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drugs were probably involved in the band naming, like a
weird diagnosis. Totally unrelated, I voted on one called
“Head Medicine.”
What are the members names and what instrument
do they each play?
B.O.: We like to keep it a simple 4 piece. I do vocals, screams, chicken dances, pointing, and mumbling.
Usually I just try not to pass out. Mark Gaddy is our lone
gunslinger on guitar. Brian Laird is in charge of the low
end and deep knee bends. Lucius A. Watts III or Trey as
we call him, pounds out the ultra heavy beat with the
skull that contains the ghost of Jerry Reed perched on a
kit he calls “Renee.”
Who are some of you guys influences? Would you
say that’s where you get your sound from?
B.O.: I’m a punk rocker at heart. Anything horror
punk is always my jam. I like all kinds of rock and metal, older country, some hip hop, lots of acoustic stuff.
The first album’s I had were Coolio’s “Gangsters Paradise,” Green Day “Dookie,” and then Metallica’s “Ride
the Lightning” and the musical spark caught fire. Whatever has a melody, an attitude, sincerity, or something
different to offer. I’m a sucker for anything that comes
across sad or melancholy. I think the lyrics I’ve come up
with so far have portrayed that in our music.
M.G.: It gets kinda weird with our band cause we are
influenced by everything. Me personally George Harrison , Keith Whitley, Sam Kinison, Peter Steele. Basically
everyone I love is dead!!!
B.L.: Deftones and Eagle Eye Cherry so for the second part that’s gonna be a no.
L.A.W.: Avenged Sevenfold, Hellyeah, Dokken, Coors Light, Halloween, The Ghost of Jerry Reed, University of South Carolina Fighting Gamecocks… We
get our sound from old phonograph records of Hank
Williams.
At what age did you guys decide you wanted to be
in a band? Is that the same time you become interested
in Music?
B.O.: I was interested in music way before I ever even
thought about being in a rock band. I
tried saxophone in grade school but
then realized I had to practice regularly and that was the end of that. Plus
the wooden reed on my tongue gave
me the creeps. I got my first guitar at
16 from a pawn shop and that was it. I
learned to sing because I have a love/
hate relationship with my guitar. I had
to be able to do something else while
me and the guitar are arguing.
M.G.: Yes, 1994-1995 is when
I was first introduced to “Nirvana:
Nevermind.” The End.
B.L.: Around middle school is
when I started playing and decided I
really wanted to play my own music
and be in a band.
L.A.W.: My personal interest in
music started when I was a baby. I
was raised around music. One of my earliest memories
was sitting behind my father’s drum set which seemed
extremely large due to the fact that I was probably 5.
I’ve been in bands with Brian Owen and Mark Gaddy
since high school. It just felt right for us all to come back
together and form Buried Voices.
When it comes to creating Is there one person who
writes all the songs? Or do you guys write them as a
band?
B.O.: We write as a
band. Those guys usually
have a riff, idea, or hammer out a piece of music
and then I have a palette
to write words and put
a melody over. A lot of
times they put something
together and record it on
a phone, email it to me
and I’ll work out some
primitive lyrics/melody
for the next practice.
M.G.: Normally it’s a
drum beat, a humming
melody, or the riff !! But
we all collectively but our
20 cents in!!.
B.L.: I chip in when I
can but during this process I’m usually doing a
lot of drinking.
L.A.W.: Everyone contributes, it’s a group effort.
Everyone has their brand
of hot sauce they bring to
the fajitas.
Where do you usually
gather songwriting inspiration? What is your
usual songwriting process?
B.O.: From all kinds of weird places. A conversation,
another song or band, something I see on the street, a
thought or emotion, a thought, emotion, or situation
other people have, some kind of visual, books, movies,
staring at a pancake. It really doesn’t make sense where
an idea/inspiration comes from all the time. I usually
like to come up with a song title first and then lyrics
flow easier.
M.G.: Song writing for me definitely rubs off on
what we’ve been listening to lately but the process involves beer and good times. Some songs fall right in
place. Sometimes you have to just chill out and regroup
when a song is fighting you back.
B.L.: Drinking.
L.A.W.: Put beers in refrigerator until the Rockies
are blue. Talk about horror movies for 20 minutes, and
then just start playing. If something feels right we lock
on to that, jam until we need another beer, rinse and
repeat.
Do you guys have any favorite local or regional
bands that you really like? Have you ever shared a
stage with them?
B.O.: I really like Into the Depths, Beyond the Gallows, You, Me, and US, and Decadence from Columbia,
Fall of an Empire out of upstate, SC, and The Independents out of Florence!. We have been lucky enough to
share the stage with most of these.
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