Covers galore

For those of you loyal members of the riot who have been wondering what we’ve been up to, I can answer that with one word….covers. We have been learning and playing covers for a very special show we’re putting on this Saturday the 24th for a group of army vets. It’s going to be a great time, and it’s been a lot of fun learning these songs. We’re covering the whole board here folks, from MJ to Metallica. Definitely not your everyday riot show. As we’ve been going over these songs we’re learning and hearing a lot of things that we can bring to our music. While the genres and styles of these songs we’re going to play may be different, they all have one thing in common, they’re huge hits. It’s really interesting to find similarities between a Rage Against the Machine song and a Creedance Clearwater Revival song, two bands that sound worlds apart, yet both have written boat loads of hits. Yes, this show is going to be a blast, but I think it really has shown us as a band some things we were starting to discover on our own and were hammered home by the list of covers we’re playing. Riot!