PURIM WITH THE STARS

{REPOSTED FROM LAST YEAR}
TheCoolJew.com spoke with many of today's famous and or new and upcoming singers and producers, with three questions about Purim:
1. What Do you Do On Purim? Do you Dress up? 2. Whats the funniest thing that every happened to you in your music life? 3. Your Favorite All Time Joke?
LIPA SHMELTZER: YES probably I will dress normal this year because I dress up all year round…lol 2. Whats the funniest thing that every happened to you in your music Carrier? You mean a normal thing; Because mostly its all funny 3. Your Favorite All Time Joke? Life is a joke and people who are depressed don't get the joke . No but seriously life is not a joke really it was only a joke at the moment it happens…..
AVRAHAM FRIED :
Of courseI dress up. I like dressing up like a CHOSID..... hmmm.... the funniest thing? Spending a long lonely, hungry Shabbos at JFK airport. Looking back it was kind of funny....You know, eating 4 bannanas and two apples the entire shabbos. That's hysterical no??? I think i'm gonna cry...... I recently got an email from a fellow whose wedding l sang at and he simply wanted to write and tell me how great it was etc.... but because he was Israeli and his english was NOT so great there were TWO words that really cracked me up. He writes like this: To the INFAMOUS Avraham Fried. I want tell you how IN SPITE of your performance the wedding was such Kiddush Hashem...... I think (I HOPE!!!!) he meant to say "BECAUSE"..... But that email was the funniest i have gotten in a while. Happy Purim to ALL!!!! ELI GERSTNER :
Every Year I try to be Misamech as many people as possible. Usually doing a shul or yeshiva purim chagigah. I also try to spend as much time with my family as possible. I do dress up and this year part of my costume is the fact that I haven't shaved in a few weeks…so I plan on shaving only the left side off. I think that would look pretty cool. So I was once at a chasana in Boro Park (with the yosis orchestra) and the choson/kallah requested I do a certain slow goyisha song during the dinner. My general policy is, that if the client is adamant about having a goyeshe song performed at the wedding…I have the band play it as an instrumental. In short I told them I can only allow my band to play it, but I won’t sing it. As they started to play, a long white bearded chossid stood there listening intensely to the song. I was thinking to myself oy what mussar he is going to give me for playing something like this. Why did I do this? After the song he walks over to me and excitedly says, “Eli, that song was amazing. I assume you wrote it as it was mamash one of the most hartziga negeenim I have ever heard!! And then after he gave me some beautiful brochos to “keep up the good work etc.” all I said was amen and shkoiach!! One of the most funniest things is the time when the cool jew (who happens to be a English teacher by day) asked me about my music “carrier” (its supposed to be spelled “career”). I couldn’t figure out who carries my music, was he referring to my distributor? My mail man?\
Michoel Schnitzler :
Do you Dress up? Yes, Big Time! 2. Whats the funniest thing that every happened to you in your Music Carrier? Last Week I set up my Mic system and started singing at the WRONG WEDDING lol 3. Your Favorite All Time Joke... What are the 2 Kugel's that their name starts with an 'N' letter ????, A NApple Kugel, and A NoverNight Kugel...
Sheya Mendlowitz : Purim I don’t dress up anymore! I celebrate the normal way!
Funniest Moment: I was producing a concert and the singer was changing his pants backstage behind the curtains and apparently there was a miscommunication and the curtains ended up opening while his he was changing his pants.
Dovid Gabay :
1) OF COURSE!!!!! What's Purim without getting dressed up? 2) Probably the time when thecooljew stuck a camera in my face demanding an interview while I was eating a steak!!!! SEE HERE 3)A cop sees a Chusid dumping garbage onto the side of the road. Cop: Look at the sign. Can't you read? Chusid: Vat? On da sign it say "FINE for dumping garbage"! Berry Weber: Yes I Dress Up! Funniest Moment: I was singing at a wedding where an elderly guy Asked to lower the music volume and when he got no response so he took a bottle of soda and spilled it on my shirt and on the keybord and then took a stick and started knocking on the keybord hahaha JOKE: Why did haman ask achashverosh to kill all the jews why not onley Mordchay. Because if he would of ordered to have onley Mordchay killed he was afraid of all the emails he would of recieved to stop the kiling. Shlomie Tussig: If i dress up ? Sure, why not? funniest moment as a singer ? actually there is a steady funny moment @ weddings when there is always someone coming over to me during the dancing and I am singing my heart & longs out & the crowd is dancing away and that guy tells u, "come on sing something LEBEDIG" and all u can do then is laugh !!! Favorite Joke ? Wow that's a tough one, but i just heard a good 1, if a penny would know how much its worth it will feel like 2 cents :-) Yossi Green 1. I try to figure out the meaning of what the רבש"ע calls JOY and HAPPINESS... I try to find ONE strange item of clothing to contrast my regular בגדי שבת... 2. If by 'funniest' you mean the most surprising, then my answer has to be, the one about people actually listening to and liking the music I wrote! 3. I don't believe in 'favorite' anythings... But a good one for me would be the one where the speaker who having just completed his speech, says to the audience that being that he is getting to the end of his speech he would love to leave them with something positive. But being that he has nothing positive to say, can he leave them instead with two negatives?
Gershy MoskowitzTEEM PRODUCTIONS
I dress up and I colect money for some peple that could use it! Funniest thing is the person paid me in full for a production and then at the end of the job he paid again and I said u paid me so he says U KNOW WHAT KEEP IT AS A TIP......... i am to serious of a person for jokes lolo.... Nachman Seltzer (Shir Chadasha Boys Choir): After much contemplation, 1. I do usually put on some sort of costume. 2. Shir Chadasha gets booked all over the world for shows and recently I got a call the Jewish community of Budapest inviting the choir to their Summer festival, I called them back and asked to speak to Emeshe; the person who had emailed me. The guy on the other end didn't understand what I was talking about. I tried English. Nem! He said. Ivrit? I inquired. Nem! He said. Yiddish? I valiantly went for three. Nem! He yelled! Then he slammed down the phone. So much for the Hungarians. In the end I got my grandmother to call them back for me. 3. The head of Hamas and the President of the PA get thrown off the roof of the tallest building in the Middle East. Who hits the ground first? Answer; Who cares?! Yossi Newman (YBC Choir Director) On purim usally playing at gigs....deliver shalch manos with my kids and enjoy the suda with my family...as for dressing up; nothing like a good thrift shop! Craziest story I can recall...kinda of a tie between two things...once pulled up to the wrong concert hall with the entire ybc got out and realized we were at the wrong place! VERY SCARY! The other story...when ybc were first starting on clevland a certain girl who had our cd in her car had her car stolen. When they found the car they asked the girl to look over the car to see if anything was missing. She said the only thing missing was a ybc album. When the police asked the car theft he said "ye I took it and I like it!" Shlomie Dachs 1. What Do you Do On Purim? Do you Dress up? YES! Absolutely! This year my entire family will be Mexicans. 2. What's the funniest thing that every happened to you in your music Career? The funniest thing that ever happened to me took place on a plane to Chicago for a Concert with Dedi. We were about to take off, when suddenly my name was announced on the loudspeaker. The next thing I know, they escort me to join "my big brother" in first class! Classic Dedi! 3. Your Favorite All Time Joke...What is the difference between Inlaws & outlaws? Outlaws are wanted!
Michoel Pruzansky Green tuxedo and green top hat that's my costume; Funniest moment was singing under a chuppa and the kallah walked toward the chuppa with her loyally attached dog at her side. Funniest thing I ever saw in my career!
LENNY SOLOMON (Shlock Rock) 1. What Do you Do On Purim? Do you Dress up? Yes like Elvis, James Brown, The Blues Brothers or a New York Ranger Hockey Player 2. Whats the funniest thing that ever happened? I flew to Alaska to do a show and had a volcano eruption, snow avalanche and earthquake all in 2 days! 3. Your Favorite All Time Joke... How do you get a guitar player to play softly? Put some music in front of him! Its a inside musicians joke. most guitar players play loudly - but if you put music in front of them they have to read music and it makes them play softly. it pokes fun at guitar players... Yoely Lebovitz (Pester Rebbe) 1) I'm dressing up always.. Purim? I'm out of ideas.. Got any? 2) I once spoke a whole hour I was Addressing the "chosson" how happy he and his kalla look, always looking and pointing to their direction. after the hour, I found out the chosson kalla sat the other side of the hall. The one I addressed was a sister-and brother-in law. 3) Oy... Its very hard to chose a most favorite, I don't wanna make all the other jokes jealous. A freilichen purim all! Shua Kessin 1: Betach,I usually spend my Purim between being driven around to collect money for those that need it,Performing at various people,and Giving out Mishloach Monas with my family. This year my family decided to start THE SHUA KESSIN FAN KLUB and made different KESSIN FAN KLUB 2: Their have been many humorous moments over the years,one of the ones that stuck out is when I was asked by a Bal Simcha with all seriousness to sing O' McDonald for Lichu Doidy. I responded "E I E I O" 3: Their are many great jokes out there,but one that is defintley up there is Q: What does a street thug and Macy's have in common? A: Their pants are both 50% off Yoni Zigelbaum 1. On Erev Purim every year, I make a lottery (Kminhag) with 50 little pieces of paper, every one stating a state of america, and pick out one. Whatever location is written on that paper, I go to different hospitals in that state and spend Purim there. Always dress up, love it. 2. Funniest thing working with Lipa! 3. My favorite all time joke would be life. How seriously we take it at times, behaving as if we have a say in the matter, forgetting that there's only one who runs the world. GD calls the shots! Moshe Hecht: 1. What Do you Do On Purim? Do you Dress up? no, and i don't eat matzah on Pesach either. JK 2. Whats the funniest thing that every happened to you in your music life? I dont know if this is funny but...i was taking the train home from rehearsal and i was talking with my band about how we needed an acoustic guitar player for our upcoming show, and right there and than we started to hear acoustic guitar playing,turned around saw this guy playing in the station, went up to him asked him his name, "or (light) my name is or" i saw the light in the train station and he's been playing with us at different shows ever since.

5 comments:

  1. this guys may know how to sing ,spelling i don't think so!!!!!!

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  2. besides the horrible spelling, does anyone get the feeling that this is starting to become more and more like a gossip post??

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  3. I saw Yoni this Purim in Crown Heights.
    What state did he visit hospitals in this year?

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  4. where was yoni this purim?

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  5. WTF? where is MBD's interview?

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