2008 Woodie Awards
Local band Take Over Tuesday to open for Quietdrive
Brandy Egertson
Issue date: 9/19/07 Section: Life
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Last year Todd Welch, then current employee of the Idaho State University's Program Board, had no clue that his job would lead him in to a highly succefful local band nine months later.
It could be considered fate the Welch needed an opening act for Magician Nate Staniford; or maybe just luck that Welch knew Jeremiah Baker from and ISU class, lead vocalist and piano player; local ISU student in the music department. Some would consider it normal that Baker had a good friend Joey Spencer the band's lead guitarist, whom he'd been jamming with since high school days at Pocatello High School. However, when one thinks that Spencer was in the band Greyhouse Effect playing with drummer Seth Kasunick, it makes the band's creation seem suspiciously serendipitous.
Even down to the band's name Take Over Tuesday had a special way of coming about.
At their first show, the band announced to 900 ISU students that they had only been playing together since last Tuesday and asked the crowd to write name suggestions on the cards given to the crowd. One little girl gave a suggestion to Welch the band's bassist, "they should be called 'Hot Guys'." Besides from the young girls crush; over and over the suggestions went along the theme of Tuesday and so the band became Taking Over Tuesday.
The band finished their first three song demo albums this week. A small showcase of some of the 20 original songs they currently play, plus three cover songs. The group tried to record locally but the Boise area had better studios at better prices. Their recordings will be available at their local shows as well as at the Quietdrive concert on Oct. 5.
"There's definitely something paramount in every band" Spencer commented on the recording and the Quietdrive opening spot.
All four band members are students at ISU. Spencer is currently taking general classes; Kasunick receives his bachelor's degree after this semester, an all ready extended graduation date. Kasunick had been three credits away from a Mass Communication degree when he decided that being a physician's assistant was his true calling.
It could be considered fate the Welch needed an opening act for Magician Nate Staniford; or maybe just luck that Welch knew Jeremiah Baker from and ISU class, lead vocalist and piano player; local ISU student in the music department. Some would consider it normal that Baker had a good friend Joey Spencer the band's lead guitarist, whom he'd been jamming with since high school days at Pocatello High School. However, when one thinks that Spencer was in the band Greyhouse Effect playing with drummer Seth Kasunick, it makes the band's creation seem suspiciously serendipitous.
Even down to the band's name Take Over Tuesday had a special way of coming about.
At their first show, the band announced to 900 ISU students that they had only been playing together since last Tuesday and asked the crowd to write name suggestions on the cards given to the crowd. One little girl gave a suggestion to Welch the band's bassist, "they should be called 'Hot Guys'." Besides from the young girls crush; over and over the suggestions went along the theme of Tuesday and so the band became Taking Over Tuesday.
The band finished their first three song demo albums this week. A small showcase of some of the 20 original songs they currently play, plus three cover songs. The group tried to record locally but the Boise area had better studios at better prices. Their recordings will be available at their local shows as well as at the Quietdrive concert on Oct. 5.
"There's definitely something paramount in every band" Spencer commented on the recording and the Quietdrive opening spot.
All four band members are students at ISU. Spencer is currently taking general classes; Kasunick receives his bachelor's degree after this semester, an all ready extended graduation date. Kasunick had been three credits away from a Mass Communication degree when he decided that being a physician's assistant was his true calling.
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