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Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-14-26 hour 2
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Speaker 3: Happy Valentine's Day. It is Saturday, February four, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: Jenny is here, of course at the news table, resident
Speaker 3: accounted for and joining us in studio, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get these mics up, and we got we got a
Speaker 3: lot of mics here, but we've got the guys from
Speaker 3: Jarraflies here.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do a quick Okay, let's do this because
Speaker 3: we have to do kind of a live mic check
Speaker 3: on the air soundcheck I should say uh in this case.
Speaker 3: So let's start in the corner here and we'll go around.
Speaker 3: We'll have each of you tell me who you are,
Speaker 3: what you do in jarflies and uh, and that'll give
Speaker 3: me a chance to kind of do a soundcheck as
Speaker 3: we go, so we'll start with you, sir.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, good morning.
Speaker 5: My name is Steven and uh I played drums and jarflies.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: And you Chris A von Holwig, singer extraordinaire, here for
Speaker 6: your entertainment pleasure.
Speaker 2: I feel like you were an alter ego the last
Speaker 2: time you were here.
Speaker 7: Yes, I was the last time I was here.
Speaker 6: It was in another tribute, but we we will romote
Speaker 6: that one because we're promoting joy Flies today.
Speaker 2: Right right, all right, very good?
Speaker 3: And you I'm Eric, play guitar, okay, Eric, welcome? And
Speaker 3: of course you who you got to be in the
Speaker 3: five Timers club by now right? Why can't I can't
Speaker 3: hear you at all?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 3: Let's let me figure this out here. I cannot wait.
Speaker 3: I think I might know the problem. Let's try that again.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 8: It is Valentine's Day. Screw them?
Speaker 2: There you are there, you are, Hello, Chris. Hello, welcome.
Speaker 8: I am Chris, and I play guitar and jarriflies.
Speaker 2: Also known as H. Yes do you play guitar as
Speaker 2: H or Chris?
Speaker 8: And it's always H just for the general public.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of Chris is introduce.
Speaker 4: Chris and I play bass.
Speaker 2: Well say that again, Chris. I'm the third Chris. You're
Speaker 2: the third Chris Smith because their creative.
Speaker 9: Told me, and actually Sergeant Baker, Yes, Sergeant Baker, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna turn this up and I'm gonna turn this down.
Speaker 3: And let's see, all right, I need the I need
Speaker 3: h and Smith to talk a little bit.
Speaker 8: Hello.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we are.
Speaker 7: Today.
Speaker 8: Chris.
Speaker 10: I'm doing well. How are you today?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: I thank you as hear you both. I can hear
Speaker 3: you both. Okay, I think I think that'll work. So
Speaker 3: Jara Flies obviously an Allison Chain's tribute. I think anyone
Speaker 3: would uh would would guess I assume I'm correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, it'd be funny if you came in and it
Speaker 2: turns out.
Speaker 8: A note, Actually mama's in the puppet.
Speaker 2: This other console. Yeah, Mom's in the pop has They
Speaker 2: had a song called jar Flies. Most people don't realize that.
Speaker 2: And this is how new? Is this? Is this? Have
Speaker 2: you guys been doing this for a while or is
Speaker 2: this brand new?
Speaker 9: It's pretty new? Okay, kind of kind of spawned late
Speaker 9: last year. Oh so we were doing kind of another band,
Speaker 9: original band with the four of us, and then I
Speaker 9: ended up breaking my foot and so I was playing
Speaker 9: less drums and I played all these Ouse and Chain
Speaker 9: songs forever.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I just threw it out to the guys.
Speaker 9: I'm like, you guys into the playing like doing a
Speaker 9: Chain's acoustic project, and uh, They're immediately were on board.
Speaker 9: I'm like, well, we need to get another guitar player.
Speaker 9: So just put it out there in the ether and
Speaker 9: Eric showed up and it was a home run from
Speaker 9: the beginning, and we love him, not a lot of love.
Speaker 2: What was that? Was that an idea that you always
Speaker 2: kind of had that you wanted to do, or.
Speaker 9: For me personally, because I was I had. It's funny
Speaker 9: because we have the songbook in the studio, but I
Speaker 9: had picked that up when I was in high school, Yeah,
Speaker 9: just for fun and learned all those songs three hundred
Speaker 9: years ago.
Speaker 8: So it was kind of nice that everybody was on board.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, to kind of bring it out there.
Speaker 9: And then with all the tribute thing going on, it's
Speaker 9: it was it was kind of like, you know, we
Speaker 9: play with you know, with Edgeways and you know, anything
Speaker 9: that's fully plugged in as we get older, I was
Speaker 9: kind of noticing, like, this sounds great, right, because it's
Speaker 9: hard to get good sound for original bands or even
Speaker 9: tribute acts that are subjective to the venue. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: their sound guy, and they don't you know, it's it's hard.
Speaker 2: It's oh yeah.
Speaker 9: You get people in their forties and fifties who want
Speaker 9: to go out and enjoy the night. They don't want
Speaker 9: to hear screaming guitars for three hours, or maybe they do,
Speaker 9: but it gets it gets taxing, right right. So this
Speaker 9: is kind of a play on while we can do
Speaker 9: it in more intimate venues. Yeah, and so we we
Speaker 9: did an open mic night. I'd never played guitar on
Speaker 9: live before really, so that was kind of the challenge
Speaker 9: of it as well.
Speaker 2: What was that? Was that scary or were you.
Speaker 9: Nervous because hide because I have I bought a big
Speaker 9: drums and I get to hide behind him.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, and then I can say, oh, you guys
Speaker 8: out there right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And I was just tired looking at his all these years.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 3: So So now, well, how many how many songs have
Speaker 3: you guys learned to do in this in this format
Speaker 3: so far?
Speaker 2: Like, how many so.
Speaker 9: The idea was to do the whole MTV and plugged album. Okay,
Speaker 9: so we do it as they performed it. Oh wow,
Speaker 9: and then we do attack on some bonus tracks.
Speaker 2: Oh very cool?
Speaker 4: Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2: Have these songs been challenging to learn or some of
Speaker 2: them for me?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, we're still working. I mean there's a lot
Speaker 9: of vocal parts that you know, and chans. It's just
Speaker 9: tough to you can't replicate it, you know, just so
Speaker 9: we try to do the best you can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dense with nuance, so it's like you can learn
Speaker 5: the song, but then nailing the nuances is what takes time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And vocally too, So how do you handle you know,
Speaker 3: because Lane Staley and Tererry can treal singing together, which
Speaker 3: is vocally kind of the secret weapon right of the band.
Speaker 3: So I mean, how do you guys handle that.
Speaker 6: Eric has a good high falsetto. I can do both,
Speaker 6: but the warmth and tone in you know, basically in
Speaker 6: both of their voices, Jerry and Lane. But I do
Speaker 6: a lot of the you know, the the warmer, bassier tones,
Speaker 6: and then he supports me and the you know, the
Speaker 6: the high, higher falsetto backups and then h will come
Speaker 6: in on some of the stuff that you know acquires
Speaker 6: you know, a third voice. Okay, so yeah, so we
Speaker 6: make the arrangements work with what you know, what our
Speaker 6: what our strengths are.
Speaker 11: Yeah, try not to do too much with it because they.
Speaker 2: Do right right absolutely y.
Speaker 4: That's why Eric was the Unicorn.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, man, play the guitar well and singing
Speaker 5: and material already. Yeah yeah, heap your teeth.
Speaker 3: Wow, Eric, you got it all man, fantastic, You're like
Speaker 3: an angel.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm dying to hear something. You guys, you guys
Speaker 2: want to play?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we could do that show all right, very good if.
Speaker 2: You're just joining us. We got our flies here in
Speaker 2: studio with us.
Speaker 8: H you guys say when.
Speaker 12: H m hm hm hm hmmm.
Speaker 9: Sorry not today, not today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike's picking it up.
Speaker 8: It's right.
Speaker 13: M h.
Speaker 12: M hm.
Speaker 14: M chasmss with the least we it's a matatiz.
Speaker 15: In yet at bad and yet at bat this badle long.
Speaker 16: No one want to grab dude, no basical man give
Speaker 16: themselves three, man give themselves three, and yet I found.
Speaker 17: Yet I found.
Speaker 18: Repeatingly my.
Speaker 17: Ven jimp mal.
Speaker 7: I feel better jer.
Speaker 2: H m hmm. That was great. Guys, thank you, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, that was so good.
Speaker 8: Nice happy tune for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, There you go.
Speaker 3: Eric, I'm wondering if when you're for the next one,
Speaker 3: if we can get that mic in front of the guitar.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure we're picking up a
Speaker 3: little bit better if you get I mean, you can
Speaker 3: pull the extender there, you can just yeah, I know
Speaker 3: it's a it's a little bit awkward, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: just want to make sure we're getting you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you guys, get there you go. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know it's awkward. That was the one advantage of the
Speaker 2: old studio. We had more room. But no, you guys
Speaker 2: sound great if you're just joining us.
Speaker 3: We've got jar Flies here with us in studio and
Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2: How many how many shows have you guys been been
Speaker 2: doing so far? You've been playing a lot.
Speaker 9: We had one at the beginning of January and we
Speaker 9: have a few more lined up.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we have.
Speaker 9: February twenty eighth coming up at the Button Factory in Portsmouth.
Speaker 9: But that did sell out.
Speaker 4: Oh, really excellent.
Speaker 8: The first show we did in Milford at Riley's Place.
Speaker 9: We got over five hundred people interested on our Facebook
Speaker 9: Oh my god event page.
Speaker 8: Wow, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 9: And then we ended up going to capacity there for
Speaker 9: our first show, so it was so it was kind
Speaker 9: of like a little bit unexpected. And then we did
Speaker 9: the Portsmouth show Brochie Stephen Erica for kind of from
Speaker 9: that the coast area something like us, we should try
Speaker 9: to get out there, so just trying to find these
Speaker 9: smaller places.
Speaker 8: And then that sold out in a few days. And
Speaker 8: then we have.
Speaker 9: The Marrigold in Brattleboro, Vermont March seventh, and then we
Speaker 9: have Pembroke City Limits the eighth on the schedule so.
Speaker 2: Far, Oh fantastic, which is trying to forget about.
Speaker 7: That's in the Rochester.
Speaker 2: So you guys are off to a very strong start.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so it's it's it's done pretty well with the response.
Speaker 9: Ah yeah, really well, so it's kind of nice. Yeah,
Speaker 9: that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, I'm dying to hear another one.
Speaker 9: You guys want to play another one? Yeah, jar Flies
Speaker 9: is here with us in the studio. If you're just
Speaker 9: showing us sounded amazing, no excuses.
Speaker 3: That's a volume on that.
Speaker 2: Sounds good, sounds good in the headphones.
Speaker 4: It's all right.
Speaker 18: There, Consita.
Speaker 13: Can no.
Speaker 15: Search for me so nice, lame, wanna take hisl no
Speaker 15: more in no disgarsin to sad. Very days something hits me.
Speaker 7: Have so good.
Speaker 19: You found me seeing him found myself. Don't excuse is that.
Speaker 13: I know.
Speaker 12: It's okay.
Speaker 19: He abdy his up brood, breaking rock, soltry.
Speaker 4: Drained and blue.
Speaker 19: I believe for you.
Speaker 18: You think it's fine.
Speaker 15: Well you're traveling in it too. Every day something hits me.
Speaker 19: I'm so cool you can't me see it found myself.
Speaker 19: Don't choose his.
Speaker 13: D I know.
Speaker 17: Yes, we walk down the line, leave our ray to.
Speaker 19: Go grey, to warm some shade you my friend, I
Speaker 19: will need a bread.
Speaker 13: It we.
Speaker 18: Well love you whenyway.
Speaker 19: Revery day something miss me.
Speaker 12: I'm so.
Speaker 19: You find me, see it found myself. Don't use I.
Speaker 2: Love m fantastic guys. Wow, thank you. If you're just
Speaker 2: joining us, we have jar flies here with us live
Speaker 2: in studio.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that sounded really really good. Like in terms
Speaker 3: of long term do you do you plan to learn other?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know you talked about doing the you know,
Speaker 3: the entire unplugged album, and that's kind of the the
Speaker 3: main thing. And then you but I mean, do you
Speaker 3: plan on tackling like maybe other entire Alison Chain's albums
Speaker 3: in the future or.
Speaker 7: Now we're just adding songs we did.
Speaker 6: We did also do Stay, which is personal favorite. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: it ain't like that, don't follow, but we also did
Speaker 6: and we did an acoustic version. Was still the big
Speaker 6: vocal a man in the Box to close the show Riley,
Speaker 6: So that that and that, you know, because that's a
Speaker 6: big song and obviously they're most probably the most one
Speaker 6: of their most notable hits.
Speaker 7: You still need that you know energy.
Speaker 6: But yeah, because we had a capacity crowd, they joined
Speaker 6: in for everything, so we really got that you know residence,
Speaker 6: even without the electrified guitars, so you know, we're still
Speaker 6: using the full drums, so we still have that impact
Speaker 6: of the drums, which this is a very drum and
Speaker 6: bass driven type of music.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a little extra acoustic this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, now this is cool.
Speaker 7: Drummer always get screwed in the.
Speaker 5: Even the guitars aren't amplified, you know, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: amplified acoustic sounds beautiful.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 9: In terms of full albums, we wouldn't do it a
Speaker 9: full album. I guess technically we could do SAT, we
Speaker 9: could do set. They had the four song EP SAP
Speaker 9: right right, but there's but Chris Cornell guess vocals on there.
Speaker 9: There's some crazy vocals on that album. But yeah, but
Speaker 9: those would be some deeper cuts for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but we've talked about even some of the newer
Speaker 9: Allison Chain's albums without Lane. There's some good songs on
Speaker 9: those albums. Yeah, so maybe if we get down the
Speaker 9: road and then you know the side projects like mad Season.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, we could do stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I really like that album, mad Season album.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great album.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, there's amount of hits that they had
Speaker 5: that didn't on the unplugged album.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are those are all targets if they translate
Speaker 4: well right right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Was there anything that was particularly challenging, I mean, any
Speaker 3: anything that you guys kind of had.
Speaker 2: To really work art out to get it right? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Those a few songs over now is a unique tuning,
Speaker 9: so we you know, we have separate guitars for that one.
Speaker 7: Frogs Frogs Cross is a.
Speaker 6: Super impressive song, but there's a lot of very cool
Speaker 6: bass parts that are triggers for me in terms of
Speaker 6: the vocal Okay and Lane, whether it's the recording or
Speaker 6: unplugged his especially the whole end of the song. It
Speaker 6: it feels when you listen to it that it's very
Speaker 6: much just riffing and it's out of time, but you
Speaker 6: have to you know, you have to count it. But
Speaker 6: in Lane fashion, he sings when he wants to sing,
Speaker 6: when you just kind of follow what he's doing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And to that, a lot of it is just
Speaker 9: which is part of four We kind of tried to
Speaker 9: do the more intimate gigs. It's it's very viby, so
Speaker 9: it's not there's nothing to a grid, there's it's not specific,
Speaker 9: it's how we're feeling. Try to find that pocket so
Speaker 9: people can really feel and and us just feel it
Speaker 9: the music more than just hey, we're just playing a
Speaker 9: song and we can pull in anybody to play this.
Speaker 9: It's not going to be like that as much because
Speaker 9: it's it really takes the band to kind of work.
Speaker 8: Together to sell these songs.
Speaker 9: I think, oh yeah, versus you know, if you're just
Speaker 9: playing a bar band, cover band and you play Mustang Sally.
Speaker 9: You can find three thousand people to play it and
Speaker 9: they can kill it and that's fine. Yeah, you know
Speaker 9: some of this stuff is I think it's not super unique,
Speaker 9: but it's it's kind of nicer to have that that feel.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's like you play it too fast
Speaker 11: and it kind of takes the mood away. You've really
Speaker 11: got to find that pocket in order for it to
Speaker 11: come through.
Speaker 4: Right right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Uh, you guys want to play another one? Sure
Speaker 3: if you're discerning us. We've had jar flies here with
Speaker 3: us in studio sounding really good?
Speaker 2: Really good?
Speaker 8: Are we doing on tuning?
Speaker 7: Done in a hole?
Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, I don't want to hear that good?
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Speaker 15: a hold, letting control.
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Speaker 19: be to know more on my femials.
Speaker 12: Down in a.
Speaker 19: Using myself telling Abo.
Speaker 18: N control.
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Speaker 10: No remaining stopping.
Speaker 19: Said of this batophy Bo, you.
Speaker 15: Say rings down and hear as said.
Speaker 19: Now said, go.
Speaker 15: To be sad down in a hole, losing my soul
Speaker 15: down in a ball, feelings.
Speaker 19: So small.
Speaker 15: Down in a ball, losing my soul down a hole,
Speaker 15: down in control.
Speaker 12: That to f.
Speaker 19: The mollys of pencils.
Speaker 3: Amazing jar flies here with us in studio and uh yeah,
Speaker 3: you guys, sound sounds so good, so good?
Speaker 2: Is there what what goes over the best?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 3: Is there something that stands out when you guys play
Speaker 3: live that the crowd reacts to the most. Would you say,
Speaker 3: is there any one thing that really.
Speaker 4: I feel? I feel like?
Speaker 6: We we got exactly what we expected, which was this
Speaker 6: was already inside of us from our youth. So when
Speaker 6: we brought the project together, we even surprised ourselves playing
Speaker 6: it through the first time. Pretty much nine ten of
Speaker 6: us songs came to us easy. So the fans, the
Speaker 6: people came that love it. I think the thing that
Speaker 6: I got from it was right, Lane's gone, so there's
Speaker 6: no availability for anybody who either was alive during that
Speaker 6: time and lived it when it was you know, fresh
Speaker 6: and new, or is now experiencing it after So the
Speaker 6: looks on the people's faces and them singing the songs
Speaker 6: along with me, everything seemed to be their favorite.
Speaker 7: Yeah, everything was a hit.
Speaker 6: Of course, you know, Man in the Box, Down in
Speaker 6: a Hole that we just did are very big, you know,
Speaker 6: notable songs. But I would say the crowd that we
Speaker 6: have there, they may have even known the music better
Speaker 6: than we did. Yeah, so I could have handed the
Speaker 6: mic off several times people were doing it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well say that, Chris.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The reaction from the people, I think I underestimated I
Speaker 3: guess how popular they were because I wasn't expecting people
Speaker 3: like they were singing along and like to some of
Speaker 3: the songs.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect it to It was like, okay, kind
Speaker 4: of need to see you know. Yeah, I second that.
Speaker 5: I think that is the biggest thing that blew me
Speaker 5: away was that I, you know, like most of us
Speaker 5: like the suggestion to learn these songs, was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: of course, like it's always fun, yeah to pick up
Speaker 5: a new challenge and play a thing.
Speaker 4: But I had no idea that it would get the
Speaker 4: response that it did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like we didn't bring more than like something like
Speaker 5: less than ten percent of the people there, family and
Speaker 5: friends of ours.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like just like organic people just yeah, like.
Speaker 5: Brought that place to capacity just because they love Alice
Speaker 5: and Chains. Yeah, we're seeing that at the other gigs
Speaker 5: that we posted too, So I think that's the biggest surprise.
Speaker 4: That's great. Yeah, it's a great response.
Speaker 6: The return after the show when it was over, that
Speaker 6: you know people told me was that the music uh,
Speaker 6: at some point in their lives did something to help them,
Speaker 6: you know, as some of the content can be downtrodden
Speaker 6: and depressing as it is, it's a reflection of human emotions.
Speaker 6: So I think the return from people was I would
Speaker 6: will never have and didn't have the opportunity to see
Speaker 6: this and for real, but you doing this gives.
Speaker 7: Me the opportunity to experience it the.
Speaker 6: Way you know, maybe you know, whatever my parents or
Speaker 6: I may have if I was a little older or
Speaker 6: something during whatever time of their life and age groups,
Speaker 6: so yeah, I don't remember her name, but we did
Speaker 6: find out that one of the employees there at Riley's
Speaker 6: was actually there at the Unplugged in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 8: She worked with a hipparador magazine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, no, kidding, wild, that's wild, amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so she she saw the real thing and she
Speaker 6: was very instrumental, because that's the part we left out
Speaker 6: is we just went to Riley's to do an open
Speaker 6: mic maybe a month and a half before yet, and
Speaker 6: it got such a good response. Uh, they asked us
Speaker 6: to come back, and I think she she was instrumental
Speaker 6: in doing it. They said, you need to get these
Speaker 6: guys in. I've seen the real thing and they do it.
Speaker 6: They do good jobs.
Speaker 2: Oh that's yeah, that's an incredible validation.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because conveniently they Fradley's was booked for a long time,
Speaker 9: then a date opened up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I'm also curious, and you know, for any any of
Speaker 3: you who want to address this, like, what what is
Speaker 3: it about Alison Chains that that made or makes because
Speaker 3: they still exist obviously, but that makes that band so
Speaker 3: special because off the top of my head, Like, there's
Speaker 3: nobody who sounds like Alice in Chains, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, There's nobody who quite sounds like them. So
Speaker 3: they're unique in a you know, in a universe where
Speaker 3: you know, everybody you know sounds like somebody else to
Speaker 3: some extent. But Alison Chains really kind of I mean,
Speaker 3: I I and again I referenced it earlier. I think
Speaker 3: a lot of it has to do with, you know, again,
Speaker 3: Laye and Jerry and their and their vocals together. I
Speaker 3: think that's to me, that was kind of always a
Speaker 3: secret sauce. But but but there's other elements about them
Speaker 3: that are, you know, interesting. But I mean, what do
Speaker 3: you guys think? Because you're you're in a good position
Speaker 3: to speak on this since you're, you know, covering their songs.
Speaker 3: Obviously you're all passionate about Alison Chains, and you're and
Speaker 3: you're exploring how to play them, right, you've learned how
Speaker 3: to play these songs. So, like I just and anybody
Speaker 3: wants to share their perspective, what is it about Alison
Speaker 3: Chains that makes them so incredible?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take a shot at that.
Speaker 11: I for me, it's uh, when I when actually when
Speaker 11: I saw you guys looking for somebody to play. I
Speaker 11: saw that immediately and I responded because this is, you know,
Speaker 11: the Dirt album came out, I think just as I was.
Speaker 11: I think I might have been in the Marines at
Speaker 11: the time, but when I was overseas dy we beat them,
Speaker 11: We beat the brakes off that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at the time to the tape yet get yeah,
Speaker 4: but uh, but I think it goes back.
Speaker 11: There was a lot of change in me music at
Speaker 11: that time when their first album came out.
Speaker 20: I mean, because I'm still an eighties guy.
Speaker 11: I love eighties music, but I was, you know, still
Speaker 11: in high school when it started to switch over and
Speaker 11: to Vana, sound Garden, you know, pro Jam, all these
Speaker 11: bands came out, and I think it was just a change,
Speaker 11: and I think there was a lot that people kind
Speaker 11: of reflect on that change out now that they're older
Speaker 11: and they look back on that and they have, you know,
Speaker 11: caon memories of what this music means to them.
Speaker 20: So I think that's kind of the response.
Speaker 2: As well, right right, yeah, anybody else, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, I think I think obviously
Speaker 6: all all of them are talented, extremely talented musicians. Jerry
Speaker 6: Cantrell great, you know, composer of an orchestrator of that
Speaker 6: music helped too. That their voices were very close, so
Speaker 6: not only in terms of inflection and tonally, so that
Speaker 6: that works is you know, sometimes you couldn't tell, you
Speaker 6: know the difference when Jerry was singing, but Lane had
Speaker 6: a very haunting vocal. But I think the the length
Speaker 6: of them being together and managing to get to that level,
Speaker 6: because I'm sure if you've ever deep dive, you know
Speaker 6: Alice in chains, you know where they started and where
Speaker 6: they ended up very different, so that you know that
Speaker 6: graduation to that.
Speaker 7: But human emotion, as sad as it is that.
Speaker 6: Lane died and the struggle, I think, I think the
Speaker 6: audience uh, in just being human really uh, you know,
Speaker 6: honed in on the fact that you know this this
Speaker 6: guy is he really feels this.
Speaker 21: You know.
Speaker 6: Of course, now looking back, I think, you know, possibly
Speaker 6: at this time, maybe he would have gotten more help
Speaker 6: than he did and we would have been able to
Speaker 6: enjoy him for much longer.
Speaker 7: But you know, some stars burned the brightest.
Speaker 11: I think that everybody relates to that too, right, I Mean,
Speaker 11: everybody's been down in a hole at some point in
Speaker 11: their life, so I think their lyrics and the way
Speaker 11: they come across.
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody can relate to some way.
Speaker 11: It's almost all of their songs, So I think that's
Speaker 11: another piece that really draws people to their music.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say to what I think the
Speaker 5: two big they've been touched on the two biggest things
Speaker 5: are that you can't understand the the magnificence of the
Speaker 5: harmonies that those two singers created together.
Speaker 7: It's really unique.
Speaker 4: I don't. You don't see it a lot in music.
Speaker 4: You really didn't see it in that genre specifically.
Speaker 5: Exactly like bon Jovi was doing it, but like you know,
Speaker 5: that's like happy pop, you know, right, right, uh, But
Speaker 5: they brought it to that genre in a way that
Speaker 5: really did justice to the authenticity of the There was
Speaker 5: just such an authenticity to that. You didn't feel like
Speaker 5: they were trying to commercialize pain something. They they were
Speaker 5: really authentic, And I think that's what resonates with people.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think for me it's I've never been
Speaker 9: a huge lyric guy, so the authenticity in the Lane,
Speaker 9: to what Chris said, is one undercent on. For me,
Speaker 9: it's the sonics of it all and a lot of
Speaker 9: how people recorded during that During that time, we got
Speaker 9: a lot of great music. You know that Rage album,
Speaker 9: all those those early nineties albums, they have their own sound. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and Jerry was you know that just the feelings of
Speaker 9: that music message aside, just grabs me. You know, that's
Speaker 9: the snare sounds or the guitar sounds. What effects are
Speaker 9: going on there? How are they getting all these layers
Speaker 9: right so that people don't really realize that, but it
Speaker 9: affects them. It's like there's something that sounds really cooler.
Speaker 9: I don't know what it is, but it's right. It
Speaker 9: pulls you in, right, So it's I think it's all that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: They were both package that pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, there's.
Speaker 7: A good old raw rock and roll too. I mean
Speaker 7: they were.
Speaker 6: They were great musicians, but you watch not a butt
Speaker 6: more of a you know, it wasn't so overly polished.
Speaker 6: They adapted, you know, you can you can see during
Speaker 6: that that you know, it had been a long time
Speaker 6: since they had played you know, those songs and played
Speaker 6: with Lane. I'm sure there was some rehearsals, but they
Speaker 6: even there's even a comment by Lane, you know, this
Speaker 6: is the best show we've had in three years and
Speaker 6: somebody shouts out, yeah, it's the only show because he disappeared.
Speaker 6: I mean, we talk about all the time. Their their window,
Speaker 6: like a lot of other great bands was very short. Yeah,
Speaker 6: at the time, from when they hit to when it
Speaker 6: was over and we lost Lane was a very short time.
Speaker 6: But to watch them play that and be those musicians.
Speaker 6: But you know, with all the nuances and the warts
Speaker 6: and everything that goes with it, we're really dissecting it,
Speaker 6: Like now we're in the ten percent of like, you know,
Speaker 6: that's that's not the recording, but what they did here
Speaker 6: actually ended up cool. Yeah, because they adapt to uh
Speaker 6: to it. And I like the the you know, I
Speaker 6: want them to be good musicians, but I like the unpolished.
Speaker 7: Raw rock and roll.
Speaker 6: I feel a lot of stuff today is just so
Speaker 6: perfectly orchestrated, and whether they're playing with backing tracks or
Speaker 6: you know, they've got the most professional you know, equipment
Speaker 6: and yeah, recording software stuff that they do live. I
Speaker 6: just like the good old you know, it's raw rock
Speaker 6: and roll, and yeah, if we mess it up, we're
Speaker 6: not gonna We're just gonna keep going through it.
Speaker 2: It's not supposed to be perfect.
Speaker 7: Yes, I know a lot of people are critical.
Speaker 6: They want it to be like album quality, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: but this is real and certainly we're not Alice in Chains,
Speaker 6: so we're adapting to what you know, parts we can
Speaker 6: we can do.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, we've got a little bit of that.
Speaker 9: But we talk about all the time as just being artists,
Speaker 9: you're going to get some critiques. So it's you're not
Speaker 9: doing laying any justice and like we're not. We're not
Speaker 9: trying to replicate Lane right right, We're playing the songs
Speaker 9: and just just a channel in this area for people
Speaker 9: to hear it.
Speaker 7: It's a tribute. Yeah, it's merely a tribute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's that.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's just it's just just sharing the music,
Speaker 9: just enjoying the music and playing with other people. You
Speaker 9: can call it tribute, I guess, but it's really just
Speaker 9: here songs that we like. We hope you like them too,
Speaker 9: and we're just trying to Yeah, we'll try to convey
Speaker 9: that that message because Jerry and you are here together.
Speaker 9: If Jerry wants to come in, great.
Speaker 4: And we love.
Speaker 7: We love to we love to be loud and play metal.
Speaker 7: We're all metal guys.
Speaker 6: Uh, And with deep roots and you know thrash metal
Speaker 6: and hard rock stuff from the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 6: But I have to say that yes, this not only
Speaker 6: for the reaction that we got, but for us it
Speaker 6: is it is a change from the norm.
Speaker 7: It is not easy.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying it's easy, but vocally like, it's much
Speaker 6: different than everything else that I do with either other
Speaker 6: trip it's original bands or covers, so it's uh. And
Speaker 6: to put it together collectively in package it that way,
Speaker 6: I think that's you know, if we did a song
Speaker 6: or two in like a cover set, we just you know,
Speaker 6: be another cover band and noise of all cover bands.
Speaker 6: So it just has more of a thing. And there
Speaker 6: are other great Alison chains.
Speaker 22: Somebody somebody rang the door bell, murder them somebody, somebody's
Speaker 22: somebody wants a bus ticket, it's pizza, but Jenny's on
Speaker 22: the case.
Speaker 6: Yeah, It's just it's enjoyable to do and package it
Speaker 6: that way and have people be like, yeah, I can
Speaker 6: each mentioned it earlier. I can go there, maybe get
Speaker 6: some food, have a drink, and I can still talk
Speaker 6: to people and here because the decibels of this are
Speaker 6: are far less. Yeah, you know, even even with you know,
Speaker 6: electrified acoustic and amplification. It just has less impact than
Speaker 6: going to see you know, your your favorite you know,
Speaker 6: very loud rock band and you know you're you're with
Speaker 6: you're just screaming at each other your horse at the
Speaker 6: end of the night.
Speaker 9: So and the idea of it is just to create
Speaker 9: a little bit more of an experience. But you know,
Speaker 9: we have like the candles and the just bring the
Speaker 9: mood down a little bit so people can kind of
Speaker 9: dive into it. So you know, we're not just a
Speaker 9: band in the corner, you know, it's people just can
Speaker 9: dive into it. Like I said, just I like the
Speaker 9: song and you can hear people kind of talking I
Speaker 9: love this and they start singing. So that kind of
Speaker 9: interaction is new for me because, like Chris is saying,
Speaker 9: you know, if you're playing with amps, you don't hear anybody, right, right,
Speaker 9: That's true. Yeah, Like you're like, well you really like that,
Speaker 9: you try harder, and it's like I do like it too, Yeah,
Speaker 9: and then you have that connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty close.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it sounds like because there's people, I mean when
Speaker 9: we're at Riley's, I mean there was a couple, there's
Speaker 9: a whole group, you know, this.
Speaker 8: Far away and like that's that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and in a sense because like can you can
Speaker 9: see people kind of either get water eyed or whatever.
Speaker 8: They're like, this is my song and like, yeah, you
Speaker 8: know it's good.
Speaker 2: So it's cool, Like it's not.
Speaker 9: My song, we're just you know, channeling it, But it's
Speaker 9: cool that they're getting that emotion from it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm also surprised aunt I forgot to mention this the
Speaker 5: amount of women that were at that show and kids.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of like younger kids, like teenage kids,
Speaker 5: Like my niece is like fourteen and she uh, she's
Speaker 5: in Dallas and Chain.
Speaker 4: So like, yeah, to the extent that we can bring.
Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.
Speaker 5: I mean to the extent that any like younger kid
Speaker 5: enjoys this music. Yeah, And if there's anyone in this
Speaker 5: area that likes this kind of music and they're younger
Speaker 5: and they can hopefully we can do they can come
Speaker 5: to a show and we can kind of do justice
Speaker 5: to like the vibe that they missed out on not
Speaker 5: being alive.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we see that a lot and people reached out.
Speaker 9: Is this eighteen plus or a twenty one plus can
Speaker 9: you know, they want to make sure because like my
Speaker 9: daughter or my whatever child, it's hugely into it. So
Speaker 9: it's kind of like it's kind of interesting. It's like,
Speaker 9: you know, people our age, I guess their kids are
Speaker 9: more into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we spawned, we all spawned kids that would listen
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 9: But yeah, but it's kind of the same idea because
Speaker 9: I think it's for me. I kind of skipped the
Speaker 9: eighties and my I had older brothers who listened to
Speaker 9: a lot of seventies stuff, But the nineties stuff was
Speaker 9: a product of a lot of seventies music, you know,
Speaker 9: your Sabbaths and Zeppelin and yeah, all the all the
Speaker 9: kind of the harder rock stuff where the eighties was
Speaker 9: polished and they.
Speaker 8: Had that eighties machine to it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean you had your metal, but you didn't
Speaker 9: have like the rock like the nineties grunge stuff was
Speaker 9: a descending of the you know, late sixties and seventies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and probably to kind of a reaction to
Speaker 3: to the eightieschene you know, right, Oh for sure, Yeah,
Speaker 3: kind of a kind of a pushback on that and
Speaker 3: a and a welcome one.
Speaker 2: And in a lot of ways, I would say Chris,
Speaker 2: you've been quiet. Did you have anything you want to do?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 23: No, I'm just a bass player.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 7: It's a bass player.
Speaker 3: Hey man, I'm a bass player too, So you know,
Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta look out for each other. That's
Speaker 3: why I want to make sure if you had anything
Speaker 3: he got in there.
Speaker 12: I will.
Speaker 9: I'll say that the base is amazing on a lot
Speaker 9: of the OUs chain stuff, and yeah, he's nailing it
Speaker 9: with Oh I noticed on the not only the tones,
Speaker 9: but just just the parts in general, because it's such
Speaker 9: a huge part of it.
Speaker 4: Mike is an amazing bass player.
Speaker 24: That's one of the reasons I've always loved them anyways,
Speaker 24: is he's just oh yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, absolutely, one hundred percent. He's one of my favorites.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: So in a moment, if you guys want to do
Speaker 3: one more, we can. We can end the segment with
Speaker 3: one more. We definitely have time. But I also want
Speaker 3: to make sure that uh two things. One that people
Speaker 3: know where to find you guys online, and also what
Speaker 3: you've got coming up if you want to remind people too,
Speaker 3: because you got to you got a bunch of shows
Speaker 3: coming up.
Speaker 9: We do, so it's online jarflies dot com, which is
Speaker 9: amazing that we were able to get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually surprised. That's really Oh, that's great.
Speaker 8: It's great. So that's that's the home spot.
Speaker 9: You can find all the gigs there and I'll see
Speaker 9: on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube at jariflies or
Speaker 9: jariflies inn h so you people can find it. But
Speaker 9: jariflies dot com I'll have all the links excellent to
Speaker 9: find us on the social sign up for the email
Speaker 9: lists so you can be notified.
Speaker 8: We have some shirts as well merch at the shows,
Speaker 8: which is kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And then so our next one is at Button Factory,
Speaker 8: but that's sold out already.
Speaker 6: Yes, if you don't already have a ticket, we'd love
Speaker 6: to see you, but please don't show up there and
Speaker 6: then be upset because we don't we we don't want
Speaker 6: to have you drive really far to find out you
Speaker 6: can't get in. So look at our next but our
Speaker 6: next gigs on March seventh, Olt Bridle Borrow and then
Speaker 6: four eighteen in Rochester.
Speaker 7: Those are bigger venues.
Speaker 9: Come back to Rochester at the East Side Tavern. It's
Speaker 9: a good size. Yeah, so's that's not ticketed. Okay, but
Speaker 9: we do ask everybody just say that you're interested on
Speaker 9: at least on the Facebook event page if possible, so
Speaker 9: that we can kind of gauge if we do get
Speaker 9: to a capacity limit. We've been asked by the venues
Speaker 9: just so they can have a kind of account. They
Speaker 9: do tickets, but they're not yea, but.
Speaker 8: We don't want people.
Speaker 9: If you're if you signed up, click interest interested and
Speaker 9: then you can say, hey, at least they they're here.
Speaker 9: We can try to get you in, but I think
Speaker 9: it's big enough. We'll probably if we if it gets
Speaker 9: packed there they'll be crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, you guys are off to such a great start.
Speaker 3: That's that is wonderful, So very very happy for you.
Speaker 3: Glad you're here. Uh, you sound amazing. So this has
Speaker 3: been incredible. But yeah, so we'll end the We'll end
Speaker 3: the segment with one more song if if you guys
Speaker 3: want to play, you want to play.
Speaker 2: One more is the bonus one got me wrong, come
Speaker 2: me wrong? Thanks for having us man, absolutely absolutely and
Speaker 2: we will thank you. We'll do it again in the
Speaker 2: future for sure. This is great.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And again if you are just joining us, Jarra Flies
Speaker 3: is here with us live in studio.
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Speaker 19: M yeah, Joe, we.
Speaker 23: All love this more nothing in my life, no call
Speaker 23: it play and up did you?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 15: Let's see nothing even as I know bit you got
Speaker 15: me wroung.
Speaker 19: So shoy wrong from something strong.
Speaker 7: I can't let go.
Speaker 25: Thread their tap tree unwinding slow, you.
Speaker 19: Dorged dream.
Speaker 7: Show, all been left you want.
Speaker 12: Me to.
Speaker 19: As of nowhere pitch capping round. So shall we read
Speaker 19: something so.
Speaker 25: Dive there lost, so long row in a sad tube
Speaker 25: bag one.
Speaker 19: Dom lo.
Speaker 18: Their domlascae. Something's gonna turn out right.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 18: Sugar teas.
Speaker 15: Sweetness, does nothing touch my face?
Speaker 18: Stay if you please?
Speaker 4: You may now be here when not leave.
Speaker 19: Where I now?
Speaker 15: Bet you got me around? So shall we reach for
Speaker 15: something song? I haven't been actis and so long.
Speaker 19: Row in a sense tub.
Speaker 15: Budgon from low row, I haven't been racist and so
Speaker 15: long don't that forever?
Speaker 18: So Lee's gotta turn out right.
Speaker 26: The city is crashing, it's stats to cool the chado sliding.
Speaker 19: Sappers.
Speaker 13: She had those mony, baby mony.
Speaker 19: When you see that lights, No that I'm not done,
Speaker 19: claim that.
Speaker 4: She sees sister stone.
Speaker 19: When you see that lights, No that I'm not gone?
Speaker 19: The lean that you see is just the stone.
Speaker 13: M hmm.
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Speaker 19: is out.
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