Cover Stories
In honor of Saturday’s second annual covers night at the Parish, starring Moonlight Towers, Grand Champeen, and Li’l Cap’n Travis, TCB decided to do a little covering of his own. These choice quotes from the participants originally ran in “Under the Covers,” cubiclemate Darcie Stevens‘ fine article marking the occasion. JACOB SCHULZE, Moonlight Towers: “You get to see the building blocks of all these different songs because you have to sit there and figure them out. Stuff you might not normally pay attention to when casually listening is stuff you can totally steal later.”
CHANNING LEWIS, Grand Champeen: “We know very well that if you play a cover often enough and well enough, people start to want to hear that more than they want to hear your own stuff.”
MATT KINSEY, Li’l Cap’n Travis: “In the early Nineties you would have a loud band play John Denver‘s ‘Annie’s Song,’ and it would be kind of like you were making fun of it. Now we can actually admit that we like it.”
Last year brought AC/DC, Television, Sonic Youth, the Bee Gees, INXS, and Boston; the bands aren’t tipping their hands about Saturday. DJ Polecat spins; cover is $7.
This article appears in April 22 • 2005.