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