Chris Gable, Musician & Vocalist
Everlong (Foo Fighters) - HEAVY ROCK VOCAL VERSION
Featuring Luke Thatcher on drums again, and now including Linden Charles and James Bernauer, I reckon we’ve made something pretty great. This is the best cover of Everlong I’m aware of!
Linden, James and I worked together fairly regularly in the BC (Before Corona) era playing weddings & corporates, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that they’re among the best performers I’ve worked with in my career. The whole band is, actually. Not only are they insanely talented, they’re really good people – none of the ego that often accompanies talent of such levels. Easy-going, intelligent, fun folk with whom it’s a genuine pleasure sharing time both on and off stage.
As such, I was confident in sending the guys a backing with no direction beyond “have at it”. James is not only waaaaay better on guitar than I am, he’s better on guitar than I am on any damn instrument. Me = Jack Of All Trades; James = legit craftsman. Several times I’ve completely blanked out on stage because I was so utterly absorbed just watching James shred.
I was thrilled when Linden agreed to lend his vocals because his voice is just bloody ridiculously good. He’s that rare beast, a legitimate, trained music theatre vocalist who can rock out when called upon to do so. I’ve worked with tons of music theatre performers but almost all of them would fail abysmally with a Foo Fighters tune; Linden crushed it.
Regarding my own vocals, I’m using this downtime to basically unlearn a decade of terrible vocal technique, so not really singing much at the moment… however I’ve always LOVED doing unnecessarily convoluted 4-part harmonies so I went for it. I think next video will feature me singing again. Time to get back in the saddle.
One last big shout out to Wil, Luke, James and Linden for being involved. Thanks so much. You guys are all bloody amazing, this was massive amounts of fun.
