One of my oldest friends is a cat named Darius Holbert. We met on the bus to DISD’s Alex W. Spence Talented and Gifted Academy — a school that also produced Tim Rogers and Robert Wilonsky — and then went on to graduate from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
Darius is doing far more with his gifts and talents these days than me, Tim, or Robert. The dude’s making a living as a musician in Los Angeles. His current gig is playing with the reunited House of Pain of “Jump Around” fame. Go to the 4:20 mark — heh heh — of this video to see him absolutely abuse his keyboard.
If you’d like to see more of this, House of Pain is playing the South Side Music Hall tonight. The first 10 people to e-mail me at editor@peoplenewspapers.com get a free pair of tickets.
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Before he became famous, Darius Holbert was underutilized in this band, The Hemingways. The Hemingways are primarily known for blending poor fashion with early ’90’s music to dominate DFW Sportstalk in the future.
@Gordon Keith: Holy crap. Gordon. That haircut? Those eyeglasses?
I just fell in love with you all over again.
Holy crap. Gordon. That haircut? Those eyeglasses? No wonder you disabled the comments for this video.
GTK! Heard there was a Hemmingways reunion. Where was my phone call, hombre? Did you Steve Perry/small Filipino man me out of the lineup!? Trying to get HOP into the Mavs gm tonight. Got a lead on tix for an old Hemmingwayian?