Rick Cornell A llow me two quick anecdotes to get started. I think that this could be a semi-dangerous guy. A little later as the evening's second band a four-piece outfit named Big Joe, takes the stage, I discover I'd been talking with their lead guitarist Joe Rechel. The whole he's time exuding high-volume energy. It's straightforward, loud and energetic and it's amiable but not without hints of recklessness.
People can put what they want after that or before that.
There's a certain amount of grit and a garage element there. And at moments we can almost get country, and there are times when we can almost get metal. We decided to come out this way and test the waters. This way included a stop in Nashville after the band left Tucson, Ariz., in March of '96, and when things didn't pan out in Music City, a stop in Murray, Ky. - a dry town in another sense of the word and definitely not a music city. They were into Bob Seger and stuff like that, so it was hard to get across to them that we just did original music.