Saturday, February 19, 2022

Rock Dads Spin Covid Misery Into Album

Every so often, a journalist gets to write what they would consider a "fun" story, and this is definitely one. 

It's about some dads I know here in the New York suburbs. They are musicians and they were frustrated that their rock bands could not play out in the bars amidst Covid, and for the most part could not even get together and rehearse for much of the past couple years. 

So, working remotely, as has become the norm, a couple of them wrote some songs, and reached out to a couple more, and everyone recorded their parts of the song. 

The main dudes are guitarist Phil Went and singer Joe Walden, thus the W2 name, and the side guys are Peter J. Blume and Brian Doherty. 

“We saw an opportunity to do something positive and something healthy,” said Walden. “It’s a chance to express ourselves – what we’re feeling, what we’re going through, what the world is going through.”

The band is W2 and the album is "4 Corners of a Circle." You can hear it here.