News > TV Stars Jump Off Screen, Into Bands
August 29, 2006
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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.
