Field Dispatch
Jar of Flies | Matt Connarton Unleashed
Speaker 1: And joining us in studio, and I'm gonna get these
Speaker 1: mics up, and we got we got a lot of
Speaker 1: mics here, but we've got the guys from Jarraflies here.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a quick Okay, let's do this because
Speaker 1: we have to do kind of a live mic check
Speaker 1: on the air soundcheck I should say uh in this case.
Speaker 1: So let's start in the corner here and we'll go around.
Speaker 1: We'll have each of you tell me who you are,
Speaker 1: what you do in Jarraflies and uh, and that'll give
Speaker 1: me a chance to kind of do a soundcheck as
Speaker 1: we go. So we'll start with you, sir.
Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, good morning. My name is Steven and uh
Speaker 3: I played drums and Jarflies.
Speaker 4: All right, and you Chris von Holwig, singer extraordinaire, here
Speaker 4: for your entertainment pleasure.
Speaker 5: I feel like you were an alter ego the last
Speaker 5: time you were here.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was the last time I was here.
Speaker 4: It was in another tribute, but we won't promote that
Speaker 4: one because we're promoting Jari Flies today.
Speaker 2: Right right, all right, very good you.
Speaker 1: I'm Eric, play guitar, okay, Eric, welcome, and of course
Speaker 1: you who you got to be in the five Timers
Speaker 1: club by now right, Well, why can't I can't hear
Speaker 1: you at all? How come, let's let me figure this
Speaker 1: out here. I cannot wait. I think I might know
Speaker 1: the problem. Let's try that again.
Speaker 6: Let's see it is Valentine's Day. Screwed them?
Speaker 5: There you are? There, you are? Hello, Chris. Hello, I'm welcome.
Speaker 6: I am Chris and I play guitar and jariflies.
Speaker 5: Also known as H.
Speaker 2: Yes you do.
Speaker 5: You play guitar as H or Chris, and it's always H.
Speaker 6: It's always for the general public.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of chris Is.
Speaker 6: Introduce Chris and I play bass.
Speaker 5: Well say that again, Chris. I'm the third Chris. You're
Speaker 5: the third Chris.
Speaker 2: They call me Smith because their creative told me.
Speaker 6: Actually it's Sergeant Baker.
Speaker 7: Yes, Sergeant Baker.
Speaker 5: Lenna.
Speaker 1: Turn this up and I'm gonna turn this down and
Speaker 1: let's see. All right, I need the uh, I need
Speaker 1: H and Smith to talk a little bit.
Speaker 6: Hello. Okay, here we are today, Chris.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well.
Speaker 8: How are you today?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 6: Thanks for asking you?
Speaker 2: Hear you both.
Speaker 1: I can hear you both, Okay. I think I think
Speaker 1: that'll work. So jar flies obviously an Alison Chain's tribute.
Speaker 1: I think anyone would uh would would guess I assume
Speaker 1: I'm correct.
Speaker 5: Yes, it'd be funny if he came in and it
Speaker 5: turns out.
Speaker 6: His note it's actually Mamas in the Puppet this other console.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mama's in the pop has had a song called
Speaker 1: jar Flies. Most people don't realize that. And this is
Speaker 1: how new is this?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 5: Have you guys been doing this for a while or
Speaker 5: is this brand new?
Speaker 6: This is pretty new? Okay, kind of kind of spawned
Speaker 6: late last year. Oh, so we were doing kind of
Speaker 6: another band, original band with the four of us, and
Speaker 6: then I ended up breaking my foot. Oh and so
Speaker 6: I was playing less drums and I played all these
Speaker 6: Aus and Chains songs wherever. Yeah, so I just threw
Speaker 6: it out to the guys. I'm like, you guys into
Speaker 6: playing like doing a Chain's acoustic project, and uh, They're
Speaker 6: immediately were on board. I'm like, well, we need to
Speaker 6: get another guitar player, and so just put it out
Speaker 6: there in the ether and Eric showed up and it
Speaker 6: was a home run from the beginning, and we love him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not a lot of love. What was that?
Speaker 8: Was that?
Speaker 5: An idea that you always kind of had that you
Speaker 5: wanted to do, or for.
Speaker 6: Me personally, because I was I had. It's funny because
Speaker 6: we have the songbook in the studio, but I had
Speaker 6: picked that up when I was in high school, yeah,
Speaker 6: just for fun and learned all those songs three hundred
Speaker 6: years ago. So it was kind of nice that everybody
Speaker 6: was on board yep, yeah, to kind of bring it
Speaker 6: out there, and then with all the tribute thing going on,
Speaker 6: it's it was it was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 6: we play with you know, with edgeways and you know,
Speaker 6: anything that's fully plugged in. As we get older, I
Speaker 6: was kind of noticing, like this sounds great, right, because
Speaker 6: it's hard to get good sound for original bands or
Speaker 6: even tribute acts that are subjective to the venue. Yeah
Speaker 6: and their sound guy and they don't you know, it's
Speaker 6: it's hard. It's oh yeah, you get people in their
Speaker 6: forties and fifties who want to go out and enjoy
Speaker 6: the night. They don't want to hear screaming guitars for
Speaker 6: three hours, or maybe they do, but it gets it
Speaker 6: gets taxing right, right. So this is kind of a
Speaker 6: play on while we can do it in more intimate venues. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and so we we did an open mic night. I'd
Speaker 6: never played guitar on live before really, so that was
Speaker 6: kind of the challenge of it as well.
Speaker 5: What was that Was that scary or were you nervous?
Speaker 6: Because I usually I hide because I have I bought
Speaker 6: a big drums and I get to hide behind him.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and then I can say, oh, you guys
Speaker 6: out there, right right yeah, And I was just tired
Speaker 6: of looking at his all these years, right right.
Speaker 1: So, So now, well how many how many songs have
Speaker 1: you guys learned to do in this in this format
Speaker 1: so far?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 5: How many?
Speaker 6: So the idea was to do the whole MTV and
Speaker 6: plugged album. Ok, so we do it as they performed it.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, and then we do attack on some bonus tracks.
Speaker 5: Oh very cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 5: Have these songs been challenging to learn or some of
Speaker 5: them for me?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're still working. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 6: vocal parts that you know, and chans. It's just tough
Speaker 6: to you can't replicate it, you know, Yeah, just so
Speaker 6: we try to do the best we can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dense with nuance, so it's like you can learn
Speaker 3: the song, but then nailing the nuances is what takes time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and vocally too, So how do you handle you know,
Speaker 1: because Lane Staley and Jerry Cantrell singing together, which is
Speaker 1: vocally kind of the secret weapon right of the band.
Speaker 5: So I mean, how do you guys handle that?
Speaker 4: Eric has a good high falsetto. I can do both,
Speaker 4: but the warmth and tone in you know, basically in
Speaker 4: both of their voices, Jerry and Lane. But I do
Speaker 4: a lot of the you know, the the warmer, bassier
Speaker 4: tones and then he supports me and the you know,
Speaker 4: the high, higher falsetto backups and then h will come
Speaker 4: in on some of the stuff that you know, acquires
Speaker 4: you know, a third voice. Okay, So yeah, so we
Speaker 4: make the arrangements work with what, you know, what our
Speaker 4: what our strengths are.
Speaker 10: Yeah, try not to do too much with it because
Speaker 10: they have together.
Speaker 5: Right right, Absolutely, That's why Eric was the unicorn.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, man, play the guitar well and saying
Speaker 3: and new material already.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yeah, Eric, you got it.
Speaker 2: I really.
Speaker 5: Fantastic. You're like an angel. Well, I'm dying to hear
Speaker 5: something you guys. You guys want to play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we could do that show.
Speaker 1: That show all right, very good if you're just joined us.
Speaker 1: We got our flies here in studio with us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys say when.
Speaker 9: I guess hm m hm hm hm hmm.
Speaker 5: Sorry not to day, not today, alright, Yeah, Mike's picking
Speaker 5: it up.
Speaker 2: It's all right.
Speaker 9: M hm.
Speaker 12: H Chase, miss madl we he's the bad that.
Speaker 13: In yet at bad and yet at bat this battle,
Speaker 13: no one want to grab.
Speaker 8: Dude, no basical man give themselves three, man give themselves
Speaker 8: three and yet have fun and yet have fun repeating
Speaker 8: my even yet be mal I feel better.
Speaker 2: Be hm hmm.
Speaker 5: That was great, guys, thank you, Oh my god, that
Speaker 5: was so good.
Speaker 6: Nice happy tune for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. There you go.
Speaker 2: Eric.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if when you're for the next one, if
Speaker 1: we can get that mic in front of the guitar.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we're picking you up
Speaker 1: a little bit better. If you get I mean you
Speaker 1: can pull the the extender there, you can just yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it's a it's a little bit awkward, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure we're getting you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you guys, get there you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it it's awkward. That was the one
Speaker 1: advantage of the old studio we had more room. But no,
Speaker 1: you guys sound great if you're just joining us. We've
Speaker 1: got jar flies here with us in studio and absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1: How many How many shows have you guys been been
Speaker 1: doing so far? You've been playing a lot.
Speaker 6: We had one at the beginning of January and we
Speaker 6: have a few more lined up.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we have.
Speaker 6: February twenty eighth coming up at the Button Factory in Portsmouth,
Speaker 6: but that did sell out.
Speaker 5: Oh, really excellent.
Speaker 6: The first show we did in Milford at Riley's Place,
Speaker 6: we got over five hundred people interested on our Facebook
Speaker 6: Oh my God event page, which was pretty cool. And
Speaker 6: then we ended up going capacity there for our first show,
Speaker 6: so that was so it was kind of like a
Speaker 6: little bit unexpected. And then we did the Portsmouth show
Speaker 6: Rochie Stephen Erica for kind of from that the coast
Speaker 6: area something like us, we should try to get out there,
Speaker 6: so just trying to find these smaller places and then
Speaker 6: that sold out in a few days. And then we
Speaker 6: have the Marrigold in Brattleboro, Vermont, March seventh, and then
Speaker 6: we have Pembroke City Limits the eighth on the schedule
Speaker 6: so far, Oh fantastic, which is trying to forget about.
Speaker 2: That's in the Rochester.
Speaker 5: So you guys are off to a very strong start.
Speaker 5: That's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's it's it's done pretty well with the response.
Speaker 6: Ah yeah, really woll so it's kind of nice. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, I'm dying to hear another one.
Speaker 6: You guys want to play another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, jar Flies is here with us in the studio
Speaker 1: if you're just joining us. Sound amazing, no excuses.
Speaker 12: That's a volume on that.
Speaker 5: Sounds good, sounds good in the headphones.
Speaker 12: It's all right.
Speaker 14: There comes a time.
Speaker 12: You can no search me so mad.
Speaker 15: Lad load, I want to take el no more in
Speaker 15: no discarsing to sad. Very day something hits me.
Speaker 14: How so good.
Speaker 15: You found me sitting here, found myself?
Speaker 14: Don't excuse is that?
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 12: It's okay.
Speaker 15: And a bdy.
Speaker 12: It's up boo breaking rock, soldry.
Speaker 2: Drained and blue. I believe for you.
Speaker 15: You think it's fine, Well you're telling in it.
Speaker 12: Every day something hits me.
Speaker 9: I'm so cool you can'd me sit it?
Speaker 15: Found myself don't choose his and I.
Speaker 8: Know yes, we'll walk down the line, leave our ray
Speaker 8: to go three to walk.
Speaker 12: Some shade.
Speaker 15: You might free. I will be a gread.
Speaker 12: It weed, well love you, weady way red something miss me.
Speaker 14: I'm so cool.
Speaker 15: You find me see it found myself, don't see see.
Speaker 5: And fantastic guys. Wow, thank you.
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have jar Flies here
Speaker 1: with us live in studio and yeah, that sounded really
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 5: Like in terms of long term, do.
Speaker 1: You do you plan to learn other I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you talked about doing the you know, the entire
Speaker 1: unplugged album and that's kind of the the main thing
Speaker 1: and then you but I mean, do you plan on
Speaker 1: tackling like maybe other entire Alison Chain's albums in the
Speaker 1: future or now.
Speaker 4: We're just adding songs we did. We did also do
Speaker 4: stay Away, which is personal favorite. Oh yeah, it ain't
Speaker 4: like that, uh, don't follow, But we also did and
Speaker 4: we did an acoustic version was still the big vocal
Speaker 4: a man in the box to close the show Riley,
Speaker 4: So that that and that, you know, because that's a
Speaker 4: big song and obviously they're most probably the most one
Speaker 4: of their most notable hits, you still need that you
Speaker 4: know energy. But yeah, because we had a capacity crowd,
Speaker 4: they joined in for everything, so we really got that
Speaker 4: you know residence, even without the electrified guitars, so you know,
Speaker 4: we're still using the full drums, so we still have
Speaker 4: that impact of the drums, which this is a very
Speaker 4: drum and bass driven type of music.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a little extra acoustic this morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, now this is cool.
Speaker 2: Thrum drummer always gets screwed and the.
Speaker 3: Well, even the guitars aren't amplified, you know, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: amplified acoustics sounds beautiful.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: In terms of full albums, we wouldn't do a full album.
Speaker 6: I guess technically we could do SAP. We could do set.
Speaker 6: They had the four song EP SAP right right, but
Speaker 6: there's but Chris Cornell guess vocals on there. There's some
Speaker 6: crazy vocals on that album. But yeah, but those would
Speaker 6: be some deeper cuts for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But we've talked about even some of the newer Allison
Speaker 6: Chain's albums without Lane. There's some good songs on those albums. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so maybe if we get down the road and then
Speaker 6: you know the side projects like mad Season. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: we could do stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I really like that album, mad Season album.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great album.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, there's some amount of hits that they
Speaker 3: had that didn't on the unplugged album.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are those are all targets if they translate
Speaker 2: well right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was there anything that was particularly challenging, I mean, any
Speaker 1: anything that you guys kind of had to really work
Speaker 1: art out to get it right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, those a few songs over now is a unique tuning. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so you know, we have separate guitars for that one.
Speaker 2: Frogs Frogs Cross is a super impressive song.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of very cool bass parts that
Speaker 4: are triggers for me in terms of the vocal Okay
Speaker 4: and Laye, whether it's the recording or unplugged his especially
Speaker 4: the whole end of the song. It it feels when
Speaker 4: you listen to it that it's very much just riffing
Speaker 4: and it's out of time, but you have to you know,
Speaker 4: you have to count it. But in Lane fashion, he
Speaker 4: sings when he wants to sing, when you just kind
Speaker 4: of follow what he's doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, And to that, a lot of it is
Speaker 6: just which is part of where we kind of tried
Speaker 6: to do the more intimate gigs. It's it's very viby,
Speaker 6: so it's not there's nothing to a grid, there's it's
Speaker 6: not specific, it's how we're feeling. Try to find that
Speaker 6: pocket so people can really feel and and us just
Speaker 6: feel it the music more than just hey, would you
Speaker 6: playing a song and we can pull in anybody to
Speaker 6: play this. It's not going to be like that as
Speaker 6: much because it's it really takes the band to kind
Speaker 6: of work together to sell these songs. I think, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: versus you know, if you're just playing a bar band,
Speaker 6: cover band and you can play Mustang Sally, you can
Speaker 6: find three thousand people to play it and they can
Speaker 6: kill it and that's fine. Yeah, you know, some of
Speaker 6: this stuff is I think it's not super unique, but
Speaker 6: it's it's kind of nicer to have that that feel.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, it's like you play it too fast
Speaker 10: and it kind of takes the mood away. You've really
Speaker 10: got to find that pocket in order for it to
Speaker 10: come through.
Speaker 5: Right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Uh, you guys want to play another one? Sure,
Speaker 1: if you're discerning us, we've had jar flies here with
Speaker 1: us in studio sounding really good, really good?
Speaker 6: Are we doing on tuning?
Speaker 2: Done in a hole?
Speaker 5: Ooh yeah, I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 12: Good yea berey me stopping this wool.
Speaker 8: And give this part of me.
Speaker 9: Boy you.
Speaker 15: Send rings down near as sing all the rare nowels
Speaker 15: in to.
Speaker 16: In blue, sell me a hold, and I don't know
Speaker 16: if that can be safe seamen degate lag craze. Oh,
Speaker 16: I don't understand. They thought I was abos.
Speaker 15: Look at me now, rain so baby, tell me in
Speaker 15: a hope losing myself, tell me in abo any control.
Speaker 5: And that to lie.
Speaker 15: Now it's a pensil tonight. Tell in the hold.
Speaker 8: They put all the stones in the place.
Speaker 15: I beating the stone somewhere tong had been bound off
Speaker 15: the tea.
Speaker 9: Where I haven't Fill.
Speaker 12: Me in myself and I will be to know more
Speaker 12: on my feeling.
Speaker 15: Tell a.
Speaker 8: Using myself.
Speaker 15: Tell me about.
Speaker 12: Well control.
Speaker 9: Pa to buy from now its.
Speaker 14: Pencil read something and this.
Speaker 8: Said give this stott be bo, you said, say rings down, and.
Speaker 12: Her as said, who.
Speaker 9: Now said to cool?
Speaker 15: To be sad down in a hole, losing my soul
Speaker 15: down in the bool, feeling.
Speaker 9: So small.
Speaker 15: Down in a bole, losing myself, tell me a hole.
Speaker 12: Down in control.
Speaker 9: That too. That to the Mollys of Pencil.
Speaker 1: Amazing jar flies here with us in studio and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys, sound sounds so good?
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 5: Is there what what goes over the best?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: Is there something that stands out when you guys play
Speaker 1: live that the crowd reacts to the most? Would you say,
Speaker 1: is there any one thing that really?
Speaker 2: I feel?
Speaker 4: I feel like we we got exactly what we expected,
Speaker 4: which was this was already inside of us from our youth.
Speaker 4: So when we brought the project together, we even surprised
Speaker 4: ourselves playing it through the first time. Pretty much nine
Speaker 4: ten of the songs came to us easy. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: the fans, the people came that love it. I think
Speaker 4: the thing that I got from it was right Lane's gone,
Speaker 4: So there's no availability for anybody who either was alive
Speaker 4: during that time and lived it when it was you know,
Speaker 4: fresh and new, or is now experiencing it after. So
Speaker 4: the looks on the people's faces and them singing the
Speaker 4: songs along with me, everything seemed to be their favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything was a hit. Of course.
Speaker 4: You know, Man in the box, down in a Hole
Speaker 4: that we just did are very big, you know, notable songs.
Speaker 4: But I would say the crowd that we have there,
Speaker 4: they may have even known the music better than we did. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I could have handed the mic off several times
Speaker 4: people were doing it, yeah, saying that you Chris.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The reaction from the people, I think I underestimated I
Speaker 7: guess how popular they were because I wasn't expecting people
Speaker 7: like they were singing along and like to some of
Speaker 7: the songs. I didn't expect it to. It was like, okay,
Speaker 7: kind of neat to see, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I second that.
Speaker 3: I think that is the I guess thing that blew
Speaker 3: me away was that I, you know, like most of us,
Speaker 3: like the suggestion to learn these songs was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, like it's always fun, yeah to pick up
Speaker 3: a new challenge and play a thing. But I had
Speaker 3: no idea that it would get the response that it did. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like we didn't bring more than like something like less
Speaker 3: than ten percent of the people their family and friends
Speaker 3: of ours. Yeah, like just like organic people just yea
Speaker 3: like brought that place to capacity just because they love
Speaker 3: Alice and chains.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We're seeing that at the other gigs that we've posted too,
Speaker 3: So I think that's the biggest surprise.
Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah, it's a great response.
Speaker 4: The return after the show when it was over, that
Speaker 4: you know, people told me was that the music at
Speaker 4: some point in their lives did something to help them,
Speaker 4: you know, as some of the content can be downtrodden
Speaker 4: and depressing as it is, Uh, it's a reflection of
Speaker 4: human emotion. So I think the return from people was
Speaker 4: I would will never have and didn't have the opportunity
Speaker 4: to see this and for real, but you doing this
Speaker 4: gives me the opportunity to experience it the way you know,
Speaker 4: maybe you know, whatever my parents or I may have
Speaker 4: if I was a little older or something during whatever
Speaker 4: time of their life and age groups.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't remember her name, but we did
Speaker 2: find out.
Speaker 4: That one of the employees there at Riley's was actually
Speaker 4: there at the Unplugged in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 6: She worked for a Hipperator magazine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, kiddy in wild that's wild amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so she she saw the real thing and she was
Speaker 4: very instrumental. Because that's the part we left out is
Speaker 4: we just went to Riley's to do an open mic
Speaker 4: maybe a month and a half before. Yet it got
Speaker 4: such a good response. They asked us to come back,
Speaker 4: and I think she she was instrumental in doing. They said,
Speaker 4: you need to get these guys in. I've seen the
Speaker 4: real thing, and they do they do good jobs.
Speaker 5: Oh that's yeah, that's an incredible validation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because conveniently they Fridley's was booked for a long time,
Speaker 6: then the date opened up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: I'm also curious and you know, for any any of
Speaker 1: you who want to address this, like, what what is
Speaker 1: it about Alison Chains that that made or makes a
Speaker 1: lot because they still exist obviously, but that makes that
Speaker 1: band so special because off the top of my head, like,
Speaker 1: there's nobody who sounds like Alice in Chains, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, There's nobody who quite sounds like them.
Speaker 1: So they're unique in in a you know, in a
Speaker 1: universe where you know, everybody you know sounds like somebody
Speaker 1: else to some extent, but Alison Chains really kind of
Speaker 1: I mean I I and again I referenced it earlier.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: you know, again Lane and Jerry and there and they're
Speaker 1: vocals together I think that's to me, that was kind
Speaker 1: of always a secret sauce. But but but there's other
Speaker 1: elements about them that are, you know, interesting. But I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think, Because you're you're in a
Speaker 1: good position to speak on this since you're, you know,
Speaker 1: covering their songs. Obviously you're all passionate about Alison Chains,
Speaker 1: and you're and you're exploring how to play them. Right,
Speaker 1: You've learned how to play these songs. So, like I
Speaker 1: just and anybody wants to share their perspective, what is
Speaker 1: it about Alison Chains that makes them so incredible?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take a shot at that. I for me,
Speaker 2: it's uh.
Speaker 10: When I actually when I saw you guys looking for
Speaker 10: somebody to play, I saw that immediately and I responded
Speaker 10: because this is, you know, the Dirt album came out,
Speaker 10: I think just as I was.
Speaker 2: I think I might have been in the Marines at
Speaker 2: the time, but when I was.
Speaker 10: Overseas day, we beat them, We beat the brakes off that. Yeah,
Speaker 10: at the time to the tape yet get but but
Speaker 10: I think it goes back. There was a lot of
Speaker 10: change in music at that time when their first album
Speaker 10: came out. I mean, because I'm still an eighties guy.
Speaker 10: I love eighties music, but I was, you know, still
Speaker 10: in high school when it started to switch over and
Speaker 10: to Vana, sound Garden, you know, pro jam, all these
Speaker 10: bands came out, and I think it was just a change,
Speaker 10: and I think there was a lot that people kind
Speaker 10: of reflect on that change out now that they're older
Speaker 10: and they look back on that and they have, you know.
Speaker 2: Caond memories of what this music means to them.
Speaker 10: So I think that's kind of the response.
Speaker 9: To get as well.
Speaker 5: Right right, yeah, anybody else, No, no, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say I think I think obviously
Speaker 4: all all of them are talented, extremely talented musicians. Jerry
Speaker 4: Cantrell great, you know, composer of an orchestrator of that music.
Speaker 4: Helped too that their voices were very close, so not
Speaker 4: only in terms of inflection and tonally, so that that works.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you couldn't tell, you know, the difference
Speaker 4: when Jerry was singing, but Lane had a very haunting vocal.
Speaker 4: But I think the the length of them being together
Speaker 4: and managing to get to that level, because I'm sure
Speaker 4: if you've ever deep dive, you know Alice in Chains,
Speaker 4: you know where they started and where they ended up
Speaker 4: very different, so that you know, that graduation to that,
Speaker 4: but human emotion as sad as it is that Lane
Speaker 4: died and the struggle, I think, I think the audience,
Speaker 4: uh in just being human really, you know, honed in
Speaker 4: on the fact.
Speaker 2: That you know this this guy is he really feels this.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Of course, now looking back, I think, you know, possibly
Speaker 4: at this time, maybe he would have gotten more help
Speaker 4: than he did and we would have been able to
Speaker 4: enjoy him for much longer.
Speaker 2: But you know, some stars burned the brightest.
Speaker 10: I think that everybody relates to that too, right, I Mean,
Speaker 10: everybody's been down in a hole at some point in
Speaker 10: their life. So I think their lyrics and the way
Speaker 10: they come across, I mean, everybody can relate to some way.
Speaker 10: It's almost all of their songs. So I think that's
Speaker 10: another piece that really draws people to their music.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, I was just gonna say to what I
Speaker 3: think the two big they've been touched on the two
Speaker 3: biggest things are that you can't understate the the the
Speaker 3: magnificence of the armonies that those two singers created together.
Speaker 2: It's really unique.
Speaker 3: I don't you don't see it a lot in music, right,
Speaker 3: You really didn't see it in that genre specifically exactly
Speaker 3: like bon Jovi was doing it, but like you know,
Speaker 3: that's like happy pop, you know, right, right, But they
Speaker 3: brought it to that genre in a way that really
Speaker 3: did justice to the authenticity of the There was just
Speaker 3: such an authenticity to that. You didn't feel like they
Speaker 3: were trying to commercialize pain something. They they were really
Speaker 3: authentic and that's what resonates with people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think the for me it's I've never
Speaker 6: been a huge lyric guy, so the authenticity in the
Speaker 6: lane to what Chris said, is one uncent on for me.
Speaker 6: It's the sonics of it all and a lot of
Speaker 6: how people recorded during that During that time, we got
Speaker 6: a lot of great music. You know that that Rage album,
Speaker 6: all those those early nineties albums have their own sound. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and Jerry was you know that just the feelings of
Speaker 6: that music message aside, just grabs me. You know, that's
Speaker 6: the snare sounds or the guitar sounds. What effects are
Speaker 6: going on there? How are they getting all these layers right?
Speaker 6: So that people don't really realize that, but it affects them.
Speaker 6: It's like there's something that sounds really cooler. I don't
Speaker 6: know what it is, but it's right. It pulls you in, right,
Speaker 6: So it's I think it's all that. You know, they
Speaker 6: were package that pretty well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Good old raw rock and roll too. I mean they were.
Speaker 4: They were great musicians, but you watch not a butt
Speaker 4: more of a you know, it wasn't so overly polished.
Speaker 4: They adapted, you know, you can you can see during
Speaker 4: that that you know, it had been a long time
Speaker 4: since they had played you know, those songs and played
Speaker 4: with Lane. I'm sure there was some rehearsals, but they
Speaker 4: even there's even a comment by Lane, you know, this
Speaker 4: is the best show we've had in three years, and
Speaker 4: somebody shouts out, yeah, it's the only show because he disappeared.
Speaker 4: I mean we talk about all the time. Their their window,
Speaker 4: like a lot of other great bands, was very short. Yeah,
Speaker 4: at the time, from when they hit to when it
Speaker 4: was over and we lost Lane was a very short time.
Speaker 4: But to watch them play that and be those musicians.
Speaker 4: But you know, with all the nuances and the warts
Speaker 4: and everything that goes with it, we're really dissecting it.
Speaker 4: Like now we're in the ten percent of like you know,
Speaker 4: that's that's not the recording, but what they did here
Speaker 4: actually ended up cool. Yeah, because they adapt to uh
Speaker 4: to it. And I like the the you know, I
Speaker 4: want them to be good musicians, but I like the
Speaker 4: unpolished raw rock and roll. I feel a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff today is just so perfectly orchestrated, and whether they're
Speaker 4: playing with backing tracks or you know, they've got the
Speaker 4: most professional you know, equipment and yeah, recording software stuff
Speaker 4: that they do live. I just like the good old,
Speaker 4: you know, raw rock and roll, and yeah, if we
Speaker 4: mess it up, we're not gonna We're just gonna keep
Speaker 4: going through.
Speaker 5: It's not supposed to be perfect.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know a lot of people are critical.
Speaker 4: They want it to be like album quality, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but this is real and certainly we're not Alice in Chains,
Speaker 4: so we're adapting to what you know, parts we can
Speaker 4: we can do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we've got a little bit of that. But
Speaker 6: we talk about all the time as just being artists,
Speaker 6: you're going to get some critiques. So it's you're not
Speaker 6: doing Laye any justice, and like we're not. We're not
Speaker 6: trying to replicate Lane, right right, We're playing the songs
Speaker 6: and just be just a channel in this area for
Speaker 6: people to hear it.
Speaker 2: It's a tribute. Yeah, it's not merely a tribute.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, if that I mean, it's just it's just
Speaker 6: just sharing the music, just enjoying the music and playing
Speaker 6: with other people. You can call it tribute, I guess,
Speaker 6: but it's really just here songs that we like. We
Speaker 6: hope you like them too, and we're just trying to Yeah,
Speaker 6: we hope. We'll try to convey that that message because
Speaker 6: Jerry and Lane are here together. If Jerry wants to
Speaker 6: come in, great.
Speaker 12: We love listening to the show.
Speaker 2: We love to we love to be loud and play metal.
Speaker 4: We're all metal guys, uh, with deep roots and you know,
Speaker 4: thrash metal and hard rock stuff from the eighties and
Speaker 4: the nineties. But I have to say that, yes, this
Speaker 4: not only for the reaction that we got, but for
Speaker 4: us it is it is a change from the norm.
Speaker 2: It is not easy.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's easy, but vocally like, it's much
Speaker 4: different than everything else that I do with either other trips,
Speaker 4: its original bands or covers.
Speaker 2: So it's uh.
Speaker 4: And to put it together collectively in package it that way,
Speaker 4: I think that's you know, if we did a song
Speaker 4: or two in like a cover set. We just you know,
Speaker 4: be another cover band and noise of all cover bands.
Speaker 4: So it just has more of a thing. And there
Speaker 4: are other great Alison chains.
Speaker 17: Somebody somebody ring the door bell, murder them, somebody, somebody's
Speaker 17: somebody wants a bus ticke up, it's pizza, but Jenny's
Speaker 17: on the case.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it's enjoyable to do and package it
Speaker 4: that way and have people be like, yeah, I can
Speaker 4: each mentioned it earlier. I can go there, maybe get
Speaker 4: some food, have a drink, and I can still talk
Speaker 4: to people and here because the decibels of this are
Speaker 4: are far less.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, even even with you know.
Speaker 4: Electrified acoustic and amplification, it just has less impact than
Speaker 4: going to see you know, your your favorite you know,
Speaker 4: very loud rock band and right you know, you're you're
Speaker 4: with you're just screaming at each other and your horse
Speaker 4: by the end of the night.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and the idea of it is just to
Speaker 6: create a little bit more of an experience with the
Speaker 6: you know, we have like the candles and the just
Speaker 6: bring the mood down a little bit so people can
Speaker 6: kind of dive into it. So it's you know, we're
Speaker 6: not just a band in the corner, you know, it's
Speaker 6: people just can dive into it. Like I said, just
Speaker 6: I like the song, and you can hear people kind
Speaker 6: of talking I love this and they start singing. That
Speaker 6: kind of interaction is new for me because, like Chris
Speaker 6: is saying, you know, if you're playing with amps, you
Speaker 6: don't hear anybody.
Speaker 5: Right, right, that's true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like you're like, well you really like that, you
Speaker 6: try harder and it's like I like it too, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and then you have that connection. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty close. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it sounds like because there's people, I mean when we're
Speaker 6: at Riley's. I mean there's a couple, there's a whole
Speaker 6: group you know, this far away, and like that's that's
Speaker 6: a lot of pressure. Yeah, in a sense because like
Speaker 6: can you can see people kind of either get water
Speaker 6: eyed or whatever. They're like, this is my song and like, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know it's so it's weird, like it's not my song.
Speaker 6: We're just you know, channeling it. But it's cool that
Speaker 6: they're getting that emotion from it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was also surprised that I forgot to mention this
Speaker 3: the amount of women that were at that show and
Speaker 3: kids there are a lot of like younger kids, like
Speaker 3: teenage kids, Like my niece is like fourteen and she uh,
Speaker 3: she's in Dallas and Chain.
Speaker 2: So like, yeah, to the extent that we can bring
Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.
Speaker 3: I mean to the extent that any like younger kid
Speaker 3: enjoys this music. Yeah, and if there's anyone in this
Speaker 3: area that likes this kind of music and they're younger
Speaker 3: and they can hopefully we can do they can come
Speaker 3: to a show and we can kind of do justice
Speaker 3: to like the vibe that they missed out on not
Speaker 3: being alive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we see that a lot, and people have reached out.
Speaker 6: Is this eighteen plus or a twenty one plus? Can
Speaker 6: you know? They want to make sure because like my
Speaker 6: daughter or my whatever child, it's hugely into it. So
Speaker 6: it's kind of like it's kind of interesting. It's like,
Speaker 6: you know, people our age, I guess their kids are
Speaker 6: more into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we spawned, we all spawned kids that would listen
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, but it's kind of the same idea because
Speaker 6: I think it's for me. I kind of skipped the
Speaker 6: eighties in my had older brothers who listened to a
Speaker 6: lot of seventies stuff, but the nineties stuff was a
Speaker 6: product of a lot of seventies music. You know, your
Speaker 6: Sables and Zeppelin and yeah, all the all the kind
Speaker 6: of the harder rock stuff where the eighties was polished
Speaker 6: and they had that eighties machine to it. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean you had your metal, but you didn't have like
Speaker 6: the rock. Like the nineties grunge stuff was a descending
Speaker 6: of the night you know, late sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and probably to kind of a reaction to
Speaker 1: to the eighties sene you know, right, Oh for sure, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of a kind of a pushback on that and
Speaker 1: a and a welcome one.
Speaker 5: And in a lot of ways, I would say, Chris,
Speaker 5: you've been quiet. Did you have anything you want to do?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 7: No, I'm just a bass player.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: It's a bass player.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm a bass player too, So you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta look out for each other. That's
Speaker 1: why I want to make sure if you.
Speaker 12: Had anything he got in there, I will.
Speaker 6: I'll say that the base is amazing on on a
Speaker 6: lot of the oul chain stuff, and yeah, he's nailing
Speaker 6: it with Oh I noticed on the not only the tones,
Speaker 6: but just just the parts in general, because it's such
Speaker 6: a huge part of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike is an amazing bass player.
Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons I've always loved them.
Speaker 5: And anyways, it's just oh yeah, awesome. Oh absolutely, absolutely,
Speaker 5: one hundred percent. He's one of my favorites.
Speaker 12: I think.
Speaker 1: So in a moment, if you guys want to do
Speaker 1: one more, we can. We can end the segment with
Speaker 1: one more. We definitely have time. But I also want
Speaker 1: to make sure that uh, two things. One that people
Speaker 1: know where to find you guys online and also what
Speaker 1: you've got coming up if you want to remind people too,
Speaker 1: because you got to you got a bunch of shows
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 6: So it's online jarflies dot com, which is amazing that
Speaker 6: we were able to get that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm actually surprised. That's really Oh that's great.
Speaker 6: It's great. So that's that's the home spot. You can
Speaker 6: find all the gigs there and I'll see on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
Speaker 6: YouTube at jariflies or jariflies n H so you people
Speaker 6: can find it. But jariflies dot com you'll have all
Speaker 6: the links. Excellent to find us on the socials sign
Speaker 6: up for the email list so you can be notified.
Speaker 6: We have some shirts as well merch at the shows,
Speaker 6: which is kind of fun. And then so our next
Speaker 6: one is eight at Button Factory, but that's sold out already.
Speaker 4: Yes, if you don't already have a ticket, we'd love
Speaker 4: to see you, but please don't show up there and
Speaker 4: then be upset because we don't we we don't want
Speaker 4: to have you drive really far to find out you
Speaker 4: can't get in. So look at our next But our
Speaker 4: next gigs on March seventh, Olt Bridle Borrow and then
Speaker 4: four eighteen in Rochester.
Speaker 2: Those are bigger venues.
Speaker 6: Come back to Rochester at the East Side Tavern. It's
Speaker 6: a good size. Yeah, so that's not ticketed, okay, but
Speaker 6: we do ask everybody just say that you're interested on
Speaker 6: at least on the Facebook event page if possible, so
Speaker 6: that we can kind of gauge if we do get
Speaker 6: to a capacity limit. We've been asked by the venues
Speaker 6: just so they can have a kind of account. They
Speaker 6: do tickets, but they're not but we don't want people.
Speaker 6: If you're if you signed up, click interested and then
Speaker 6: you can say hey, at least they they're here. We
Speaker 6: can try to get you in but I think it's
Speaker 6: big enough. We'll probably if we if it gets packed there,
Speaker 6: they'll be crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, you guys are off to such a great start.
Speaker 1: That's that is wonderful. So very very happy for you.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here. Uh, you sound amazing. So this has
Speaker 1: been incredible. But yeah, so we'll end the Uh, we'll
Speaker 1: end the segment with one more song if if you
Speaker 1: guys want to play, you want to play one more?
Speaker 6: What is the bonus?
Speaker 9: One?
Speaker 2: Got me wrong?
Speaker 5: Come me wrong?
Speaker 2: Thanks for having us man?
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely absolutely, and we will thank you. We'll do
Speaker 5: it again in the future for sure. This is great.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And again if you are just joining us, Jarra Flies
Speaker 1: is here with us live in studio.
Speaker 9: H m m.
Speaker 12: Yeah goes. We all love this more.
Speaker 15: Nothing in my.
Speaker 5: Life, no.
Speaker 12: Call it lay in up but you well let see nothing.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 12: Bit you got me wroung.
Speaker 8: So should we run from something strong?
Speaker 12: I can't let go?
Speaker 8: Thread bad, tap free, unwinding stove.
Speaker 12: You don't you bring show?
Speaker 2: You all been?
Speaker 12: Let me want me to.
Speaker 5: No where pitch you get me round?
Speaker 15: So shall we read or something show?
Speaker 8: I've there lost so long? Row in a sat Tube
Speaker 8: babcom JOm.
Speaker 15: That don't last forever.
Speaker 12: So let's go to churn out RAI.
Speaker 8: You sugar teas, sweet nest, does nothing touch my face?
Speaker 12: Stay if you please. You may now be here when
Speaker 12: not leave?
Speaker 15: No, bet you got me wrong.
Speaker 8: So shall we read for something song? I haven't been artist,
Speaker 8: and so long row in a sense to bagn from
Speaker 8: love row, I haven't been baptist, and so long don't
Speaker 8: bad forever.
Speaker 12: So let's got to turn out right
Speaker 17: Okay,
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