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Listeners like covers to expose a new meaning or feeling they missed from the original.
For musicians covering their favourite songs or artists is a right of passage. Most covers allow musicians to indulge their favourite artists of the same style. This is fine for concerts but if you are going to record a cover try something new. Most listeners do not want to hear the same song done by different people, especially when the original is better. We listeners want something new and unexpected to come out of the song. To grasp a new meaning or feeling we were unable to get from the original. The first cover I heard that completely blew my socks off was Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt” by Nine…
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Victory Pill’s Jim Davies Interview
Jim Davies (Prodigy and Pitchshifter) took a break from his studio time in Essex to sit down and talk with Rock Pulse about his latest album with Victory Pill. Davies is very relaxed and jokes around with the questions, allowing for a more friendly conversation. Davies started playing guitar when he was sixteen joking that he started because he “was bad with the girls.” The real reason was that he “wanted to play an instrument and asked for the guitar. They [his teachers] tried to get me to play the violin, or clarinet.” Davies was set on the guitar and went home everyday to practice his skill. His favourite artist…