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Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, L.A.'s Fitz
and the Tantrums don't know when to
stop sweating. Since the band formed
in 2008 and released its impressive debut
album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, the band has
maintained a nonstop schedule. The energy
necessary to tour constantly is reflected in the
group's sound: an invigoratingly polished take
on Motown R&B informed by croony new wave
and slick '80s pop. Delivering impassioned
tunes of heartbreak, the band is able to bridge
genres without getting gimmicky.
Noelle Scaggs is the band's backup vocal
ist, if you want to get technical about it, but
she's a whole lot more than just some shoop-
shoops and sha-la-la-la-las (though she does
a fine job with those, too). Her powerful voice
and chemistry with Fitz are why the act's cha
risma registers so high in a live setting, and
she can act as Greek chorus, voice of reason,
scolder, challenger and flirt.
"It's interesting because we've been very
close since tne inception of the band," she
says. "We've always had that passion and
energy there that I've never experienced with
any other individual. We click; we get each
other; we balance each other. And of course
there's the male-and-female dynamic, where
the songs come from his point of view, and
then there's me basically coming in and being
this secondary voice."
Scaggs says the band—Fitz, Scaggs, Joe
Karnes (bass), James King (sax, flute, trumpet,
harmonica, etc.), Jeremy Ruzumna (keys) and
John Wicks (drums)—puts a lot of preparatory
work into its performances, and knowing their
tunes, routines (and each other's personali
ties) is what allows for onstage vitality.
"When you're onstage, you let loose, and
when you're rehearsing you're focusing on
being tight so you can be loose later on," she
says. "In a rehearsal setting, we keep it light
and relaxed and talk through opinions to try
to achieve balance through communicating
with each other."
It's maybe no surprise that onstage rapport
is essential to delivering a solid live show; any
band could tell you as much. But the Tantrums
make a particular point of it and work hard at
maintaining that level of performance rather
than hoping it develops.
"The minute you start thinking of it like
a job, it's not fun. It is exhausting being on
tour," says Scaggs, "but to keep things in
perspective you have to support each other.
We aim for positivity in this band, and we're
blessed with it. We're making a conscious
effort to never be on autopilot, to [always]
challenge each other. We keep things fun in
our performance, keep it engaging and try to
make the audience a part of the show."
Fitz and the Tantrums' support doesn't
exist in a fans-ooly sphere, and the band has
found open arms among some of music's more
established names. In October of 2010, for
instance, members of the band appeared on
"Live from Daryl's House," an online series
curated by Daryl Hall, the legendary, blonder
half of duo Hall & Oates, to whose combina
tion of R&B and pop Fitz and the Tantrums
owe a good debt.
"That was really great! And it was on my
birthday!" says Scaggs. "A few months prior
[to the show] I had emailed our management
about how I wish we could be on that show,
and I wrote a letter to Daryl Hall. Turns out
our manager had already been in the process
of putting it together, and we got the call. It
was so fun!"
Members of Fitz and the Tantrums jammed
with Hall and members of his backing band,
ripping through lively versions of some
Tantrums numbers and some of Hall's tunes,
including "Sara Smile" and "Girl I Love You."
"The worst thing to do is think too highly
of a person you admire and build up those
hero expectations, and they turn out to be a
dick," says Scaggs. "But the minute we walked
in there we felt so welcome... everything was
loose and yet professional. He made it very
clear that it was a jam and it would be OK
to mess up, and that's the character of [the
show]. When we did that session we maybe
went over those songs once, maybe twice...
but hearing our songs being sung by Daryl
Hall? Amazing!"
Chris Hassiotis
WHO: Fitz and the Tantrums,
Walk the Moon
WHERE: 40 Watt Club
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 3,8 p.m.
HOW MUCH: $18
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