Speaker 1: How many stocks do I have to expect?
Speaker 2: How individual body?
Speaker 3: That's time you really cross the banging lie.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna be out of doun side. There's a
rice to have your good.
Speaker 4: Lad, that's a lot to have you my way?
Speaker 1: So lade druckum boys, so lad shouting? How many times
do I have to get the bad.
Speaker 5: I don't mean your senseless page.
Speaker 1: It ain't no picture.
Speaker 6: Roger spies, one stranture stamp th slies.
Speaker 1: That's all right.
Speaker 6: Time you could die, that's all out.
Speaker 3: Jack in my way, souls doctor solis, doctor do.
Speaker 4: Yees.
Speaker 7: 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. Welcome everybody. If you are listening
live on Saturday. It is Saturday, March eight, twenty twenty five,
and we are live from the studios of wm NH
ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny
is here as well, of course at the news table. Yes,
and let's go ahead and get those mics up here.
Really looking forward to talking to these guys. Gentlemen.
Speaker 8: Welcome, hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 7: Absolutely please please each introduce yourselves and tell us who
you are what you do in the band.
Speaker 5: I'm Dylan McKenna.
Speaker 9: I do bass and vocals, all right, welcome, And I'm
Somebody's Crackers and I play the drums and do some
backup vocals.
Speaker 7: All right, very good. Somebody's Crackers. Am I saying that right?
Speaker 8: It's not an as, it's an e RS, it's an eers.
Speaker 7: Somebody's crackers. Okay, very good. You know these uh these
these names, Yeah, I want I try to make sure
I pronounce everyone's name correctly. Jenny witnessed me, uh, just
almost panicking over well, he ended up not joining us
on the show. I guess we had booked earlier and
uh phy Zach early 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. Uh So, welcome guys. First question, of course, uh,
where does the name come from? Because that 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, oigured, let's let's give that
a shot. Did that and our first jam session, like
after it, I was like sick dude, and Nate hell.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. We just kind of It's been the mantra
since day one. It's 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 riff
for like yeah 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, but
you know.
Speaker 7: Right, that's awesome now, so it makes sense. It makes sense.
The name is is appropriate. Dylan, tell me about the
splitting of the Uh oh sorry, Uh, I don't have
the video on me. I have it on you guys,
so people can't see I'm fidgeting with my microphone. Uh
tell me about the splitting of the signal. I'm curious
about this and when you mentioned that too. Do you
guys probably know Able Blood, right or did you guys
know the band Able Blood?
Speaker 8: I don't think so now.
Speaker 7: 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 anima bass player.
So selfishly, I'm also very careious. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: So originally it started with just a split a quarter
inch cable that come off my bass and basically one
signal just goes straight into my bass amp and I
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 7: 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 it's pretty tough to
find other musicians to jam with.
Speaker 7: Yeah, where are you guys from Wolfborough, New Hampshire, wolf
Burro up.
Speaker 9: 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 7: Yeah yeah right, uh yeah, able Blood does something kind
of like what you described. I forget how they but
because 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?
Speaker 8: It's not just that it literally is just the two
of you.
Speaker 7: 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 know.
Speaker 9: Most legendary duo of all time, yea from maybe Tenacious D.
But yeah, yeah, no, I 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 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: 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. Ye're perfectly content to
just move forward as a duo. There's a soft spot,
excuse me, a soft spot in my heart.
Speaker 8: For musical duos like just yeap and across the board.
Speaker 7: So and if it's working, it's working. Yeah, so far,
why I mess with it? Yeah? How long is Sick
Dude hell yeah existed?
Speaker 5: Oh hm, I think maybe almost five months?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this really new?
Speaker 5: Yeah it was.
Speaker 9: 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, hell you.
Speaker 7: So you guys were in that other band together?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Oh, what do you want to say? What band? Redacted? Redacted? Okay, yeah,
not somebody I know? Or are you saying you're redact?
Speaker 8: I'm saying I'm reacting the reacting.
Speaker 7: Okay, will you tell me off their?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 7: I won't repeat it, I promise, Yeah, don't don't. I
don't repeat anything, right, Jenny, there you go.
Speaker 8: Do you have a little reverb on your mic over there?
Speaker 7: I don't know what's going on over there? All right,
sound very strange. I'm sorry. Yeah, she's she's booking guests
for the show.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 7: 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 8: About a year?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, So where do you record because obviously the
sound is, you know, it's a really raw you know,
which I love personally, I like that, but it's it's
it's got that sort of raw sort of demo 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, yeah,
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 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we just we just did the instruments in one
take and then vocals in another take. Yeah, and just
kind of like went into pro tools and just polished
up and 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 just in vocals and instruments all on one
take that one.
Speaker 7: 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, well we'll put something together. And
he's a goofy character as well, like me. So 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 7: Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. I love how it came out.
Speaker 9: And in one of the songs on the EP, you
can hear the producer making some barnyard noises just in
the background, Like, yeah, that wasn't either of us.
Speaker 8: I might have leaned up to the snare drum mic
and joined him, but.
Speaker 7: 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 The Occasion. It's so
it's a four to twenty fast Yeah, okay, my buddy's
in Lungbuster. They put it on.
Speaker 7: Okay, but it's the nineteenth, so it's uh said, yeah,
it's premature, proactive. Yeah that's good. That's good.
Speaker 8: That's for the real go getters of the four twenty crowd.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 7: So that's it. Now, how did how did you get
involved in that? Get in on that bill?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 5: 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.
Speaker 7: And who was the band? Can you say?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we were called Grave Tripper.
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 7: 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 prob.
Speaker 9: Yeah, actually very new really just that show at Red
Alert was our first, our first and only gigs so far.
Speaker 8: Okay, where uh.
Speaker 9: You know, we're wide open like our you know, we
we work and have day jobs and stuff like that.
But yeah, get us on your get us on your bill,
get us in your basement, get us on.
Speaker 8: Your birthday, your birth birthday. We'll play whatever.
Speaker 7: But I would imagine when when you guys are out
there gigging to 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.
Speaker 8: Know, where a sound guy's dream come true.
Speaker 7: I would imagine that's cool. And making the sound guy
happy is always a plus.
Speaker 9: It's miles miles where other actions go yards, making the
sound guy happy goes mine.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, absolutely so. Have you both played in a
lot of bands before this project or yeah.
Speaker 9: I've 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.
Speaker 8: In middle school. We were called rubber band, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we wore rubber bands on our wrists because
we were in the band rubber band.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it was well now, yeah exactly.
Speaker 9: And then we would start, you know, shooting them across
the classrooms and getting them taken away by.
Speaker 8: Teachers and stuff like that. But that's good for our
middle school things, good marketing.
Speaker 9: Then in high school, I was in a group called
Idiosity Killed the Cat. Okay, 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.
There they've got a lot of music going on there.
There's it's actually become quite the cultural hub.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 9: But in my high school days it was less so yeah,
and it's just it's it's really cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And then like more recently, I was in like a
ska psychedelic 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.
Speaker 8: I'll quit hoging the mic, what about you, don So.
Speaker 5: I haven't really been in too many bands and h
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've 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 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. Oh yeah. And it wasn't really until until
Grave Tripper that I started playing in bands again.
Speaker 7: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: 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 8: Oh yeah, absolutely play whatever songs you want too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, was was it hard for that reason? Was it
hard to transition back into playing in a band?
Speaker 5: No? No, Actually for me, it was. Uh. It was
nice to finally transdition 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 7: Yeah yeah, oh very cool, very cool.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 7: By the way, too, I want to mention, Uh, I
saw in one of the chat rooms Sheila Russo uh
says really great tunes, referring to one of our earlier guests.
And and Sheila, of course, I don't know. Do you
guys know a paper Jam magazine?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: I know of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah there. We kind of partnered up
with them. They send us a lot of great guests
and and uh, they're they're amazing. So hi Sheila, if
you're still listening, we love paper Jam. The new one
just came in the mail, uh the other day. And uh,
our friend Gracy Gatto is in the chat room to
hello Gracie, and let's see And in the Facebook chat room,
I see our friend Jay Fed from Vermont and Nathan Hill,
another very talented musician. He's gonna be coming on the
show soon. So hello Nathan and everybody else who is listening.
I think we should play another track. What do you
guys think we should play next?
Speaker 9: Shit him with my void because we talked about it
a little while ago you've read my mind.
Speaker 8: This is the one that we recorded everything in the
same take.
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 4: I said in this wool.
Speaker 10: Went for us the walls, I cannot see myself and
I saw I won't try move it.
Speaker 1: Like gostone.
Speaker 6: Waiting two by cross by stay close, so burstness, I shryd.
Speaker 4: The motion of great.
Speaker 6: Wait.
Speaker 7: I told me that.
Speaker 1: Wrapped the fox shop, I will never see it away.
If the fine destroyed myself by a furcas white kid.
Speaker 6: An ways, while when knock down head that my voice
jelly man so.
Speaker 4: So pastis.
Speaker 11: Said the most enough gray.
Speaker 7: White as a way, 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 hard not to call you a
band because you've got such a big sound, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we both tell our respective partners.
We're off to band practice, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. And
I enjoy now that I know you're set up, Dylan.
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 we ran distortion on it. Yeah, And well,
initially when I started the band, I always wanted to
learn how to do like metal screams. 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 7: 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 8: 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. Really yeah, And that's when I realized, like, oh,
I gotta start watching some videos, and you know, taking
this a little bit more seriously, there's.
Speaker 7: That that legendary one that people talk about to this day.
I think it's called the zen of. Is that the
zendom screaming?
Speaker 6: You know that one?
Speaker 7: 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 9: Maybe, 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 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, We're.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 7: Right right, Well, when you're drumming too, especially, that's gonna
be hard, right, I mean, you don't see that many
drummers who sing, and I.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've done that in a couple of bands.
Speaker 9: In that band Massachusetts of the band I was, I was,
I did lead vocal on a lot of songs us,
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 7: 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.
Speaker 9: I was imagine you 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 had to like you're not just hitting your
right hand and on the snare, you're also going ah
like while you're hitting it.
Speaker 7: So yeah, you have to.
Speaker 9: Internalize it like it's part of the drum set, but
it's coming through you. That's been my way.
Speaker 7: I've never heard anyone explain it that way, but that
makes sense. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 8: A little tip for for beginners like me.
Speaker 7: 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 7: Yeah. Yeah, and this I Forget is it self titled
the debut.
Speaker 5: We called it E P like E E P that's
that's right, I forgot.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: That was a spur of the moment decision.
Speaker 5: There was there was a it was a hell yeah moment.
It was like should we call it E E P
E E? You know, like sick dude?
Speaker 7: Hell yeah, I'm always I ask everybody. I'm always curious
about influences, 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 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. How about you? Yeah, I
don't know what to call it. Do I call you somebody?
Speaker 8: You could just call me Nate.
Speaker 9: I was I just uh I because I didn't know,
if you know, I make art under somebody's crackers, somebody's crackers.
Speaker 7: So I didn't know, do I call you somebody's Do
I do I call you some for short?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 8: You call me crackers. You can just call me Nate.
Speaker 5: That's my name.
Speaker 8: Yeah, perfect.
Speaker 9: I've never really thought about how people are supposed to
call me. When I introduced myself as somebody's I didn't.
Speaker 5: Know maybe if it was s C.
Speaker 7: You know, you just use initials for for short. I
wasn't sure.
Speaker 9: I've done some raps as somebody's crackers, and after I
refer to myself as s C. Yeah, 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?
Speaker 8: Anyway?
Speaker 7: Is that online?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Sort of? Uh?
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 8: That's cool anyway.
Speaker 5: What was the question?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 8: It's about music.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 7: Anyway, 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 thing.
Speaker 9: Anyway, 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 result, 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 yeah,
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.
Speaker 8: All you need to take.
Speaker 9: 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, I really love like Manu
Chau and his band Mono Negra.
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 8: What have I been digging on a lot lately, King
Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Gong.
Speaker 5: Who else?
Speaker 9: I love like psychedelic rock, but I love like garage
rock too. 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 8: Oh yeah, yeah me too, really really good stuff.
Speaker 9: 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, right.
Speaker 7: 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, 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. You know, he's not
that stereotypical boomer. 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, 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 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, 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 8: Meet some people, help some people feel good.
Speaker 7: Absolutely well we should uh, we should play another track.
What do you guys want to play next?
Speaker 8: Sitting with the title track?
Speaker 7: Yeah, let's see, let me find it here. Why don't
I see it?
Speaker 8: It's might be he might have sent it to you
as sdh.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm looking right, that's why. Yeah, it says that
sh wid it threw me out?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 7: Got it? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Nice going do.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm grounded again.
Speaker 7: All right, this is the title track. This is sick dude,
Hell yeah, but your building in the.
Speaker 2: World today when I keep fighting for a better way,
wing a back back, a fie for a heart a check,
but after that I be late, free coming down the
road and a feeling the breeze, A million.
Speaker 1: Half accots in b fig swimming the life.
Speaker 11: But by decide check dude, hell yeah, checkdune, Hell yeah,
check dude, hell yeah, chiktute hell yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's stripping. Fuck the crowd. I gotta go kind
of get out now. The road is calling for my escape.
There's no more time for Chester Jay. I could the
bottle pull it back? The whiter spinning head of the back.
But my promised and paid away. Whimming at the moments that.
Speaker 11: Takes to day six dude, Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Check.
Speaker 7: Oh that is sick, dude.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah.
Speaker 7: 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 8: Hey, hey, hey, live in the studio.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, that's really good.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 7: I love the energy of it. If that doesn't get
you moving, check your pulse, you might be dead.
Speaker 8: Look at this on your little weather cam here. You
got this sharp shinned hawk right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I love birds, man.
Speaker 7: When we were here, when we got here this morning,
that bird was right in front of the camp. We
got two of them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, very cool. See a lot of great babies last year.
Speaker 5: So this is the falcon cam on top of the
bree Yeah awesome.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's really cool at night too, because so I'm also
a co host on a show that airs on Friday
night's called retro Spectrum Radio, and and so we have
this on last night. And the view of the city
at night is even whether there's a bird there. When
there's a bird there, that's a plus. But even when
there's not a bird there. Just the view of the
city is really cool at night when everything's lit up.
Speaker 8: But anyway, this isn't good radio.
Speaker 7: Here in Manchester. Well you know, we can describe it.
I mean it is theater of the mind after all. Yes, yes,
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 guys? You're going
to be get getting out there.
Speaker 5: A lot this year, 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, you.
Speaker 8: Know, releases twice as nice yep.
Speaker 7: 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 7: Okay, like are there other bands there or did 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 5: I know that.
Speaker 7: I think I believe I've driven through it once or twice.
Speaker 8: But a quick drive through, yeah, blink and you'll miss it.
Speaker 5: It's uh, it could be a little tough scene wise there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: 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 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Finding a place to play your original songs up there
can kind of be like pulling teeth.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: 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 7: Those people were not expecting on a boat with Yeah, that.
Speaker 5: Was the best part. They couldn't get away. You know.
Speaker 7: 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 7: 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 8: No, I tried, that's funny, drove them back to port.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Did the guy who booked you, did he ever book
you again?
Speaker 6: Or was that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: But not necessarily. I don't think it was a matter
of a matter of me burning the bridge.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was like, he wasn't upset with you. No, No, No,
he wasn't upset because he probably he probably knew what
he was. He probably figured he had some he knew me,
so he knew maybe it would work. Yeah, because I
used to do so. I used to in addition to
playing in 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 12: You know.
Speaker 7: 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 happened, and and sometimes it ends up going well,
you know, because sometimes people who may not think they
want 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, if
it may go over well and it turns out these
people actually enjoy what they're seeing.
Speaker 9: 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 7: And it's just that is very true. Yeah, yeah, and
especially with hip hop, I think, yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 5: Do you guys?
Speaker 7: Uh so, I mean long term, do you want to
like tour around New England and get out and kind
of go everywhere.
Speaker 8: Or I would like to Yeah, we would be great.
Speaker 5: 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 play basements all
over the place.
Speaker 7: 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 rock scene or
anything like that, probably are like, what, what does he
mean play basements?
Speaker 8: That's exactly what we mean.
Speaker 9: 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 vacant warehouses. Some of the best shows I've actually,
you know, best shows I've 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.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you walk into place and the only rule is
don't hang on the pipes, right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: I want to make sure we get another song. And
what do you guys want to play next? We should
play another.
Speaker 5: One, yeah, I think we should do Nailing the Coffin.
Speaker 7: 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, you know, I some of the whole thing,
but I really like this a lot. Where oh there
it is? I'm like, where did it go? I'm talking
about how much I want to play and I can't
find it there. 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 Nail in the Coffin, Don't Believe in myself?
Speaker 10: Bumping to beforn another nail in knight, popping another closet door,
corn crops by something baking right not old table go
it bit fakes by.
Speaker 2: Two week call, we can back up ships, sworn the
cream and is always brising, so wait, sit on, I'm
a petty score.
Speaker 7: Ford crumps, fie does it make bye?
Speaker 1: I don't kim up it big makes a fry.
Speaker 10: All these Swedish people making their it's a mess, preaching
in my pocket.
Speaker 7: But all I said, ever said, Ford promps, fy I.
Speaker 1: It make you bye? I don't kim up no it
it makes a bye.
Speaker 7: I love that. I was so into it I didn't
notice it was over.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it that. I love the groove on that.
Speaker 7: I love the groove on that. Great job, guys, Thank you,
thank you. 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 8: Yeah, that's probably our favorite to like play.
Speaker 9: 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 the energy morale.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. Now, do you Alays 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 7: Yeah. I can imagine like like some classic Sabbath like
Sweetly for something.
Speaker 8: We do have a Sabbath song on the chopping block
to learn for covering. Which one was it?
Speaker 5: Hand of Doom?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah I can I can picture that. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 8: Very curious.
Speaker 9: 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?
Speaker 8: And you can't. You play leather and Lace, you can't
play free Bird, you can't play.
Speaker 9: 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?
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 7: I can relate to what you're saying, And.
Speaker 8: No shade to anybody who makes a living playing covers.
That's that's not what I vibe with musically, you really speak.
Speaker 7: 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 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? Yeah, Yeah, that's true, like
in that and that type of element, you know, covering
a song is almost like more more or less paying
homage to an inspiration.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that band we played with it that Red Alert
shout out to Trick Attack 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, kid. 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 to coundtrack being played live. That that was like, man,
my fourth grade self was over the moon.
Speaker 8: Respect yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, respectfully of course the nostalgic it was great.
Speaker 7: Where are they from? Are they from around here?
Speaker 8: They're from mass Yeah, Mass, I think, okay.
Speaker 7: 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,
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.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 7: 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.
And I remember the conversation with these guys where one
of them was like, we should do a Tool cover,
and I remember just I'm 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 8: I must really resonate with the New Hampshire musician craft.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 7: 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 to.
Speaker 8: Get your chest it does.
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 5: Yeah, can't we be sob.
Speaker 7: Mashup?
Speaker 8: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I had a funny 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 9: 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 1: Uh we uh.
Speaker 8: I kind of like MC for them.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 8: Right, that's kind of my stick.
Speaker 7: 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 8: I think we only got one more? You want to
hit him with dead Sky?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Is there only one more?
Speaker 8: I think there is. This is the one that you
can hear John doing Barnyard noise.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh there is only one left. Okay, yeah,
so we'll play this something, 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 Andre 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 8: Tool listen, man, why can't we just be sober?
Speaker 7: Oh boy, you'd think I could relate to I'm not
much of a drinker myself. 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.
Speaker 5: I'm suffering.
Speaker 7: I'm suffering from adult onset dyslexia.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 7: This is Dead Sky from Sick Dude. Hell Yeah.
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