Head Of The Comedy Class

October, 1988

It's a small band big on Eighties tech. Pat MacDonald married Barbara K more than five years ago, and they formed Timbuk3, in which they both sing and play guitars alongside a third member--their "jam box," a compact ghetto blaster they preprogram to play all the required rhythm parts. They scored a top-20 hit in 1986 with a spoof on Yuppies called The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades), and their new, second album, Eden Alley, makes their own future just as bright. "You've...