Once again taking up his drumsticks and old stage-name of Knappster, the university executive made his first appearance on the underground stage in several decades at one of his old stomping grounds, a place he endearingly referred to as the “Kitchen Cellar.”
This venue hosted Knappster’s final performance prior to his protracted hiatus, as well as a plethora of imposters and tributes to the old underground legend himself in the intervening years.
Keeping to the reserved nature for which he is known, Knappster himself declined to speak with reporters from the GW Ax. However, several fans, now mostly middle-aged, were more than happy to share a few thoughts on his reappearance.
“I recorded his last concert on a Walkman back when I was 19,” said an investment banker who asked to be identified only as Sponge. “That tape was the first thing both of my kids heard when they were born, it’s going to be the last thing they ever hear too. It’s too important for them not to.”
Many saw Knappster’s reentry into the underground scene as a step back toward a golden age, one woman in attendance stated explicitly, if a bit pedantically that, “Knappster’s sound is, like, halfway between Melonkov and Kolt-Kologne, but with the thoughtful prose of Chaucer and the magic of the Beatles.”
Knappster’s legacy is that of a musician who inspires and whose work touched on many facets of his listeners’ lives; he is many things to many different people, a hero to some and an icon to others.
“He was Eminem before Eminem even knew what an M&M was, tell him that, he’ll know what it means,” explained Sponge.
And that’s something for all of us to think about, at length, not comprehending a word of it.
President Knapp will be signing autographs during his office hours for the remainder of the semester.
