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er you want.” We were like, “Wow.” We sat on that
for a minute and said, “Can we get Elliot?” He said,
“Yeah.” It was surreal because John Brown's Body
has such a strong sound. To have their singer singing our harmonies was amazing.
ideas, and maybe even going a cheesier route, and
that's something we're trying to avoid.
Cider Mag: Now that he fronts JBB, he's been
Mahoney: We credit all that to Craig [Welsch], for
Mahoney: He's such a perfectionist too. Same
Cider Mag: Do you have a favorite song on Light
able to shine, but it's great to listen to older records
with Kevin Kinsella, and you can hear Elliot's harmonies, and he really is a stellar backing vocalist.
with Kevin. He has an amazing voice, a great falsetto. He was in the running, too, but Elliot has history
singing harmonies.
Cider Mag: And Elliot can get down with the offbeat lyrics Dubbest has.
Mahoney: All of our lyrics are written by Ryan
[Thaxler], our singer, and he writes where nothing
is laid out simply for you to figure out. He has a
way of twisting words. There's a lot of reggae out
there right now, which is putting out the good message and everything, but they're recycling the same
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Cider Mag: Light Flashes, however, has a vintage
sound.
sure. The studio we worked in was fully loaded with
vintage equipment, so we could get whatever sound
we were looking to get.
Flashes?
Mahoney: I love playing “One Thing”, and I think
it's a great way to start the album off. “Leaving” is
one of my songs, and I enjoy playing that one, too.
That's the one song we didn't actually have back-up
vocals on. All the other songs that didn't have Elliot
were instrumentals. We stuck to a specific sound on
that song, like a Gregory Isaacs’ song, which doesn't
have any harmonies and is still strong.
Cider Mag: Being into jam music, do you jam out
live, or keep it tight?
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