The Mighty Alrighty officially began in 2018, but singer, multi-instrumentalist, and all around "only person in the band" Andy Napolitano has been making music for most of his life. He's also currently writing this bio of himself and this musical project he's embarking on, and is finding the third person tone of this narrative is helping him come to grips with the level of naval gazing required to write such a thing.

One day, Andy shared his music with two musicians. Their names were Albert Semler and Mike Hetman, respectively. They decided they could play the tunes and showed Andy that they could. Andy, recognizing his music coming from other people’s noise, was impressed to say the least. He asked them to join the band and they replied with a resounding “sure”.

The Mighty Alrighty’s musical influences are varied, with obvious comparisons to be made to works by many pop and rock artists of the 60's through current day. When asked to define what genre of music the band plays, Andy (who again, is the author of this post, so get ready for some insufferable quotation marks that you know are not actually a direct quote from an interview or anything, just an attempt at seeming “professional” on the internet, of all places) usually responds with the term Apartment Rock. “There are countless subgenres that have spun out of the idea of Rock,” says Andy out loud to no one while typing this alone. “I’ve tried to mix a few elements from various areas of the Pop and Rock world in these songs, and with so many ideas and tropes stacked up on one another and living harmoniously, the idea of apartment living most nearly comes to mind.” He goes on to say “That and I made the record in my apartment so whatever. I mean, why should I have to describe it to you anyway? Won’t the people reading this only be doing so because they’ve heard the music? Why do they need me to classify something they’ve already heard, and furthermore, I resent being put in the position of having to explain my work! Can’t it just stand on its own? And you know what else bugs me is the idea that in today’s pop landscape-“  he would carry on like this for some time before tiring himself out and having a quick lie down.  He would lay there for hours just quietly muttering “…apartment rock... Two end tables and a microphone…” and smiling a smile filled with a sense of deep self-satisfaction.

Al and Mike, who were definitely in the room while this all happened, just kind of sat by and let it happen. They were used to this sort of thing happening from time to time and they’ve developed the proper coping mechanisms, which you can hear on display in the band’s music to this day.