Review Fix Exclusive: The Band Gooch’s Jared Talks Goals And More

July 25, 2019 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats withThe Band Gooch’s Jared Gooch, who discusses the band’s origin and goals for 2019.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Jared Gooch: It started for us when I got married. I wrote a song for my wife with my brother and one of our friends and performed it on our wedding day. People liked it quite a bit and wanted copies. After that, we kept writing and looked for a way to record the wedding song, and instead ended up writing a rock album! 

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Gooch: Totally depends. Sometimes inspiration comes in a single instance at work or in a car, other times it takes a while to create a song. There are some songs that we wrote years ago that are still not finished. For us though, it is a collaborative effort. Jared does a lot of the foundation, lyrical and melody work, and Jordan does a lot of the lead and bass work. 

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Gooch: That is a big question. Lots of things. Overall we just want to be happy. Music has always been such a big part of who we are, and this is something that we have always wanted to do so we are chasing who we are and what makes us happy. Music has a way of speaking and bringing people together on a deeper level. We want to be a part of that, we want to inspire, uplift, and bring people together. 

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Gooch: Someone else once told us we sound like “Green Day, Muse and Queen all had a baby together to create this impossible band”. We like that. 

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Gooch: We try to make our studio work sound as true as it can, meaning we want our sound to sound just as good, if not better live. I think our live shows carry more energy, and we try to make them fun and interactive for the crowd. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2019?

Gooch: Well primarily a successful album release. We will continue to promote it pretty much forever. However, after the initial release, we are starting work on more music! 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Gooch: Stay tuned and find out! RockNRoll Forever! 

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Gooch: The Band Gooch is more than just a rock band. It is a place where anyone, anywhere can come to be part of a giant family, where people can come to be their best selves. 

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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