 45 “Have A Nice Day” came out in 1984 and the compact disc “Smile for the Camera” in 1996. John Foster, editor of Op Magazine, described “Have A Nice Day” as a “future cult item for the collectors.” Hank Hoffman sings and plays guitar; Richard Brown plays guitar and alto saxophone. Tom Smith is on drums and Randy Stone plays bass. Happy Ending’s music is influenced by 1960s pop, garage rock and psychedelia as well as punk and free jazz.
Writing about a Happy Ending show at Lyric Hall in June, 2017, New Haven Independent arts editor Brian Slattery observed, “With kaleidoscopic projections of faces, hands, drawings, and landscapes swirling behind the band, Happy Ending was at its best during its guitar freakouts, when [guest keyboardist Scott] Amore, Stone, and Smith created tossing waves of rhythm and Hoffman and Brown traded off solos and rhythm work seamlessly, giving the music a chance to fly.”
The Best Video cafe will be open and serving coffee, wine, and beer.
We ask respect for social distancing, please, and conscientiousness on masks. Not everybody is vaccinated yet and our venue wants to advise caution and consideration for others.
No cover charge but please bring cash for the musicians’ tip jar. This has been a real hard time for musicians, almost all of whom have seen their live performance income dry up. There will also be a donation vase set out for Best Video.
Parking available behind Best Video and on Thornton Street.
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Best Video Film & Cultural Center, 1842 Whitney Ave., Hamden, United States

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