 Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law. Hey man, it's coming down from the gallows and I don't have every law. My name is Yanni Mataxis. I'm the music director of this year's Dear Abbey's group. We make music from a bunch of syllables that sound really stupid on our own. You have probably a few clips of us just running our parts and you hear like do-do-wo-ba-ba-do-wo. But when you throw it together it like makes this song. That sounds pretty cool. My name's Grady. I sing bass with the Dear Abbey's and I also do a lot of our arranging. For non-occupel people arranging is when you take a song that you would hear on the radio, chop it up and put it back together in such a way that you can sing it off the pillow. We always start with warming up. You got to warm up your voice because your voice is an instrument. Just like when you go to the gym you got to warm up before you start working out. We do the same thing. We get to have a moment on stage where you just kind of feel like a little rockstar. Not everyone gets to do that in school. We get to go all around the country and around Boston and perform for people that love to hear what we do. You know, it's difficult to not be a soloist when you sing on an acapella but that's what you have to do. You have to actually think about the lending as we call it which is matching your tone and your volume with everybody else that you're singing with so you sound like one voice. Pitch perfect is pretty accurate but musically the riff off thing doesn't really happen. You can't just whip out an arrangement out of nowhere and it sounds amazing and perfect and everyone's autotuned and we don't compete with German armies. We emphasize fun on stage because a lot of groups nowadays they have a very certain vibe on stage. They keep it serious and they have beautiful chords going on but we like to loosen up a little bit and get the audience involved. It all conforms together into one fluid song at the end. So we're working towards taking those little components and working out the kinks so that they become comfortable enough that when we perform the song all together it's all natural. And I think that it's a really rewarding feeling when you learn something and you sing but you still work together as a team. These guys are the guys that I love. These guys are the guys that I spend my whole life with that I talk to in my free time even out of the group. Man, man, man, man, man! One, two, three, juice!