Welcome to Season Two of Philly-centric video series, Cover Club. Cover Club is best conceptualized as “A special brand of Philly covers”, akin to The Onion’s AV Undercover series but with one caveat: the song being covered must originally be from a Philly artist.
In late 2013 at the Philly Sings Philly event, I first met Dan B. of TJ Kong. Truthfully, I hadn't yet figured out that he wasn't actually Mr. Kong. While the "real" TJ Kong, was actually Major T. J. Kong, the B-52 bomber pilot from Dr. Strangelove. Philadelphia's TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb is a band full of Dans & Joshes dropping musical bombs (the band has two Dans and two Joshes in it).
I've seen Dan B. cover "Standard Human" from Purples solo at Church of Kong (a brunch song-writer series at the former Nodding Heads Brewery), but it was with Joshua Machiz on bass joining Dan B. that this cover, really takes on new life. Add in the audio expertise of Cambridge Sound Studios were we recorded in the "living room" back in early December, and Bob Sweeney directing and you get one hell of a video.
The Philadelphia based band featuring Jonas Oesterle, Peter MoDavis and Brian Ashby, put out Nancy in 2013. According to Dan B., "Purples are friends of ours and one of my favorite bands in Philly right now. All those guys have been making really good music for a long time. Jonas, their drummer also drums in my Tom Waits cover band! "Standard Human" is the first single off their latest."
Check out TJ KONG and The ATOMIC BOMB this Friday at the Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival. They play 8pm at the Tellus360 Front Stage.
Check out the original by Purples on Bandcamp
TJ Kong - Standard Human (Purples Cover)
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I've seen Dan B. cover "Standard Human" from Purples solo at Church of Kong (a brunch song-writer series at the former Nodding Heads Brewery), but it was with Joshua Machiz on bass joining Dan B. that this cover, really takes on new life. Add in the audio expertise of Cambridge Sound Studios were we recorded in the "living room" back in early December, and Bob Sweeney directing and you get one hell of a video.
The Philadelphia based band featuring Jonas Oesterle, Peter MoDavis and Brian Ashby, put out Nancy in 2013. According to Dan B., "Purples are friends of ours and one of my favorite bands in Philly right now. All those guys have been making really good music for a long time. Jonas, their drummer also drums in my Tom Waits cover band! "Standard Human" is the first single off their latest."
Check out TJ KONG and The ATOMIC BOMB this Friday at the Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival. They play 8pm at the Tellus360 Front Stage.
Check out the original by Purples on Bandcamp
TJ Kong - Standard Human (Purples Cover)
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