Lunchtime

When they were still very young, founding members the Lunch brothers shared a dream to form a family band and venture out to all corners of the globe, bringing feel-good music to all people everywhere. But the brothers’ rise to musical stardom was met with some controversy throughout their formative years, as their parents did not approve of their collective chosen profession. They were each being groomed for a “worthier” status, as their father repeated to them time and again during their youth. Brad, Troy, and Joe were born the sons of the former industrialist and American Diplomat to Egypt, a one Mr. Kennedy Ignatius Lunch IV and a southern California socialite, Mrs. Josephine Lunch-Lunch, and from birth the boys were bred for greatness. Brad was to be President, his father instructed him. By the age of 7 he had read the biographies of every U.S. President twice. A military-home-schooling program was arranged for him, as the boys were not allowed to leave the family mansion, and Brad spent his first ten years studying American foreign policy and government. He devised a brilliant strategy for the U.S. to win the war in Vietnam--a decade and a half too late. He would rise to revelry each morning, march and execute small arms drilling by himself, and go to bed each night to the sound of taps, which he played to himself. Troy would study medicine and at 6 reversed the cure for polio. And to prove he had no sinister intentions, reversed it again. By 7, he was awarded the American Heart Association’s Rookie of the Year, an award created for young prodigies of the medical community. By 8, his career was stalled by 14 malpractice suits and a nagging morphine habit. Joe, the youngest, was naturally gifted in numbers. Math came to him easily and he was destined to solve the great equations of the world. By 5, he had vowed to bring order to the chaos theory--a pursuit which brought him great acclaim but cost him his sanity for a few short months. After a stint in therapy, he was back to entertaining party guests by calculating their tax returns for the year based on the contents of their wallets. Despite their strict upbringing, the boys found time to secretly indulge their lust for music, tuning into a small walkie-talkie supplied to them by their mutual best friend R.W., who lived in the mansion across the street. R.W. would hold his walkie-talkie up to the radio and provide the brothers with all kinds of music throughout the night. But it didn’t take long for the brothers to discover that even though their parents wanted big things for them, the desires of their own hearts could not be ignored. Music possessed the brothers. Brad began turning his nightly taps routine into four hour long Coltrane-esque jazz sessions. Troy began improvisational rapping over the backing of patients’ heartbeats. And Joe, discovering that music was no more than a combination of numbers and rhythms, found himself composing symphonies armed with nothing more than a fourth grade math textbook and the sound of a four-cycle engine. Brad, Troy, and Joe, at the ages of 9, 8, and 7 respectively, with the help of trusty R.W. and his walkie-talkie and good view of the exterior of the Lunch family mansion smuggled a guitar, bass, and keyboard past the disdainful eyes of their parents. From then on in the dark of night the brothers would huddle in the basement laying down tracks on the family tape recorder with R.W. supplying the base line through the walkie-talkie. But the events that transpired to bring the brothers into existence is a whole other story… Lunchtime!, a rock band dubbed by many as the greatest musical entity since Mozart, began their musical career on the beaches and in the bars of Orange County, California.