‘Ready to Rock, You Guys?’ The Winklevoss Twins Play Amagansett.
Forty-year-old billionaire twins Tyler and Cameron Winklebos have been traveling around the country to offer a song version of Blink-182, Red Hot Chili Peppers since early last month, along with rock band Mars Junction. I’m continuing my journey. Police, Pearl Jam, Journey. Tyler sings; Cameron plays the guitar. On Saturday, they rolled into Amagansett, New York. This is a beach town on Long Island, not far from where you spent your childhood summer.
They arrived in a spectacular style, cruising the main street on a 45-foot Pre-Bost Tour Bus, with the giant character “Mars Junction” on the side. The Mercedes Benz Sprinter lifted the back. The twin followers included four musicians in the band, a documentary filmmaker, a merchandise salesperson, and a variety of staff.
Two vehicles parked in front Stephen TalkhouseJimmy Buffett, Jimmy Cliff, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Sheila E, Suzanne Vega and many other marquee performers on stage for decades. A venue with an atmosphere. Mars junction I ended the tour with two nights at the talk house on Saturday and Sunday. The ticket was $ 50.
The twins, whose crypto company Gemini fired 10% of their staff in a recent crypto crash, hit the road to Amagansett. Audiences at the band’s show at Asbury Park, NJ, failed in an attempt to match the treble of singer Steve Perry’s crystal in the 1981 hit “Don’t Stop Believin” on the Mars Junction Journey. I posted a video of Tyler’. The clip has become viral, and comments on social media about the twins, the former Olympic rowers who made a lot of money with Bitcoin after being involved in creating Facebook, have become hot.
Born in nearby Southampton and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevos received a very warm welcome at the Talkhouse. By 7 pm on Saturday, the place was filled with young adults, mostly Bermuda shorts, and summer dresses that seemed to belong to the same crowd as the twins educated at Harvard University. Their parents, Carol and Howard Winklebos, and some family friends were present.
The twins went up to the stage and jumped into the opener “Top Gun Anthem”. Instrumental theme For the 1986 movie and its recent sequel. Tyler saw somewhere between “Top Gun” and Tommy Bahama with a mustache, smooth hair, an aviator shade, and a purse chain hanging from his back pocket. Cameron wore an orange shirt and white slacks to give it a surfer feel.
Suddenly, his legs were far apart, Mike was held sideways, and Tyler led the band to Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” “Now you do what they said to you!” He sang before jumping into the crowd, where he fought high fives and fist clashes with the faithful men of the Martian junction.
“What’s wrong, talk house!” He said after the song was over. “The weekend of July 4th, it’s big! Ready to lock?”
Hits appear one after another: Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire”. “The Wolf” by Mumford & Sons; “Cant’t Stop” by Red Hot Chili Peppers. When Tyler sang Sublime’s “Santeria,” he replaced the word “million” with “billion,” and made a change to the line “Well, I had a million dollars.” .. Cameron performed a wah-wah guitar solo and took a twig of liquid deathwater.
Then came the challenging part of the show: Police Medley demanded that Tyler hit the treble so easily sung by young Sting in the glory of his 1980s.
“So Lonely” segged into “Message ina Bottle”, which transformed into a hard-locking “Synchronicity II” (“Factory spits filth into the sky!” Tyler sang) and then into the reggae atmosphere of “Walking on the Moon”. Calm down. Tyler was pushing his voice to the limit. Why not start with the keys below and start yourself easily? But that’s not Winklebos’s way.
The crowd sang with Harvey Danger’s 1997 hit, “Flagpole Sitta.” When the music disappeared, a young man in the audience accused the Winklebos twins of denying the fair distribution of Facebook’s money, repeatedly screaming profanely to Mark Zuckerberg.
“I don’t know what you’re saying,” Tyler told a violent fan, a hint of a smile on his face.
He missed the introduction of Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow”.
“Let’s go in the early 90’s, right?” Tyler told the crowd. “What do you think? Early 90’s? Pre-Internet? Can you handle it? Do you have social media? Alright, do you want to go back there?”
He delivered Eddie Vedder’s growl. Cameron defeated two solos.
“Wow!” Said the crowd.
“We’re going to stay in the early 90’s for this next one,” Tyler said. “Are you ready for Nirvana?”
The crowd shouted out again.
“OK, it feels like Jesus!”
After that, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” appeared. When playing the next song, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Sack My Kiss was clapping to the beat while his father wore a blue blazer and button-down shirt to maintain his stoic attitude.
Cameron capped the Martian junction in the song “You’re So Last Summer” on Taking Back Sunday. More were available at the merchandising table for $ 20.02 each.
In the audience “Mr. Killers’ Bright Side,” Mars Junction provided two encore journeys, “Don’t Stop Billy Bin” and “As You Like It.” Wright approaches the sound of the AC / DC “hell bell” of the talkhouse sound system. The twins left to have a late dinner with their parents at Montauk’s Garneys.
Before the show on Sunday night, the brothers chatted in a room on the second floor of the talkhouse. When Tyler broke the Liquid Death and opened, he said the eve’s show had a sense of homecoming, and his parents still had a beach house in the nearby quad. He added that Mars Junction is a bit vulnerable because it plays such familiar songs.
“When you play the cover, you are judged against the recording,” Tyler said. “And the more symbolic this song is, the more people know the recording and the live is a little different, so it’s difficult.”
According to the twins, one of the things the Mars Junction experience taught them was that the life of a touring musician can be tiring.
“You have to rest for these shows,” Tyler said. “It’s a lot of effort, and as a vocalist, your voice can go if you’re not careful.”
“The guitar doesn’t get tired,” Cameron said. “But humans do.”