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Hey, what's up? This is Eva from Eva Under Fire,

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and you're listening to My Weekly Mixtape with

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Brian Colburn. Stay rock stars. Welcome to My

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Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that takes the classic

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mixtape approach to building a modern playlist.

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I'm your host, Brian Colburn. One of the things

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I like to do on this show is chat and curate

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mixes with some of the incredible artists whose

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music has been featured on countless mixtapes

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and playlists of mine. And the music from my

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guest this evening has been a mainstay of all

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of my hard rock playlists over the past year,

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and rightfully so, because this band is everything

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I love about hard rock music and then some. So

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please welcome my guest for this evening, the

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one and only Eva Marie, lead singer of Eva Under

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Fire. Eva, thank you so much for joining me tonight

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on my weekly mixtape. Brian, that's so cool,

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man. Thank you so much. What a lovely intro.

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Now, hopefully all your listeners will be like,

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yeah, I got to check them out. Well, we're going

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to get into all that, but we're going to start

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with the same question I ask all my guests. And

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I'll preface this by saying. There are no wrong

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answers to this question. Eva, what does the

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word mixtape mean to you? Oh, man. 1990s hip

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hop. You know what I mean? Yeah, man, because

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we grew up downriver Michigan, right? We're very

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close to Detroit. And a lot of my friends all

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had mixtapes as kids, you know what I mean? But

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there was like a way that you would discover

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people too, right? And then like people go like

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door to door with their own mixtapes, you know?

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So it's really. That's what I think about when

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I think of mixtape. Definitely, definitely. Now,

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our topic for tonight's mixtape collaboration

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is hard rock cover songs. But first, before we

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get into that, I'd like to talk to you a little

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bit about your band's album, Love, Drugs and

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Misery, which was released this past September

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via Better Noise Music. After touring... The

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summer of 2022 with Hailstorm, The Pretty Reckless,

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and The Warning, which let me start by saying,

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as a father of two young ladies, it's amazing

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to see a stacked lineup of incredible female

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singers carrying the hard rock torch across the

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country. Wow, much love. Thank you for that.

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Oh, no problem. But using that summer jaunt to

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build up hype before the album's release and

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then finally releasing it this past September.

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How has the overall reception been thus far?

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Because you're still relatively early in the

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album cycle here. Yeah, it was crazy to me because

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it was so unorthodox the way that we released

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everything after pandemic world and crazy stuff.

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And so finally we get a chance to be on this

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awesome, you know, finally getting a chance to

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be on these awesome stages with these, as you

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mentioned, you know, high profile rock and roll

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women, man. It was a killer stage show for sure.

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And then finally releasing the album, I think

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a lot of people really, really were receptive

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to Blow, the single. It's got a hard rock edge,

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but it's also just, it's fun. And I think having

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Spencer on it really didn't hurt, which was cool.

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But yeah, I'm finding it's a really cool response

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because there's so many varied opinions of why

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people love certain songs. And I love that they've

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chosen so many different ones. I think that's

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one thing on this album that I'm really proud

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of is... It's got so many different sounds. And

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I almost feel like the audience just can't pick

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a favorite. You know, they're just like so many

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of them are like different ones for different

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reasons. I think that's been really fun to see.

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And that's a great problem to have. First off,

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that there's that there's no deciding on one

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song that really resonates. My daughters are

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huge fans of the song Blow that you had mentioned

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earlier. And their reasoning for it is it's hard

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rock music that they both say you can dance to.

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And you really can. Because it's definitely a

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hard rock song, but it's got this groove to it

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where my nine -year -old is up and dancing. For

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me, I love it because it's kind of the meeting

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of the two worlds. Because a lot of younger kids

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are kind of, through their friends, just kind

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of indoctrinated into music by the pop music

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they hear on Top 40 radio. And as a hard rock

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fan myself, I like to let... than listen to as

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much variety of music as possible. So when we

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find something that the two of us connect on

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or the three of us connect on, it's special to

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me. And Eva Under Fire is one of those bands.

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Oh, so fun. Awesome. I love knowing that. That's

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cool, man. And the mini rockers are my favorite.

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bright -eyed, bushy -tailed ones at the very

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front of the, you know, we play, we love the

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rock show. We love playing live. And so when

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I see these little kids that are out there, man,

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it's the coolest thing. And they just, they have

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so much fun. And I love knowing that your kids

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can dance around to it, right? That's part of

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it for me. That's really cool. And I'll tell

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you right now, every kid you see in that audience

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in front of you on stage, that's a set of parents

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that are doing it right. Letting kids experience

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rock and roll music live. Letting them experience

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the real deal. That is so important to me and

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I love that. Let me tell you what. If you have

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music, listen up musicians. If you have music

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out there that kids like, you're doing something

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right. Because then kids are honest. They don't

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know how to lie to you. They will be brutally

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honest. I had some kid come up to me at a concert

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in New Jersey. She had a checklist. Right. She

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had a rating like a scoreboard of all the bands

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that she has seen. And she would give us each

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a rating based on how well we performed live.

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She was like 10. It was awesome. I'm like, you

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never lose that spice, my friend. Never ever

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lose that. That is awesome. You definitely have

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a future Rolling Stone writer right there. And

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then being from New Jersey, that's my stomping

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ground. So I'm proud that the state is doing

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well for you then. You guys are breeding music

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critics, man. And I'm happy to report I got a

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10. I got a 10 out of 10. All right. Rock and

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roll. Well, one of the things I find most fascinating

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about you personally, along with music, is that

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you're also a licensed therapist who's actively

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still treating clients. Yeah, I'm not taking

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on any new clients because things are, you know,

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getting busy. But I do. I just still have a handful

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of clients. Yeah, that I see via telehealth.

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And so it's been a really. interesting to figure

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out how to blend the two worlds, but truthfully

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so fulfilling and kind of like way more crossover

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than I ever thought there would be. So it's been

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really gratifying to see that. Well, being a

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musician myself, as well as a podcaster, I know

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how much work goes into crafting whatever the

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art that you're working on, maybe be it a song

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or a podcast interview, and then balancing that

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art with your family and a full -time job on

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top of that. There's that balance, which is really

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a lot of the struggle of doing it. And it's impressive

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that you're able to do both and be successful

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at both. So a hat tip to that. And something

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I want to bring up, listening to this album so

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much over the last few months, there are some

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lyrical themes that come across in the album

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that are extraordinarily deep, but they're handled

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with a care and compassion that really resonated

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with me as a listener. So without getting into.

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obvious specifics do the stories you hear as

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a therapist maybe help you craft songs or do

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they ever work into your mindset from maybe a

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thematic standpoint I think in the sense that

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people experience maybe certain broad concepts

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like grief like anger right then then that kind

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of like I'm always focused on emotions that I

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feel like are relatable but also I feel like

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my music is the I guess it's kind of the inverse

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of what I do when I'm in the role of being a

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therapist. So when I see clients, it's about

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those clients and me trying to serve them living

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their best life. And then when I write and I

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sit with my music, that's kind of like my own

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personal journal and reflective more so like

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my own journey with the stuff. You know, it's

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like music is my therapy and then I get to go

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be a therapist for other people. I think that's

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kind of how it works in my brain most of the

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time. Let me tell you that resonates with me

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so much because I have told people for years

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without music, I am nothing. It is literally

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the glue that holds me together. And this podcast,

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I was doing a show prior to this playlist wars

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and we had to go on hiatus. And the few months

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that we weren't doing the show, my friends, my

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family, my wife, everyone pointed out, you're

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not yourself. Once I started back up podcasting

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again, they immediately said, you're back. And

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it's something where talking music with people

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and hearing the stories about songs, it just

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is a livelihood and something that I'm truly

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passionate about. And I'm glad to hear I'm not

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alone in that. That is really, really cool. Oh,

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dude. Yeah, no preach because truly, I think

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music should be the sixth love language, like,

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like, this is where people can feel heard and

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understood and like share emotion and talk and

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feel like they can truly connect with others

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through music. And that somehow music itself

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right in the lyricism that you can feel like

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somebody like you're not alone in that, like

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you just said, and I think that's the most powerful

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thing about it. I love that. So and thank you

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for that. That's a high compliment to me that

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people would listen to my lyrics about my story

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and then be able to find themselves in that.

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Oh, by all means. And look, I could go on for

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the entire hour about this, but we did promise

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the listeners that tonight we were talking about

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hard rock cover songs. So I don't want to let

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them down. And I'm sure listeners are just as

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curious as I am to hear your cover song picks.

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So anyone that knows me personally or even just

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through this podcast knows I'm a cover song fanatic.

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And I love dropping cover references whenever

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possible. So my cover songs playlist is well

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over 1 ,500 songs. So it's safe to say I have

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plenty to choose from tonight. And the hardest

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part will be what songs inevitably don't make

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the cut. So, Eva, what were you looking for in

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some of the hard rock cover songs that you're

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bringing to the table this evening? Most of the

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time, it's a place and time for me with music.

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Right. So a lot of the cover songs that I choose,

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I love hearing like a hard rock version of something

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that I've either grown up with or that was special

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to me for one reason or the other. So can I tell

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you this cover song that I have on my brain?

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Right. You asked me what mixtape meant to me.

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And I said, like, 90s, early 2000s hip hop. Right.

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And so my friend Jay from State of Mind and I

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got on a cover together and we did Survivor.

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So for me, it was like Destiny's Child has been

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my jam since I was a kid. And now I need to try

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to sing Beyonce. Come on. Right. And it was so

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fun for me because I grew up listening to more

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pop music. I'm a 90s kid. So I started trying

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to emulate. vocalists like Christina Aguilera

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and Alicia Keys. And Destiny's Child was one

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of them. And so it was really cool for me to

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be like, you know, my buddy called me up. Hey,

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you know that soulful thing your voice does?

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Can you do that on a cover song with me? I need

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that. I need that. And I'll be honest, that is

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actually one of the songs on my list for tonight.

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And we'll see if we get it in because I think

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that song is absolutely fantastic. It was a cover

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song when I first heard it. I immediately said.

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How the hell did this not happen sooner? Like

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a hard rock version of Survivor. I don't know

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what took so long. And you guys really rocked

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it. I absolutely love because that song is a

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powerful song in the pop sense. But when you

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add those guitars, it becomes crushing. And I

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absolutely love that version. So maybe spoiling

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a cut of mine early in the night, but let's get

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down to business. Tonight, as I mentioned. Eva

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and I are going to be curating a hard rock cover

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song's mixtape, and we're going to go back to

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the 90s and use that old cassette deck approach,

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meaning our mixtape is going to be broken up

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into two sides, side A and side B. Eva, as my

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special guest, will begin side A with her first

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song choice, and then I'll add a song that I

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feel best follows it up. We'll then flip -flop

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choosing songs until we've mapped out the 10

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songs for side A. We'll then give that mixtape

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a proverbial flip, and we'll map out side B,

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only this time... I'll kick the side off and

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Eva gets to follow up. Our overall goal for this

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episode is to craft the best hard rock cover

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song mixtape possible through only 20 songs.

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At the end of the show, you could take our conversation

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reveal track one, some of the fellow mixtapers

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who follow me at My Weekly Mixtape on Facebook,

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Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok have chimed in

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with their ideal opening track for a hard rock

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cover song's mixtape. So I'm going to throw a

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few of these out, Eva, just to give us some food

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for thought. Perfect. Russell Y. chimed in with

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Greta Van Fleet's cover of Adele's Rolling in

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the Deep. Jason Whistle chimed in with In This

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Moment's cover of Blondie's Call Me. Rob Jones

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chimed in with Framing Hanley's cover of Little

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Wayne's Lollipop. Seeker 11 chimed in with Metallica's

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cover of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy. Hutchie chimed

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in with Anthrax's cover of Kansas' Carry On Wayward

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Son. And Sunshine Suze chimed in with Disturbed's

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cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence.

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That's just scratching the surface of hard rock

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cover tunes. Wow. I'm officially pressing the

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record button on our mixtape and the floor is

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yours. Why don't you dive into the song you chose

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to kick off Side A and let us know why you chose

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it. Oh, man. You know what, though? OK, so I'm

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going to stick with the very first cover song

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that I mentioned. Here's why. Because after hearing

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all of your listeners timing in with all these

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really awesome covers, there were some really

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cool hard rock covers of Pabst on there. And

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I think that we could really do some damage here

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with that. with State of Mind featuring Eva Under

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Fire covering Destiny's Child Survivor. That

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is a great, great cover. I love the vibe that

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you bring to it. And again, you're taking a pop

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song and making it heavy. So following that up,

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I think I'm going to stay in your lane right

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now. And I'm going to go with a pop song that

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was reimagined to follow that up. And I'll be

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perfectly honest. My kids are massive fans of

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this band, and I am a fan because I see the joy

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it brings them. I do like a lot of their songs,

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but this cover version is what sent me over the

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top. And I play this version for them all the

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time, and it helps bridge that pop rock gap between

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them and myself. And the original is Imagine

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Dragons Radioactive. But I'm going to go with

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Bullet for My Valentine's cover from 2018's deluxe

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edition of Gravity. Wow. I forgot they covered

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that one. Holy smokes. Yeah. That's a great one.

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Yeah. And they add just enough heft to it. And

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it keeps the original pacing and the original

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vibe of the song. But it's just enough heft and

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just enough screaming in the specific parts of

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the song where. It makes it heavier. And the

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original for a pop song is heavy. Yeah, for sure.

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But Bullet For My Valentines is heavier. And

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that's what I'm talking about. It's got like

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a heavy music bed, right? Because the original,

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like Imagine Dragons, the singer has like a grit

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vocal, but it's over top of a pop bed, right?

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And I like what they've done with the cover is

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because they heavied up the actual lyric music

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bed to it. So you get that heavy guitar sound,

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which is sweet. Right. So now I toss it back

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to you. I got to do that. You know what I really

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like? I really liked your listener's suggestion

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of the Framing Hanley's cover of Lollipop. There

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was some hip hop with that first track on Survivor,

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right? With the Destiny's Child vibe. I'm going

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to I'm going to take song three, Framing Hanley's

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Lollipop, because again, pop vocal, but almost

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like a rap vocal, right? With them with heavy

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guitar. So and I mean. Who doesn't love, you

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know, a good mashup of rap rock, right? Of course,

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of course. And let me tell you, that could have

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went in so many different directions because

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sometimes rap rock hits and sometimes it falls

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flat, especially when it's a rock band trying

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to take a hip hop song and kind of flip it on

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its side. It could go in either direction. And

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Framing Hanley nailed that version. And that

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is not an easy thing to do. All right. So we're

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going to stay pop still, I think. I think I like

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where you're going with this. And one of the

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biggest songs of the last few years, since the

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pandemic at least, was The Weeknd's Blinding

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Lights. I mean, you think about the Super Bowl

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performance and everything else. The Weeknd is

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everywhere. However, Saint Sonia did an amazing

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cover as a digital single in 2021. And I'm going

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to put that in here because I'll be perfectly

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honest. The first time I heard their version

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and hearing Adam sing The Weeknd's vocals with

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the grit that he has in his voice, I'm like,

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this is another level. And I absolutely love

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that version. So I'm going to go with Saint Sonia's

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version of Blinding Lights. Super cool. Super

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cool. I did not know. I'll have to check that

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one out. I have not heard that cover. Oh, it

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is. Unbelievable. They rocked the hell out of

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it. And the original is fun. And it's got that

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dance beat. And at parts of the song, they incorporate

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that while keeping the rock heavy. So they flipped

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it on its ear, but also maintained the vibe of

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the original and found a perfect balance to make

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it work. Oh, wow. That sounds intriguing. I'm

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definitely going to have to check that out now.

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All right. All right. So my turn. So now that

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I said rap, rap, I'm going to roll with From

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Ashes to New because I've seen them perform this

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live. They cover and do an amazing job with Linkin

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Park's Faith. So I think Faith is like one of

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those moments when I was a kid and I was first

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falling in love with rock music that was really

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like just anything Linkin Park touched and like

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Hybrid Theory especially, but like even Meteora

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and Afterword. So like I've always had such a

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love for them. But I think that the way that

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Prometheus to New does that cover, you can tell

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how passionate they were about Linkin Park as

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well. Right. I just think that's the right way

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to pay homage to that that sound, you know, and

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they just it's the sound that they do so well.

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I absolutely love it. I mean, Linkin Park is

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a special band to me because I actually saw them.

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Within several weeks of Hybrid Theory being released.

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And we saw them at a venue called the Birch Hill

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Nightclub. It was in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

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And there was maybe a thousand people there.

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And the album had just come out. A year later,

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I see them with Metallica at Giant Stadium on

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the Summer Sanitarium Tour. And I knew that that

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ascension from the club to the stadium was only

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a matter of time after seeing them live once.

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Wow. So cool. Now having from ashes to new on

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this list, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask on your

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album, you do a song with them coming for blood.

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Can you talk about how that collaboration came

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together? Dude, it's insane, right? Matt killed

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that verse by the way. So it was really, really

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cool. We had met almost. forcibly, right? Because

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we were the new kids on the block at the label.

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And so like the suits kind of were like, hey,

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we're going to toss you on a new song. And so

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I showed up on their set of their music video

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and went, hi. You know, but then when we turned

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in our album and we were looking for features,

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you know, we kind of reached back to that connection

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because Matt, when I performed on Every Second,

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he was like, we should have just done a new song.

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And so here I am with this new music. And I'm

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like, hey, Matt, remember that time you told

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me? we should just collab on some new stuff he

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was like oh dude he actually like facebook messaged

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me right after he wrote the lyric he was like

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what do you think about this like first shot

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it was fire it was absolutely uh like just hit

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the nail on the head and caught the vibe of that

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track so well so yeah that was really cool getting

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to work with them well i am gonna follow that

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up then because From Ashes to New is a guest

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on your album. I'm going to follow up with another

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guest from your album and one of their cover

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songs that I'm a big fan of. And it stays in

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that pop realm because Faint for Linkin Park

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was still in that pop arena that we've been sitting

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in inside of this mix. So I don't want to stray

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too far from that. And that pop singer would

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be Adele with the song Someone Like You, which

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I absolutely love the original. But in 2013,

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when Ice Nine Kills did their hard rock cover

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of it, it blew my frigging mind. And Spencer

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really is your guest on the song Blow. So we

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get to tie it all in in this fire world. I don't

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know if you've ever heard this version, but they

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take the beauty of Adele's version and they add

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this level of heft and Spencer could sing it

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and scream it. So he's kind of. bounces between

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those vibes in the song and it really, really

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works. It's one of the coolest ballad covers

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I've heard because they take it to a different

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place. So for one, I'm following up from Ashes

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to News Faint with Ice Nine Kills, Someone Like

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You. And then I'm going to ask you, one, have

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you heard that version if you like it? And then

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two, working with Spencer on Blow, how did that

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come together and what was that like? Yeah. Yeah.

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There was a lot that was there that were just

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the suits. Right. So before I get to that, you

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asked me if I heard that cover. I have not heard

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that cover. However, I do know that Spencer is

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as a vocalist is like the best of both worlds.

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Right. I mean, he just he's got range for days

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and then he just he's got the most visceral scream

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ever. Right. I mean, rainy day is like one of

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my favorite ever. Right. Like that new album

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was like. What just happened? But in any case,

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he's also just a super cool guy. So fast forward

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to how we got to work together. We had turned

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in the album. The label wanted Blow as a single,

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and they were going to put that on the soundtrack

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for the movie that I was in called The Retaliator.

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Also, Spencer acted in the film. So they were

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just kind of like, hey, any chance you might

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want to hop on this track? And he loved the hook.

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We had never actually met. This was like real

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early in the pandemic world kind of situation.

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So like only via email and like his studio sent

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back the tracks after he had recorded them. And

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then like we recorded our version of the music

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video, but it had to be filmed on location where

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he was from. And we couldn't like hang out because

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pandemic was like, you know, really super. It

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was really weird. Like a really I felt bad asking

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because I didn't. I didn't get to build any rapport

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with him at all. You know what I mean? So it

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was very strange for me. But then the year after,

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so this was Welcome to Rockville 2021. And I

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am, it's the first time we're touring like ever.

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You know, we just started touring that year.

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And I'm sitting on. park bench waiting for my

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friends. They just ran to the bathroom and somebody

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else ran to get like a catering card. So I'm

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chilling in the walkway area between where the

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rest of the festival was and artists dining.

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And so all of a sudden coming down this, you

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know, giant hallway thing is Panther and crew.

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And I just sort of like conned and I like waved

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because I didn't know if he would even remember

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who I was. And he pointed at me and then came

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over just rocking out. acapella was like i'm

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about to blow he starts singing the hook man

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it was the coolest thing ever like this dude's

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for real i love it i love it he was like that

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hook was so sweet he was like thank you for having

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me on the track we got a picture it was great

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so you know even if it's weird at first people

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trust your gut instincts and sometimes it just

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works out yeah it really does i love album opening

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tracks that was one of the first episodes i did

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on my weekly mixtape and For a modern album opener,

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I couldn't think of a better one in 2022 than

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Blow because it just kicks the album off with

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such an intensity and it's fun and it's exciting

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and it really introduces you to the band in a

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way that you hear elements of Blow kind of weaving

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throughout the entire album as you listen through

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it. And I think that's the perfect kind of exclamation

00:26:04.109 --> 00:26:07.430
point. To start the album off. So I love the

00:26:07.430 --> 00:26:09.609
fact that it kicks off your album because it

00:26:09.609 --> 00:26:12.329
is such a killer tune. Oh, you rocked it. I'm

00:26:12.329 --> 00:26:14.250
so grateful that you're very analytical because

00:26:14.250 --> 00:26:15.730
we would have never thought of that. But now

00:26:15.730 --> 00:26:17.309
that you mentioned it, I'm like, oh, he's got

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a point. You do see themes there from this first

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track on the rest of it. Yes. I'm the kind of

00:26:24.690 --> 00:26:29.349
guy when I grew up, I had the, I guess, good

00:26:29.349 --> 00:26:32.529
fortune. Of having parents that listen to albums.

00:26:32.650 --> 00:26:34.750
So I started with vinyl and I was always staring

00:26:34.750 --> 00:26:37.130
at the album cover. And then when I was old enough

00:26:37.130 --> 00:26:39.269
to read, I would start reading the song lyrics.

00:26:39.490 --> 00:26:41.549
And as you're listening to an album and reading

00:26:41.549 --> 00:26:44.009
the song lyrics, and then it got a little smaller

00:26:44.009 --> 00:26:46.410
on a cassette. You had the J cards you're folding

00:26:46.410 --> 00:26:49.309
out. And then CDs, I'd open the book. And to

00:26:49.309 --> 00:26:52.849
this day, I still do it because reading the lyrics

00:26:52.849 --> 00:26:56.440
and hearing the songs, you start to see. Kind

00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:59.180
of the thought process of the entire album coming

00:26:59.180 --> 00:27:03.420
through this artist's writing. And you're reading

00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:06.380
it and hearing it. And to me, the two kind of

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:08.880
really connect. And I really feel that with this

00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.900
album, Blow really sets the tone for where the

00:27:11.900 --> 00:27:14.500
rest of the album is going to go. Killer. Thank

00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:17.619
you for that. Well, we're up to track seven on

00:27:17.619 --> 00:27:20.500
Side A. And you've got to follow up Adele's Someone

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:23.039
Like You. Yes, it is. Okay. It's me. All right.

00:27:26.670 --> 00:27:30.950
let's do a new cover of it's a hard rock cover

00:27:30.950 --> 00:27:35.230
but it's a it's a new cover of a pop song have

00:27:35.230 --> 00:27:40.509
you heard kayla king cover unholy no i haven't

00:27:40.509 --> 00:27:47.670
oh my god you do so so okay so kayla king's new

00:27:47.670 --> 00:27:52.849
on the scene she is like friends with similar

00:27:52.849 --> 00:27:56.109
music people that we're friends with in our little

00:27:56.109 --> 00:27:58.289
southeast michigan community here so that's how

00:27:58.289 --> 00:28:00.890
we know each other awesome and i tell you what

00:28:00.890 --> 00:28:03.650
everybody now is like covering the same like

00:28:03.650 --> 00:28:05.529
pop songs that come out right so i feel like

00:28:05.529 --> 00:28:08.970
people that cover these brand new covers of like

00:28:08.970 --> 00:28:11.470
pop songs that are just releasing you with me

00:28:11.470 --> 00:28:14.970
you've got to really stand out to to really like

00:28:14.970 --> 00:28:17.710
get ahead of the game i guess and her cover of

00:28:17.710 --> 00:28:22.259
sam smith's unholy is absolute fire And she's

00:28:22.259 --> 00:28:25.779
got a really cool, like, she sings and plays.

00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:28.000
So, like, you've got to see the music video,

00:28:28.059 --> 00:28:29.819
too, when you listen to this cover. Because she

00:28:29.819 --> 00:28:31.579
just killed it. Like, the whole thing is fire.

00:28:32.460 --> 00:28:36.140
Kayla King. I'm, like, at this point now, I'm

00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:38.220
feeling shame that there's a cover song out there

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.640
that I don't know. So, I'm, like, all excited.

00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:42.619
I almost want to be, like, look, let's just pause

00:28:42.619 --> 00:28:44.519
this interview for a minute. I'm going to go

00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:48.089
geek out on this. But I love it because I got

00:28:48.089 --> 00:28:50.069
a new cover song out of tonight. So that's so

00:28:50.069 --> 00:28:53.049
frigging awesome. I'm so excited. I can't say

00:28:53.049 --> 00:28:54.769
anything about it because I haven't heard it

00:28:54.769 --> 00:28:58.170
yet. So I'm just going to move along and say

00:28:58.170 --> 00:29:00.569
I'm going to follow up on a later episode about

00:29:00.569 --> 00:29:04.269
it because I'm very excited to hear it. But following

00:29:04.269 --> 00:29:07.529
it up because I do know the original. I want

00:29:07.529 --> 00:29:09.650
to stay in this because we've got pretty much

00:29:09.650 --> 00:29:13.190
we're sticking poppy on side A. And I'm going

00:29:13.190 --> 00:29:16.329
to go with a cover of a pop song where. This

00:29:16.329 --> 00:29:19.650
song went viral. I saw the video on YouTube and

00:29:19.650 --> 00:29:24.529
I immediately said these guys wrecked this cover.

00:29:24.609 --> 00:29:28.029
And that is a pun intended because I am going

00:29:28.029 --> 00:29:30.710
with a cover of Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball.

00:29:31.109 --> 00:29:34.269
And this is from 2013 and the band is called

00:29:34.269 --> 00:29:37.990
Cry to the Blind. They kick it up like an 80s

00:29:37.990 --> 00:29:41.059
metal power ballad. No way. The original has

00:29:41.059 --> 00:29:44.779
that vibe. They took it to an extreme eighties

00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:48.359
hairband power ballad, but with the heft of modern

00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.700
hard rock and they do such a killer job of it.

00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:55.079
So I am going to follow up Kayla King with cry

00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:58.960
to the blinds cover of wrecking ball. That's

00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.220
wild. I love it. I love it. I love it. That's

00:30:01.220 --> 00:30:04.259
really cool. All right. So I guess it's me, right?

00:30:04.339 --> 00:30:06.380
This is track 10. This is your, this is track

00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:09.549
nine. This is your last song on side a. Okay.

00:30:09.670 --> 00:30:11.289
All right. All right. All right. Check. All right.

00:30:11.289 --> 00:30:17.349
How are we going to go out here, guys? God, there's

00:30:17.349 --> 00:30:20.789
so many good ones. There really are so many good

00:30:20.789 --> 00:30:25.650
ones. I wanted to save this one for the next

00:30:25.650 --> 00:30:27.849
side because I feel like that because we but

00:30:27.849 --> 00:30:29.569
I don't know what the next side is going with.

00:30:29.650 --> 00:30:33.349
Okay. So this might be a little off theme here,

00:30:33.529 --> 00:30:38.779
but Shinedown does an amazing Simple Man. God,

00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:41.880
yeah. You know what I mean? And it's pretty.

00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:46.380
And it's so Brent Smith could sing me the alphabet

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:49.200
and it's fine. You know, I just his voice is

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.500
so amazing. And I think maybe it doesn't stay

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:54.720
with like the current pop scene that we've got

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:57.960
going on Saturday. But it definitely is a rock

00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.359
song about like a pretty ballad. And like sometimes

00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:02.720
pop music can be, you know, I think it's got

00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.119
a lot of pop. song elements when it comes to

00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:08.220
the melody of the song. And I think even the

00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:10.240
original, right, because it stays pretty true

00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.579
to the original with the melody that it sings.

00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:15.700
But it's just Brent Smith's version is just amazing.

00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:19.200
Yeah. When you see that live, my wife and I had

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.940
the amazing opportunity back in 2019 before the

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:26.019
world shut down. We had just driven up to New

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:28.480
Hampshire to visit my in -laws and we got there.

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:31.319
And my father -in -law said, by the way, somebody

00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:34.980
was selling. Tickets to shine down tonight. It's

00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:37.319
only like 30 minutes from here. If you and Katie

00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:39.380
want to go to a show tonight, I'm like, sure,

00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:42.400
sign me up. So we went down the street and picked

00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:46.019
up the tickets and it was they said 11th row

00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:48.700
center. So I'm like, this is amazing. We got

00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:53.920
there and it was 11th row, but rows 10 and up

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:58.259
was all standing room only. So we were basically

00:31:58.259 --> 00:32:01.619
front row looking directly on the stage. And

00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:04.819
I was I welled up a couple of times during the

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:08.859
night. Just it was shine down, bad flower and

00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:12.470
dinosaur pile up. And. I mean, you know, Bad

00:32:12.470 --> 00:32:14.769
Flower is an amazing group. I love their stuff.

00:32:15.069 --> 00:32:17.109
And, you know, when they did Ghost, that song

00:32:17.109 --> 00:32:19.450
really. And then the Jester, I was getting like

00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:22.910
goosebumps. And then Shinedown came out and the

00:32:22.910 --> 00:32:25.329
ballads. It's just such a powerful band. But

00:32:25.329 --> 00:32:28.190
when they did Simple Man, everyone had their

00:32:28.190 --> 00:32:30.569
cell phones and lighters up. It felt like it

00:32:30.569 --> 00:32:33.869
was the 1980s. And he nailed the vocals with

00:32:33.869 --> 00:32:36.450
ease. And it's just such a powerful live moment.

00:32:36.650 --> 00:32:39.549
Such a wonderful cover. The only problem I have

00:32:39.549 --> 00:32:43.710
is. How do you follow up a powerhouse vocalist

00:32:43.710 --> 00:32:48.589
like Brent and end a side on a high note? And

00:32:48.589 --> 00:32:53.170
there's only one song that I can think of that

00:32:53.170 --> 00:32:56.230
could follow up Simple Man. Staying a little

00:32:56.230 --> 00:33:00.029
slower at the end of the side, but a voice that

00:33:00.029 --> 00:33:05.490
definitely rivals Brent in terms of the... Best

00:33:05.490 --> 00:33:08.130
male hard rock vocalist category, I would say.

00:33:08.289 --> 00:33:11.650
And I'm going to go back to 2007's Carry On.

00:33:11.890 --> 00:33:14.210
And I'm going to go with Chris Cornell's cover

00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:18.829
of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. Wow. That's

00:33:18.829 --> 00:33:22.029
a great cover. Holy smokes. I never thought about

00:33:22.029 --> 00:33:24.210
that. But I mean, yeah, Chris Cornell. Exactly

00:33:24.210 --> 00:33:27.089
right. Yeah, I get you. Yeah. Flipped the song

00:33:27.089 --> 00:33:30.940
on its ear and turned it into this. heart -wrenching

00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:34.579
ballad when the original is this upbeat happy

00:33:34.579 --> 00:33:37.480
i mean i used to sing that song when i was three

00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.339
and four years old trying to do the moonwalk

00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:42.339
in my parents living room like but hearing chris's

00:33:42.339 --> 00:33:45.440
version it's like why do i want to cry listening

00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.220
to billy jean and that's what it does his was

00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:52.559
so good i'll never forget this in 2008 david

00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.900
cook was on american idol and he covered chris

00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.799
cornell's version And all the judges started

00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:03.480
praising, praising David Cook for his original

00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:07.539
take on a Michael Jackson song. And I'm screaming

00:34:07.539 --> 00:34:10.579
at the top of my lungs at the TV. Chris Cornell

00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:14.500
did it. Obviously, David Cook's a fantastic singer,

00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:16.980
too, because he pulled off Chris Cornell's version

00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:19.500
so well. Right. But you're like, that wasn't

00:34:19.500 --> 00:34:23.119
you. Yeah. I mean, the creativity came in. in

00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:25.300
the arrangement that Chris brought to that pop

00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:28.400
song. And I love when a cover flips a song on

00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:31.079
its ear. So I'm going to close side A with Chris

00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:34.219
Cornell's cover of Billie Jean. Beautiful. I

00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:36.239
mean, truly, it's like a remake. You know what

00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:38.920
I mean? It's a different thing than like a cover.

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.900
You know, sometimes you can transpose the, you

00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:45.739
know, the guitar down half step, full step, whatever.

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:48.360
But, you know, to completely reimagine a song

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:51.860
like that is pretty amazing. If you played both

00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:54.480
songs back to back, you would think you were

00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:56.639
listening to two different songs. And that's

00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:00.019
amazing. Yep. So, folks, there we have it. Side

00:35:00.019 --> 00:35:03.219
A of our hard rock cover songs mixtape, kicking

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:06.460
things off with State of Mind featuring Eva Under

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:10.460
Fire, Survivor, Bullet for My Valentine's Radioactive,

00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:14.659
Framing Hanley's Lollipop, St. Esonia's Blinding

00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:18.900
Lights, From Ashes to News Faint. Ice Nine Kills

00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:22.980
Someone Like You, Kayla King's Unholy, Cry to

00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:26.079
the Blind's Wrecking Ball, Shinedown's Simple

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:30.199
Man, and Chris Cornell's Billie Jean. Head over

00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:32.920
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs

00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.059
we're discussing tonight through the playlist

00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:38.659
embedded on the episode page. Now, Eva, before

00:35:38.659 --> 00:35:41.480
we flip this proverbial mixtape over to Side

00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.860
B, I want to dip into some more Eva Under Fire

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:47.710
tunes, if you don't mind. And in 2018, the band

00:35:47.710 --> 00:35:51.389
released a digital EP, Heavy on the Heart. And

00:35:51.389 --> 00:35:53.269
there was a track on there that I absolutely

00:35:53.269 --> 00:35:56.170
love, and it's called I Will Fight. And it was

00:35:56.170 --> 00:35:58.889
a song that I thought, honestly, would fit seamlessly

00:35:58.889 --> 00:36:01.510
into Love, Drugs, and Misery, but sadly didn't

00:36:01.510 --> 00:36:04.150
make the final track listing. I have to ask,

00:36:04.190 --> 00:36:06.610
was that song solely recorded for the EP? Was

00:36:06.610 --> 00:36:09.349
that something that the label and you guys decided

00:36:09.349 --> 00:36:12.429
at the end? As a fan, I'm a little surprised

00:36:12.429 --> 00:36:14.530
it's not on the final track because it feels

00:36:14.530 --> 00:36:17.510
like it sits in that whole range of songs we've

00:36:17.510 --> 00:36:19.809
been talking about tonight. I love that. Thank

00:36:19.809 --> 00:36:22.590
you for that. I will fight one of my personal

00:36:22.590 --> 00:36:25.329
favorites also. And you're right. It was written

00:36:25.329 --> 00:36:29.250
for the EP. And that was actually before we found

00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:31.730
the label. And then they wanted us to go ahead

00:36:31.730 --> 00:36:34.550
and get it right back in the studio. You got

00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:37.389
an EP, but we want a full album. Right. So it

00:36:37.389 --> 00:36:40.380
was kind of like a weird timing. thing and i

00:36:40.380 --> 00:36:42.900
think that was probably the only the only hang

00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:45.579
-up but you know with the wonderful world of

00:36:45.579 --> 00:36:48.800
playlisting and technology now it's like people

00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.039
can access whatever if anything all of our releases

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:54.840
and listen so so for me it was a little bit less

00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.639
about you know i guess it allowed for like another

00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.679
new song to be also like born onto the full -length

00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.239
album version and that one just got a chance

00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.019
to to have its heyday on the heavy on heart and

00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:09.659
feet awesome And now I want to go back even further,

00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:11.579
and I want to touch on a couple of your earlier

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:15.440
independent releases, 2016's War EP as well as

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:18.860
2015's Anchors album. Are there songs from these

00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:21.239
albums that you still like to incorporate in

00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.400
the headlining sets? Because as far as I'm concerned,

00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.719
songs like I Am Fame, Broken, and Gunsmoke, along

00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.159
with pretty much all of them, if I'm really being

00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:33.230
honest here. would fit in seamlessly into a live

00:37:33.230 --> 00:37:36.170
set. But I'm curious if any of those songs are

00:37:36.170 --> 00:37:39.050
still kind of remaining in your live sets now

00:37:39.050 --> 00:37:43.309
when you're headlining shows. Man, some of them.

00:37:43.329 --> 00:37:45.269
And it's really funny because none of the ones

00:37:45.269 --> 00:37:47.389
that you mentioned. But Gunsmoke, man, I haven't

00:37:47.389 --> 00:37:50.809
heard that one in a long time. Okay, so Betrayer

00:37:50.809 --> 00:37:54.269
sometimes will make it into the headlining sets.

00:37:54.909 --> 00:37:58.309
We do have an April 1st show coming up, which

00:37:58.309 --> 00:38:01.969
will headline a brand new venue near our hometown,

00:38:02.150 --> 00:38:04.949
which is I can't I cannot wait. I mean, I'm just

00:38:04.949 --> 00:38:07.630
so excited about new venue stuff because truly,

00:38:07.789 --> 00:38:10.289
you know, especially after the pandemic, so many

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.590
places closed and like we were all wondering

00:38:12.590 --> 00:38:15.369
where we're going to play. And so in that set,

00:38:15.469 --> 00:38:18.969
we will be also including anchors, which we I

00:38:18.969 --> 00:38:20.769
mean, that was the one that people first started

00:38:20.769 --> 00:38:24.110
getting tattoos of. Like, yeah. I guess I didn't

00:38:24.110 --> 00:38:26.710
really realize that I needed that song. And so

00:38:26.710 --> 00:38:28.530
I wrote that song, but I didn't realize like

00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:30.909
the power that it would have other people and

00:38:30.909 --> 00:38:32.909
how much it would resonate. So that one's really

00:38:32.909 --> 00:38:37.289
cool. And lastly, drift. Nice. Our very first

00:38:37.289 --> 00:38:41.030
love song. Yeah. Very, very cool. All right.

00:38:41.030 --> 00:38:43.690
Well, let's dive back into side B here and I

00:38:43.690 --> 00:38:46.889
get to kick things off. So I'm not going to start

00:38:46.889 --> 00:38:49.349
off side B poppy. I'm going to start off side

00:38:49.349 --> 00:38:51.670
B with a cover of one of my favorite 80 songs.

00:38:51.869 --> 00:38:54.019
And you know what? one of my favorite songs of

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:56.539
all time. So in order to pull this song off,

00:38:56.619 --> 00:39:00.019
you really needed to bring it. And Incubus brought

00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:03.280
it. And I'm not even going to say the song name.

00:39:03.340 --> 00:39:05.340
I'll just say one sentence, and you'll know exactly

00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:08.219
what I'm talking about. Dearly beloved, we're

00:39:08.219 --> 00:39:10.199
gathered here today to get through this thing

00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:13.860
called life. From 2009's Monuments and Melodies

00:39:13.860 --> 00:39:16.380
compilation from the band, I'm going with their

00:39:16.380 --> 00:39:20.769
cover of Prince's Let's Go Crazy. absolutely.

00:39:20.929 --> 00:39:23.409
If you don't like, come on, Prince is one of

00:39:23.409 --> 00:39:24.909
those artists that if you're going to attempt

00:39:24.909 --> 00:39:27.690
to cover it, you better bring your a game because

00:39:27.690 --> 00:39:30.250
that song is embedded in people's musical DNA.

00:39:30.909 --> 00:39:36.130
And yes, Incubus really put together an amazing

00:39:36.130 --> 00:39:40.489
faithful cover to the original. And I love it.

00:39:40.550 --> 00:39:42.530
And that is how I'm going to start off side B.

00:39:43.530 --> 00:39:48.789
Wow. Covering icon. Okay. All right. Legend.

00:39:49.030 --> 00:39:51.789
All right. Okay. Yeah. We kick it off with a

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:57.590
Prince cover. Woo! All right. I'm going to risk

00:39:57.590 --> 00:40:00.730
it. I'm going to risk it. I might stick my foot

00:40:00.730 --> 00:40:02.969
in my mouth, but I think it's a really cool cover.

00:40:03.510 --> 00:40:06.750
Eva Under Fire, covering journeys separate ways.

00:40:06.969 --> 00:40:14.800
All right. I have it on my list. We went go big

00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:16.639
or go home with covers, right? And that's kind

00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:18.199
of what you said, you know, like when you cover

00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:21.179
legend, you have to really like be confident

00:40:21.179 --> 00:40:22.599
in what you're bringing to the table because

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.159
many people are like, oh, those are the untouchables,

00:40:25.219 --> 00:40:27.360
right? And sometimes when people cover songs,

00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.039
the idea behind it might be, oh, well, take a

00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.440
less popular song and make it your own, right?

00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:35.619
And there have been several bands that have done

00:40:35.619 --> 00:40:38.739
that successfully. But we really wanted to intentionally

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:40.380
cover something that people were going to know.

00:40:40.710 --> 00:40:43.369
It was going to have mass appeal. So Journey.

00:40:44.050 --> 00:40:47.429
I absolutely love it. It's my favorite all -time

00:40:47.429 --> 00:40:50.570
Journey song. It's not an easy track to pull

00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:53.489
off vocally. And the fact that you do it with

00:40:53.489 --> 00:40:56.510
such ease puts a huge smile on my face every

00:40:56.510 --> 00:41:00.469
time I hear it. And while, again, your version,

00:41:00.530 --> 00:41:02.909
like Incubus', stays faithful to the original

00:41:02.909 --> 00:41:06.860
structure, the band does... Turn it up to 11

00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:08.639
if you want to use the Spinal Tap reference.

00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:11.980
And you guys really make it your version of the

00:41:11.980 --> 00:41:16.800
song. So now, as a podcaster, I promise you,

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:22.579
I am not TMZ. I am just a music nerd. And Journey's

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:25.980
Frontiers album, which is what Separate Ways

00:41:25.980 --> 00:41:29.320
came from, is in its 40th anniversary. And on

00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.539
the date of its 40th anniversary, Daughtry released...

00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:36.900
A cover as well of Separate Ways with Lizzy Hale.

00:41:37.099 --> 00:41:40.519
With my girl, Lizzy Hale. And you were performing

00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:45.400
that song on tour. I am friends with Dan, Casey,

00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:47.360
and Aaron at The Itch. I've listened to your

00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.880
interviews on their show. And I heard you talk

00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:54.039
about that Lizzy had said to you, if only I had

00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:55.940
the guts to come up on stage, I would have joined

00:41:55.940 --> 00:41:58.880
you for it. And then in January, she's doing

00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.380
it with Daughtry. I would just love to hear,

00:42:01.460 --> 00:42:04.940
obviously. I'm fans of both. I love both versions.

00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.619
I would love to hear what you think because here's

00:42:07.619 --> 00:42:11.760
another cover. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so here's

00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:15.619
my take, right? Cover culture, right, is now

00:42:15.619 --> 00:42:19.219
a very popular thing. Yes. And so I go on TikTok

00:42:19.219 --> 00:42:22.300
and I see, right, I mentioned on side A, throw

00:42:22.300 --> 00:42:24.860
it back to side A, Kayla King's version of Unholy,

00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:27.940
but that was one of probably 30 in the same week

00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:31.400
that that song came out. I feel like it's a little

00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:34.539
strange only because maybe this particular song,

00:42:34.579 --> 00:42:37.460
covering Journey's Separate Waves, is not like

00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:39.659
a new song that's coming out. It's not a new

00:42:39.659 --> 00:42:43.639
trend. However, we recorded it and released it

00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.420
just trying to expand our 80s cover rap. And

00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:49.139
I just so happen to have a vocal range that does

00:42:49.139 --> 00:42:53.159
that well. And then... Stranger Things came out

00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:55.239
and used it in the opening for Stranger Things

00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:57.940
4. And I was like, oh, missed opportunity. They

00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:01.900
should have used our cover. I was a licensing

00:43:01.900 --> 00:43:04.139
thing. We could have made it. Right. But then

00:43:04.139 --> 00:43:06.659
because we've been performing it on tour, we

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:09.159
get to open for Lizzie Hale. And she's like,

00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:11.739
oh, my gosh, it's my go to karaoke song. And

00:43:11.739 --> 00:43:15.760
so now sidebar, Chris Daughtry, who has worked

00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:18.699
with Lizzie Hale a million times and a million

00:43:18.699 --> 00:43:21.940
years ago. hears it on Stranger Things, got inspired

00:43:21.940 --> 00:43:23.900
and wanted to cover it and feature his friend

00:43:23.900 --> 00:43:27.260
Libby. So I don't, you know, this is everybody's

00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:29.840
world, right? So like we all want to cover the

00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.300
same song. Fine. Do you know what else happened

00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:35.159
to me? I played it at a different festival in

00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.599
like June of 2021 when we were on tour with Buck

00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.099
Cherry and we were also playing with our friends

00:43:40.099 --> 00:43:44.000
in Shallow Side and they cover it too. And they

00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:51.440
covered it on the same show. So, pray for all.

00:43:52.099 --> 00:43:55.039
That's fantastic. Look, honestly, as a cover

00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:58.300
song fan, like I told you, I have 1 ,500 on my

00:43:58.300 --> 00:44:02.780
playlist. I love hearing multiple versions of

00:44:02.780 --> 00:44:05.139
the same song. I actually have this thought in

00:44:05.139 --> 00:44:07.440
my mind of an episode that I want to do down

00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.260
the road on my weekly mixtape, which is just

00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:13.400
pick one song and have 20 different completely

00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.360
varied versions of one song for an episode. kind

00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.739
of show all the different artists takes on a

00:44:19.739 --> 00:44:22.579
track. So I love it. I'm all for it. And like

00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:24.800
I said, in no way, shape or form, was I trying

00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:27.940
to be like TMZ there? I just love the fact that

00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:31.079
this song is one of my favorites as a child.

00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:34.130
seeing all this kind of resurgence because of

00:44:34.130 --> 00:44:37.230
its 40th anniversary and Stranger Things and

00:44:37.230 --> 00:44:39.849
everything else. So good. I mean, if you want

00:44:39.849 --> 00:44:42.110
to know what I want to do with it, I would just

00:44:42.110 --> 00:44:44.929
love for myself and Hailstorm and Chris Dockery

00:44:44.929 --> 00:44:46.369
to all tour together and we'll just go up and

00:44:46.369 --> 00:44:48.489
sing it all together. Why not? Oh, hell yeah.

00:44:48.550 --> 00:44:52.010
I'd love that. Front row for that one. Hell yeah.

00:44:52.869 --> 00:44:56.550
All right. So you mentioned. So here's the thing.

00:44:56.610 --> 00:45:00.099
We're only allowed to hit one band. per episode

00:45:00.099 --> 00:45:02.719
because you know rules and everything so before

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.980
i move on i had another eva under fire cover

00:45:06.980 --> 00:45:09.519
song on my list that i'm not going to be able

00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:11.260
to use now but damn it i'm not going to miss

00:45:11.260 --> 00:45:13.920
this opportunity to talk to you about it and

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:16.780
that is your cover of you two's with or without

00:45:16.780 --> 00:45:18.619
you know what screw it it's my show i could do

00:45:18.619 --> 00:45:22.000
what i want i am following up Separate Ways Worlds

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.739
Apart with Eva Underfire's cover of U2's With

00:45:25.739 --> 00:45:28.659
or Without You. Because you know what? U2 is

00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:31.739
a massive band and Prince and Journey and U2,

00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:35.139
it all works. I make up the rules here. I don't

00:45:35.139 --> 00:45:37.840
care. There you go. You tell them, friend. You're

00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.019
calling an audible and it's two of my songs.

00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:44.280
Yeah, I love it. Honestly, this is one that really

00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.929
resonated with me because... When I first heard,

00:45:48.030 --> 00:45:50.489
I put the CD and I'm listening to the album.

00:45:50.610 --> 00:45:53.449
I always scroll through the track titles, but

00:45:53.449 --> 00:45:57.230
I don't really hyper focus because track titles,

00:45:57.309 --> 00:45:59.510
there are a lot of songs that could be called

00:45:59.510 --> 00:46:02.150
whatever the name of the song is. So all of a

00:46:02.150 --> 00:46:05.010
sudden I hear the opening and I hear the vocals

00:46:05.010 --> 00:46:10.150
hit and I say, ooh, it's U2. And the thing that

00:46:10.150 --> 00:46:14.530
really impressed me about this cover is it was

00:46:14.530 --> 00:46:18.860
dangerous. Because you take a song that is ingrained

00:46:18.860 --> 00:46:22.619
in three decades of people's DNA. It was ingrained

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:27.380
in the 80s from U2. And then in the 90s, my wife's

00:46:27.380 --> 00:46:30.159
favorite show ever is Friends. And the scene

00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:33.659
where Rachel and Ross are, and that song is playing

00:46:33.659 --> 00:46:37.559
in the background, it had a resurgence. And then

00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.360
U2, one of the biggest bands on the planet, it's

00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:44.880
seen generations of love for this song. To take...

00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:48.400
chances with a cover is exciting and dangerous

00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:52.619
but it's risky because the purists might turn

00:46:52.619 --> 00:46:55.800
sour on it oh they'll turn coat and attack you

00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.440
yeah quick what you did to this song was you

00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.719
brought it to a completely different place and

00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.940
it was an absolutely gorgeous and stunning rendition

00:47:07.940 --> 00:47:10.960
of it and it it kind of builds up to the ending

00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.460
where it gets heavier But the fact that the beginning

00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:18.800
was so erythral in the opening and tribal almost

00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:20.960
with the just kind of with the hitting drums

00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:24.699
and it was very quiet and soft. I love it. So,

00:47:24.780 --> 00:47:26.940
yeah, I'm following up Eva under fire with Eva

00:47:26.940 --> 00:47:29.360
under fire. And you could call me out in the

00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.960
show notes. I understand. But you know what?

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.559
She's our guest tonight. And I do love this version.

00:47:34.579 --> 00:47:37.889
And damn it, I'm doing what I want. There you

00:47:37.889 --> 00:47:40.469
go. See, you're taking risks. I'm taking risks.

00:47:40.670 --> 00:47:42.570
You're like, hey, I'm having back to back Eve

00:47:42.570 --> 00:47:44.489
Under Fire songs. I'm like, hey, I'm trying to

00:47:44.489 --> 00:47:46.849
cover the biggest band in the world. I get it.

00:47:46.849 --> 00:47:48.530
We just do what we want out here, right? It's

00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:51.489
rock and roll. So I have to ask, were you nervous

00:47:51.489 --> 00:47:54.929
rearranging a song that everybody knows so well?

00:47:55.349 --> 00:47:57.750
Was it something where you were like, this is

00:47:57.750 --> 00:48:00.670
risky? Oh, yeah. I mean, we knew what we were

00:48:00.670 --> 00:48:03.429
up against when we thought, OK, cover songs for

00:48:03.429 --> 00:48:06.110
us are Go Big or Go Home. As soon as we made

00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:08.889
that rule, we knew what we were up against. So

00:48:08.889 --> 00:48:11.710
then it just became a game of how far can we

00:48:11.710 --> 00:48:15.610
push this? We're like, oh, U2, biggest band on

00:48:15.610 --> 00:48:20.429
the planet. No problem. Sure, it's a little intimidating,

00:48:20.949 --> 00:48:23.250
of course, but I think any of our cover that

00:48:23.250 --> 00:48:26.329
we do typically are because of the nature of

00:48:26.329 --> 00:48:28.590
the way that we... approach cover song right

00:48:28.590 --> 00:48:31.610
i mean we've you should have seen us when we

00:48:31.610 --> 00:48:34.630
were doing covers like we did cover set during

00:48:34.630 --> 00:48:37.050
the pandemic because our friend that books for

00:48:37.050 --> 00:48:39.570
us and in this local area she's actually the

00:48:39.570 --> 00:48:41.269
owner of the new venue that we're opening up

00:48:41.269 --> 00:48:44.429
for in april 1st and she she there was nothing

00:48:44.429 --> 00:48:46.449
else going on it was during the pandemic it was

00:48:46.449 --> 00:48:48.710
like a food truck outside by the detroit river

00:48:48.710 --> 00:48:50.309
and she was like will you guys come and play

00:48:50.309 --> 00:48:53.409
cover like sure she was like i need like three

00:48:53.409 --> 00:48:57.989
hours and i was like holy crap okay So we learned,

00:48:58.050 --> 00:49:00.670
dude, we played Zeppelin. We played Metallica.

00:49:00.730 --> 00:49:03.510
We played, we, we just ran through the gamut.

00:49:03.530 --> 00:49:08.989
We played Biggie Small. Like we did so many crazy.

00:49:08.989 --> 00:49:10.989
Is there a video of this? Cause I want to see

00:49:10.989 --> 00:49:15.050
this now. If you go, if you go into our Facebook

00:49:15.050 --> 00:49:17.210
archives, I'm pretty sure they would have, they

00:49:17.210 --> 00:49:19.210
would have video footage of this. It was all

00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:21.190
just crazy acoustic jams, you know, but like

00:49:21.190 --> 00:49:23.210
some of the covers that we found would really

00:49:23.210 --> 00:49:25.960
translate super well live. We kept them around.

00:49:26.059 --> 00:49:29.500
We worked it out. And I think it really was helpful

00:49:29.500 --> 00:49:31.840
to kind of, you know, gain a little bit of perspective

00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:33.739
on, you know what, we want to do this go big

00:49:33.739 --> 00:49:36.539
or go home thing. This is a good testing ground.

00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.119
Absolutely love it. Well, Eva, we're back to

00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:42.380
you now after the back -to -back Eva covers.

00:49:42.780 --> 00:49:44.719
What are you going to follow it up with? Go big

00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:50.059
or go home on side B. Right. Oh, there were so

00:49:50.059 --> 00:49:55.019
many cool ones. All right. so when we're talking

00:49:55.019 --> 00:49:58.500
about iconic songs right iconic covers right

00:49:58.500 --> 00:50:02.539
Marilyn Manson covering Sweet Dream by the Arrhythmics

00:50:02.539 --> 00:50:05.579
and it was it I mean these are the covers that

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:08.280
break people's career right like that's and I'm

00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:11.800
pretty sure that that is where Manson just hit

00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:15.449
like guy rocketed to stardom Right. Oh, yeah.

00:50:15.530 --> 00:50:18.250
And for all of the things that, you know, say

00:50:18.250 --> 00:50:21.070
or not say about Marilyn Manson's music and his

00:50:21.070 --> 00:50:23.090
original isn't like how provocative and how like

00:50:23.090 --> 00:50:27.230
crazy shock rock he was and is. But that was

00:50:27.230 --> 00:50:31.650
such a creepy, haunting version. Absolutely love

00:50:31.650 --> 00:50:35.730
it. Obviously, Annie Lennox is a treasure on

00:50:35.730 --> 00:50:38.730
vocals. And yeah, she's such an inspirational

00:50:38.730 --> 00:50:40.929
female vocalist through all the stuff she did

00:50:40.929 --> 00:50:43.139
with the Eurythmics. through even some of the

00:50:43.139 --> 00:50:45.239
newer stuff, her cover of I Put a Spell on You

00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:48.079
that came out a couple of years ago just makes

00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:51.139
the hair on my arm stand up. It's just so wonderful

00:50:51.139 --> 00:50:54.559
and so perfect. Marilyn Manson's was so dark

00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:59.280
and it truly introduced the, dare I use the word,

00:50:59.300 --> 00:51:02.820
character of Marilyn Manson, but it really introduced

00:51:02.820 --> 00:51:06.599
the persona of Marilyn Manson. And like I say

00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:09.670
all the time on my shows, We're here to talk

00:51:09.670 --> 00:51:12.269
about music. I'm not going to get into his personal

00:51:12.269 --> 00:51:14.289
life and any of the stuff happening. We're talking

00:51:14.289 --> 00:51:18.150
about the songs tonight. And his cover of Sweet

00:51:18.150 --> 00:51:21.690
Dreams was a complete reimagining. And it was

00:51:21.690 --> 00:51:23.889
taking a song that everybody knew and flipping

00:51:23.889 --> 00:51:26.909
it on its side. So I love it. And I know what

00:51:26.909 --> 00:51:29.389
I'm going to follow it up with. Oh, boy. And

00:51:29.389 --> 00:51:31.989
our friends at The Itch are going to stand up

00:51:31.989 --> 00:51:35.130
and celebrate. Because this is another band that

00:51:35.130 --> 00:51:37.349
has been on their show several times and I know

00:51:37.349 --> 00:51:40.090
they are big fans of. I'm going to go with a

00:51:40.090 --> 00:51:42.550
cover of Phil Collins. And I'm going to go back

00:51:42.550 --> 00:51:45.849
to 2004. And I'm going to go with Nonpoint's

00:51:45.849 --> 00:51:48.929
cover of In the Air Tonight from the Recoil album.

00:51:50.010 --> 00:51:52.869
Nonpoint is one of the most underrated bands

00:51:52.869 --> 00:51:56.530
from that new metal genre. And taking a song

00:51:56.530 --> 00:51:58.590
like In the Air Tonight, which is so iconic.

00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:02.300
Everybody knows that drum part. Nonpoint takes

00:52:02.300 --> 00:52:06.019
this iconic drum beat and turns it into a tribal

00:52:06.019 --> 00:52:09.420
opening where the whole opening of the song,

00:52:09.500 --> 00:52:12.480
which is normally very quiet in the Phil Collins

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:17.000
version, is tribal and it's still slow and you're

00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.619
still kind of like building, but it has a more

00:52:20.619 --> 00:52:23.760
rock edge to it and a more rock flavor. And when

00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:26.380
they kick into that iconic do -do -do -do -do

00:52:26.380 --> 00:52:31.019
-do -do -do. It kicks in heavy and it still brings

00:52:31.019 --> 00:52:34.400
the originals heft. So to take on a challenge

00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:36.559
like that, non -point knocked it out of the park.

00:52:36.780 --> 00:52:39.420
And I'm going with in the air tonight, following

00:52:39.420 --> 00:52:43.219
up sweet dreams. Wow. What a cool reference.

00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:45.280
We got a chance to play with non -point. I'm

00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.139
ship rock. It was sick. They're amazing live.

00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:53.539
So I love that. I think I'm going to go with

00:52:53.539 --> 00:52:56.280
disturbed. Because they have a lot of really

00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:58.719
iconic covers. But I'm going to go with your

00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.320
recommended. The Simon and Garfunkel Sound of

00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:04.960
Silence. It's such a great cover. David Draymond's

00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:08.730
voice is another one that's just iconic. Disturbed,

00:53:08.730 --> 00:53:11.070
you could do almost a whole list of Disturbed

00:53:11.070 --> 00:53:13.610
covers. And The Sound of Silence is one. It's

00:53:13.610 --> 00:53:17.010
got seven kajillion billion views. I mean, my

00:53:17.010 --> 00:53:19.349
parents called me up and they're like, hey, have

00:53:19.349 --> 00:53:21.429
you heard of a band called Disturbed? And I'm

00:53:21.429 --> 00:53:22.829
like, oh, God, you heard The Sound of Silence

00:53:22.829 --> 00:53:24.869
cover, didn't you? And they're like, yeah, this

00:53:24.869 --> 00:53:28.010
is unbelievable. Believe it or not, I had Disturbed

00:53:28.010 --> 00:53:30.989
on my list, but I didn't have that one because

00:53:30.989 --> 00:53:32.869
I wanted to have something kind of waiting in

00:53:32.869 --> 00:53:36.110
the wings. I had their cover of Land of Confusion

00:53:36.110 --> 00:53:40.420
by Genesis. Because that one pummels and it's

00:53:40.420 --> 00:53:43.599
so heavy. Also a great cover. I mean, they rock

00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:48.039
their covers. So I love that pick. But following

00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:52.079
it up, you just went like big, big, big. I mean,

00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:58.300
yeah. Okay. So I'm going to go with your friend

00:53:58.300 --> 00:54:00.340
Lizzie Hale here because we haven't talked about

00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:04.960
her in this list. And this is really tough. Because

00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.360
I want to stick with the big names that we're

00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:11.760
covering. So I am going to go with Hailstorm

00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:19.320
covering, oh God, I'm torn right now. Okay, ACDC,

00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:23.820
Shoot to Thrill. Nice. From the reanimated 2

00:54:23.820 --> 00:54:27.639
.0 covers album. I mean, if you're going to do

00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:32.199
an ACDC cover song, you have to bring it. And

00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.440
ACDC has such a distinct vocal delivery, whether

00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:39.199
it's Bon Scott or Brian Johnson. And Lizzy Hale

00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:41.940
takes a song which was, you know, it's on the

00:54:41.940 --> 00:54:43.880
Back in Black album. Brian Johnson had been singing

00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.760
it for the better part of 40 years. It was in

00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:49.800
Iron Man. Everybody knows. And she just slays

00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.099
it. And yeah, that's not an easy song to do,

00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:56.539
but she brings her own. to it where you're like,

00:54:56.619 --> 00:54:59.539
wow, this is truly an ACDC cover, but it's also

00:54:59.539 --> 00:55:02.260
truly a Hailstorm song as well. So I'm going

00:55:02.260 --> 00:55:04.400
to go with Hailstorm. Yeah. Shoot to thrill.

00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:08.880
Nice. Nice. And shoot another one. You could

00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:11.719
take your pick of covers. I seriously just could

00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:14.039
have picked one at random, honestly. Yeah. Right.

00:55:14.099 --> 00:55:17.280
I was like, which one did we get to pick? All

00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:19.199
right. All right. All right. All right. All right.

00:55:19.659 --> 00:55:23.739
So this one that I'm going to pick is a little

00:55:23.739 --> 00:55:27.469
bit of a. Lippity -flappity. Because I don't

00:55:27.469 --> 00:55:31.469
know which artist is bigger. But I'm going to

00:55:31.469 --> 00:55:36.030
go with Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails.

00:55:37.150 --> 00:55:40.889
Ooh. Because I don't think a lot of people don't

00:55:40.889 --> 00:55:43.750
know still. It was news to me even just a few

00:55:43.750 --> 00:55:46.530
years ago that that was actually not his song.

00:55:46.750 --> 00:55:49.190
Oh, my God. The original, I mean, the downward

00:55:49.190 --> 00:55:52.780
spiral was my senior year in high school. When

00:55:52.780 --> 00:55:55.380
I first heard Johnny Cash, like I'm aging myself

00:55:55.380 --> 00:55:58.340
out with that one. But when I first heard Johnny

00:55:58.340 --> 00:56:01.760
Cash and I mean, those last albums, they were

00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:04.760
certainly country because Johnny Cash was country.

00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:08.360
But make no mistake, when Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:10.719
are your backing band for the American albums,

00:56:11.019 --> 00:56:14.880
they were rock, too. And I'll be honest, Johnny

00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:18.460
Cash is hurt is I'm just going to hot take. It's

00:56:18.460 --> 00:56:20.539
a better rock song than Nine Inch Nails hurt.

00:56:21.299 --> 00:56:23.579
Wow. I mean, I'll have to give that to you, but

00:56:23.579 --> 00:56:25.260
that's what I mean. Like, you know, when we're

00:56:25.260 --> 00:56:27.079
talking about covering icons, like Johnny Cash

00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:29.039
is an icon in his own right, but for him to cover

00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:32.679
Trent Reznor's song, I mean, you would hear the

00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:35.019
rock version of it from Ninersdale, and you would

00:56:35.019 --> 00:56:36.519
think that would have been the cover because

00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:39.860
Johnny Cash is so famous. Like, why wouldn't

00:56:39.860 --> 00:56:42.780
it have been the other way around? And look,

00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.780
you know, just the whole story behind it, like...

00:56:46.349 --> 00:56:49.349
Oh, my God. The video like I'm getting my hair

00:56:49.349 --> 00:56:51.429
on my arm is standing up just thinking about

00:56:51.429 --> 00:56:56.409
it. It's such a powerful, beautiful send off

00:56:56.409 --> 00:56:59.929
to such a legendary career. So that's impossible

00:56:59.929 --> 00:57:03.869
to top. I have one song left and you have one

00:57:03.869 --> 00:57:07.250
song left. So I'm torn right now. I have two

00:57:07.250 --> 00:57:10.610
songs that I want to plug in. I don't know which

00:57:10.610 --> 00:57:15.340
one to go with. All right, I'm going to go with

00:57:15.340 --> 00:57:18.179
a cover of one of the biggest bands in the world.

00:57:18.980 --> 00:57:22.320
And it's a cover by a group that you have toured

00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.440
with. And I'm sure you have seen this song performed

00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:28.980
on that tour with this band. But I am going to

00:57:28.980 --> 00:57:33.179
go with the Warnings cover of Enter Sandman by

00:57:33.179 --> 00:57:37.320
Metallica featuring Alessia Cara from the 2021

00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:41.519
Metallica Blacklist compilation. Here is a song

00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:46.340
that. in no way, shape, or form, does anybody

00:57:46.340 --> 00:57:48.980
usually want to attempt to cover? Because it

00:57:48.980 --> 00:57:51.579
is one of the most iconic rock songs of all time.

00:57:51.780 --> 00:57:54.260
You think about it in sports references. You

00:57:54.260 --> 00:57:56.300
have the Sandman for the New York Yankees coming

00:57:56.300 --> 00:58:00.000
out to it. I mean, it is a stadium anthem. And

00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:03.559
here is this band who gets a pop singer and joins

00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:07.719
this Metallica compilation and covers their biggest

00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:12.969
hit song ever. And they completely... change

00:58:12.969 --> 00:58:19.110
the vibe of the song. And I love it so much because

00:58:19.110 --> 00:58:22.349
everybody knows when you hear the opening guitar,

00:58:22.449 --> 00:58:24.489
what's going to happen. And I thought it's exact.

00:58:24.670 --> 00:58:27.230
I figured, oh, here we go with a cover event

00:58:27.230 --> 00:58:30.090
or Sandman. And when the drums came in and they

00:58:30.090 --> 00:58:33.130
were in a different timing, I said, you have

00:58:33.130 --> 00:58:35.809
my attention. And then when I heard the singer,

00:58:35.949 --> 00:58:37.789
my daughter immediately said, wait a minute,

00:58:37.869 --> 00:58:40.460
that's a pop singer. I'm like, wait a minute.

00:58:40.500 --> 00:58:43.360
What the hell is happening here? And then the

00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.699
whole song is basically flipped on its ear until

00:58:46.699 --> 00:58:49.460
the ending where they kick back into the original

00:58:49.460 --> 00:58:53.380
for the close. It's such a brilliant reimagining.

00:58:53.780 --> 00:58:56.659
I'm so glad I found a place to put it on this

00:58:56.659 --> 00:58:59.179
list. So I'm going to go with the Warnings Enter

00:58:59.179 --> 00:59:00.920
Sam. And they've done a ton of great covers.

00:59:00.980 --> 00:59:04.139
And I know you shared the stage with them with

00:59:04.139 --> 00:59:06.179
Hail Storm and the Pretty Reckless last year.

00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:08.360
I don't know if this one was on the set list

00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:10.119
or not, but I'd be curious just what your thoughts

00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:13.300
are of The Warning as a whole. Yeah, no, I mean,

00:59:13.300 --> 00:59:14.920
they're great girls, you know, and they really

00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:17.179
go out there and kill it live. They have so much

00:59:17.179 --> 00:59:19.300
fun. You can just see it on their face how much

00:59:19.300 --> 00:59:22.000
fun they have, right? But I loved seeing them

00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:24.820
in the space where I found them at this particular

00:59:24.820 --> 00:59:29.539
run because it was more of them focusing on their

00:59:29.539 --> 00:59:32.860
own release, right? And I think that the single

00:59:32.860 --> 00:59:35.340
at that time was Choke. Choke, love that song.

00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.440
Oh my God, so good. Yeah. So, I mean, I felt

00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:41.719
like they came into their own, right? They'd

00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:44.219
grown up as kids covering Metallica, you know,

00:59:44.219 --> 00:59:47.460
the three Mexican sisters that are just, they've

00:59:47.460 --> 00:59:48.860
always grown up playing music together and they

00:59:48.860 --> 00:59:51.300
got their start very early. But this was a space

00:59:51.300 --> 00:59:54.340
where I really felt like I could see that this

00:59:54.340 --> 00:59:57.860
was the warning, you know? Yep. And it was really

00:59:57.860 --> 00:59:59.960
cool to see. And they're so sweet too. They're

00:59:59.960 --> 01:00:02.349
just. The warning is one of those bands. I'm

01:00:02.349 --> 01:00:05.250
going to drop maybe an obscure band here. I,

01:00:05.309 --> 01:00:06.949
if you've heard of them, I'll, I'll be like,

01:00:07.090 --> 01:00:09.550
wow, that's amazing. But a band I really enjoyed

01:00:09.550 --> 01:00:11.670
a lot in the nineties was a group called drain

01:00:11.670 --> 01:00:15.130
STH and they're not from the U S but they were

01:00:15.130 --> 01:00:18.519
a. heavy female front, all female band that had

01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:21.059
this almost Alice in Chains kind of vibe to it.

01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.440
And they were really cool and really eclectic.

01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:25.960
And The Warning gives me that vibe. When I first

01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:28.679
heard Choke, I'm like, oh, my God, this is Drain

01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:32.519
STH through three younger ladies. And I absolutely

01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:35.300
love it. So for anyone out there that doesn't

01:00:35.300 --> 01:00:38.400
know either The Warning or Drain STH, here's

01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:40.139
some musical rabbit holes for you to go down

01:00:40.139 --> 01:00:43.059
tonight, along with obviously Eva Under Fire.

01:00:43.420 --> 01:00:46.809
But Eva. You now have the hardest job of them

01:00:46.809 --> 01:00:49.829
all. We're closing out the entire night, and

01:00:49.829 --> 01:00:52.510
you need to find a song that follows up, disturbs

01:00:52.510 --> 01:00:55.170
the sound of silence, hailstorms shoot to thrill,

01:00:55.489 --> 01:00:59.090
Johnny Cash is hurt, and the warnings enter Sandman.

01:00:59.110 --> 01:01:01.849
You organized this. You put me on the spot. On

01:01:01.849 --> 01:01:04.670
the spot. The quintessential last spot. Yes.

01:01:05.090 --> 01:01:10.750
All right, let's see. I got it. Okay. I got it.

01:01:10.989 --> 01:01:13.900
I got it. I got it. I have always loved this

01:01:13.900 --> 01:01:19.599
cover. And I mean, it's not a band that we've

01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:21.300
worked with just yet, but it's one of the biggest

01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:25.039
bands on our roster. Five Finger Deathwrench

01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:31.159
covering Blue on Black. Nice. Yes. Such a great.

01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:34.739
Just the way that I've been. And maybe this is

01:01:34.739 --> 01:01:36.119
because I'm a vocalist. I don't know, because

01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:38.960
every single cover I've always mentioned is like

01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:41.920
something about the vocal captures me. and makes

01:01:41.920 --> 01:01:44.239
it convincing and makes it theirs for me. Right.

01:01:44.300 --> 01:01:46.659
So I guess that's maybe the most important component

01:01:46.659 --> 01:01:50.019
of me listening to covers. But yeah, it just

01:01:50.019 --> 01:01:53.739
so I mean, it's so suits his grit. Oh, definitely.

01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:56.300
I had Five Finger Death Punch on my list. I had

01:01:56.300 --> 01:01:58.880
their cover of Bad Company. Oh, Bad Company would

01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:00.800
have been a great one, too. Yeah, they're both

01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.320
great covers. But look, any universe where more

01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:07.320
people are talking about the genius that is Kenny

01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.199
Wayne Shepard, the original recording. Makes

01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:12.239
me happy because Kenny Wayne Shepard is one of

01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:14.900
those one of the most underrated blues guitarists

01:02:14.900 --> 01:02:17.480
I've ever seen live. His band is so great. I

01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:20.739
love that his music has resonated enough where

01:02:20.739 --> 01:02:23.559
a band the size of Five Finger Death Punch puts

01:02:23.559 --> 01:02:26.340
it out and then people go, wow, this is a great

01:02:26.340 --> 01:02:27.980
Five Finger Death Punch song. They're like, no,

01:02:28.019 --> 01:02:31.019
really. It's Kenny Wayne Shepard and it introduces

01:02:31.019 --> 01:02:32.980
Kenny Wayne Shepard to a whole new audience.

01:02:33.059 --> 01:02:36.139
So I am completely on board for it. I absolutely

01:02:36.139 --> 01:02:39.559
love it. And side B is really it's off the rails.

01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:42.400
We kick things off with Incubus. Let's go crazy.

01:02:42.699 --> 01:02:45.400
And then we had a two for Tuesday double shot

01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:48.420
of Eva under fire with separate ways, worlds

01:02:48.420 --> 01:02:51.280
apart and with or without you breaking the rules

01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:54.400
here on my weekly mixtape. And no, I don't care.

01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:57.500
Following that up was Marilyn Manson. Sweet dreams.

01:02:58.190 --> 01:03:01.030
non -points in the air tonight, disturbs the

01:03:01.030 --> 01:03:03.969
sounds of silence, hailstorms shoot to thrill,

01:03:04.289 --> 01:03:08.250
Johnny Cash is hurt, The Warning featuring Alessia

01:03:08.250 --> 01:03:11.829
Cara, Enter Sandman, and closing it out, Five

01:03:11.829 --> 01:03:14.889
Finger Death Punches, Blue on Black. Head over

01:03:14.889 --> 01:03:18.769
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all of the songs

01:03:18.769 --> 01:03:21.170
we've discussed through the playlist embedded

01:03:21.170 --> 01:03:24.690
on the episode page. Now, Eva, before we hit

01:03:24.690 --> 01:03:28.199
eject on this mixtape, We got to talk about touring.

01:03:28.420 --> 01:03:31.539
The band is about to head to Europe with Skillet

01:03:31.539 --> 01:03:34.639
and Like a Storm for the Day of Destiny tour.

01:03:35.059 --> 01:03:37.300
Why don't you tell people about that run of shows

01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:40.579
and what Europe can expect from this run? Holy

01:03:40.579 --> 01:03:43.539
cannoli. Can I just tell you, you gave us so

01:03:43.539 --> 01:03:46.199
much love to our single Blow, right? And it hit

01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:50.440
top 10 in US radio, but it hit top three in German

01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:54.800
radio. So we have, I think, four or five dates.

01:03:55.369 --> 01:03:58.449
in Germany on this run. So I cannot wait. We've

01:03:58.449 --> 01:04:01.190
been asked so many times on so many social media

01:04:01.190 --> 01:04:03.869
platforms. When are you coming to the year? When

01:04:03.869 --> 01:04:05.929
are you coming to Germany? When are you coming

01:04:05.929 --> 01:04:07.909
to Europe? When are you coming to the UK? And

01:04:07.909 --> 01:04:11.750
now we finally get a chance to like really spread

01:04:11.750 --> 01:04:14.250
our wings and go get on a plane and like do it

01:04:14.250 --> 01:04:17.650
for real. And it's with our friend. Like I can't

01:04:17.650 --> 01:04:21.670
even, I'm so excited like that. What a crazy,

01:04:21.750 --> 01:04:26.340
awesome, just pure blessing. skillet are the

01:04:26.340 --> 01:04:28.760
type of humans that you wish you would always

01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:32.079
meet in in like the business world right where

01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:33.599
everybody's telling you on the business side

01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:35.659
of things is so messy it's so chaotic you know

01:04:35.659 --> 01:04:38.400
don't get so discouraged and blah blah you meet

01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:40.780
people like skillet humans that do it like that

01:04:40.780 --> 01:04:43.920
they are one of the hardest working bands i've

01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:47.360
ever met they are so energetic live and they

01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.039
are some of the kindest humans you'll ever meet

01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:52.840
they take care of their band and i remember sitting

01:04:53.449 --> 01:04:55.750
on the, um, like one of the green room couches

01:04:55.750 --> 01:04:58.170
with their production team, production manager.

01:04:58.730 --> 01:05:01.230
And he was like, listen, when you guys go to

01:05:01.230 --> 01:05:03.130
Europe, there's a couple of things you gotta,

01:05:03.210 --> 01:05:05.650
you know, make sure you take note of like the

01:05:05.650 --> 01:05:07.409
electrical outlets and whether or not you run

01:05:07.409 --> 01:05:09.750
into much power there. And like, there's converters

01:05:09.750 --> 01:05:12.449
and things like, so just ask me. So for us to

01:05:12.449 --> 01:05:14.369
finally get our shot at going to Europe and it's

01:05:14.369 --> 01:05:17.349
with that guy, we were like, Hey, remember all

01:05:17.349 --> 01:05:19.190
those tips and tricks you gave us? Looks like

01:05:19.190 --> 01:05:22.960
you get to just walk us through it, pal. He was

01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:26.239
like, you guys again. We were like, yeah, we

01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:28.239
get to go there, friends. So we cannot wait.

01:05:28.420 --> 01:05:31.219
Like a Storm is also just very sweet. Their band's

01:05:31.219 --> 01:05:33.340
already, I've never met them, but their band's

01:05:33.340 --> 01:05:35.079
already reaching out on Instagram. Like, hey,

01:05:35.139 --> 01:05:37.820
your returner buddy is cool. Let us know if you

01:05:37.820 --> 01:05:41.300
guys need anything. So just, I can't wait. Well,

01:05:41.460 --> 01:05:43.320
I mean, we've been talking about covers all night

01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:46.380
and they covered Linkin Park's Crawling. They

01:05:46.380 --> 01:05:50.590
did a fantastic job of that. They did. And then

01:05:50.590 --> 01:05:52.710
obviously, let's not forget, we talked about

01:05:52.710 --> 01:05:55.070
90s hip hop way back at the beginning of this

01:05:55.070 --> 01:05:58.050
episode. Like a Storm covered Gangster's Paradise

01:05:58.050 --> 01:06:01.329
and did a killer version of that as well. How

01:06:01.329 --> 01:06:03.530
appropriate for mixtapes. Exactly. We're just

01:06:03.530 --> 01:06:06.130
dropping references all over the place. Well,

01:06:06.210 --> 01:06:08.699
then let's... bringing you back to the U .S.

01:06:08.699 --> 01:06:11.000
after this tour. You've blown up in Europe. Everyone

01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.199
loves you in Europe. You're coming back to the

01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:15.820
U .S. this summer. You're playing the Incarnation

01:06:15.820 --> 01:06:18.739
Festival July 14th through 16th in Mansfield,

01:06:18.840 --> 01:06:21.659
Ohio. And you're on the bill Friday with bands

01:06:21.659 --> 01:06:25.980
like Slipknot, Megadeth, Bush, Flyleaf with Lacey

01:06:25.980 --> 01:06:28.980
Sturm back in the mix, and then many, many others.

01:06:29.340 --> 01:06:32.059
Besides your set, are there any bands that you're

01:06:32.059 --> 01:06:36.239
looking forward as a music fan as well? So many.

01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.139
Brian, I can't even tune. Like, I don't know.

01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:41.800
I don't know what I'm going to do. My hope is

01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:44.739
many of them will also be on several other festivals

01:06:44.739 --> 01:06:47.539
so that I can, like, try to schedule which stages

01:06:47.539 --> 01:06:50.639
I go to at which events, right? So, like, I mean,

01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:52.579
we're playing Upheaval. We're playing Incarceration,

01:06:52.599 --> 01:06:54.420
like you said. We're playing Blue Ridge. We're

01:06:54.420 --> 01:06:57.260
playing Rock Fast. We've got Rock for Vets this

01:06:57.260 --> 01:06:59.579
year, which is awesome. I think this is our most

01:06:59.579 --> 01:07:03.260
heavy schedule for festivals that we've ever

01:07:03.260 --> 01:07:05.800
done. So I can't wait. It'll be really cool.

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But yeah, there's there's a whole list of people

01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:09.360
that I got to go see because I haven't. But we

01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:11.980
got a chance to do a lot of that this past year

01:07:11.980 --> 01:07:16.159
at Aftershock. And I mean, Evanescence and Youngblood

01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:19.559
and Bring Me the Horizon and My Chemical Romance.

01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:23.400
Like it's wild to me that I get to do this for

01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:26.699
fun. I get it. Look, I've been in bands for.

01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:30.719
30 years and while we never got to the level

01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:32.980
that you were we got to play certain shows opening

01:07:32.980 --> 01:07:35.960
for black label society and the misfits and other

01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:38.219
bands in new jersey venues like the stone pony

01:07:38.219 --> 01:07:41.219
even those one day that we were kind of like

01:07:41.219 --> 01:07:44.039
we called it our day in the sun we were still

01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:47.260
playing rock star on stage but then immediately

01:07:47.260 --> 01:07:50.059
transitioning into fans as soon as we were done

01:07:50.059 --> 01:07:53.019
because of the love we had for the other bands

01:07:53.019 --> 01:07:56.719
on the bill and i love seeing and talking with

01:07:56.719 --> 01:07:58.539
other musicians that are still in that moment

01:07:58.539 --> 01:08:00.340
because it is such a beautiful thing because

01:08:00.340 --> 01:08:04.440
it really is a full circle music is so it just

01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:06.559
unites all of us and it's such a wonderful thing

01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:10.940
so now as a podcast host if I don't ask this

01:08:10.940 --> 01:08:14.440
question I'm just not doing my job so is there

01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:16.920
any new music in the works that you'd be willing

01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:20.100
to share or is there anything maybe some big

01:08:20.100 --> 01:08:23.039
bombshell news that you want to kind of drop

01:08:23.609 --> 01:08:26.189
to give people something to chew on, new music

01:08:26.189 --> 01:08:29.630
from Under Fire coming, even though the new album's

01:08:29.630 --> 01:08:32.329
only a few months in? Is there anything else

01:08:32.329 --> 01:08:36.789
in the works? So lucky for you, friend and friends,

01:08:36.869 --> 01:08:40.970
we did take a long time to release the album

01:08:40.970 --> 01:08:43.890
we just put out. And so we're chomping at the

01:08:43.890 --> 01:08:48.149
bit to release more. And our people, our team,

01:08:48.229 --> 01:08:51.970
they know that. And because this is a cover song,

01:08:53.019 --> 01:08:58.079
podcast i can tell you that we're just getting

01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:01.000
started writing so the new music from us will

01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:03.520
be a minute but we may or may not be dropping

01:09:03.520 --> 01:09:07.680
some more covers to keep you guys satiated until

01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:11.840
the next evander fire album absolutely i can't

01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:14.079
tell you when and i can't tell you what it was

01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.619
but it will be it will make your covers heart

01:09:16.619 --> 01:09:19.369
happy All right. Well, then once those are out,

01:09:19.449 --> 01:09:21.130
we're going to have to have you back so we could

01:09:21.130 --> 01:09:24.210
talk more cover songs. And Eva, I look forward

01:09:24.210 --> 01:09:26.770
to catching you guys the next time you swing

01:09:26.770 --> 01:09:29.130
through New Jersey. I want to thank you first

01:09:29.130 --> 01:09:31.850
off for the music that you've brought into my

01:09:31.850 --> 01:09:34.770
and my girls lives and my family's lives. Thank

01:09:34.770 --> 01:09:38.189
you for being a positive musical role model to

01:09:38.189 --> 01:09:41.439
my young. impressionable children that are listening

01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:44.380
to this music now and paying attention to it.

01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:47.060
And it's resonating with them. And most importantly,

01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:50.279
beyond all of that, thank you so much for joining

01:09:50.279 --> 01:09:53.119
me on my weekly mixtape and crafting, which I

01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:56.479
think is an absolutely killer mixtape of cover

01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:58.199
songs. Thank you for being my guest tonight.

01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:00.319
There we go. Thank you guys so much for having

01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.380
me. Thank you, Brian, for all the kind words,

01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:04.659
truly now. And I can't wait to, I can't wait

01:10:04.659 --> 01:10:06.300
to see what you girls think of the next new stuff.

01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:10.720
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