Ep.314 – Oh Sherrie Cover Wars (Dan Vasc VS Alyona Yarushina)

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This is the Widow Music speaks podcast with Blake Mosley, James Tufts, and Amanda Dolan. Hey, everybody, it's me. It's me. It's Jac. And welcome back to the wooden word film music speaks podcast. Where were you? Fighting depression with the power of music. I'm your professional handicap host, James Cox. And, no, I'm sorry, I'm not in the voice of scripture from. But still, after three or four years, I'm not. Come on, now.

I wish that you were.

I know. Yeah.

And then there's me, Amanda Dolan. I may not know the name of the song, the artist, the album, like the other guys here, but chances are I will sing along loudly, proudly, and poorly. Just ask my kids. It will also tell you I am not a regular mom. I am a decluttering. Get rid of all the extra stuff, mom. Right now.

Yes, and I think we all do need to do that, because there's some stuff I've had for years and years and years. I'm like, I don't. Do I need to throw this away? I don't know. Maybe I should.

Yeah, I. You know, there's a.

Hold on.

I'm actually gonna.

I can't hear you.

You can't hear me all of a sudden? Hmm? Hang on. You can't hear me because it says I'm. Let me try that. Can you hear me better now? I can't hear you now.

Ha.

No, it says everything's working okay. Everything looks right on my end. I can hear it. I can see that. I'm talking.

Hello?

Can you hear me again? Can you hear me?

Can.

I don't know.

That's. That's why we. We switched, you know.

Where. Do you want to, like, do you want to start over somewhere or.

No, we'll just say. We'll just go from you saying about your cluttered stuff, and I'll just. Yeah.

So, yeah, right now I'm, like, getting rid of all of the extra stuff in my house because there's too much stuff.

Too much stuff.

Yeah, yeah, because I've been in my house for over 20 years and you just accumulate.

But your house is not like hoarders, is it?

No, no, no. It's just, you know that I love that show.

That show. It's local.

I do, too. I'm fascinated by that show.

I have seen years, though.

No, but I mean, it's the stuff, like, I have, you know, like my garage. Like, that's the. I can park a car in my garage. So there's that. So it's not like, you know, hoarder. Hoarder, anything like that. It's just, you know, like, I had a whole box of, like, I don't know. Or books. Like, I still had a whole bunch of, like, my kids books from when they were, like, little. Little. And I don't need those.

Yeah, but those keys to give you.

I kept some of them. Okay, I kept some of them. But, like, the ones that are, you know, were torn up or, you know, whatever, though, that kind of stuff were, you know, old decor that I didn't need anymore, you know, vases. Vases. Be fancy. I got rid of my vases.

The vase are vase. I always.

I think it's only a vase if you're fancy. And I'm gonna pretend like I'm fancy.

If you're, like, a millionaire. It's vase.

It's vase. Yeah, I do have one.

If you're a redneck like me, it's a race fan. It's, you know, base. There's a base, right? Yeah. Right?

Yes, yes. But, um. Yeah, I'm actually going to talk a little bit more about, like, the decluttering later. But I think that, you know, we all, like, a lot of us just have more stuff than we need.

Yeah.

And, uh. And so I'm just trying to simplify my life and enjoy, you know, have things that bring me joy. Not quite Marie Kondoing the whole, like, get rid of everything, but, um. Because isn't she, like the. If you just, like, you hold it, and if it brings you joy, then you keep it, and if it doesn't, then you get rid of it. Like, I don't have time for that. It's just like, I don't need this. I'll get rid of this thing. This. I'm not sure about. I'm going to hang on to it, and that's where I'm at right now.

Exactly. Okay. Well, I mean, yeah, when you buy. When you buy stuff, like, then collect more stuff, you're like, do I really need this in my life? And, like, about a year, life is like, no. You know, it always wonders, like. Like that show called hoarders, if anybody has a scene in the great show. It's about all couples or, like, individual people collecting a lot of stuff over the years. I wonder what goes through their mind is, like, if I don't need it, let it go, because I wonder what, you know, what goes through the mind about not throwing stuff away. I don't know.

Well, I think, like, when you watch that show, they always do a little bit of a backstory on the people, and I think that a lot of. And it has to do with, like, this fear of not having something. Like, it's. It's like, it's an anxiety disorder. I think hoarding is. It's a. I don't know how to describe it, but I think, like, my understanding is it's a. It can be, like, a form of obsessive compulsive disorder, which is, like, you obsessively hold on to things because, like, you might need it someday or.

Yeah.

You know, you. Or there's a compulsion to spend, so you just buy and buy and buy, and then you don't want to get rid of it because you've wasted the money or. Yeah, whatever. So. But I think there's, like, a actual pathology there. I don't think that that's where I'm at. I'm just trying to make my home more comfortable.

Yes. And more decluttered is what we all strive to be, so.

Yes.

But this time on this episode, we are. We are doing another cover wars, and I figured it's time for us to do another cover wars because haven't done in a while.

You know, we haven't done one in a while, and I've kind of been missing in action because I had a. My voice decided it was going to disappear, and it was wild. Like, I wasn't sick or anything. I just couldn't speak. Have you sounded horrendous?

Have you listened to the episode that me and Blake did with. With Anne Swanson?

Yes. I wish I had.

Yeah. I know. Yeah. Because we were like, Amanda would love you, dude. You know? Yeah.

Yeah. And it's. Yeah. It's just been. It's been a wild couple weeks around here. My partner's son came to visit from Boise. My kids were on spring break. It's just everyone in my house was sick.

It's busy.

It's been just a wild couple weeks.

You had a busy schedule. Yeah, yeah. But I wanted to do this cover for a while now because I remember asking y'all, and we just didn't make it happen for some reason. But this time we're covering. Oh, Sherry by Steve Perry. That rhymes.

Yes.

I didn't know what I'm.

Sherry by Steve Perry. Yeah, it does.

I made a joke. Right?

There we go. I love that you're a poet and you didn't even know it. Isn't that what they.

Yes. Yeah, that's. That's the. That's the same. Yeah. Yeah. So, um. So if you didn't know Estee Perry, he was a singer, and we'll have got to have Miss Amanda. I'll tell you about him.

Yeah. So he. He was born in January of 1949. Singer songwriter. And he was the lead singer, frontman of the rock band journey during, like, their most successful years from 1977 to 1987, and then again in the late nineties, 95 to 98, maybe the late 19 hundreds, as some of my children's friends like to say. So you were born in the 19 hundreds? Yes, the 19 hundreds. He wrote and co wrote several of the songs. He also had a successful solo career in the mid. From the mid eighties to the mid nineties. And so that is kind of where, like, O'Sherry came in. He, like, has just the most amazing voice. He'd been dubbed the voice originally coined by John Bon Jovi, and he is ranked in the top 100 greatest singers of all time. So Osheri is the debut solo singer for Steve Perry. It was written by Perry, Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf and Bill Cuomo. The song was recorded and released on Perry's first solo album, Street Talk, in 1984, and actually released that while he was still a member of Journey, which is interesting to me. I don't know why I find that interesting, but I do. That he was still in a band and released this really incredible album at the same time he was there. The song is often regarded as an honorary journey song, probably because came out while he was still in the band. Right. And it was credited to the band on several hit comp. Wow. I cannot say that word. Compilation albums and in other media, obviously, it sounds like the trademark sound of the band because, well, front man, same, you know, artist sang it, wrote it, which is awesome. And this proved to be, like, Perry's live swan song with the band. The song was written in f major, and this song was Perry's biggest hit as a solo artist as well. It was written for his then girlfriend Sherry Swofford, who also appeared in the music video. The song hit number three on the pop chart and number one on the rock chart in the US, and partly aided in its success by a music video released to promote it, which received heavy airplay on MTV when MD still showed music videos to the song's co writers and supporting musicians, Bill Cuomo and Craig Crampf. I really hope I'm saying that name right. Earlier performed on Kim Karn's signature song, bette Davis Eyes. Love that song in 81, and Cuomo performed the keyboard rift on Harry. He's also responsible for the keyboard rift on Bette Davis eyes, and Crampf was the drummer on Bette Davis Eyes, but Larry London was the drummer for O Sherry. They, cuomo, cramp, and Perry started composing the song at approximately midnight with little more than a simple chorus of oh, sherry and hold on, hold on. Plus a few simple sounds. Swofford had been in the room with them initially, but had gone to sleep because of the late hour, so. And then that classic music video was shot in the historic entertainment venue, the Park Plaza Hotel, which is now called the MacArthur. It's in LA. The video opens with what appears to be an elaborate formal royal wedding, complete with a bride and a large wedding dress, various royal court members, trumpet players, minister, and a man wearing a royal robe and a crown. As the bride approaches the altar and groom, she kneels. He takes off his crown, revealing he is Steve Perry. And then he. Then he complains that he can't do this. So the director yells, cut. And the camera moves back and it shows that it's just a movie set. Scenes restarted and then it begins with, like, him singing acapella. So the first few lines of the song are just him singing acapella. He sings a few more lines, and then the music starts as he sings. Below, at a large entrance similar to that of a church or a train station, his girlfriend sherry walks in wearing a white skirt. He continues to sing, then runs downstairs to sing to her as she smiles and laughs. Then he embraces her as the song ends, as the director calls out to Perry, imploring him to resume the video, Perry escorts sherry out as they exit with his arms around her. So, you know, very, I don't know what that is about. Like the eighties music videos, right? Where it's like, oh, it's gonna be this big thing. Nope. We're gonna make it, like, simple, and it's just me singing, you know?

Um, have you heard of divine interventions? Well, not divine intervention, but, uh, well, let me. Okay, so. So I was on Facebook, like, last night, because I knew we were doing this cover.

Mm hmm.

And I saw this picture. I don't know. Hold on. Let me see if I can pull it up. Yes. Here we go. And I saw this picture. I'm like, well, I. Oh, my gosh.

That's amazing. Yeah, no, the same face. The same, like, I don't know what happened to it.

Oh, like. Okay, there. Okay, I see it had to take this off. Yeah. Okay. So it says, be Perry, lead singer, and the legend of. And then girl, the girlfriend, Sherry Swellford, who was inspiration for one of the bands, very old sherry. So I saw this picture. I'm like, oh, wait, perfect.

We're doing that.

Yeah. So I think. Right? Yes, it did. And that's pretty weird, too, because, I mean, here we were doing it today, and I saw that, um, thing yesterday, you know, so.

Or awesome. The Googles and the whatever are all listening to your brain waves, I guess.

That's called divine intervention, right. Where you sleep. Look at. I don't know. Is it?

I don't know. What is it? I don't know. I would. Kismet or. No. What is that?

I guess it would be. I don't know, like a premonition or something.

Yes. That I. Sure. I don't know what any of those things are.

Who knows?

It's always like, that. Coincidence or. But. But there are no coincidences. I think it's, you know. No, everything happen.

Yes. Yes.

Yes. There's. Which is wild. So. So, yeah, I'll go ahead.

Uh, yes. I mean, I've been a real big fan of this song forever. Um, and I don't think I've heard it back in the eighties, but I'm really not sure, you know, because my parents were, like, of, like, a. Like a country, you know, family.

I don't know how you could have missed this song in the eighties, though, right?

Yeah, because it was everywhere.

It's everywhere.

And. And I think it is odd that he released a solo album when he was still with journey, you know, which is kind of, like, foretelling that he was gonna leave, probably. I don't know.

Yeah.

I mean, I guess, surely.

Yeah, right?

Yeah, surely. They knew. But there's got to be other artists that have done that, and I'm sure that Blake would know, you know, a dozen. He could just name them off the top of his head, and I, like.

Know what they were thinking about everything.

I don't know. I don't know any of that stuff. I just know music.

Right? I know, but I don't know as much as he does because he's easily a master of useless music knowledge here. And when we're.

He has, like, a weird. I don't know, a weird ability.

Yeah.

I do not possess.

Kind of makes me sick, you know, sometimes when it's like, I know a lot, but that a lot more, you.

Know, so, so much it's. It's wild. I just know what I like to listen to and listen to, and occasionally I retain random facts along the way. I can. So, yeah, I'm excited to, like, yeah, there's some covers of this because they're. It's such a classic, like, iconic song. So now.

Now this first guy, he has a last name that we are going to butcher, so we're so sorry.

Yeah, but he goes by Dan Vasque, so let's just call him Dan Vasque.

Perfect.

That's what he goes by on YouTube. So Dan Bask.

All right.

Because I can't. And he is. What is he, 34 years old? He's almost exactly ten years younger than you. And I actually like, like, very, very, almost exactly.

Yeah.

Smack in the middle of our birthdays, but ten years later.

Yeah.

So, yeah, so he is professionally and on YouTube known as Dan Vasque. He's a brazilian heavy metal singer and songwriter. In 2017, he was frustrated that he, like, failed all the negotiations with all these record companies and was also dealing with the grief of his father's death by cancer. So he decided he would build himself, his own audience for his work. And so he created a YouTube channel where he is known for doing covers of various songs, either of bands that are already metal or metal covers of nonmetal bands and or artists. I haven't found one of him doing the song we'll make a man out of you on from Mulan. Okay, so, I mean, like, all kinds of stuff. He's also a member of the heavy metal band Fearless, whom he's released one studio album called Chronicles of Ancient Wisdom in 2019, as well as one ep before that, which was ancient wisdom. They're both released independently, and their band is currently working on a second studio album. And then the other, like, kind of fun thing about him is in 2021, he wrote, recorded, and produced the intro theme song for the weekly web show Friday night tights. Titled All Hail Friday night tights, the song pays homage to eighties cartoon openings, and I watched the opening a couple times, and it was definitely gave me, like, that eighties intro vibes. So, um, yeah, he's a clearly a talented guy, so let's listen to him.

And I think I love you the most right now because I always wanted to hear a version of a metal song with this, but this is gonna be great for me. Yeah. Okay.

I'm excited.

Right? Okay, here we go. So it's Dan bask with O'Sherry cover. Here we go. In three, two, one.

You should have been gone knowing how I made you feel how I should have been gone after all your words of steel oh, I must have been a dreamer must have been a dreamer then I must have been someone else someone else I should have been ho. Shall rest on you go out, hide me everybody if I know who you thought I'd be but you know what? Disappear. Disappear that you never find nowhere else got you feeling how I love how it's all. Hold on. Hold shepherd. How. Shut up. But it should have been cold long ago far away and it should have been gone now I know you lie, you stay home shut up. Hold down I will tell how I shall hold up o shut up.

Hey, my friends, thank you very much for watching. Sorry, I just wake up realizing that I forgot to record the outro.

Yeah.

Ask and you shall receive. I did this song because you guys asked me to, and it is my pleasure to deliver, specially Steve Perry. Keep letting me know what you guys want to hear on this channel. On the comment section. Here's a couple more videos that might also entertain you. I hope to see you next time. Until then, my friends. Friends, have yourselves an epic day.

All right, let's get us back on there. All right, I can see.

Yeah, we'll get. We'll get into it and wait to see.

Why do I go first? If. Okay, so. Mmm. I do love that. So I do love that version to be, frankly. Honestly, I love that version. He reminds me of the voice of Steve Perry so much.

It's kind of.

It's kind of like a deeper voice, but you can. But you can still hear that. Hear that sound. Um. And that's not metal. Um, I don't. I don't know. No, that's not metal. That's more like a rock. Rock cover. Metal is like blast beats and time signatures and all the other stuff that they can tell you that I can't because I'm not smarter than him. But.

Yeah, that's not. You just don't you. Yeah, that's not true. You just don't know all the things of that. You just know lots of other things.

I'm not a drummer. He's a drummer, and he knows all about that stuff. Um. But it's okay, you know? I mean, it's.

That it's not what I wanted it to be. I don't know what I wanted it, but that's not what I wanted. It's. His voice is amazing. He has a beautiful, beautiful voice. And also, it just. We've talked about this. It just reminds me of the original. Like, just. I mean, it's. It doesn't give me something, like, really new and exciting. That is not to say that it's not great. It's just I wanted more medley and we wanted metal. Not what I got.

Well, maybe his band is metal, but he's. I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know. I guess I thought, like, because. Oh, well, he does metal covers of lots of things that that's what, like, I would be getting, right. But not as much as I wanted, so.

Right.

That's okay. Still sounds incredible.

Yeah.

And he has spectacular hair, right?

Yeah. I wouldn't. Hair gel he goes through or, like, you know, upkeep with that.

I don't know. He's got to spend some time on that hair. That's. If he doesn't. I'm jealous.

Are your dogs having a fight over there?

I don't know what is happening with them because there is nothing happening. They're in the other room.

Okay. It's all good.

Oh, no.

Someone there?

I have no idea what is happening. Hang on.

Come. Are they. Did they taste like they're the mailman? No, no.

Like the trash guys have already been here for the day. Mail already came. Amazon came. I have no idea. But maybe the. Probably the neighbors dogs are losing their mind, so let's maybe. Let's give them a second. Hang on, I'm gonna mute myself a sec.

Okay. Yeah. Cuz, uh, that. That song right there just didn't scream metal to me, you know, because when you think about melody, thinking about flashbacks and what I said, and that reminds me of a good Ac DC song, you know?

I mean, it's all great song. I loved it.

That's not what Amanda and I were looking toward, which is. Which is okay, you know?

Yeah.

If you. If you like that, please reach out to us, you know, and we're gonna. We're gonna tell you where you can reach out to us before. But, um, never fear, we have another cover song that Miss Amanda found, which.

So this is, this is female artist. I'm probably going to butcher her name as well, but I'm going to try my hardest. She is Aleno Veruschina. She is also 39 that way, but they're both, you know, 39. She is russian american. She's a youtuber, composer, pianist, performer, arranger and musician. She does almost exclusively covers from many famous songs. She was born in Moscow and moved to the United States in March of 2020. She has an interest in both music and makeup, and she actually has two YouTube channels. One that's all about music and cover, and the other is all about makeup. And she has covered artists from Sebastian Bach, Aerosmith, Kiss, Michael Jackson, Skid Row, the Beatles, and more. And then makeup channel is called Ali Art, which has more subscribers even than her music channel does, which is wild. And she performs. Yeah, she performs in two bands all over the world, primarily in these two bands. One called plumbum. Plumbum. Plumbum. There we go. Plumbum dreams and back from the USSR, which both. I kind of watched a few videos back from us.

Arsr makes me think about the Beatles.

Cover band, you know, it is a Beatles cover band.

Perfect. Facebook. Bam. Look at that.

I knew something. Plumbum Dreams is a Led zeppelin cover band.

Oh, nice. I bet she could.

So she like classic. Yeah, she's. She goes back to the. The mid 19 hundreds for her.

Right. So. Okay, so this is. How do you say her first name again?

Allie. We'll just say Allie.

We know an Ally. Perfect. Okay.

Yes.

So this is Allie's version of Steve Perry over Sherry. Lasty Perry still rhymes, right? Okay, in three, two, one.

You should have been gone knowing how I made you feel and I should have been gone after all your words are still I must have been a dream, I must have been a dream I know and I must have been someone else and we should have been over now I share it. I love how die. I share it. Let's go. You go help me. You'll be better out alone I'm not who you wanna be but you know that there's a fever I know oh, that you'll never find nowhere get your feeling better hair. But it should have been girl long ago, far away and you said I've been gone now I know you lie aside, I'll share it.

Okay, so the thing I do like about that video is that she. She brought out like some kind of eighties vibe, if you understand what I mean.

Oh, 100%.

Um, it's. It's when. When she was looking off to the camera. You can see that they had some eighties motion going on. I picked that up real good.

Yeah. Oh, it definitely felt like straight out of the eights.

Oh, yeah.

All of it. I mean, and I loved that. Like, you know, you saw her singing the back apple for herself.

Well, see, they both did. Her and that gentleman were both. Which is kind of odd, because if you're doing.

Oh, I was gonna say, but the way that they did it gave me Olin Mills portrait vibes from the eighties.

That's so great.

Like, it did. Like, that's 100% what it was reminded me of.

That is 100% true. You know, because. Yeah, only mills. You haven't heard of them in years, but, yeah. Um. Yeah, these are, like.

I feel like I let you down, because these were not.

No, I mean, they were both great in the end. Their retrospective units, I guess. I don't know what I'm trying to say, but they. They didn't blast me or Amanda away like most cover songs do on this. Honest.

You know, it felt like. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna say this, and I mean this with, like, without disrespect at all, but it's. They both felt more like karaoke songs than true cover songs.

Yeah.

And I just mean that they stayed, you know, very, like, close to the original. And there's nothing wrong. I'm not. I'm not complaining about it. It's just when I hear a cover, especially, like, in cover wars, I want to be like, oh, that's unique and different, and I'm not. You know, that's something new.

Right.

And it shouldn't feel like that.

Yeah, I agree. But now comes a time where we have either one or the other, and I think you know me real well, so I'm, like, Ali's cover only because I like women's voices a lot better than men. Most men. Um. Yeah, her range is, like, bar none. Like, you know.

Yeah.

But, um.

And I. I loved her voice, but, man, Dan. Dan bask that. Like.

Yeah. Yeah. Because his voice was so deep and powerful and raw, you know? So it's kind of.

Yeah, because neither of them. Because I feel like I'm picking the voice and not the COVID Right?

Yes. Yes. And that.

If that makes sense to y'all out there. And I really like Dan's voice, so I'm gonna go with Daniel.

Yeah.

James is going with Ali. So y'all let us know who you think the winner is. Um, you can be our tiebreaker on.

No, you don't want Jeff to be I don't.

He.

He keeps voting against me. I don't want.

That's the first time he agreed with you. And then second time he agreed with me.

Okay, so this was my turn. Okay, so, Jeff, it's my turn. Pick me.

How about we get Blake on this up because Blake is here. Maybe he can. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

Yeah. Well, we'll find. We'll get some more. More input.

Yeah, we can get miss.

They're both great voices, so.

Yeah. Yeah.

So it's a tie between for us, but. But y'all out there will let us know, right? Who the winner is.

So, felt down in dreary today. Maybe you have, you know, I mean, maybe you.

Cuz.

Cuz I know here it rained a lot, you know? And I know raining can. Can cause a lot of depression and sadness, but have no fear. Uh, this is the first time, I think, so, that Amanda has a mental health minute, or am I wrong?

My second one, I think, because I did one. Yeah. So I talked about, dude, the decluttering. And actually, decluttering is great for your mental health because, like, there's a variety of reasons. One, like, having that, like, clean, neat environment helps you stay on track and be more focused. Having a clean, neat kitchen without all the stuff around helps you create healthy meals. Also, having a less cluttered bedroom is shown to help you sleep. And less clutters in your house also helps with your allergies and asthma because there's less space for your dust to collect, I guess. But that does not mean get rid of everything. Keep the things around you that bring you joy. Some people say that having some stuff helps them stay creative. So, yeah, my dogs are losing their mind again for no reason. I don't know what's going on. I'm gonna check on them. Yeah. Declutter what you want when you can. One of the things I think, especially women do, and I know Blake recently was decluttering his old clothes, but there's the. This trick for clothes where you do a backwards. You hang your clothes backwards, so then when you wear them, you hang them back up in the normal way. And at the end of the year, anything that hasn't been flipped around, you get rid of because you haven't worn it in a year. So chances are needed. So that is a great idea for decluttering clothing. Anyway.

Nice, right?

So that's what I got. And my dogs. And I'm blaming the little chihuahua for. He's the instigator. I feel it in my bones.

Well, I. Well, I do need to learn how to do that clothes trick, because I have a lot of clothes I don't even wear. Maybe I should just throw them all out and, you know, I don't know.

Most of us wear the same, like, four outfits or, like, you know. Yeah, we all have, like, our favorite pair of jeans and then the handful of shirts that we wear.

Right.

And there's no. We don't need all of the stuff. You don't need to keep buying stuff.

Either, you know, none at all.

You know, your money. Do something cool, like go on a trip or go to a concert.

Yes. Live concerts are where it's at.

You make memories.

Yes.

Not stuff.

Exactly. Exactly.

That's what I got. So anything else?

I think we're it, you know? I think we're done. Yes, ma'am.

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