Interview with Justin Covergeist!!!

Band: Covergeist

Genre: Rock

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Here are the members of the band:

Justin

Jackson

I got the opportunity to interview Justin and below are his responses:

1. What inspired you guys to play music?

Back To The Future, when Michael J Fox plays "Johnny B Goode" to his parents. “Your kids are gonna love it..." is a line I still remember today.  

2. How has music changed your life?

Music has changed my life in many ways: good and bad.  I have been fortunate to meet and play with the greatest musicians of today and music has also given me the ability to create something beautiful. It has provided me with a path to follow my dreams. The bad side of music is all the trouble it brings, from the people that test you if you "think" you are a "true" musician. It is like the old phrase: "You gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues" and out of all the good and bad, I would never "choose" to be a musician; I have no choice.  I am a true musician and I was born to sing for those who will listen J.

3. What challenges did you guys go through as a band?

There are many challenges I have faced being in a band, from working with countless drummers, bass players and other musicians; they all come and go.  It is hard to find people as talented and dedicated, but more than likely they just can't put up with me because I am one-shade from crazy (haha). I recently moved to Denver, Colorado after my band broke up in Nashville, Tennessee and the new lineup is here.  It is easy to work together because we have known each other since we were kids.

4. If you guys could describe your music in one word what would it be and why?

Love because this is an honest and well founded word to describe the name Covergeist. 

     My Mom's Father and pregnant-with-twins Mother were killed by a drunk driver, when she was only 2 years old.  She was adopted by an amazing couple. Constance Cover married Jack Geist a couple thousand years ago and they've been renewing their vows everyday with youthful kisses on old lips.  That is where the name comes from, Cover - Geist = Covergeist, the union of my adopted grandparents.

Being a musician, I break hearts and get my heart broken often. I think people now a day give up on love, their dreams, their government etc.  The world is full of broken homes and broken hearts.

 Music has never left me.  When friends and lovers come and go, I have always had a friend within the guitar and a lover within the music. My friends are eternal and I can listen to them and sing-a-long with them anytime I want, all I have to do is listen.

5. What question do you have for your fans and what outrageous stories do you have with them?

Too many outrageous stories for one interview (haha), there was the time we went to collect our $$$ from the club owner and found him stabbed in the alley, the time my dog peed on Ke$ha's Trans-Am, the time I vomited on stage while singing and kept playing, or the time I got fired for playing Billy Gibbons' guitar (haha), but there is the story of how I met Taylor Swift, which you can hear in the song Taylor Swift (Our Song) on my debut album "Zombies Vampires and Taylor Swift Oh My by Justin Covergeist".

All these stories about Taylor are true, and they were just so crazy I had to turn it into a song.

Here is the experience I had with Taylor Swift:

When I was 18, I was the intern for Taylor Swift's first album at Quad Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.  She was not the famous superstar country sweetheart she is today, she was just a 16 year old girl who came into the studio and the first time I saw her I was on top of the staircase as she walked into the door. Whether or not you like her music; she has a great team working with her, especially Nathan Chapman; who records and produces nearly everything for her. Other than that I used to play beer-pong with her bodyguard Chad, who sings in a Death Metal band and he is kind of a punk, so that is how we met.  Then me and my old bassist "Ducky" were playing Misfits songs on the porch of the famous Cafe Coco in Nashville, when Hayley Williams from Paramore and Taylor Swift walk in as I play "Die Die My Darling" and then "Ducky" proceeds to give Hayley props for singing with Max Bemis of Say Anything (a great band by the way) and then flips off Taylor and says F$#@ You !!! (haha). I am glad he did because it makes a great story, but I could never say that because I have always had a celebrity crush on her, so I was kind of pissed at "Ducky" for that one. It still makes it a great story though (haha) and there's more! after that whole thing transpired I decided to walk my dog. I turn the corner and there is Taylor, and Jack (my dog) rips the leash from my grip and goes right up her dress and gets in her business (haha). I was so embarrassed I just said "Sorry Taylor" and then went on my way. The story is so crazy I had to make a punk-doowop love song about asking her out on a date. Thanks for listening, hope you dig the interview and my tunesJ.

Here are the links where you can check out Covergeist Tunes:

ZOMBIES VAMPIRES AND TAYLOR SWIFT OH MY !!! by JUSTIN COVERGEIST

BUY it on iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/zombies-vampires-taylor-swift/id497414901

or

download  for FREE on Soundcloud

www.soundcloud.com/Covergeist