At The Huntington Beach Church of Religious Science


Ken's colorful quips keep the kids cackling at HBCRS. He's been known, during rehearsals, while the band is in its full fury, to shout out, "Where are we?" The reason for that is that occasionally, one of the band will jump a bar ahead and cause what's referred to by musicians as "a train wreck."

Train wrecks happen because the band doesn't usually "play by ear." They don't need to. The music is always written out. But... once in a while, some knucklehead will decide not to follow the music because he thinks that one of the other guys is lost. (Frequently, that knucklehead is the one who's lost.) That's when the feathers hit the fan and the train derails. No problem. No one ever gets hurt, and the band is very forgiving. Amazingly, the crowd almost never notices the chaos onstage. They think it's entertainment. Lucky for the musicians.

Up until recently, Kenny spent his days selling church organs at the Allen Organ Company in Pasadena. Not anymore, though. As of October, 2002, he decided to follow the organ-sales muse (I believe Caliope is the muse of organists.) to Washington DC. His motivation? The company doubled his salary and paid for his move. He wonders if there was a hidden message.

He's a font of knowledge when it comes to church music repertoire... and The Church, for that matter. He actually knows the difference between a Methodist, a Presbyterian and a Lutheran. As a matter of fact, he's been known to start many jokes with, "OK, a Methodist, a Presbyterian and a Lutheran walk into a bar..."

A little-known fact about Kenny is that he happens to be one of the worst bowlers in the history of man even though he loves to bowl. Also, he was nearly thrown out of a gay bowling league because they didn't think he was gay enough.

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