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Speaker 1: Now, do you guys have any covers? A lot of

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bands will throw in a cover. I'm just curious.

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Speaker 2: So we've been trying to figure out what what to

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cover and what we could make work. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine, like like some classic Sabbath like Sweetly

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for something.

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

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to learn for covering. Which one was it?

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Speaker 2: Hand of Doom?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I can I can picture that. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I I've been in a lot of bands,

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some of which have played covers. I have like a

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weird moral hang up about covers because so hear me out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh, very curious.

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Speaker 3: If you play in a band that does mostly original

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songs and you play a cover live at like say

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a bar or something, you have suddenly become the disappointment

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jukebox for the entire audience because a couple of people

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in the audience liked the cover song. But then they're like, hey,

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can you play leather and Lace or like something, and

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you can't. You play leather and Lace, you can't play

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free Bird, you can't play Sultans of Swing, you know

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what I mean? Like, suddenly you can't play what they

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all of a sudden want to hear and what they've

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tricked themselves into thinking they're there to hear that suddenly

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you owe them something. And so with me, I like

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to play covers if it really means something to me,

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Like if I can get something emotionally out of performing

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this song in front of people, play a cover all

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day long. But I'm not just gonna play you know,

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wagon Wheel because it'll Does that make sense?

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Speaker 1: It does? It does. I can relate to what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: And no shade to anybody who makes a living playing covers,

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that's that's not what I vibe with musically, you really speak.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I can relate to that tremendously because you know,

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I played a bunch of bands and I always fought

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against doing too many covers. It would be hard to

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talk the other people I was in these bands with

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out of doing any covers. But I was in a

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band called First Shove, and like, the one cover that

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we were doing was we did Last Breath by Hate

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Breed and that was okay because it was short and

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it wasn't with with that kind of situation, It's not

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like somebody's not going to say, you know, okay, now

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do you know free Bird, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's true, like in that and that

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type of element, you know, covering a song is almost

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like more more or less paying homage to an inspiration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that band we played with it that red

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alert shout out to Trick Attack. They got at the

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coolest design I've ever heard of. So everybody loves the

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Tony Hawk pro Skater soundtracks, right, what if there was

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a band that that was their whole thing and that's

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Trick Attack, No kidding, Yeah, be on the lookout for

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Trick Attack coming to a place near you. They were

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so awesome, they were sick and they've got such a

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good idea of just like taking this soundtrack. It's resonated

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with so many people our age and exposed so many

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people to so many cool forms of music and uh yeah,

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just kind of bringing the spirit of that.

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Speaker 2: And and to like skateboard to countract being played live

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that that was like, man, my fourth grade self was

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over the moon, respectfully, Yeah yeah, yeah, respectfully of course,

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the nostalgic it was great.

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Speaker 4: Where are they from?

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Speaker 1: Are they from around here?

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Speaker 2: Trick They're from Massa?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mass I think?

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, oh maybe we can get them on the show.

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That's that's very interesting. Yeah, but yeah, I always I

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always fought against doing too many covers in the bands

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I was in or or. My thing was, if we're

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going to do a cover, let's end with it that way. Yeah, way,

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there's not that way. There's no misunderstandings about you know,

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are we an original band? Are we a cover band.

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I was just you know, we'll do well, well, let's

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do it at the end. But the other thing that

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drove me nuts to back in and this, you know,

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I'm older, So this goes back like twenty years. But

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there was a period where and and anybody, any of

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my peers from that time will know what I'm talking about,

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because I know I know some of the people I

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knew then listen to the show. There was this period

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where if you were a New Hampshire band and you

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were an original band that liked to sprinkle in a

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couple of covers, all of these bands were covering sober

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By Tool.

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Speaker 4: It was so.

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Speaker 1: Obnoxious and it wasn't even like all these bands were

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covering Tool. All these bands were specifically covering sober By Tool.

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And it even and I was in a band called

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my life crisis. And I remember one of the guys

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was like, because everybody in the band was a Tool fan,

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including me, I like Tool. I didn't. I never loved Tool,

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but I liked But I think I burned out on

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them because they just they were so ubiquitous. It was like,

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Oh my god, no more Tool. And I remember the

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conversation with these guys where one of them was like,

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we should do a Tool cover, and I remember just

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I'm sitting there silently thinking, oh, no, I know what's

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coming next. We should do Sober. It was so weird

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and I'm not even I'm not even exaggerating or being hyperbolic.

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All of these bands were covering that specific song.

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Speaker 3: I must really resonate with the new Hampshire musician craft.

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Speaker 4: I guess it was so strange at like twenty years ago,

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if you walked into any bar where there was a

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rock band plane, whether it was an original band that

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did one cover or a cover band, you were going to.

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Speaker 1: Hear Sober by Tool. It was bizarre and it was

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very frustrating. And here I am, two decades later, finally

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venting about it publicly.

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Speaker 3: Good to get that out of your chest.

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Speaker 1: It does I've been carrying that around with me all

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this time. We'll be like, Oh, it's a great bassline,

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don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can't we be sobhup? Yeah me too, man.

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Speaker 2: I had a funny idea. I was thinking, you know,

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wouldn't it be funny to open with a cover and

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then before every original song you played, just be like, oh,

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this next one is war Pigs by Sabbath.

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Speaker 3: I do stuff like that with There's another band that

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I play sometimes with. We're kind of like in the

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middle of like a semi break now, but we're called Targets.

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Targets shout out to Sean James Sweeney. Uh we uh.

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I kind of like MC for them because everybody else

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just like he is either too busy setting up there

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like synthesizer for the next song or whatever. So I

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just kind of end up like talking, and I'll introduce

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songs with like names that are familiar or like not

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say that where us. I'll say that like hey, where

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are the backs three Boys? Or where the fine Young

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Cannibals or something like that, like anything so that it

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seems like I'm am seeing but I'm actually giving the

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audience no information at all. That's kind of my stick.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, that's cool. I like that.