In this episode of the “Am I Crazy Or Am I Raving” Henry’s Child Podcast where we continue the origin story of Henry’s Child.

We start with an examination of Jeff Reilly’s drum beats and how integral he was to the inception of a Henry’s Child “sound”. This also includes how good of a vocalist he was and we demonstrate it with a snippet of “And Then It Came To Me”, an unreleased song. Rich recalls the first show in December of 1993 and starting to record “Drink Me” in March of 1994.

Andrew and Rich confess that they were the ultimate Geek band who would often play “Magic The Gathering” before shows with friends and fans.

Then there was a choice made to replace Kris on bass. Andrew and Rich go through the list of possible Kris Holm replacements, eventually landing on Thom. Thom tells the story of frequent lunches at Pizza Pete’s in Eugene where he was asked to join Henry’s Child.

Thom recalls the first few weeks in Henry’s Child and the CD Release show at John Henry’s, including hitting the wrong note on the first song of the first show he played with the band.

We remember Bruce Hartnell (from the Detonators) at John Henry’s and how Tuesday and Wednesday nights were the bands bread-and-butter. Andrew tells the story of how playing at the Satyricon in Portland paved the way for Henry’s Child to play Salem through the unlikely meeting of the band “Solace”. This leads to the beginning of Henry’s Child getting popular. We end this conversation talking about entering the Sonic X-Plosion and getting signed to Elemental Records.

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