Ecco un altro sulla band: Usa today
LOS ANGELES — James Denton is on guitar. Hugh Laurie mans the keyboards. And Greg Grunberg is wailing on drums.
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone
I'm a goin' home
My baby, she wrote me ...
"Whoa," Grunberg says. Everyone stops. The timing isn't quite right. "Let's take it from the chorus," he says, and they try The Letter again.
Grunberg, a veteran of Alias and Felicity, has a new fall show on NBC called Heroes. Denton is on ABC's Desperate Housewives, and Laurie is the star of Fox's House.
The name of the group: Band From TV.
With them are Grunberg's friends: guitarists Rich Winer and Chris Kelly, keyboardist Barry Sarna and bass player Brad Savage. Lead singers for the band are Bachelor Bob Guiney and Bonnie Somerville, fresh from Kitchen Confidential.
It's hot inside the Sound Arena rehearsal room, tucked back in a block of empty buildings. The air conditioning doesn't seem to be on. But they're playing hard, singing strong.
"It's a dream," Somerville says, plopping down on an old couch in the rehearsal studio for a Blackberry check and a swig of water. She just belted out Hit Mewith Your Best Shot. This band doesn't do original work; it's all about crowd pleasers.
"Everyone gets to do their favorite songs. It's like a high school band," Somerville says.
And it's all Grunberg's creation.
The band started a few years ago when the actor was asked to play at the House of Blues with a couple of celebrities. When he saw the interest it generated, he decided that putting a band together would be a great way to raise money.
Then he appeared in an episode of House and met Laurie. And later on he did some charity events with Denton and Guiney, and added Somerville soon after.
Among the group's gigs: TV Guide's Emmy party Sunday at Social Hollywood, a club in L.A. (Future dates will be posted at bandfromtv.net.)
Just before the set, Denton was slightly nervous about his performance in front of such a packed house. "We're just sort of having fun," he said.
And trying to help out.
"My oldest son (Jake, 10) has epilepsy, and I've got this charity — the Pediatric Epilepsy Project," Grunberg says during a break in the rehearsal. "I didn't start it, but I joined them, and it raises money for UCLA's pediatric neurology department."
Jake had his first seizure before he turned 7, Grunberg says. Life for the family — wife Elizabeth and sons Ben, 6, and Sam, 2 — became a "roller coaster," he says. Jake has had seizures at Disneyland, at the breakfast table and on the first day of school.
With a "cocktail" of medications and an emergency medicine called Diastat AcuDial, Jake is "almost a black belt in karate and plays baseball. He does all the things a normal kid would do," Grunberg says.
But a cure still needs to be found, so Grunberg is doing all he can to draw attention to the problem. His band, he figures, is a good way to get big donations. As the group has become more well known, "suddenly corporations are calling, and we've got all these gigs lined up. And we won't play for anything less than a tremendous amount of money."
He says he recently demanded — and got — $200,000.
"I couldn't believe it," he says.
Laurie says the bulk of his share — the money is split among band members evenly — probably will go to Save the Children.
Denton says he'll give his money to Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Mont., and Cure Autism Now.
But Denton doesn't expect to drop acting for a career in music anytime soon.
"Music is fun. It's a great hobby, and I've strummed for years. But I'm not a musician," he says. "I'm happy to stay in my comfort zone."
When he sings Garth Brooks' Papa Loved Mama and Laurie tells him he was "great," a modest Denton says, "Well, thank you."
"Jamie's smokin'!" says Guiney, who has a band of his own called Fat Amy. He is married to Rebecca Budig, an actress on All My Children he met after his Bachelor stint.
Laurie, dancing and making faces, is the clown of the rehearsal. He tells Grunberg he wasn't sure of what songs they were going to be playing.
"I went to iTunes and downloaded all songs in C major," Laurie cracks.
So, which is more fun for him — this or House?
"I'm a miserable person, the sort of person who finds whatever he's not doing more fun," he says. "The grass is always greener."
Then he grins.
But Grunberg is ever optimistic about the band: "What we lack in (musical talent), we make up for in fun."
He says to look for the CD they'll put out soon. It'll be called Hogging All the Covers.
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