Press-Gazette - Local rockers Big Time to crank out first CD

Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2000

Local rockers Big Time to crank out first CD

By Chris Drosner
Press-Gazette

Bio bits

• Members: Aaron Vorass, lead vocals; Nathan Pleshek, bass; James Pleshek, guitar and vocals; Brian Fehrman, drums

• Home base: Green Bay/Fox Valley

• Been together: Five years

• Format: Mainstream rock with focus on original music when possible. Influences and cover songs include U2, the BoDeans, Hootie and the Blowfish, Matchbox Twenty and Dave Matthews Band.

• Next gig: Oct. 20 at Glory Years Sports Bar & Grill, 347 S. Washington St., Green Bay

Rock quartet Big Time is living up to its name: Winning a recent band competition; playing at Summerfest; and getting ready to head into the studio to record its first CD.

Q. Big Time won the Battle of the Bands competition at Gallagher's Off Broadway this summer. How did that work and what kind of experience was that?

Aaron Vorass, lead vocalist: Over six weeks, you went head-to-head with different bands, so we actually played three times. That was pretty interesting. It was a really good experience for us. It was an opportunity to see the other bands out there and see how we measure up. There's some really outstanding talent in this area.

Q. When you were playing up there, did it feel competitive?

A. Absolutely not. We did not even approach it that way. When you're talking about music or any art form, I think competition really has no place. We were really just doing our thing. We didn't walk away from it thinking, "We're the greatest band." We walked away from it thinking, "Boy, there's a lot of good entertainment out there."

Q. How was the experience of playing at Summerfest?

A. It was awesome. To play for that many people as a part of Summerfest, which is really a part of music history; I don't think it gets much bigger than that as far as music festivals go.

Q. Big Time is taking itself out of the bar music scene for a while?

A. Right. We're going to take a little bit of a hiatus and work on a CD that we've been promising for the last year and a half.

Q. Do you see the band playing more originals after the CD?

A. Absolutely. At most of the clubs we're playing, we're playing for four hours. If we were opening for a national act, it'd be easy for us to play all originals for 45 minutes or an hour. Not that we don't have four hours of original material, but it's really hard to get booked here doing that.

Q. What's going to be on the CD?

A. It's stuff that we've been playing out live for the last year and a half, two years. We've really procrastinated on the CD. Jim (Pleshek, guitar and vocals), who does most of the writing, is a bit of a perfectionist, and he really wanted to make sure that our best material is on this CD.

Q. How long are you going to be working on the record?

A. We're looking at probably getting it done in two weeks.

Q. Earlier you spoke highly of the Green Bay music scene. What makes it so good?

A. I think there is actually a music scene there, and that's more than I can say for a lot of places. Crowds have been great. The clubs ... have stuck to it, established a reputation for bringing in good bands.

Q. What CD is in your car or home stereo right now?

A. Fuel, "Something Like Human."

Q. What's your take on 'N Sync?

A. I think there's probably a place for that. It could never work for us because I just can't dance. But to each their own.

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