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Reality Show Recap: Not a Boy Band, Not Yet a ‘Man Band’

Misson: Man Band tracks a reality show’s efforts to restore four former boy-banders to their chart-topping glory. Rock Daily’s Reality Show Recaps will track our efforts to be sympathetic to their cause. Here’s our first report: Welcome to Mission: Man Band, VH1’s new half-hour sad-sack fest that gathers the runts of Lou Pearlman’s litter and convinces them to make a new, six-pack-abs-free, over-thirty boy band. One episode in and already we have a mutiny: Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees (the one who wasn’t a Lachey) faces the difficult decision of whether to be involved in the project or go back to living in his parents’ house in Orange County, CA (he picks the band). You know these guys are in trouble when producers misspell their names immediately following the opening credits. Go back and check the TiVo: They spelled the ‘NSYNC member’s name wrong on the first attempt (welcome to “Chris Kirkpatirck’s House” in Orlando, FL). Sadly, this would not be the saddest part of the episode, which is reserved for Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd, who prays to God that the Man Band works out while he pushes around giant tires at his job in Oklahoma. The last member of our all-star quartet is Rich Cronin of LFO, who sang that song about girls wearing Abercrombie & Fitch and has been battling leukemia (he’s got a regimen of meds that would impress Lindsay Lohan in his bedroom). So far the foursome have a shark of a manager and a renewed will to sing. But will anyone want to hear it? We’ve got a whole season’s worth of episodes to find out …

Publicado: 2007-08-08 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Rock Reality Show Recap: Sureshot To Be “Man Band” 4 Eva

Mission: Man Band tracks a reality show’s efforts to restore four former boy-banders to their chart-topping glory. RS’ Rock Reality Show Recaps track our efforts to be sympathetic to their cause. Here’s our sixth and seventh reports: One Mantastic Hour In Two Mantastic Paragraphs: From the opening scene this week, it’s clear that Mission: Man Band is taking a less comic approach. LFO’s Rich Cronin is in a hospital checking on his leukemia (which is still, luckily, in remission). The band preps for its big gig at Miami club Mansion, which includes a promotional stop at a radio station where *NSYNCer Chris Kirkpatrick calls Sureshot “a joke,” much to the chagrin of his bandmates and manager Miss Katie. During soundcheck, Kirkpatrick discovers that the mic stands he requested aren’t there and flips out. To alleviate the tension, Cronin finds out where they’re going for their pre-show dinner, rolls his eyes, points to himself and sings the line that made him famous: “Chinese food makes me sick.” Suddenly, it’s showtime. You know it’s showtime because Cronin tells the cameras he has to go “Number two, bad.” Perhaps inspired by the return of the NFL, the club false starts the intro to the song, causing the band to scramble while the crowd looks on confused like they were watching Britney Spears’ VMAs performance. Thankfully, Color Me Badd’s Bryan Abrams is shoved out onstage and somehow makes the vocal cues on time. And the show goes great, the crowd is really into the music, and VH1 even makes it a point to find the one male audience member and instantly cast him as a Sureshot fan, which will make the poor guy the punch line of many jokes today at work. The Rockin’ Struggle: Back in Orlando, Miss Katie informs Sureshot that they are going to NYC to talk to the major record companies. Cronin thanks God for letting this all happen for him. But don’t go praising the Almighty just yet, Rich. You still need to get signed to a label, and that’s the subject

Publicado: 2007-09-12 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock Reality Show Recaps

Desperate!

Boy band LFO's lead singer, Rich Cronin, has been spotted on Match.com lookin' for love. And it's really him, not some fake! You remember the boy band LFO, right? They were the guys behind the song Summer Girls (aka the “Abercrombie & Fitch” song). You might have even seen them out on tour with Britney [...]

Publicado: 2008-05-05 Proveedor: PerezHilton Etiquetas: Music Minute, Love Line

Behind The Boy Band Music: With any luck, nothing else you read today ...

With any luck, nothing else you read today will be creepier than this sentence from Page Six's item on the way molesty boy-band assembler Lou Pearlman used his hands to mold the talent: "Rich Cronin, lead singer of LFO, recalled Pearlman told him of an 'ancient massage technique that if I massage you and we bond in a certain way, it will strengthen your aura.'" [Page Six]

Publicado: 2007-10-02 Proveedor: Defamer Etiquetas: behind the boy band music, lou pearlman