Speaker 1: How many stocks do I have to explain.
Speaker 2: Ourividual value?
Speaker 1: There's time you really need cost to his life. I
don't want out of young side.
Speaker 3: That's a right to have your good.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of you.
Speaker 1: My word solade got them by so lad shot.
Speaker 4: How many times do I have to get back?
Speaker 3: I don't mean your senseless pace.
Speaker 4: It ain't no picture.
Speaker 5: Roger spies.
Speaker 2: One stransure stam, don't flies, that's all right.
Speaker 1: Time you could find.
Speaker 3: That's a otject in my way. So thats got them?
Speaker 1: So that's got them.
Speaker 4: Yes, that is WTF. We'll call it sick dude. Hell
yeah is the band. We're going to talk to these
guys in just a moment. Just go ahead and get
those mics up here. Really looking forward to talking to
these guys. Gentlemen. Welcome, hey, thanks for having us as
absolutely please please introduce yourselves and tell tell us who
you are what you do in the band.
Speaker 5: I'm Dylan McKenna.
Speaker 3: I do bass and vocals, all right, welcome, and I'm
Somebody's Crackers and I play the drums the backup vocals.
Speaker 4: All right, very good. Somebody's Crackers? Am I saying that right?
Speaker 3: It's not an as it's an e r S.
Speaker 4: It's an e r S. Somebody's crackers. Okay, very good.
You know these uh, these these names, I want. I
try to make sure I pronounce everyone's name correctly. Jenny
witnessed me, uh just almost panicking over while he ended
up not joining us on the show. I guess we
had booked earlier at Pha Zacherle or something, and it's like,
I don't know how to say this name, so I
probably would have butchered it anyway, telemarketer. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
no kidding, no kidding. So welcome guys. First question, of course, uh,
where does the name come from? Because that's obvious. You
know it's sick dude. Hell yeah, it's not a not
a a conventional name for a band, shall we say?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, No, it's actually it's kind of a funny
story and it's actually it's it's it's pretty simple. We
were jamming one day and we had like an idea
we wanted to do some type of band together, and uh,
I forgot about a cable. I had to split my
bass into two signals. Yeah, cigued, let's let's give that
a shot. We did that, and our first jam session
like after it I was like, sick dude, and Nate
hell yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we just kind of it's been the mantra
since day one. Is just like every time we finish
like making some kind of new addition to a song
or like come up with like the first sick rip
for like whatever, it's just one of us will stay
sick dude and the other one will say, hell yeah,
it doesn't It hasn't been decided who's who yet.
Speaker 4: But you know, right, that's awesome, So it makes sense.
It makes sense. The name is appropriate. Dillan, tell me
about the splitting of the Uh oh, sorry, I don't
have the video on me. I have it on you guys,
so people can't see him fidgeting with my microphone. Tell
me about the splitting of the signal. I'm curious about this.
And when you mentioned that too, you guys probably know
Able Blood, right or did you guys know the band
Able Blood? I think so now because there's a lot
of okay, because there's a lot of splitting of signals
with with their whole setup. So I'm curious about this.
So tell me about an. I'm a bass player, so
selfishly i'm also very curious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, so originally it started with just a split
a quarter inch cable. Yeah, that come off my base
and basically one signal just goes straight into my bass
amp and they just cranked the gain on that, and
then the other signal goes through a pitchfork and so
I just have to pitch shifted up in octave and
then into a fuzz pedal and into my guitar.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that gives you a really just a heavy yeah,
like like there's it's it's great. I love the way
it sounds.
Speaker 5: Yeah cool, yeah, no, thank you and yeah, So I
mean I guess the goal was to try to just
like mimic a guitar but have bass as well. Yeah,
because where we we're from, it's, uh, it's pretty tough
to find other musicians to jam with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where are you guys from Wolfborough, New Hampshire, wolf Burrow.
So there's plenty of musicians out there, it's just not
ones who want to make like super you know, in
your face kind of stuff like this testosterone fueled caveman jam.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah yeah. Able Blood does something kind of like
what you described. I forget how they because they also
have that a lot of bottom end and you know,
it's it's really their setup is really interesting because there
you know, it's three of them, but they sound they've
got this huge sound. You should check them out. But
who else is in the band? It's not just it's
just it literally is just the two of you. Yeah,
that's amazing. That's that's awesome. Okay, do you do you
have plans to add members or or is this working
so well with just the two of you? And and
I mean it's not like it hasn't been done I suppose, right,
but there's not but to be able to pull it
off like like you do, it's pretty cool. Like I
think of the White Stripes when I think of you.
Speaker 3: Know, most legendary duo of all time, yea for maybe
Tenacious D. But yeah, yeah, now I think that like
we're not necessarily closed off to it. It's just, uh,
for one, it's a matter of ease.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: For two, it's a matter of you know, having people
like you ask us questions like that, and that feels
really good to kind of stand out in a way,
you know, But nothing's completely off the table. Like if
if some other riff lord wanted to saddle up and
could do something, uh that made us say either sick dude,
hell yeah, or both then welcome aboard, frankly. But but
we're not like, we're not like, uh, there's no like
now hiring, sign up or anything. We're perfectly content to
just move forward as a duo. There's a soft spot,
excuse me, a soft spot in my heart for musical duos,
like just yea and across the board.
Speaker 4: So and if it's working, it's working. Yeah, so far,
why I mess with it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How long is sick Dude hell yeah existed?
Speaker 5: Oh hm, I think maybe almost five months?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this really new.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: We met in a different band and then, uh, I
guess I'll just say creative differences kind of drove us apart,
but then drove Dylan and I together, and okay, we
just kind of picked up in the same practice space
where they left off, and we're just like, let's just start, uh,
let's just start riffing around. And we had two songs
by the end of our first practice and we're just like,
sick dude.
Speaker 4: You so you guys were in that other band together? Yeah, Oh,
what do you want to say? What band?
Speaker 3: Redacted?
Speaker 4: Redacted? Okay, yeah, not somebody I know. Or are you
saying you're redact reacted? Okay, will you tell me off air?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: I won't repeat it, I promise, Yeah, I don't. I don't.
I don't repeat anything, right, Jenny, there you go.
Speaker 3: Do you have a little reverb on your mic over there?
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on over there?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Sounded very strange. I'm sorry. Yeah, she's she's booking guests
for the show.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: But uh so that's so you guys had already worked
had you worked together for a long time in that band?
Speaker 5: About a year?
Speaker 3: About a year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So where do you record? Because obviously the sound is,
you know, it's a really raw you know, uh, which
I love personally. I like that, but it's it's it's
got that sort of raw sort of vibe. But I think,
but I think it's really cool, Like, how do you
guys record? What's your process?
Speaker 5: So we actually our practice space is adjacent to a
small studio that's a friend of mine, nice and so
we just we recorded with him. Yeah, and the way
we did it, I know, we used a few different
amps and had some amps and different rooms, but we
were definitely going for the overall like demo kind of
rougher sound because we thought it would fit fit our
vibe a lot better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We just we just did the instruments in one take
and then vocals in another takea and just kind of
like went into pro tools and just polished up everything
so that it wouldn't be so that it had a
little bit of polished But we didn't want to go
in and like overproduce it either. We were more concerned
with getting it out and just kind of having people
listen to it. We can, we can polish something up
later if we feel like it.
Speaker 5: But you know, it's yeah, and I think that my void.
We didn't get in vocals and instruments all on one take.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh that's cool. The the radio edit that we heard,
like you did that yourself, the editing on that, the
putting in. I'm curious.
Speaker 5: So I gave my buddy a call who initially recorded us,
and I let him know what was going on. He's like,
come on down, yeah, we'll put something together. And he's
a goofy character as well, like me. I mean, we're
just hanging out and initially we're just gonna do beeps.
And I was I wish the thought just popped in
my head, like why am I just gonna do bleeps?
Why don't I have some fun with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really cool. I love how it came out.
Speaker 3: In one of the songs on the EP, you can
hear the producer making some barnyard noises just in the background,
Like that wasn't either of us. I might have leaned
up to the snare drum mic and joined him.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's very cool. Are you guys playing out
a lot or what's what's that like?
Speaker 5: So it's been kind of a slow start, which has
been fine. We did we did one show at actually
a wicked cool local indoor skate park in Rochester called
Red Alert, okay, and that was a blast. And then
as far as shows that are books that we have,
we only have one coming up in Plattsburgh, New York,
on April nineteenth over at Peabody.
Speaker 3: The Occasion.
Speaker 5: It's so it's a four to twenty fast Yeah, okay,
my buddy's in Lungbuster. They put it on.
Speaker 4: Okay, but it's the nineteenth, so it's uh you said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pre premature, proactive.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's good. That's good.
Speaker 3: That's for the real go getters of the four twenty
Crawbreo thereo.
Speaker 4: So that's it now, how did how did you get
involved in that? Getting on that bill?
Speaker 5: So I used to be in a I used to
drum and a doom metal band a couple of years ago,
and I played a show with those guys and.
Speaker 4: Who was the band? Can you say?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we were called Grave Tripper.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh that's a cool name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was wicked. It was a fun project. Yeah,
but as far as like things went, and we just
kind of all decided to part ways. But but yeah,
so I met those guys at a show we played,
and I thought they were cool, they were fun to watch,
and yeah, I just hit them up on Instagram and
you don't let them know. Hey, I'm starting this project.
If if you guys ever need an opener or you know,
need to fill a bill, feel free to hit us up.
Speaker 4: Oh very cool, very cool. That's in Plattsburgh, New York. Yeah, okay, excellent.
Have you guys played out much or I know it's
a relatively new problem.
Speaker 3: Really just that show at Red Alert was our first,
our first and only gigs so far where uh you know,
we're wide open like our you know, we we work
and have day jobs and stuff like that. But you know,
get us on your get us on your bill, get
us in your basement, get us on your I don't
play your birthday, your birth We'll play whatever.
Speaker 4: But I would imagine when when you guys are out
there gigging too, that you know, other other bands that
you play with are going to really appreciate the you know,
whereas this just two of you. You know, it's not
because I, like, I used to play in a lot
of bands and I don't know anymore, but I don't
play anymore, but I know how like like sometimes when
you're on a bill with a bunch of bands and
you've got a band that you know, they're a five
piece metal band and they've got all this gear and
it takes them forever to get set up and then
the tear down and you're waiting and waiting and waiting.
But when it's just two of you, oh.
Speaker 3: No, where a sound guy's dream come true.
Speaker 4: I would imagine, Yeah, that's cool. And making the sound
guy happy is always a plus.
Speaker 3: It's miles where other actions go yards, Making the sound
guy happy goes min.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, absolutely so have you both played in a
lot of bands before this project or yeah, I've.
Speaker 3: I've been in all kinds of bands, Like you know,
I had like a little garage band that didn't do
anything with some friends. In middle school. We were called
rubber Band, you know. Yeah, and we wore rubber bands
on our wrists because we were in the band rubber Band.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was well now, yeah exactly. And then we would start,
you know, shooting them across the classrooms and getting them
taken away by teachers and stuff like that. But that's
good for our middle school things. In high school, I
was in a group called Idiosity Killed the Cat.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: We we got kind of kind of big like in
our town, like and you know, people would come out
to see our shows because we were really the only
like thing like that coming out of the town, which
was Natick, Massachusetts. Bag shout out Natick, Massachusetts. They're, uh,
they've got a lot of music going on there. There's
it's actually become quite the cultural hub.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 3: But in my high school days it was less so yeah,
and it's just it's it's really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then like more recently, I was in like a
ska psychedlic Fusion kind of band called Massachusetts the Band.
As you can see, we're just great at naming bands.
It was in like a gloom like glam doom rock
outfit for a while called Votes that I sang and
played tambourine for. Really yeah, just you know, all kinds
of projects to keep me busy. I'll quit hogging the mic,
what about you, don.
Speaker 5: So I haven't really been in too many bands. And
in my early years of high school, like eighth grade
through maybe sophomore year, I was in this crossover band
called Silent Violence and we played a few shows here
and there. But somewhere in my sophomore year I was
perpetually grounded pretty much like every other week through the
rest of high school. That kind of hindered my ability
to be in bands, yeah, because I wasn't following the
rules there. But after high school I did a lot
of like solo acoustic stuff for for a long time. Yeah,
and it was fun. It was fun because I had
the ability to travel and not have to be around
one area for too long and still be able to
do music.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 5: And it wasn't really until until Grave Tripper that I
started playing in bands again.
Speaker 4: Oh no, kidding, yeah. Yeah. The thing about doing like
in a solo acoustic thing is it's it's very liberating,
I would think, right, because you can book yourself wherever
and you don't have to check with anybody on their
schedule or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely play whatever songs you want too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was was it hard for that reason? Was it
hard to transition back into into playing in a band?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: No, Actually, for me, it was. Uh, it was nice
to finally transition back into a band because for for
a long time I was trying to get back into it,
but just wasn't able to find the right people. Yeah,
to make to make sounds with, you know. And uh,
I just think being in a group of people and
all kind of finding that like vibe and that like
wavelength we can all ride together is something really special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we should play another track. What do
you guys think we should play next?
Speaker 3: Sit them with my void because we talked about it
a little while ago.
Speaker 5: You read my mind.
Speaker 3: This is the one that we recorded everything in the
same take.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this was all so this was all done live.
In other words, Yeah, this track okay, very cool. If
you're just joining us, we have the guys from Sick dude.
Hell yeah, here with us in studio, and let's give
this a spin. This is called my void, I.
Speaker 1: Said, as wool.
Speaker 6: Went four yet walls, I can not see myself and
I did.
Speaker 1: Well tried, got don't wait a true by cracky, I
stay close so first musa shriyd stromotion of great.
Speaker 2: Way to bad.
Speaker 1: Trapped bot shock. I will never see it all way
if by destroyed byself by firkas by feet all ways,
w went not do.
Speaker 2: That, my boy jelly mad so so pastis I tread
back most enough grade white excel bay.
Speaker 4: I love it. That is called my void. The band
is Sick dude. Hell yeah. Do you guys refer to
yourselves as a band when there's two of you? How
does that work? Because you sound like a band. It's
always it's hard not to call you a band because
you've got such a big sound.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we both tell our respective partners
we're off to band practice, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense. And
I enjoy now that I know you're set up, dyugh,
and I just I really I enjoy listening to it
even that much more now that I understand what you're
doing there. That's really cool. And what's going on with
the vocal there, Like what's the vocal effect on that?
Speaker 5: I know he ran distortion on it. Yeah, And well,
initially when I started the band, I always wanted to
learn how to do like metal screams. Yeah, and I figured, like,
I'm never gonna learn if I don't try, and even
if it sounds like crap, I'm just gonna wing it
and right right, And that was kind of the idea.
And just to kind of a what do you call
it to omit like dread through the sound of it?
Speaker 4: Are you able to? Are you able to do that
without hurting your your throat?
Speaker 5: I mean I am now? I am now.
Speaker 3: During the recording process, not so much.
Speaker 5: It took a little bit. There was one point I
lost my voice for probably like for like a week
and a half.
Speaker 4: Oh really Yeah, And.
Speaker 5: That's when I realized, like, oh, I gotta start watching
some videos and you know, taking this a little bit
more seriously.
Speaker 4: There's that that legendary one that people talk about to
this day. I think it's called the Zeno. Is that
the zendom screaming?
Speaker 2: You know that one?
Speaker 4: No, there's a vocal. I cannot remember her name, but
there was a point where, like everybody I knew who
was doing any kind of aggressive vocals would talk about
learning from her. But I think it was actually this
was quite a while ago now, because I remember people
talking about a DVD, but I'm sure it's on YouTube now,
it's on Blu ray now yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5: Maybe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that effect that was just uh again just
the producer which I shut out John at the sound
of and by the way, but the uh, he was
just you know, kind of throwing some little effects on
it to kind of beef up that vocal thing. Yeah,
when we do it live, I or when we did
it live that one time I tried, I try to
like do like a secondary yelled vocal in the background
to kind of just like fill it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're neither of us are very gifted metal singers.
You know, we can both kind of hold a scream,
but then it hurts the next day, right right, Well, when.
Speaker 4: You're dropping too especially, that's gonna be hard, right. I Mean,
you don't see that many drummers who sing and I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done that in a couple of bands. In
that band Massachusetts of the band I was I was.
I did lead vocal on a lot of songs, but
was backup vocal for most of the songs. Like, the
leader of that band really wanted us to focus on
three part harmonies and we were a three piece, so
it was like, oh, I had to do what we
had to do and I had to learn and uh, yeah,
I get to take some of that some of that
knowledge into this band, which is cool.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I would imagine that was challenging because obviously
as a drummer, well, singing, so much of it is
breathing controlling your breath and drums is the most physical
instrument because you're using all four of your limbs and
it's you know, and at the same time, you got
to really kind of control your breathing if you're trying
to sing while drumming. I was imagine you.
Speaker 3: Really got to. You gotta treat your your breathes in
and each syllable that you're singing like it's on the
grid with what you're drumming to, like it has to
like you're not just hitting your right hand on the snare,
you're also going ah like while you're hitting it, So yeah,
you have to internalize it like it's part of the
drum set, but it's coming through you. That's been my way.
Speaker 4: I've never heard anyone explain it that way, but that
makes sense. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: A little tip for for beginners like me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, how many songs do you, guys, Everything that
you've written so far? Is that on on this, uh,
this debut release or do you have others that you
haven't recorded yet.
Speaker 5: We have two others that we haven't recorded yet, okay,
and we got a few more in the works as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, and this I forget is it self titled
the debut? Oh?
Speaker 5: What do we called it? E? P?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: E E P?
Speaker 4: That's that's right, I forgot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a spur of the moment decision. There
was there was a it was a sick.
Speaker 5: Dude, hell yeah moment. It was like should we call
it E E P E? You know, like sick dude?
Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm always I ask everybody. I'm always curious about influence,
it says, and from talking to you guys so far,
I would imagine that you both have pretty diverse influences musically,
but I'm curious to hear about some of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so big influences for me, A lot of Black Sabbath,
a lot of James Brown. Yeah, yeah, a little bit
of everything. Yeah, you know, I mean I grew up
listening to a lot of Johnny Cash. Yeah, and I
was lucky enough to have parents who loved cool music.
I mean, so I was exposed to bands like Blind Melon, Sublime,
all that kind of stuff at an early age, and
like Alice in Chains, So that took like a that
was a big role in kind of shaping my taste
in music. But yeah, a lot of a lot of everything,
and especially like like metal, punk rock, a lot of
underground stuff, but also anything that's just weird and different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. How about you. Yeah, I
don't know what to call it. Do I call you somebody?
Speaker 3: You could just call me Nate. I was being I
just because I didn't know, if you know, I make
art under somebody's crackers, somebody's crackers, So.
Speaker 4: I didn't know. Do I call you somebody's Do I
do I call you some for short?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You call me call me crackers. You can just call
me Nate. That's my name, yeah, perfect. I've never really
thought about how people are supposed to call me. When
I introduced myself as somebody's I don't know maybe if
it was SC.
Speaker 4: You know, you just use initials for for short. I
wasn't sure.
Speaker 3: I've done some raps as somebody's crackers, and after I
refer to myself as SC. Yeah, I think the best
there ever was, but the best that ain't yet be SC.
Something like a Lil Wayne Gretzky. It's funny how nobody
gets me like no soap radio or no coke PEPSI anyway?
Speaker 4: Is that online?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Sort of? Uh?
Speaker 3: Me and my friend did a project called America's Funniest
Home Videos, and I used some of that rap in
one of the songs. That's cool anyway, What was the question?
Speaker 8: Though?
Speaker 3: It's about musical influences. I've been exposed to music from
a very young age. My folks were in a band
full time when I was born. They were called the Candles.
They played all around like New England and most of
the Eastern Seaboard and they just uh, is that the
same thing as the East Coast that I just try
to sound smart but sound like an idiot anyway.
Speaker 4: I feel like the seaboard is when people say I
feel like that's more like the East Coast is more
like the Upper the Upper East, well the Upper East
Coast like like New England and down down into New Jersey.
I get like, that's the East Coast, but the Eastern
seaboard would be the whole eastern side of the country.
Speaker 3: Thing Anya, I think that's where they played. Yeah, they
they had original music, but they really packed. They packed
bars and venues and stuff with their Grateful Dead covers.
As a results, I'm not the world's biggest Grateful Dead fan.
But I don't hate them, but I don't love them,
but I love everything. And like I said earlier, I
particularly identify with duos, people like Steely Dan, like Ween,
anything that's just been two people getting together and creating something,
like even if it evolves past more than two people,
like what it did in both of those cases. But
the white stripes, sneaker pamps, fevery corporation, just anything that's
two people. Daft punk just always really speaks to me
because it's really all you need to take. Like like,
singer songwriter stuff is in like one pocket that's ever
growing with like the way people are getting more and
more creative, but a second person can take singer songwriter
and just turn it into a full blown composition. And
I just like, I have such a hard time working
as a solo artist, like I need that other person
to bounce something off of. And so yeah, so other
bands though, I've like, uh, I really love like Manu
Chau and his band Mono Negra.
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 3: What have I been digging on a lot lately, King
Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Gong who else? I love
like psychedelic rock, but I love like garage rock.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 3: I love rap music, like particularly like underground hip hop stuff. Yeah, yeah,
a certain era of popular rap music that I still
really love. A lot of people will call me an
old head for that, but yeah, there's a lot of
that stuff I love, like the nineties, two thousands, even
some of the early twenty ten stuff like Asap Rocky.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah me too, really really good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I love everything as long as it's
like authentic, it makes me feel something, and bonus points
if it's like something I haven't heard before.
Speaker 4: Right, Right, There's so much great stuff out there. And
you know, a lot of people, they get older, and
I think the average age for this is probably around thirty.
A lot of people they reach a certain point in
their life where they say, Okay, I've heard all the
music I ever need to hear, and anything made after
this I'm not going to like. And it's too bad,
it really is, because you miss out on so much.
And you mentioned bands just now that I haven't heard
of that now I'm curious about just because you know,
you mentioned him. It's like, okay, because but yeah, I
always grew up, you know. And and Jenny is like
this too, Like we both love here. I mean, that's
part of why we do a show like this because
we love hearing new music and new music that maybe
hasn't made it to the mainstream. And you know, and
and uh, my dad, you know, he's in his seventies
and he lives on the seacoast and he's still at
his age. He'll listen to w u n H, the
great college station there because he loves hearing new music.
Like if you got in a car with my dad,
you're not gonna hear an oldies station on his radio.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: He's not that stereotypical boomery. He loves hearing new music.
And he's always been like that, you know, and even
like and he likes hip hop. He like, you know, yeah,
it's it's amazing. So you know, so, I mean he's
he's sipper than me. Like he'll he'll ask me about
a band he heard on w U n H and
I'm like, I don't, I don't know who it is.
And it's like, wow, you know you're having me on this.
But but yeah, and I and I think it's so
important to you know, I mean, yeah, it sounds like
you guys both have a real commitment to to hearing,
hearing and exploring new sounds, which then informs your own
musical output and and helps you to be more creative.
The more the more you're exposed to, the more creative
you're gonna be. Right, Yeah, No, So I think I
think that's great. I think it's so important to have
a diversity and and uh and influences and all that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, absolutely, yeah. I mean our our main goal,
I think collectively is is to just have fun. Yeah,
you know, make some loud sounds, smash some stuff, and
you know, have a good time.
Speaker 3: Meet some people, help some people feel good.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, well, we should, uh, we should play another track.
What do you guys want to play next?
Speaker 3: Sitting with the title track. Yeah, it might be he
might have sent it to you as sdh.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm looking right, that's why. Yeah, it says sh
wide and through me. Yeah, God got it?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, nice going.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm grounded again.
Speaker 4: All right, this is the title track. This is sick dude.
Hell yeah.
Speaker 7: But you're building in the world today, but I keep
fighting for a better way.
Speaker 1: I'll make your wing a through my back.
Speaker 5: We be not a five for a hard track.
Speaker 7: But after that lent free from down the road and
a feeling the freeze a million half ococks in by five,
I make alive my I decided checktoe hell yeah, changted,
hell y, chirk code he yeah, shirktoed, hell ya. When
it's tripping from the crowd, I gotta go kind of
shut out now the rote is calling for.
Speaker 2: My escape the snow.
Speaker 7: More time for stchay like the trottle, pull it back
the winter.
Speaker 1: Spinning out of the back. Put my promised to.
Speaker 7: Pat away whimming at the moments.
Speaker 2: That takes a day. Chick toe hell yeah, chaketoed, hell yeah, chegoe,
hell yeah, shirkue hell shike cote hell yeah, check note heh.
Speaker 4: That is sick dude, hell yeah, that's the name of
the song. That's the name of the band. And we've
got the guys here. Dylan and Nate are here with us.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, hey, live in the studio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's really good, guys. I love the energy
of it. If that doesn't get you moving, check your pulse,
you might be dead. But yeah, we've got the guys
from Sick Dude. Hell yeah here with us in studio.
And now do you guys? Obviously it's almost spring and
then summer will be here and a lot of the
bands we know, you know, they play a lot of
shows in the summer. Is that kind of the plan
for you?
Speaker 8: Guys?
Speaker 4: Are going to be get getting out there a lot
this year?
Speaker 5: We hope to Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the goal. Yeah,
that's the goal. Absolutely. Yeah, Because it's summertime, people are
going to be out and you know, at the same
time too, as far as next winter goes, I hope
to be playing just as much. Yeah, because I feel like,
especially you know, in the East Coast in the winter,
having something to go do is super important. Yeah, you know,
and then some of the most fun shows I've been to.
For some reason, I've always been in the winter time
really Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think I have
something to do with just like uh like being cooped up.
Speaker 3: You know, releases twice as nice yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a good way to uh you know,
to fight the winter depression and all this seasonal depression
that which is especially bad here in the Northeast. So yeah, no,
that's cool. Yeah, I want to see you guys live.
I love the I love what you're doing. I love
the energy of it. And do you guys are there?
I mean, what is you both live in wolf Burrow?
Speaker 5: Or yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, like are there other bands there or that you
guys can kind of team up with for shows? Or
what's the scene like, I mean, I know Wolf Burrow,
It's it's not a big place.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 4: I think I believe I've driven through it.
Speaker 3: Once once or quick drive through yeah blank and you'll
miss it.
Speaker 5: It's uh, it could be a little tough scene wise there, Yeah,
because a lot of it's just a lot of it's
bar bands, yeah, you know, and it's it's mainly covers.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Finding a place to play your original songs up there
can kind of be like pulling teeth. Yeah, I was
fortunate enough one time to play on the Winnie Bell
and that's like the boat that goes out on the
lake out there and yeah, yeah, and the dude who
hired me to play hadn't heard any of my music. Yeah,
and my acoustic solo stuff was very rooted in punk
rock as well. A lot like the Stoogest kind of deal,
and a lot of it was making people feel uncomfortable,
which was something I enjoyed, like as a musician. And
I got to say, it was like the perfect show
for it because I get on this boat and it's
all these like older people or like like high class,
sophisticated type folk and we go out on the boat
and I looked like a maniac that day, you know.
And I hop on the microphone like is everybody ready
to get weird? And it was just like dead silence.
Speaker 4: Those people were not expecting on a boat with Yeah,
that was the best part.
Speaker 5: They couldn't get away.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: That's great, that's funny. Well, so then how did it go?
Like how did the gig go? How did people react?
Speaker 5: My girlfriend really enjoyed it, yeah, and the rest of
the people were, I think just waiting to get off
the boat because sometimes it's.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's fun in a situation like that that to
see if you can win people over, you know. But
it doesn't sound like that was a crowd that necessarily
wanted to be one over.
Speaker 3: No, I tried, that's funny. I drove them back to port.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did the guy who booked you, did he ever book
you again? Or was that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: But not necessarily. I don't think it was a matter
of a matter of me burning the bridge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was like, he wasn't upset with you. No, No, No,
he was because he probably he probably knew what he
would He probably figured out he had he knew me,
so he knew maybe it would work. Yeah, because I
used to do so. I used to in addition to
playing a lot of bands, I would promote a lot
of shows, and I put on shows various places, and
I always kind of and and from a business standpoint,
this was probably not a good thing, but I would
kind of like to test the limits a little bit
in terms of just seeing what would happen.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know, we got this metal show we're doing,
but we got this one act that's a little more
hip hop, you know, but we're going to put them
in there and see what happens, you know, just to
see what happens. And and sometimes it ends up going well,
you know, because sometimes people who may not think they want,
uh some sort of variety in the in the show,
when you know, when you got a bunch of bands
and this one act that's different, sometimes you know, it
may go over well and it turns out these people
actually enjoy what they're seeing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's like that's how some people find
out that they like rap music. Like I'm not even kidding.
That is how some people find out they like anything.
As you throw like a wild card band onto a
bill and then all of a sudden, you've got somebody's
entire like world being opened up in front of their
eyes to something they were completely blind to.
Speaker 4: And it's just that is very true. Yeah, yeah, and
especially with hip hop, I think, yeah, yeah absolutely do
you guys uh so, I mean long term, do you
want to like tour around New England and get out
and kind of go everywhere or I.
Speaker 5: Would like to yeh would be great. Yeah, we we
haven't had that discussion together, but I mean that's definitely
like a lifelong dream and goal of mine just to tour,
you know, and uh play basements all over the place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people listening probably don't even
know what you mean when you say that, you know,
basement shows, because people who are people who've never you know,
even been near you know, the punk Rocks or anything
like that, probably are like, what what does he mean
play basements?
Speaker 5: Exactly what we mean.
Speaker 3: We mean, pack a bunch of sweaty people into your
basement and charge him five dollars or three beers to
see us.
Speaker 5: And uh bacant warehouses.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Some of the best shows I've actually, you know, best
shows I ever been to take a place in basement
or or a squat house. You know, It's always interesting
because you never know what you're gonna get, you know.
Sometimes you walk into place and the only rule is
don't hang on the pipes, right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: I want to make sure we get another song. And
what do you guys want to play next? We should
play another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we should do Nailing the Coffin.
Speaker 4: Nailing the Coffin, all right, Yeah, I gotta get a
radio editor to that one that I made. Yeah, this
is and this also happens to be one of my
favorites too. Uh yeah, you know, I listen to the
whole thing, but I really like this a lot. Where
oh there it is? I'm like where it go. I'm
talking about how much I want to play and I
can't find it. There is the one with the It's
been a busy show today, but I'm glad you guys
are here, and I'm very happy to share this track.
All right here it is. If you are just tuning in,
We've got sick dude, hell yeah with us here in studio,
and this track is called the Nail in the coffin,
Don't believe in myself?
Speaker 7: Bumping touch before another nail and knife popping another closing door.
Speaker 6: Porn promps by jumping, baking bright not old table go
the fitch bags right, two.
Speaker 5: Week call we Ken, look up shitch sort cream.
Speaker 7: It is always brising, so wait, sit on IM a
petty score.
Speaker 4: Porn prompsky, don't just thank by.
Speaker 6: I don't care about no the fish.
Speaker 2: Pgs, br.
Speaker 7: All these sweeish people making their mess leaxing in my pocket.
Speaker 4: But all I said, ever said for it crops by.
Speaker 6: It makes you bye, I don't come up no if.
Speaker 4: It makes a fie, I love that I was so
into it I didn't notice it was over.
Speaker 3: I appreciated that. I love the groove on that. I
love the groove on that. Great job, guys, Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4: Sick dude. Hell yeah, is here with us in studio.
That is called Nail in the Coffin. Hey, what do
you have again? Swedish people though that was a little
inside No, that is that is a great track and
uh yeah, you guys were saying as we were listening
to it too, that one goes over pretty well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably our favorite to like play. Yeah, I
feel like if we're when we're practicing, if we're like
that last one wasn't so good, let's play Nail in
the Coffin and kind of just like bring us bring
ourselves back to ground a little bit, you know.
Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, always always brings up that energy morale.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, do you guys have any covers? A lot
of bands will throw in a cover. I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: So we've been trying to figure out what what to
cover and what we could make work.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I can imagine like like some classic Sabbath like Sweetly
for something.
Speaker 3: We do have a Sabbath song on the chopping block
to learn for covering which one was it?
Speaker 5: Hand of Doom?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah I can I can picture that. Yeah,
but yeah.
Speaker 3: I I've been in a lot of bands, some of
which have played covers. I have like a weird moral
hang up about covers because, like, so hear me out, okay,
very curious. If you play in a band that does
mostly original songs and you play a cover live at
like say a bar or something, you have suddenly become
the disappointment jukebox for the entire audience because a couple
of people in the audience liked the cover song. But
then they're like, hey, can you play leather and Lace
or like something? And you can't. You play leather and Lace,
you can't play free Bird, you can't play Sultans of Swing,
you know what I mean? Like suddenly you can't play
what they all of a sudden want to hear and
what they've tricked themselves into thinking they're there to hear.
That suddenly you owe them something. And so with me,
I like to play covers if it really means something
to me, Like if I can get something emotionally out
of performing this song in front of people, play a
cover all day long. But I'm not just gonna play
you know, wagon Wheel because it'll does that make sense?
Speaker 5: It does? It does.
Speaker 4: I can relate to what you're saying, and.
Speaker 3: No shade to anybody who makes a living playing covers.
That's that's not what I vibe with musically, you really speaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I can relate to that tremendously because you know,
I played a bunch of bands and I always fought
against doing too many covers. It would be hard to
talk the other people I was in these bands with
out of doing any covers. But like I was in
a hardcore band. I was in a band called First Shove,
and like the one cover that we were doing was
we did Last Breath by Hate Breed and that was
okay because it was short and it wasn't with that
kind of situation, It's not like somebody's not going to say,
you know, okay, now do you know free Bird?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's true like that and that type of element,
you know, covering a song is almost like more more
or less paying homage to an inspiration.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that band we played with it that Red
Alert shout out to Trick Attack they got at the
coolest design I've ever heard of. So everybody loves the
Tony Hawk pro skater soundtracks, right, what if there was
a band that that was their whole thing and that's
Trick Attack, no kidding, Yeah, be on the lookout for
Trick Attack coming to a place near you. They were
so awesome, They were sick and they've got such a
good idea of just like taking this soundtrack that's resonated
with so many people our age and exposed so many
people to so many cool forms of music and uh yeah,
just kind of bringing the spirit of that and and to.
Speaker 5: Like skateboard too contract being played live that that was like, man,
my fourth grade self was over the moon, respectfully, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
respectfully of course the nostalgic it was great.
Speaker 4: Where are they from? Are they from around here?
Speaker 3: Trick They're from Mass Yeah, Mass, I think.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, oh, maybe we can get them on the show.
That's that's very interesting. Yeah, but yeah, I always I
always fought against doing too many covers in the bands
I was in or Or. My thing was, if we're
going to do a cover, let's end with it that way.
Yeah the way, there's not that way there's no misunderstandings
about you know, are we an original band? Are we
a cover band? I was just you know, we'll do well, well,
let's do it at the end. But the other thing
that drove me nuts to back in and this, you know,
I'm older, So this goes back like twenty years. But
there was a period where and and anybody, any of
my peers from that time will know what I'm talking about,
because I know I know some of the people I
knew then listen to the show. There was this period
where if you were a New Hampshire band and you
were an original band that liked to sprinkle in a
couple of covers, all of these bands were covering Sober
by Tool. It was so obnoxious. And it wasn't even
like all these bands were covering Tool. All these bands
were specifically covering Sober by Tool. And it even and
I was in a band called My Life Crisis, and
I remember one of the guys was like, because everybody
in the band was a Tool fan, including me, I
like Tool. I didn't I never loved Tool, but I
liked but I think I burned out on them because
they just they were so ubiquitous. It was like, oh
my god, no more Tool. And I remember the conversation
with these guys where one of them was like, we
should do a Tool cover, and I remember just sitting
there silently thinking, oh, no, I know what's coming next.
We should do Sober. It was so weird and I'm
not even I'm not even exaggerating or being hyperbolic. All
of these bands were covering that specific song.
Speaker 3: I must really resonate with the New Hampshire musician craft.
Speaker 4: I guess it was so strange, like at like twenty
years ago, if you walked into any bar where there
was a rock band playing, whether it was an original
band that did one cover or a cover band, you
were going to hear Sober by Tool. It was bizarre
and it was very frustrating. And here I am, two
decades later, finally venting about it publicly.
Speaker 3: Set your chest.
Speaker 4: It does. I've been carrying that around with me all
this time. We'll be like, oh, it's a great bassline.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a bass player. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, game we be soberhup? Yeah me too, man.
Speaker 5: I had any idea. I was thinking, you know, wouldn't
it be funny to open with a cover and then
before every original song you played, just be like, oh,
this next one is war Pigs by Sabbath.
Speaker 3: I do stuff like that with There's another band that
I play sometimes with. We're kind of like in the
middle of like a semi break now, but we're called Targets.
Targets shout out to Sean James Sweeney.
Speaker 2: Uh we uh.
Speaker 3: I kind of like MC for them because everybody else
just like he is either too busy setting up there
like synthesizer for the next song or whatever. So I
just kind of end up like talking, and I'll introduce
songs with like names that are familiar or like not
say that where us. I'll say that like hey, where
are the Backstreet Boys? Or where the fine Young Cannibals
or something like that. Yeah, like anything so that it
seems like I'm am seeing but I'm actually giving the
audience no information at all. Right, that's kind of my stick.
Speaker 4: Oh that's cool, that's cool. I like that. Let's uh.
I want to make sure we get at least one
more in what should we play?
Speaker 3: I think we only got one more? You want to
hit him with dead Sky?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 4: Is there only one more?
Speaker 3: I think there is. This is the one that you
can hear John doing Barnyard.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh there is only one left. Okay, yeah,
So we'll play this and then we'll come back and
wrap up. But if you are just joining us, oh
hello to Andre Dumont in the chat room of course,
from the Great Band and from Dead Harrison and Terminus
Underground and New Hampshire Underground. And Andre is someone who
probably can relate to what I was saying a moment ago,
one of my peers from that era. I'm sure Andre.
Andre may have even been in a band that played
sober by.
Speaker 3: Tool Listen, man, why can't we just be sober?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Boy, you'd think I could relate Rodney King say that.
Speaker 4: I'm not much of a drinker in my self. I'm
pretty sober. You think i'd appreciate the song more, but
I just grew to hate it, all right. So this
is called a Dead Sky and the band is Hell yeah. No,
I'm sorry, sick dude. Hell yeah, I apologize, gentlemen. I'm suffering.
I'm suffering from adult onset dyslexia. Here we go. This
is Dead Sky from Sick Dude. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2: Last five.
Speaker 8: File Love Mountain Lie Motie wall.
Speaker 1: By God.
Speaker 5: Vanity, showy face.
Speaker 7: Technology building place, accept this face.
Speaker 3: Top skin.
Speaker 2: Cause your tes cop so let cross last but tag
spells back co tri co stach to well come true.
Speaker 1: Man slowly face.
Speaker 4: Technology built from place.
Speaker 5: Accept this face.
Speaker 4: That is called dead Sky. The band is sick dude.
Hell yeah, and we've got the guys here with us
in studio.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 4: By the way, you guys are getting some love. So
we got an instant message through Matt connorton dot com. Hi, guys,
this is Nate's mom. I'm loving the show a.
Speaker 5: Very cool way.
Speaker 8: What's up, mom?
Speaker 4: A very cool way to spend a Saturday morning. Signed Helen,
so very nice.
Speaker 5: That's that's sweet.
Speaker 4: Very nice. Also, Andre Dumont from Dad Harrison said, uh yes,
he he uh. He said yeah that that song sober
by Tool. He relates to what I'm saying. But he
also said, these guys completely remind me of listening to
the Repoman soundtrack Old School.
Speaker 3: Oh cool. Appreciated. I'll take that as a compliment.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you, absolutely well, guys, thank you so much
for being with us. Before we run out of time.
I want to make sure everybody knows where is the
best place to go online to keep up with everything
you're doing with the band.
Speaker 5: Our Instagram okay, which is just at sick Dude, hell yeah, okay.
And and then maybe my personal Facebook too sometimes I
post stuff on there, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my personal Facebook too, which is just somebody's crackers
on Facebook. It's pretty easy to find me, believe.
Speaker 4: It or not.
Speaker 6: And and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the uh the band camp if you want to, uh,
if you want to download that album for free or
to download that album for a price that you name,
you can find it sick dude, hellyeah dot bandcamp dot com.
And uh, we're hoping to keep some fresh releases for
that coming out soon. We got these two other songs
that we've basically all but completely finished that were eager
to get recorded. And uh yeah, just be on the lookout.
We'd like to think we're approachable. Just shoot us a
d M. Let's talk shows, let's talk anything, just uh,
you know.
Speaker 4: Very good, very good, good. Thanks guys and guys still
in and Nate from a Sick Dude, Hell yeah, thank
you guys so much for joining us again today and
stuff like.
Speaker 3: This is so cool, Like big ups to you and
people like you who still keep things like this going
in like the in the the climate of today, where
stuff like this is much harder to to keep going,
to keep to keep fueled, you know. So uh, you know,
support your local radio station, support your local pegasust, tip
your bartenders, all that stuff, you know.
Speaker 4: Agreed, agreed. Well, well I'm very glad, very glad you
guys came here today. This has been this has been
wonderful and uh, all right, wise man, all right, another
one in the books, and uh, we'll talk to you
a little bit later. Bye, everybody, Bye,