Sofa King Cool was able to have Kirk give us all the details on this new track Fine Here

 

 

I’ve had many female friends over the years vent to me about the guys they were seeing and some of the awful things they’ve had to endure. 

Being a guy, I can never relate directly to women or anything of course, but I’ve heard countless stories so I wrote a song about it.

It’s somewhat of an anthem for women who have had to deal with some type of nonsense, as the chorus is, ‘Fine here without ya’

Does the song have any personal meaning to you or was it something in an observation you wanted to get across to your fans?  

 

Fine Here isn’t really directly personal. It’s more of an observation from being an ear for my female friends. And not to say I’m holier than thou or anything lol I’m not perfect, and I am a guy. But I’ve grown beyond being that type of person. And it’s difficult to witness what many women have gone through with abusive, lazy and self centered douchebags.

 

How did you all handle the writing process for “Fine Here” is writing a group process?

 

I wrote all the lyrics As I do with pretty much all our songs. And I brought the main riff for Fine here to the band. And at that time, The band was my brother, Chris Reed, Bryan Fontez on drums, and myself on guitar and vocals. We jammed it and I remember Bryan saying,’We have a hit’.

Chris laid down a sweet bassline and Bryan brought in a stellar Indian-type beat that worked amazingly.  

And the trippy bridge in the song was a total Band effort and we developed it together. 

And then our producer Ted Sevdalis helped adjust it a bit from there. 

 I actually switched the vocal line in the verse to halftime. Lol What you hear in the song now isn’t the original vocal. I had to go in the studio and redo all my vocals for that song, and I’m glad I did.

With touring, and festivals returning, how do you think The Reed Effect will approach it? Do you feel there might be some changes in how you perform live for yourselves moving forward? Is Toronto ready in comparison to the states to open itself do you think to live performances?

 

Toronto and the rest of Canada for that matter, has been a bit behind compared to the states and other countries, but we’re slowly catching up. Millions of vaccines are coming in and the numbers here are dropping dramatically. 

However, I don’t see live performances really being a thing here until the fall.

But when Live music is a possibility, we’re going all out.

How soon do you think the band will be able to get back into performing on stage and possibly festivals and touring? Any dates yet?

 

How would you describe your music to people who never heard it before?

 

We’re definitely influenced by 90’s grunge as well as classic rock. We’re riff-heavy but fun and dancy as well that would appeal to the masses. 

Finish the sentence: The Reed Effect’s music is music created for the 

Lovers of Passionate Rock n Roll.

 

Hailing from Toronto, and having spent the last several years proudly cutting their teeth in the best live music venues north of the border, The Reed Effect have been warping minds with their lyrics, shaking hips with their riffs, and assaulting all five senses with an onslaught of progressively addictive rock hooks that pull from grunge, metal, and blues. Having been tapped as support for bands like Jeff Martin of The Tea Party, The Wild, Die Mannequin, and Busty and the Bass, The Reed Effect have been leaving their unique brand of rock lingering in the air of venues across Canada since day one.

Founding member and frontman/guitarist Kirk Reed along with his brother Chris on bass and backup vocals are formidable. Their new album, 1973, is set to be released in the fall of 2020.  The bar is set higher than ever, and the band has never been more proud of the heavy grooves they’re about to unleash.

 2020 has been a hard year on all of us, and The Reed Effect has definitely felt that pain. Chris Reed, bassist, vocalist, bandmate, friend, and brother tragically took his own life on October 10th, 2020, just as the new music was about to be released. Being very close, Chris’s death hit Kirk hard. But Kirk feels it is important to let the world hear this music – not just as a tribute to Chris and his legacy, but as a celebration of their collaboration and brotherly love.

“Fine Here” is the first single from 1973. We miss and Love you, Chris. The music you and Kirk worked on will be heard soon.

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Producer – Ted Sevdalis

Videographer – Dylan Weller

Recording Studio – Gummy Bear Music

 

 

 

 

“‘Fine Here’ is the first single from our new  Album, ‘1973’. 

My brother and bandmate, Chris Reed, passed away on October 10th, 2020, just days before we were planning to release this album. 

Of course, my producer and I postponed the release. 

Now is the time to bring the music we created to the masses. 

We went all out on this one, and are fortunate enough to have caught some of Chris’s magic and brilliance on this album. 

This is his Swan Song. And boy, did he go out with a bang.” – Kirk Reed

 

 

 

 

 

Lyrics- I saw you in the rearview

Running from the law

Preaching about something

Pissing people off

 

Chorus:

 

Come on!

Let go

Be gone

We’re fine here withoutcha, come on

 

You’re done

So long

We’re Fine here withoutcha

 

Pushing on the throttle

There’s nothing in the tank

Spreading propaganda

All across this land

 

Chorus

 

Take a little, break a little

Take a little more

understand you’re listening

To nothing but a whore

 

Chorus

 

Bridge

 

There’s no way in hell

There’s no way in hell,

We’re gonna get along!

 

Double Chorus Outro