Sick Dude Hell Yeah | Matt Connarton Unleashed

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2:13 Speaker 1: Time you could find.

2:18 Speaker 3: That's a otject in my way. So thats got them?

2:29 Speaker 1: So that's got them.

2:33 Speaker 4: Yes, that is WTF. We'll call it sick dude. Hell

3:07 Speaker 4: yeah is the band. We're going to talk to these

3:09 Speaker 4: guys in just a moment. Just go ahead and get

3:10 Speaker 4: those mics up here. Really looking forward to talking to

3:13 Speaker 4: these guys. Gentlemen. Welcome, hey, thanks for having us as

3:16 Speaker 4: absolutely please please introduce yourselves and tell tell us who

3:20 Speaker 4: you are what you do in the band.

3:22 Speaker 5: I'm Dylan McKenna.

3:24 Speaker 3: I do bass and vocals, all right, welcome, and I'm

3:28 Speaker 3: Somebody's Crackers and I play the drums the backup vocals.

3:33 Speaker 4: All right, very good. Somebody's Crackers? Am I saying that right?

3:37 Speaker 3: It's not an as it's an e r S.

3:39 Speaker 4: It's an e r S. Somebody's crackers. Okay, very good.

3:43 Speaker 4: You know these uh, these these names, I want. I

3:46 Speaker 4: try to make sure I pronounce everyone's name correctly. Jenny

3:49 Speaker 4: witnessed me, uh just almost panicking over while he ended

3:54 Speaker 4: up not joining us on the show. I guess we

3:56 Speaker 4: had booked earlier at Pha Zacherle or something, and it's like,

4:00 Speaker 4: I don't know how to say this name, so I

4:01 Speaker 4: probably would have butchered it anyway, telemarketer. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

4:05 Speaker 4: no kidding, no kidding. So welcome guys. First question, of course, uh,

4:11 Speaker 4: where does the name come from? Because that's obvious. You

4:14 Speaker 4: know it's sick dude. Hell yeah, it's not a not

4:16 Speaker 4: a a conventional name for a band, shall we say?

4:19 Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, No, it's actually it's kind of a funny

4:22 Speaker 5: story and it's actually it's it's it's pretty simple. We

4:26 Speaker 5: were jamming one day and we had like an idea

4:28 Speaker 5: we wanted to do some type of band together, and uh,

4:34 Speaker 5: I forgot about a cable. I had to split my

4:37 Speaker 5: bass into two signals. Yeah, cigued, let's let's give that

4:39 Speaker 5: a shot. We did that, and our first jam session

4:43 Speaker 5: like after it I was like, sick dude, and Nate

4:47 Speaker 5: hell yeah.

4:48 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just kind of it's been the mantra

4:51 Speaker 3: since day one. Is just like every time we finish

4:54 Speaker 3: like making some kind of new addition to a song

4:57 Speaker 3: or like come up with like the first sick rip

5:00 Speaker 3: for like whatever, it's just one of us will stay

5:03 Speaker 3: sick dude and the other one will say, hell yeah,

5:05 Speaker 3: it doesn't It hasn't been decided who's who yet.

5:08 Speaker 4: But you know, right, that's awesome, So it makes sense.

5:12 Speaker 4: It makes sense. The name is appropriate. Dillan, tell me

5:17 Speaker 4: about the splitting of the Uh oh, sorry, I don't

5:23 Speaker 4: have the video on me. I have it on you guys,

5:24 Speaker 4: so people can't see him fidgeting with my microphone. Tell

5:27 Speaker 4: me about the splitting of the signal. I'm curious about this.

5:30 Speaker 4: And when you mentioned that too, you guys probably know

5:32 Speaker 4: Able Blood, right or did you guys know the band

5:35 Speaker 4: Able Blood? I think so now because there's a lot

5:37 Speaker 4: of okay, because there's a lot of splitting of signals

5:40 Speaker 4: with with their whole setup. So I'm curious about this.

5:42 Speaker 4: So tell me about an. I'm a bass player, so

5:45 Speaker 4: selfishly i'm also very curious.

5:47 Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, so originally it started with just a split

5:54 Speaker 5: a quarter inch cable. Yeah, that come off my base

5:57 Speaker 5: and basically one signal just goes straight into my bass

6:00 Speaker 5: amp and they just cranked the gain on that, and

6:03 Speaker 5: then the other signal goes through a pitchfork and so

6:07 Speaker 5: I just have to pitch shifted up in octave and

6:10 Speaker 5: then into a fuzz pedal and into my guitar.

6:12 Speaker 4: Okay, so that gives you a really just a heavy yeah,

6:18 Speaker 4: like like there's it's it's great. I love the way

6:21 Speaker 4: it sounds.

6:21 Speaker 5: Yeah cool, yeah, no, thank you and yeah, So I

6:23 Speaker 5: mean I guess the goal was to try to just

6:25 Speaker 5: like mimic a guitar but have bass as well. Yeah,

6:31 Speaker 5: because where we we're from, it's, uh, it's pretty tough

6:33 Speaker 5: to find other musicians to jam with.

6:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, where are you guys from Wolfborough, New Hampshire, wolf Burrow.

6:41 Speaker 3: So there's plenty of musicians out there, it's just not

6:43 Speaker 3: ones who want to make like super you know, in

6:48 Speaker 3: your face kind of stuff like this testosterone fueled caveman jam.

6:53 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah. Able Blood does something kind of like

6:58 Speaker 4: what you described. I forget how they because they also

7:00 Speaker 4: have that a lot of bottom end and you know,

7:03 Speaker 4: it's it's really their setup is really interesting because there

7:06 Speaker 4: you know, it's three of them, but they sound they've

7:08 Speaker 4: got this huge sound. You should check them out. But

7:12 Speaker 4: who else is in the band? It's not just it's

7:14 Speaker 4: just it literally is just the two of you. Yeah,

7:17 Speaker 4: that's amazing. That's that's awesome. Okay, do you do you

7:23 Speaker 4: have plans to add members or or is this working

7:26 Speaker 4: so well with just the two of you? And and

7:29 Speaker 4: I mean it's not like it hasn't been done I suppose, right,

7:31 Speaker 4: but there's not but to be able to pull it

7:33 Speaker 4: off like like you do, it's pretty cool. Like I

7:35 Speaker 4: think of the White Stripes when I think of you.

7:37 Speaker 3: Know, most legendary duo of all time, yea for maybe

7:40 Speaker 3: Tenacious D. But yeah, yeah, now I think that like

7:44 Speaker 3: we're not necessarily closed off to it. It's just, uh,

7:48 Speaker 3: for one, it's a matter of ease.

7:50 Speaker 4: Yeah.

7:50 Speaker 3: For two, it's a matter of you know, having people

7:52 Speaker 3: like you ask us questions like that, and that feels

7:54 Speaker 3: really good to kind of stand out in a way,

7:57 Speaker 3: you know, But nothing's completely off the table. Like if

8:00 Speaker 3: if some other riff lord wanted to saddle up and

8:03 Speaker 3: could do something, uh that made us say either sick dude,

8:06 Speaker 3: hell yeah, or both then welcome aboard, frankly. But but

8:10 Speaker 3: we're not like, we're not like, uh, there's no like

8:13 Speaker 3: now hiring, sign up or anything. We're perfectly content to

8:16 Speaker 3: just move forward as a duo. There's a soft spot,

8:19 Speaker 3: excuse me, a soft spot in my heart for musical duos,

8:23 Speaker 3: like just yea and across the board.

8:26 Speaker 4: So and if it's working, it's working. Yeah, so far,

8:29 Speaker 4: why I mess with it?

8:30 Speaker 5: Yeah?

8:31 Speaker 4: How long is sick Dude hell yeah existed?

8:34 Speaker 5: Oh hm, I think maybe almost five months?

8:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, this really new.

8:40 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.

8:41 Speaker 3: We met in a different band and then, uh, I

8:46 Speaker 3: guess I'll just say creative differences kind of drove us apart,

8:49 Speaker 3: but then drove Dylan and I together, and okay, we

8:52 Speaker 3: just kind of picked up in the same practice space

8:55 Speaker 3: where they left off, and we're just like, let's just start, uh,

8:58 Speaker 3: let's just start riffing around. And we had two songs

9:00 Speaker 3: by the end of our first practice and we're just like,

9:03 Speaker 3: sick dude.

9:03 Speaker 4: You so you guys were in that other band together? Yeah, Oh,

9:08 Speaker 4: what do you want to say? What band?

9:09 Speaker 3: Redacted?

9:10 Speaker 4: Redacted? Okay, yeah, not somebody I know. Or are you

9:12 Speaker 4: saying you're redact reacted? Okay, will you tell me off air?

9:17 Speaker 5: Sure?

9:17 Speaker 4: I won't repeat it, I promise, Yeah, I don't. I don't.

9:20 Speaker 4: I don't repeat anything, right, Jenny, there you go.

9:25 Speaker 3: Do you have a little reverb on your mic over there?

9:27 Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on over there?

9:28 Speaker 2: All right?

9:30 Speaker 4: Sounded very strange. I'm sorry. Yeah, she's she's booking guests

9:35 Speaker 4: for the show.

9:36 Speaker 5: No.

9:37 Speaker 4: But uh so that's so you guys had already worked

9:39 Speaker 4: had you worked together for a long time in that band?

9:42 Speaker 5: About a year?

9:42 Speaker 3: About a year?

9:43 Speaker 2: Yeah?

9:44 Speaker 4: Yeah? So where do you record? Because obviously the sound is,

9:49 Speaker 4: you know, it's a really raw you know, uh, which

9:53 Speaker 4: I love personally. I like that, but it's it's it's

9:58 Speaker 4: got that sort of raw sort of vibe. But I think,

10:01 Speaker 4: but I think it's really cool, Like, how do you

10:03 Speaker 4: guys record? What's your process?

10:04 Speaker 5: So we actually our practice space is adjacent to a

10:09 Speaker 5: small studio that's a friend of mine, nice and so

10:12 Speaker 5: we just we recorded with him. Yeah, and the way

10:16 Speaker 5: we did it, I know, we used a few different

10:18 Speaker 5: amps and had some amps and different rooms, but we

10:23 Speaker 5: were definitely going for the overall like demo kind of

10:26 Speaker 5: rougher sound because we thought it would fit fit our

10:30 Speaker 5: vibe a lot better.

10:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah.

10:33 Speaker 3: We just we just did the instruments in one take

10:35 Speaker 3: and then vocals in another takea and just kind of

10:38 Speaker 3: like went into pro tools and just polished up everything

10:40 Speaker 3: so that it wouldn't be so that it had a

10:42 Speaker 3: little bit of polished But we didn't want to go

10:44 Speaker 3: in and like overproduce it either. We were more concerned

10:47 Speaker 3: with getting it out and just kind of having people

10:49 Speaker 3: listen to it. We can, we can polish something up

10:51 Speaker 3: later if we feel like it.

10:52 Speaker 5: But you know, it's yeah, and I think that my void.

10:56 Speaker 5: We didn't get in vocals and instruments all on one take.

11:01 Speaker 3: Oh wow.

11:02 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's cool. The the radio edit that we heard,

11:07 Speaker 4: like you did that yourself, the editing on that, the

11:11 Speaker 4: putting in. I'm curious.

11:13 Speaker 5: So I gave my buddy a call who initially recorded us,

11:16 Speaker 5: and I let him know what was going on. He's like,

11:18 Speaker 5: come on down, yeah, we'll put something together. And he's

11:23 Speaker 5: a goofy character as well, like me. I mean, we're

11:25 Speaker 5: just hanging out and initially we're just gonna do beeps.

11:28 Speaker 5: And I was I wish the thought just popped in

11:30 Speaker 5: my head, like why am I just gonna do bleeps?

11:32 Speaker 5: Why don't I have some fun with it?

11:33 Speaker 2: Yeah?

11:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really cool. I love how it came out.

11:38 Speaker 3: In one of the songs on the EP, you can

11:40 Speaker 3: hear the producer making some barnyard noises just in the background,

11:46 Speaker 3: Like that wasn't either of us. I might have leaned

11:49 Speaker 3: up to the snare drum mic and joined him.

11:51 Speaker 4: But yeah, that's very cool. Are you guys playing out

11:56 Speaker 4: a lot or what's what's that like?

11:58 Speaker 5: So it's been kind of a slow start, which has

12:01 Speaker 5: been fine. We did we did one show at actually

12:05 Speaker 5: a wicked cool local indoor skate park in Rochester called

12:08 Speaker 5: Red Alert, okay, and that was a blast. And then

12:11 Speaker 5: as far as shows that are books that we have,

12:14 Speaker 5: we only have one coming up in Plattsburgh, New York,

12:18 Speaker 5: on April nineteenth over at Peabody.

12:21 Speaker 3: The Occasion.

12:22 Speaker 5: It's so it's a four to twenty fast Yeah, okay,

12:25 Speaker 5: my buddy's in Lungbuster. They put it on.

12:28 Speaker 4: Okay, but it's the nineteenth, so it's uh you said.

12:31 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pre premature, proactive.

12:35 Speaker 4: Yeah that's good. That's good.

12:37 Speaker 3: That's for the real go getters of the four twenty

12:39 Speaker 3: Crawbreo thereo.

12:42 Speaker 4: So that's it now, how did how did you get

12:44 Speaker 4: involved in that? Getting on that bill?

12:47 Speaker 5: So I used to be in a I used to

12:50 Speaker 5: drum and a doom metal band a couple of years ago,

12:53 Speaker 5: and I played a show with those guys and.

12:56 Speaker 4: Who was the band? Can you say?

12:57 Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we were called Grave Tripper.

12:59 Speaker 4: Okay, oh that's a cool name.

13:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was wicked. It was a fun project. Yeah,

13:05 Speaker 5: but as far as like things went, and we just

13:08 Speaker 5: kind of all decided to part ways. But but yeah,

13:13 Speaker 5: so I met those guys at a show we played,

13:15 Speaker 5: and I thought they were cool, they were fun to watch,

13:18 Speaker 5: and yeah, I just hit them up on Instagram and

13:21 Speaker 5: you don't let them know. Hey, I'm starting this project.

13:23 Speaker 5: If if you guys ever need an opener or you know,

13:26 Speaker 5: need to fill a bill, feel free to hit us up.

13:28 Speaker 4: Oh very cool, very cool. That's in Plattsburgh, New York. Yeah, okay, excellent.

13:34 Speaker 4: Have you guys played out much or I know it's

13:37 Speaker 4: a relatively new problem.

13:40 Speaker 3: Really just that show at Red Alert was our first,

13:43 Speaker 3: our first and only gigs so far where uh you know,

13:47 Speaker 3: we're wide open like our you know, we we work

13:50 Speaker 3: and have day jobs and stuff like that. But you know,

13:53 Speaker 3: get us on your get us on your bill, get

13:55 Speaker 3: us in your basement, get us on your I don't

13:58 Speaker 3: play your birthday, your birth We'll play whatever.

14:02 Speaker 4: But I would imagine when when you guys are out

14:06 Speaker 4: there gigging too, that you know, other other bands that

14:10 Speaker 4: you play with are going to really appreciate the you know,

14:14 Speaker 4: whereas this just two of you. You know, it's not

14:17 Speaker 4: because I, like, I used to play in a lot

14:19 Speaker 4: of bands and I don't know anymore, but I don't

14:20 Speaker 4: play anymore, but I know how like like sometimes when

14:23 Speaker 4: you're on a bill with a bunch of bands and

14:25 Speaker 4: you've got a band that you know, they're a five

14:28 Speaker 4: piece metal band and they've got all this gear and

14:30 Speaker 4: it takes them forever to get set up and then

14:32 Speaker 4: the tear down and you're waiting and waiting and waiting.

14:34 Speaker 4: But when it's just two of you, oh.

14:36 Speaker 3: No, where a sound guy's dream come true.

14:38 Speaker 4: I would imagine, Yeah, that's cool. And making the sound

14:43 Speaker 4: guy happy is always a plus.

14:45 Speaker 3: It's miles where other actions go yards, Making the sound

14:51 Speaker 3: guy happy goes min.

14:52 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, absolutely so have you both played in a

14:57 Speaker 4: lot of bands before this project or yeah, I've.

15:01 Speaker 3: I've been in all kinds of bands, Like you know,

15:05 Speaker 3: I had like a little garage band that didn't do

15:07 Speaker 3: anything with some friends. In middle school. We were called

15:10 Speaker 3: rubber Band, you know. Yeah, and we wore rubber bands

15:14 Speaker 3: on our wrists because we were in the band rubber Band.

15:17 Speaker 2: Yeah.

15:17 Speaker 3: It was well now, yeah exactly. And then we would start,

15:20 Speaker 3: you know, shooting them across the classrooms and getting them

15:23 Speaker 3: taken away by teachers and stuff like that. But that's

15:25 Speaker 3: good for our middle school things. In high school, I

15:29 Speaker 3: was in a group called Idiosity Killed the Cat.

15:31 Speaker 4: Okay.

15:32 Speaker 3: We we got kind of kind of big like in

15:34 Speaker 3: our town, like and you know, people would come out

15:38 Speaker 3: to see our shows because we were really the only

15:40 Speaker 3: like thing like that coming out of the town, which

15:42 Speaker 3: was Natick, Massachusetts. Bag shout out Natick, Massachusetts. They're, uh,

15:46 Speaker 3: they've got a lot of music going on there. There's

15:48 Speaker 3: it's actually become quite the cultural hub.

15:51 Speaker 4: Good.

15:51 Speaker 3: But in my high school days it was less so yeah,

15:53 Speaker 3: and it's just it's it's really cool.

15:56 Speaker 4: Yeah.

15:56 Speaker 3: And then like more recently, I was in like a

15:59 Speaker 3: ska psychedlic Fusion kind of band called Massachusetts the Band.

16:03 Speaker 3: As you can see, we're just great at naming bands.

16:10 Speaker 3: It was in like a gloom like glam doom rock

16:13 Speaker 3: outfit for a while called Votes that I sang and

16:16 Speaker 3: played tambourine for. Really yeah, just you know, all kinds

16:20 Speaker 3: of projects to keep me busy. I'll quit hogging the mic,

16:24 Speaker 3: what about you, don.

16:25 Speaker 5: So I haven't really been in too many bands. And

16:29 Speaker 5: in my early years of high school, like eighth grade

16:31 Speaker 5: through maybe sophomore year, I was in this crossover band

16:35 Speaker 5: called Silent Violence and we played a few shows here

16:39 Speaker 5: and there. But somewhere in my sophomore year I was

16:43 Speaker 5: perpetually grounded pretty much like every other week through the

16:47 Speaker 5: rest of high school. That kind of hindered my ability

16:50 Speaker 5: to be in bands, yeah, because I wasn't following the

16:54 Speaker 5: rules there. But after high school I did a lot

16:57 Speaker 5: of like solo acoustic stuff for for a long time. Yeah,

17:00 Speaker 5: and it was fun. It was fun because I had

17:05 Speaker 5: the ability to travel and not have to be around

17:10 Speaker 5: one area for too long and still be able to

17:13 Speaker 5: do music.

17:13 Speaker 4: Oh yeah.

17:14 Speaker 5: And it wasn't really until until Grave Tripper that I

17:17 Speaker 5: started playing in bands again.

17:19 Speaker 4: Oh no, kidding, yeah. Yeah. The thing about doing like

17:23 Speaker 4: in a solo acoustic thing is it's it's very liberating,

17:26 Speaker 4: I would think, right, because you can book yourself wherever

17:29 Speaker 4: and you don't have to check with anybody on their

17:31 Speaker 4: schedule or anything like that.

17:32 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely play whatever songs you want too.

17:35 Speaker 5: Yeah.

17:36 Speaker 4: Yeah, was was it hard for that reason? Was it

17:38 Speaker 4: hard to transition back into into playing in a band?

17:42 Speaker 6: No?

17:43 Speaker 5: No, Actually, for me, it was. Uh, it was nice

17:47 Speaker 5: to finally transition back into a band because for for

17:49 Speaker 5: a long time I was trying to get back into it,

17:52 Speaker 5: but just wasn't able to find the right people. Yeah,

17:55 Speaker 5: to make to make sounds with, you know. And uh,

17:59 Speaker 5: I just think being in a group of people and

18:02 Speaker 5: all kind of finding that like vibe and that like

18:05 Speaker 5: wavelength we can all ride together is something really special.

18:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we should play another track. What do

18:12 Speaker 4: you guys think we should play next?

18:14 Speaker 3: Sit them with my void because we talked about it

18:16 Speaker 3: a little while ago.

18:17 Speaker 5: You read my mind.

18:18 Speaker 3: This is the one that we recorded everything in the

18:20 Speaker 3: same take.

18:21 Speaker 4: Okay, so this was all so this was all done live.

18:24 Speaker 4: In other words, Yeah, this track okay, very cool. If

18:27 Speaker 4: you're just joining us, we have the guys from Sick dude.

18:29 Speaker 4: Hell yeah, here with us in studio, and let's give

18:33 Speaker 4: this a spin. This is called my void, I.

19:44 Speaker 1: Said, as wool.

19:47 Speaker 6: Went four yet walls, I can not see myself and

19:55 Speaker 6: I did.

19:57 Speaker 1: Well tried, got don't wait a true by cracky, I

20:07 Speaker 1: stay close so first musa shriyd stromotion of great.

20:25 Speaker 2: Way to bad.

20:44 Speaker 1: Trapped bot shock. I will never see it all way

20:52 Speaker 1: if by destroyed byself by firkas by feet all ways,

20:59 Speaker 1: w went not do.

21:04 Speaker 2: That, my boy jelly mad so so pastis I tread

21:20 Speaker 2: back most enough grade white excel bay.

22:09 Speaker 4: I love it. That is called my void. The band

22:12 Speaker 4: is Sick dude. Hell yeah. Do you guys refer to

22:15 Speaker 4: yourselves as a band when there's two of you? How

22:17 Speaker 4: does that work? Because you sound like a band. It's

22:19 Speaker 4: always it's hard not to call you a band because

22:22 Speaker 4: you've got such a big sound.

22:23 Speaker 6: You know.

22:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we both tell our respective partners

22:26 Speaker 3: we're off to band practice, you know.

22:30 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense. And

22:35 Speaker 4: I enjoy now that I know you're set up, dyugh,

22:37 Speaker 4: and I just I really I enjoy listening to it

22:39 Speaker 4: even that much more now that I understand what you're

22:43 Speaker 4: doing there. That's really cool. And what's going on with

22:45 Speaker 4: the vocal there, Like what's the vocal effect on that?

22:48 Speaker 5: I know he ran distortion on it. Yeah, And well,

22:52 Speaker 5: initially when I started the band, I always wanted to

22:55 Speaker 5: learn how to do like metal screams. Yeah, and I figured, like,

22:58 Speaker 5: I'm never gonna learn if I don't try, and even

23:01 Speaker 5: if it sounds like crap, I'm just gonna wing it

23:03 Speaker 5: and right right, And that was kind of the idea.

23:06 Speaker 5: And just to kind of a what do you call

23:10 Speaker 5: it to omit like dread through the sound of it?

23:17 Speaker 4: Are you able to? Are you able to do that

23:20 Speaker 4: without hurting your your throat?

23:22 Speaker 5: I mean I am now? I am now.

23:26 Speaker 3: During the recording process, not so much.

23:31 Speaker 5: It took a little bit. There was one point I

23:33 Speaker 5: lost my voice for probably like for like a week

23:36 Speaker 5: and a half.

23:37 Speaker 4: Oh really Yeah, And.

23:38 Speaker 5: That's when I realized, like, oh, I gotta start watching

23:41 Speaker 5: some videos and you know, taking this a little bit

23:44 Speaker 5: more seriously.

23:45 Speaker 4: There's that that legendary one that people talk about to

23:48 Speaker 4: this day. I think it's called the Zeno. Is that

23:51 Speaker 4: the zendom screaming?

23:53 Speaker 2: You know that one?

23:53 Speaker 4: No, there's a vocal. I cannot remember her name, but

24:00 Speaker 4: there was a point where, like everybody I knew who

24:02 Speaker 4: was doing any kind of aggressive vocals would talk about

24:05 Speaker 4: learning from her. But I think it was actually this

24:08 Speaker 4: was quite a while ago now, because I remember people

24:10 Speaker 4: talking about a DVD, but I'm sure it's on YouTube now,

24:13 Speaker 4: it's on Blu ray now yeah, maybe.

24:16 Speaker 5: Maybe.

24:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, but that effect that was just uh again just

24:21 Speaker 3: the producer which I shut out John at the sound

24:23 Speaker 3: of and by the way, but the uh, he was

24:26 Speaker 3: just you know, kind of throwing some little effects on

24:29 Speaker 3: it to kind of beef up that vocal thing. Yeah,

24:33 Speaker 3: when we do it live, I or when we did

24:35 Speaker 3: it live that one time I tried, I try to

24:38 Speaker 3: like do like a secondary yelled vocal in the background

24:42 Speaker 3: to kind of just like fill it out.

24:43 Speaker 5: Yeah.

24:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're neither of us are very gifted metal singers.

24:50 Speaker 3: You know, we can both kind of hold a scream,

24:53 Speaker 3: but then it hurts the next day, right right, Well, when.

24:57 Speaker 4: You're dropping too especially, that's gonna be hard, right. I Mean,

25:00 Speaker 4: you don't see that many drummers who sing and I.

25:03 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done that in a couple of bands. In

25:04 Speaker 3: that band Massachusetts of the band I was I was.

25:08 Speaker 3: I did lead vocal on a lot of songs, but

25:10 Speaker 3: was backup vocal for most of the songs. Like, the

25:13 Speaker 3: leader of that band really wanted us to focus on

25:15 Speaker 3: three part harmonies and we were a three piece, so

25:17 Speaker 3: it was like, oh, I had to do what we

25:19 Speaker 3: had to do and I had to learn and uh, yeah,

25:22 Speaker 3: I get to take some of that some of that

25:24 Speaker 3: knowledge into this band, which is cool.

25:25 Speaker 4: But yeah, I would imagine that was challenging because obviously

25:29 Speaker 4: as a drummer, well, singing, so much of it is

25:32 Speaker 4: breathing controlling your breath and drums is the most physical

25:35 Speaker 4: instrument because you're using all four of your limbs and

25:37 Speaker 4: it's you know, and at the same time, you got

25:40 Speaker 4: to really kind of control your breathing if you're trying

25:42 Speaker 4: to sing while drumming. I was imagine you.

25:44 Speaker 3: Really got to. You gotta treat your your breathes in

25:47 Speaker 3: and each syllable that you're singing like it's on the

25:50 Speaker 3: grid with what you're drumming to, like it has to

25:53 Speaker 3: like you're not just hitting your right hand on the snare,

25:56 Speaker 3: you're also going ah like while you're hitting it, So yeah,

26:00 Speaker 3: you have to internalize it like it's part of the

26:03 Speaker 3: drum set, but it's coming through you. That's been my way.

26:07 Speaker 4: I've never heard anyone explain it that way, but that

26:09 Speaker 4: makes sense. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

26:11 Speaker 3: A little tip for for beginners like me.

26:13 Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, how many songs do you, guys, Everything that

26:20 Speaker 4: you've written so far? Is that on on this, uh,

26:22 Speaker 4: this debut release or do you have others that you

26:25 Speaker 4: haven't recorded yet.

26:26 Speaker 5: We have two others that we haven't recorded yet, okay,

26:29 Speaker 5: and we got a few more in the works as well.

26:31 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and this I forget is it self titled

26:35 Speaker 4: the debut? Oh?

26:37 Speaker 5: What do we called it? E? P?

26:39 Speaker 6: Like?

26:39 Speaker 7: E E P?

26:41 Speaker 4: That's that's right, I forgot.

26:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a spur of the moment decision. There

26:46 Speaker 3: was there was a it was a sick.

26:48 Speaker 5: Dude, hell yeah moment. It was like should we call

26:50 Speaker 5: it E E P E? You know, like sick dude?

26:53 Speaker 5: Hell yeah.

26:57 Speaker 4: I'm always I ask everybody. I'm always curious about influence,

27:00 Speaker 4: it says, and from talking to you guys so far,

27:02 Speaker 4: I would imagine that you both have pretty diverse influences musically,

27:06 Speaker 4: but I'm curious to hear about some of them.

27:08 Speaker 5: Yeah, so big influences for me, A lot of Black Sabbath,

27:15 Speaker 5: a lot of James Brown. Yeah, yeah, a little bit

27:18 Speaker 5: of everything. Yeah, you know, I mean I grew up

27:20 Speaker 5: listening to a lot of Johnny Cash. Yeah, and I

27:24 Speaker 5: was lucky enough to have parents who loved cool music.

27:28 Speaker 5: I mean, so I was exposed to bands like Blind Melon, Sublime,

27:32 Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff at an early age, and

27:33 Speaker 5: like Alice in Chains, So that took like a that

27:36 Speaker 5: was a big role in kind of shaping my taste

27:39 Speaker 5: in music. But yeah, a lot of a lot of everything,

27:44 Speaker 5: and especially like like metal, punk rock, a lot of

27:46 Speaker 5: underground stuff, but also anything that's just weird and different.

27:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. How about you. Yeah, I

27:55 Speaker 4: don't know what to call it. Do I call you somebody?

27:57 Speaker 3: You could just call me Nate. I was being I

27:59 Speaker 3: just because I didn't know, if you know, I make

28:02 Speaker 3: art under somebody's crackers, somebody's crackers, So.

28:04 Speaker 4: I didn't know. Do I call you somebody's Do I

28:06 Speaker 4: do I call you some for short?

28:07 Speaker 5: Yeah?

28:08 Speaker 3: You call me call me crackers. You can just call

28:10 Speaker 3: me Nate. That's my name, yeah, perfect. I've never really

28:15 Speaker 3: thought about how people are supposed to call me. When

28:17 Speaker 3: I introduced myself as somebody's I don't know maybe if

28:20 Speaker 3: it was SC.

28:21 Speaker 4: You know, you just use initials for for short. I

28:24 Speaker 4: wasn't sure.

28:25 Speaker 3: I've done some raps as somebody's crackers, and after I

28:28 Speaker 3: refer to myself as SC. Yeah, I think the best

28:31 Speaker 3: there ever was, but the best that ain't yet be SC.

28:34 Speaker 3: Something like a Lil Wayne Gretzky. It's funny how nobody

28:37 Speaker 3: gets me like no soap radio or no coke PEPSI anyway?

28:42 Speaker 4: Is that online?

28:43 Speaker 7: Uh?

28:44 Speaker 5: Sort of? Uh?

28:45 Speaker 3: Me and my friend did a project called America's Funniest

28:48 Speaker 3: Home Videos, and I used some of that rap in

28:50 Speaker 3: one of the songs. That's cool anyway, What was the question?

28:55 Speaker 8: Though?

28:55 Speaker 3: It's about musical influences. I've been exposed to music from

28:59 Speaker 3: a very young age. My folks were in a band

29:02 Speaker 3: full time when I was born. They were called the Candles.

29:04 Speaker 3: They played all around like New England and most of

29:06 Speaker 3: the Eastern Seaboard and they just uh, is that the

29:11 Speaker 3: same thing as the East Coast that I just try

29:13 Speaker 3: to sound smart but sound like an idiot anyway.

29:17 Speaker 4: I feel like the seaboard is when people say I

29:20 Speaker 4: feel like that's more like the East Coast is more

29:23 Speaker 4: like the Upper the Upper East, well the Upper East

29:26 Speaker 4: Coast like like New England and down down into New Jersey.

29:30 Speaker 4: I get like, that's the East Coast, but the Eastern

29:33 Speaker 4: seaboard would be the whole eastern side of the country.

29:36 Speaker 3: Thing Anya, I think that's where they played. Yeah, they

29:39 Speaker 3: they had original music, but they really packed. They packed

29:43 Speaker 3: bars and venues and stuff with their Grateful Dead covers.

29:47 Speaker 3: As a results, I'm not the world's biggest Grateful Dead fan.

29:50 Speaker 3: But I don't hate them, but I don't love them,

29:54 Speaker 3: but I love everything. And like I said earlier, I

29:56 Speaker 3: particularly identify with duos, people like Steely Dan, like Ween,

30:01 Speaker 3: anything that's just been two people getting together and creating something,

30:05 Speaker 3: like even if it evolves past more than two people,

30:07 Speaker 3: like what it did in both of those cases. But

30:10 Speaker 3: the white stripes, sneaker pamps, fevery corporation, just anything that's

30:15 Speaker 3: two people. Daft punk just always really speaks to me

30:19 Speaker 3: because it's really all you need to take. Like like,

30:22 Speaker 3: singer songwriter stuff is in like one pocket that's ever

30:27 Speaker 3: growing with like the way people are getting more and

30:29 Speaker 3: more creative, but a second person can take singer songwriter

30:32 Speaker 3: and just turn it into a full blown composition. And

30:36 Speaker 3: I just like, I have such a hard time working

30:38 Speaker 3: as a solo artist, like I need that other person

30:41 Speaker 3: to bounce something off of. And so yeah, so other

30:44 Speaker 3: bands though, I've like, uh, I really love like Manu

30:49 Speaker 3: Chau and his band Mono Negra.

30:51 Speaker 5: I love.

30:53 Speaker 3: What have I been digging on a lot lately, King

30:56 Speaker 3: Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Gong who else? I love

31:01 Speaker 3: like psychedelic rock, but I love like garage rock.

31:04 Speaker 4: Two.

31:04 Speaker 3: I love rap music, like particularly like underground hip hop stuff. Yeah, yeah,

31:09 Speaker 3: a certain era of popular rap music that I still

31:13 Speaker 3: really love. A lot of people will call me an

31:15 Speaker 3: old head for that, but yeah, there's a lot of

31:18 Speaker 3: that stuff I love, like the nineties, two thousands, even

31:21 Speaker 3: some of the early twenty ten stuff like Asap Rocky.

31:24 Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah me too, really really good stuff.

31:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I love everything as long as it's

31:29 Speaker 3: like authentic, it makes me feel something, and bonus points

31:33 Speaker 3: if it's like something I haven't heard before.

31:35 Speaker 4: Right, Right, There's so much great stuff out there. And

31:38 Speaker 4: you know, a lot of people, they get older, and

31:40 Speaker 4: I think the average age for this is probably around thirty.

31:42 Speaker 4: A lot of people they reach a certain point in

31:43 Speaker 4: their life where they say, Okay, I've heard all the

31:46 Speaker 4: music I ever need to hear, and anything made after

31:49 Speaker 4: this I'm not going to like. And it's too bad,

31:52 Speaker 4: it really is, because you miss out on so much.

31:56 Speaker 4: And you mentioned bands just now that I haven't heard

31:58 Speaker 4: of that now I'm curious about just because you know,

32:01 Speaker 4: you mentioned him. It's like, okay, because but yeah, I

32:04 Speaker 4: always grew up, you know. And and Jenny is like

32:07 Speaker 4: this too, Like we both love here. I mean, that's

32:08 Speaker 4: part of why we do a show like this because

32:10 Speaker 4: we love hearing new music and new music that maybe

32:13 Speaker 4: hasn't made it to the mainstream. And you know, and

32:16 Speaker 4: and uh, my dad, you know, he's in his seventies

32:20 Speaker 4: and he lives on the seacoast and he's still at

32:23 Speaker 4: his age. He'll listen to w u n H, the

32:26 Speaker 4: great college station there because he loves hearing new music.

32:29 Speaker 4: Like if you got in a car with my dad,

32:31 Speaker 4: you're not gonna hear an oldies station on his radio.

32:34 Speaker 2: You know.

32:34 Speaker 4: He's not that stereotypical boomery. He loves hearing new music.

32:38 Speaker 4: And he's always been like that, you know, and even

32:41 Speaker 4: like and he likes hip hop. He like, you know, yeah,

32:44 Speaker 4: it's it's amazing. So you know, so, I mean he's

32:47 Speaker 4: he's sipper than me. Like he'll he'll ask me about

32:50 Speaker 4: a band he heard on w U n H and

32:52 Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't, I don't know who it is.

32:54 Speaker 4: And it's like, wow, you know you're having me on this.

32:57 Speaker 4: But but yeah, and I and I think it's so

32:59 Speaker 4: important to you know, I mean, yeah, it sounds like

33:01 Speaker 4: you guys both have a real commitment to to hearing,

33:03 Speaker 4: hearing and exploring new sounds, which then informs your own

33:09 Speaker 4: musical output and and helps you to be more creative.

33:12 Speaker 4: The more the more you're exposed to, the more creative

33:14 Speaker 4: you're gonna be. Right, Yeah, No, So I think I

33:21 Speaker 4: think that's great. I think it's so important to have

33:23 Speaker 4: a diversity and and uh and influences and all that.

33:26 Speaker 5: So yeah, absolutely, yeah. I mean our our main goal,

33:30 Speaker 5: I think collectively is is to just have fun. Yeah,

33:33 Speaker 5: you know, make some loud sounds, smash some stuff, and

33:37 Speaker 5: you know, have a good time.

33:38 Speaker 3: Meet some people, help some people feel good.

33:42 Speaker 4: Absolutely, well, we should, uh, we should play another track.

33:46 Speaker 4: What do you guys want to play next?

33:49 Speaker 3: Sitting with the title track. Yeah, it might be he

33:54 Speaker 3: might have sent it to you as sdh.

33:55 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm looking right, that's why. Yeah, it says sh

33:58 Speaker 4: wide and through me. Yeah, God got it?

34:00 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, nice going.

34:03 Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm grounded again.

34:07 Speaker 4: All right, this is the title track. This is sick dude.

34:10 Speaker 4: Hell yeah.

34:39 Speaker 7: But you're building in the world today, but I keep

34:42 Speaker 7: fighting for a better way.

34:44 Speaker 1: I'll make your wing a through my back.

34:47 Speaker 5: We be not a five for a hard track.

34:50 Speaker 7: But after that lent free from down the road and

34:54 Speaker 7: a feeling the freeze a million half ococks in by five,

34:58 Speaker 7: I make alive my I decided checktoe hell yeah, changted,

35:05 Speaker 7: hell y, chirk code he yeah, shirktoed, hell ya. When

35:23 Speaker 7: it's tripping from the crowd, I gotta go kind of

35:27 Speaker 7: shut out now the rote is calling for.

35:29 Speaker 2: My escape the snow.

35:31 Speaker 7: More time for stchay like the trottle, pull it back

35:36 Speaker 7: the winter.

35:37 Speaker 1: Spinning out of the back. Put my promised to.

35:40 Speaker 7: Pat away whimming at the moments.

35:43 Speaker 2: That takes a day. Chick toe hell yeah, chaketoed, hell yeah, chegoe,

35:51 Speaker 2: hell yeah, shirkue hell shike cote hell yeah, check note heh.

36:08 Speaker 4: That is sick dude, hell yeah, that's the name of

36:10 Speaker 4: the song. That's the name of the band. And we've

36:12 Speaker 4: got the guys here. Dylan and Nate are here with us.

36:15 Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, hey, live in the studio.

36:17 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's really good, guys. I love the energy

36:19 Speaker 4: of it. If that doesn't get you moving, check your pulse,

36:23 Speaker 4: you might be dead. But yeah, we've got the guys

36:26 Speaker 4: from Sick Dude. Hell yeah here with us in studio.

36:30 Speaker 4: And now do you guys? Obviously it's almost spring and

36:35 Speaker 4: then summer will be here and a lot of the

36:37 Speaker 4: bands we know, you know, they play a lot of

36:39 Speaker 4: shows in the summer. Is that kind of the plan

36:40 Speaker 4: for you?

36:40 Speaker 8: Guys?

36:41 Speaker 4: Are going to be get getting out there a lot

36:42 Speaker 4: this year?

36:43 Speaker 5: We hope to Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the goal. Yeah,

36:46 Speaker 5: that's the goal. Absolutely. Yeah, Because it's summertime, people are

36:51 Speaker 5: going to be out and you know, at the same

36:55 Speaker 5: time too, as far as next winter goes, I hope

36:57 Speaker 5: to be playing just as much. Yeah, because I feel like,

37:01 Speaker 5: especially you know, in the East Coast in the winter,

37:04 Speaker 5: having something to go do is super important. Yeah, you know,

37:08 Speaker 5: and then some of the most fun shows I've been to.

37:11 Speaker 5: For some reason, I've always been in the winter time

37:13 Speaker 5: really Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think I have

37:15 Speaker 5: something to do with just like uh like being cooped up.

37:17 Speaker 3: You know, releases twice as nice yep.

37:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a good way to uh you know,

37:24 Speaker 4: to fight the winter depression and all this seasonal depression

37:28 Speaker 4: that which is especially bad here in the Northeast. So yeah, no,

37:32 Speaker 4: that's cool. Yeah, I want to see you guys live.

37:34 Speaker 4: I love the I love what you're doing. I love

37:36 Speaker 4: the energy of it. And do you guys are there?

37:41 Speaker 4: I mean, what is you both live in wolf Burrow?

37:43 Speaker 5: Or yeah?

37:44 Speaker 4: Okay, like are there other bands there or that you

37:48 Speaker 4: guys can kind of team up with for shows? Or

37:50 Speaker 4: what's the scene like, I mean, I know Wolf Burrow,

37:53 Speaker 4: It's it's not a big place.

37:55 Speaker 2: I know that.

37:55 Speaker 4: I think I believe I've driven through it.

37:59 Speaker 3: Once once or quick drive through yeah blank and you'll

38:02 Speaker 3: miss it.

38:05 Speaker 5: It's uh, it could be a little tough scene wise there, Yeah,

38:08 Speaker 5: because a lot of it's just a lot of it's

38:11 Speaker 5: bar bands, yeah, you know, and it's it's mainly covers.

38:15 Speaker 4: Yeah.

38:15 Speaker 5: Finding a place to play your original songs up there

38:19 Speaker 5: can kind of be like pulling teeth. Yeah, I was

38:23 Speaker 5: fortunate enough one time to play on the Winnie Bell

38:26 Speaker 5: and that's like the boat that goes out on the

38:28 Speaker 5: lake out there and yeah, yeah, and the dude who

38:32 Speaker 5: hired me to play hadn't heard any of my music. Yeah,

38:35 Speaker 5: and my acoustic solo stuff was very rooted in punk

38:38 Speaker 5: rock as well. A lot like the Stoogest kind of deal,

38:41 Speaker 5: and a lot of it was making people feel uncomfortable,

38:45 Speaker 5: which was something I enjoyed, like as a musician. And

38:49 Speaker 5: I got to say, it was like the perfect show

38:51 Speaker 5: for it because I get on this boat and it's

38:54 Speaker 5: all these like older people or like like high class,

38:57 Speaker 5: sophisticated type folk and we go out on the boat

39:01 Speaker 5: and I looked like a maniac that day, you know.

39:04 Speaker 5: And I hop on the microphone like is everybody ready

39:07 Speaker 5: to get weird? And it was just like dead silence.

39:11 Speaker 4: Those people were not expecting on a boat with Yeah,

39:14 Speaker 4: that was the best part.

39:15 Speaker 5: They couldn't get away.

39:16 Speaker 6: You know.

39:17 Speaker 4: That's great, that's funny. Well, so then how did it go?

39:21 Speaker 4: Like how did the gig go? How did people react?

39:24 Speaker 5: My girlfriend really enjoyed it, yeah, and the rest of

39:28 Speaker 5: the people were, I think just waiting to get off

39:30 Speaker 5: the boat because sometimes it's.

39:32 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's fun in a situation like that that to

39:34 Speaker 4: see if you can win people over, you know. But

39:36 Speaker 4: it doesn't sound like that was a crowd that necessarily

39:39 Speaker 4: wanted to be one over.

39:41 Speaker 3: No, I tried, that's funny. I drove them back to port.

39:45 Speaker 6: Yeah.

39:47 Speaker 4: Did the guy who booked you, did he ever book

39:50 Speaker 4: you again? Or was that?

39:52 Speaker 6: No?

39:52 Speaker 5: But not necessarily. I don't think it was a matter

39:55 Speaker 5: of a matter of me burning the bridge.

40:00 Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like, he wasn't upset with you. No, No, No,

40:02 Speaker 4: he was because he probably he probably knew what he

40:04 Speaker 4: would He probably figured out he had he knew me,

40:07 Speaker 4: so he knew maybe it would work. Yeah, because I

40:10 Speaker 4: used to do so. I used to in addition to

40:13 Speaker 4: playing a lot of bands, I would promote a lot

40:14 Speaker 4: of shows, and I put on shows various places, and

40:17 Speaker 4: I always kind of and and from a business standpoint,

40:21 Speaker 4: this was probably not a good thing, but I would

40:23 Speaker 4: kind of like to test the limits a little bit

40:26 Speaker 4: in terms of just seeing what would happen.

40:28 Speaker 6: You know.

40:29 Speaker 4: Okay, you know, we got this metal show we're doing,

40:32 Speaker 4: but we got this one act that's a little more

40:35 Speaker 4: hip hop, you know, but we're going to put them

40:38 Speaker 4: in there and see what happens, you know, just to

40:40 Speaker 4: see what happens. And and sometimes it ends up going well,

40:44 Speaker 4: you know, because sometimes people who may not think they want,

40:47 Speaker 4: uh some sort of variety in the in the show,

40:50 Speaker 4: when you know, when you got a bunch of bands

40:52 Speaker 4: and this one act that's different, sometimes you know, it

40:55 Speaker 4: may go over well and it turns out these people

40:57 Speaker 4: actually enjoy what they're seeing.

40:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's like that's how some people find

41:01 Speaker 3: out that they like rap music. Like I'm not even kidding.

41:03 Speaker 3: That is how some people find out they like anything.

41:06 Speaker 3: As you throw like a wild card band onto a

41:08 Speaker 3: bill and then all of a sudden, you've got somebody's

41:11 Speaker 3: entire like world being opened up in front of their

41:14 Speaker 3: eyes to something they were completely blind to.

41:16 Speaker 4: And it's just that is very true. Yeah, yeah, and

41:19 Speaker 4: especially with hip hop, I think, yeah, yeah absolutely do

41:25 Speaker 4: you guys uh so, I mean long term, do you

41:28 Speaker 4: want to like tour around New England and get out

41:31 Speaker 4: and kind of go everywhere or I.

41:34 Speaker 5: Would like to yeh would be great. Yeah, we we

41:37 Speaker 5: haven't had that discussion together, but I mean that's definitely

41:40 Speaker 5: like a lifelong dream and goal of mine just to tour,

41:44 Speaker 5: you know, and uh play basements all over the place.

41:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people listening probably don't even

41:52 Speaker 4: know what you mean when you say that, you know,

41:54 Speaker 4: basement shows, because people who are people who've never you know,

41:58 Speaker 4: even been near you know, the punk Rocks or anything

42:01 Speaker 4: like that, probably are like, what what does he mean

42:03 Speaker 4: play basements?

42:05 Speaker 5: Exactly what we mean.

42:06 Speaker 3: We mean, pack a bunch of sweaty people into your

42:08 Speaker 3: basement and charge him five dollars or three beers to

42:11 Speaker 3: see us.

42:12 Speaker 5: And uh bacant warehouses.

42:16 Speaker 4: Yeah.

42:16 Speaker 5: Some of the best shows I've actually, you know, best

42:19 Speaker 5: shows I ever been to take a place in basement

42:22 Speaker 5: or or a squat house. You know, It's always interesting

42:26 Speaker 5: because you never know what you're gonna get, you know.

42:28 Speaker 5: Sometimes you walk into place and the only rule is

42:31 Speaker 5: don't hang on the pipes, right, exactly exactly.

42:36 Speaker 4: I want to make sure we get another song. And

42:39 Speaker 4: what do you guys want to play next? We should

42:40 Speaker 4: play another one?

42:42 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we should do Nailing the Coffin.

42:44 Speaker 4: Nailing the Coffin, all right, Yeah, I gotta get a

42:47 Speaker 4: radio editor to that one that I made. Yeah, this

42:49 Speaker 4: is and this also happens to be one of my

42:51 Speaker 4: favorites too. Uh yeah, you know, I listen to the

42:54 Speaker 4: whole thing, but I really like this a lot. Where

42:58 Speaker 4: oh there it is? I'm like where it go. I'm

43:01 Speaker 4: talking about how much I want to play and I

43:02 Speaker 4: can't find it. There is the one with the It's

43:07 Speaker 4: been a busy show today, but I'm glad you guys

43:09 Speaker 4: are here, and I'm very happy to share this track.

43:11 Speaker 4: All right here it is. If you are just tuning in,

43:14 Speaker 4: We've got sick dude, hell yeah with us here in studio,

43:16 Speaker 4: and this track is called the Nail in the coffin,

43:25 Speaker 4: Don't believe in myself?

43:26 Speaker 7: Bumping touch before another nail and knife popping another closing door.

43:34 Speaker 6: Porn promps by jumping, baking bright not old table go

43:38 Speaker 6: the fitch bags right, two.

43:46 Speaker 5: Week call we Ken, look up shitch sort cream.

43:49 Speaker 7: It is always brising, so wait, sit on IM a

43:53 Speaker 7: petty score.

43:54 Speaker 4: Porn prompsky, don't just thank by.

43:57 Speaker 6: I don't care about no the fish.

43:59 Speaker 2: Pgs, br.

44:15 Speaker 7: All these sweeish people making their mess leaxing in my pocket.

44:22 Speaker 4: But all I said, ever said for it crops by.

44:26 Speaker 6: It makes you bye, I don't come up no if.

44:29 Speaker 4: It makes a fie, I love that I was so

45:10 Speaker 4: into it I didn't notice it was over.

45:12 Speaker 3: I appreciated that. I love the groove on that. I

45:15 Speaker 3: love the groove on that. Great job, guys, Thank you,

45:17 Speaker 3: thank you.

45:18 Speaker 4: Sick dude. Hell yeah, is here with us in studio.

45:20 Speaker 4: That is called Nail in the Coffin. Hey, what do

45:22 Speaker 4: you have again? Swedish people though that was a little

45:26 Speaker 4: inside No, that is that is a great track and

45:30 Speaker 4: uh yeah, you guys were saying as we were listening

45:33 Speaker 4: to it too, that one goes over pretty well.

45:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably our favorite to like play. Yeah, I

45:38 Speaker 3: feel like if we're when we're practicing, if we're like

45:41 Speaker 3: that last one wasn't so good, let's play Nail in

45:44 Speaker 3: the Coffin and kind of just like bring us bring

45:46 Speaker 3: ourselves back to ground a little bit, you know.

45:48 Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, always always brings up that energy morale.

45:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

45:52 Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, do you guys have any covers? A lot

45:55 Speaker 4: of bands will throw in a cover. I'm just curious.

45:59 Speaker 5: So we've been trying to figure out what what to

46:03 Speaker 5: cover and what we could make work.

46:05 Speaker 2: Yeah.

46:07 Speaker 4: I can imagine like like some classic Sabbath like Sweetly

46:10 Speaker 4: for something.

46:11 Speaker 3: We do have a Sabbath song on the chopping block

46:14 Speaker 3: to learn for covering which one was it?

46:17 Speaker 5: Hand of Doom?

46:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah I can I can picture that. Yeah,

46:22 Speaker 4: but yeah.

46:22 Speaker 3: I I've been in a lot of bands, some of

46:25 Speaker 3: which have played covers. I have like a weird moral

46:29 Speaker 3: hang up about covers because, like, so hear me out, okay,

46:34 Speaker 3: very curious. If you play in a band that does

46:36 Speaker 3: mostly original songs and you play a cover live at

46:39 Speaker 3: like say a bar or something, you have suddenly become

46:42 Speaker 3: the disappointment jukebox for the entire audience because a couple

46:47 Speaker 3: of people in the audience liked the cover song. But

46:49 Speaker 3: then they're like, hey, can you play leather and Lace

46:52 Speaker 3: or like something? And you can't. You play leather and Lace,

46:56 Speaker 3: you can't play free Bird, you can't play Sultans of Swing,

47:01 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like suddenly you can't play

47:04 Speaker 3: what they all of a sudden want to hear and

47:06 Speaker 3: what they've tricked themselves into thinking they're there to hear.

47:10 Speaker 3: That suddenly you owe them something. And so with me,

47:13 Speaker 3: I like to play covers if it really means something

47:16 Speaker 3: to me, Like if I can get something emotionally out

47:19 Speaker 3: of performing this song in front of people, play a

47:22 Speaker 3: cover all day long. But I'm not just gonna play

47:27 Speaker 3: you know, wagon Wheel because it'll does that make sense?

47:32 Speaker 5: It does? It does.

47:33 Speaker 4: I can relate to what you're saying, and.

47:35 Speaker 3: No shade to anybody who makes a living playing covers.

47:38 Speaker 3: That's that's not what I vibe with musically, you really speaking.

47:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I can relate to that tremendously because you know,

47:50 Speaker 4: I played a bunch of bands and I always fought

47:52 Speaker 4: against doing too many covers. It would be hard to

47:57 Speaker 4: talk the other people I was in these bands with

47:59 Speaker 4: out of doing any covers. But like I was in

48:03 Speaker 4: a hardcore band. I was in a band called First Shove,

48:07 Speaker 4: and like the one cover that we were doing was

48:09 Speaker 4: we did Last Breath by Hate Breed and that was

48:13 Speaker 4: okay because it was short and it wasn't with that

48:15 Speaker 4: kind of situation, It's not like somebody's not going to say,

48:18 Speaker 4: you know, okay, now do you know free Bird?

48:19 Speaker 5: You know what I mean?

48:20 Speaker 2: Yeah?

48:20 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's true like that and that type of element,

48:23 Speaker 5: you know, covering a song is almost like more more

48:29 Speaker 5: or less paying homage to an inspiration.

48:32 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that band we played with it that Red

48:35 Speaker 3: Alert shout out to Trick Attack they got at the

48:38 Speaker 3: coolest design I've ever heard of. So everybody loves the

48:41 Speaker 3: Tony Hawk pro skater soundtracks, right, what if there was

48:44 Speaker 3: a band that that was their whole thing and that's

48:47 Speaker 3: Trick Attack, no kidding, Yeah, be on the lookout for

48:49 Speaker 3: Trick Attack coming to a place near you. They were

48:51 Speaker 3: so awesome, They were sick and they've got such a

48:54 Speaker 3: good idea of just like taking this soundtrack that's resonated

48:57 Speaker 3: with so many people our age and exposed so many

48:59 Speaker 3: people to so many cool forms of music and uh yeah,

49:03 Speaker 3: just kind of bringing the spirit of that and and to.

49:06 Speaker 5: Like skateboard too contract being played live that that was like, man,

49:13 Speaker 5: my fourth grade self was over the moon, respectfully, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

49:19 Speaker 5: respectfully of course the nostalgic it was great.

49:22 Speaker 4: Where are they from? Are they from around here?

49:24 Speaker 3: Trick They're from Mass Yeah, Mass, I think.

49:27 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, oh, maybe we can get them on the show.

49:29 Speaker 4: That's that's very interesting. Yeah, but yeah, I always I

49:32 Speaker 4: always fought against doing too many covers in the bands

49:35 Speaker 4: I was in or Or. My thing was, if we're

49:37 Speaker 4: going to do a cover, let's end with it that way.

49:40 Speaker 4: Yeah the way, there's not that way there's no misunderstandings

49:43 Speaker 4: about you know, are we an original band? Are we

49:45 Speaker 4: a cover band? I was just you know, we'll do well, well,

49:48 Speaker 4: let's do it at the end. But the other thing

49:50 Speaker 4: that drove me nuts to back in and this, you know,

49:53 Speaker 4: I'm older, So this goes back like twenty years. But

49:56 Speaker 4: there was a period where and and anybody, any of

50:01 Speaker 4: my peers from that time will know what I'm talking about,

50:04 Speaker 4: because I know I know some of the people I

50:06 Speaker 4: knew then listen to the show. There was this period

50:09 Speaker 4: where if you were a New Hampshire band and you

50:13 Speaker 4: were an original band that liked to sprinkle in a

50:16 Speaker 4: couple of covers, all of these bands were covering Sober

50:20 Speaker 4: by Tool. It was so obnoxious. And it wasn't even

50:28 Speaker 4: like all these bands were covering Tool. All these bands

50:31 Speaker 4: were specifically covering Sober by Tool. And it even and

50:37 Speaker 4: I was in a band called My Life Crisis, and

50:40 Speaker 4: I remember one of the guys was like, because everybody

50:44 Speaker 4: in the band was a Tool fan, including me, I

50:46 Speaker 4: like Tool. I didn't I never loved Tool, but I

50:48 Speaker 4: liked but I think I burned out on them because

50:50 Speaker 4: they just they were so ubiquitous. It was like, oh

50:53 Speaker 4: my god, no more Tool. And I remember the conversation

50:56 Speaker 4: with these guys where one of them was like, we

50:57 Speaker 4: should do a Tool cover, and I remember just sitting

51:00 Speaker 4: there silently thinking, oh, no, I know what's coming next.

51:04 Speaker 4: We should do Sober. It was so weird and I'm

51:07 Speaker 4: not even I'm not even exaggerating or being hyperbolic. All

51:11 Speaker 4: of these bands were covering that specific song.

51:14 Speaker 3: I must really resonate with the New Hampshire musician craft.

51:18 Speaker 4: I guess it was so strange, like at like twenty

51:23 Speaker 4: years ago, if you walked into any bar where there

51:26 Speaker 4: was a rock band playing, whether it was an original

51:29 Speaker 4: band that did one cover or a cover band, you

51:33 Speaker 4: were going to hear Sober by Tool. It was bizarre

51:39 Speaker 4: and it was very frustrating. And here I am, two

51:42 Speaker 4: decades later, finally venting about it publicly.

51:45 Speaker 3: Set your chest.

51:46 Speaker 4: It does. I've been carrying that around with me all

51:50 Speaker 4: this time. We'll be like, oh, it's a great bassline.

51:55 Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong, I'm a bass player. I appreciate it.

51:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, game we be soberhup? Yeah me too, man.

52:08 Speaker 5: I had any idea. I was thinking, you know, wouldn't

52:11 Speaker 5: it be funny to open with a cover and then

52:16 Speaker 5: before every original song you played, just be like, oh,

52:20 Speaker 5: this next one is war Pigs by Sabbath.

52:25 Speaker 3: I do stuff like that with There's another band that

52:29 Speaker 3: I play sometimes with. We're kind of like in the

52:32 Speaker 3: middle of like a semi break now, but we're called Targets.

52:34 Speaker 3: Targets shout out to Sean James Sweeney.

52:38 Speaker 2: Uh we uh.

52:39 Speaker 3: I kind of like MC for them because everybody else

52:43 Speaker 3: just like he is either too busy setting up there

52:45 Speaker 3: like synthesizer for the next song or whatever. So I

52:47 Speaker 3: just kind of end up like talking, and I'll introduce

52:50 Speaker 3: songs with like names that are familiar or like not

52:53 Speaker 3: say that where us. I'll say that like hey, where

52:55 Speaker 3: are the Backstreet Boys? Or where the fine Young Cannibals

52:58 Speaker 3: or something like that. Yeah, like anything so that it

53:00 Speaker 3: seems like I'm am seeing but I'm actually giving the

53:03 Speaker 3: audience no information at all. Right, that's kind of my stick.

53:07 Speaker 4: Oh that's cool, that's cool. I like that. Let's uh.

53:12 Speaker 4: I want to make sure we get at least one

53:13 Speaker 4: more in what should we play?

53:14 Speaker 3: I think we only got one more? You want to

53:16 Speaker 3: hit him with dead Sky?

53:17 Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, yeah?

53:20 Speaker 4: Is there only one more?

53:21 Speaker 3: I think there is. This is the one that you

53:23 Speaker 3: can hear John doing Barnyard.

53:25 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh there is only one left. Okay, yeah,

53:27 Speaker 4: So we'll play this and then we'll come back and

53:29 Speaker 4: wrap up. But if you are just joining us, oh

53:32 Speaker 4: hello to Andre Dumont in the chat room of course,

53:35 Speaker 4: from the Great Band and from Dead Harrison and Terminus

53:39 Speaker 4: Underground and New Hampshire Underground. And Andre is someone who

53:42 Speaker 4: probably can relate to what I was saying a moment ago,

53:45 Speaker 4: one of my peers from that era. I'm sure Andre.

53:48 Speaker 4: Andre may have even been in a band that played

53:50 Speaker 4: sober by.

53:51 Speaker 3: Tool Listen, man, why can't we just be sober?

53:54 Speaker 5: Oh?

53:54 Speaker 3: Boy, you'd think I could relate Rodney King say that.

53:58 Speaker 4: I'm not much of a drinker in my self. I'm

54:00 Speaker 4: pretty sober. You think i'd appreciate the song more, but

54:03 Speaker 4: I just grew to hate it, all right. So this

54:07 Speaker 4: is called a Dead Sky and the band is Hell yeah. No,

54:12 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, sick dude. Hell yeah, I apologize, gentlemen. I'm suffering.

54:17 Speaker 4: I'm suffering from adult onset dyslexia. Here we go. This

54:20 Speaker 4: is Dead Sky from Sick Dude. Hell yeah.

55:00 Speaker 2: Last five.

55:03 Speaker 8: File Love Mountain Lie Motie wall.

55:18 Speaker 1: By God.

55:38 Speaker 5: Vanity, showy face.

55:41 Speaker 7: Technology building place, accept this face.

56:24 Speaker 3: Top skin.

56:28 Speaker 2: Cause your tes cop so let cross last but tag

56:38 Speaker 2: spells back co tri co stach to well come true.

57:12 Speaker 1: Man slowly face.

57:15 Speaker 4: Technology built from place.

57:19 Speaker 5: Accept this face.

58:04 Speaker 4: That is called dead Sky. The band is sick dude.

58:07 Speaker 4: Hell yeah, and we've got the guys here with us

58:08 Speaker 4: in studio.

58:09 Speaker 7: Hey.

58:09 Speaker 4: By the way, you guys are getting some love. So

58:11 Speaker 4: we got an instant message through Matt connorton dot com. Hi, guys,

58:17 Speaker 4: this is Nate's mom. I'm loving the show a.

58:19 Speaker 5: Very cool way.

58:20 Speaker 8: What's up, mom?

58:22 Speaker 4: A very cool way to spend a Saturday morning. Signed Helen,

58:26 Speaker 4: so very nice.

58:28 Speaker 5: That's that's sweet.

58:30 Speaker 4: Very nice. Also, Andre Dumont from Dad Harrison said, uh yes,

58:35 Speaker 4: he he uh. He said yeah that that song sober

58:39 Speaker 4: by Tool. He relates to what I'm saying. But he

58:41 Speaker 4: also said, these guys completely remind me of listening to

58:45 Speaker 4: the Repoman soundtrack Old School.

58:47 Speaker 3: Oh cool. Appreciated. I'll take that as a compliment.

58:50 Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you, absolutely well, guys, thank you so much

58:55 Speaker 4: for being with us. Before we run out of time.

58:56 Speaker 4: I want to make sure everybody knows where is the

58:59 Speaker 4: best place to go online to keep up with everything

59:02 Speaker 4: you're doing with the band.

59:04 Speaker 5: Our Instagram okay, which is just at sick Dude, hell yeah, okay.

59:08 Speaker 5: And and then maybe my personal Facebook too sometimes I

59:12 Speaker 5: post stuff on there, okay.

59:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, my personal Facebook too, which is just somebody's crackers

59:17 Speaker 3: on Facebook. It's pretty easy to find me, believe.

59:19 Speaker 4: It or not.

59:20 Speaker 6: And and.

59:23 Speaker 3: Yeah, the uh the band camp if you want to, uh,

59:28 Speaker 3: if you want to download that album for free or

59:30 Speaker 3: to download that album for a price that you name,

59:33 Speaker 3: you can find it sick dude, hellyeah dot bandcamp dot com.

59:36 Speaker 3: And uh, we're hoping to keep some fresh releases for

59:40 Speaker 3: that coming out soon. We got these two other songs

59:42 Speaker 3: that we've basically all but completely finished that were eager

59:45 Speaker 3: to get recorded. And uh yeah, just be on the lookout.

59:50 Speaker 3: We'd like to think we're approachable. Just shoot us a

59:52 Speaker 3: d M. Let's talk shows, let's talk anything, just uh,

59:57 Speaker 3: you know.

59:58 Speaker 4: Very good, very good, good. Thanks guys and guys still

1:00:02 Speaker 4: in and Nate from a Sick Dude, Hell yeah, thank

1:00:05 Speaker 4: you guys so much for joining us again today and

1:00:09 Speaker 4: stuff like.

1:00:09 Speaker 3: This is so cool, Like big ups to you and

1:00:12 Speaker 3: people like you who still keep things like this going

1:00:16 Speaker 3: in like the in the the climate of today, where

1:00:19 Speaker 3: stuff like this is much harder to to keep going,

1:00:22 Speaker 3: to keep to keep fueled, you know. So uh, you know,

1:00:28 Speaker 3: support your local radio station, support your local pegasust, tip

1:00:32 Speaker 3: your bartenders, all that stuff, you know.

1:00:35 Speaker 4: Agreed, agreed. Well, well I'm very glad, very glad you

1:00:37 Speaker 4: guys came here today. This has been this has been

1:00:39 Speaker 4: wonderful and uh, all right, wise man, all right, another

1:00:43 Speaker 4: one in the books, and uh, we'll talk to you

1:00:45 Speaker 4: a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye,