KJHK executive members screened all of the videos and voted\u2026 drumroll please<\/em>\u2026 Galactique Acid<\/strong> as the winner, with their submitted song, \u201c2020 Visions<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Galactique Acid is a three piece, garage rock band, passionate about science and lyrical expression. In an interview over Zoom, the band talked about their origins, the process of recording while quarantined and the impact of music while in tumultuous times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As winners of the Stuck @ Home concert, Galactique Acid will have a studio session booked with Live @ KJHK<\/a> in the coming months. The band was very humble about their selection as winners and wanted to shout out the other submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThanks again for picking us,” said Dave Besson, the band\u2019s lead writer and singer. “There were a lot of really good bands who submitted really good stuff. It was really enjoyable listening to a lot of the submissions, some of them were really very impressive. If anyone is willing to do a show with us, we\u2019d be more than happy to play with anybody, anytime!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Besson sings, writes and plays bass (and sometimes guitar) for the band. But when he\u2019s not doing that, he\u2019s a professor of physics at the University of Kansas. In fact, Besson met the other two bandmates through the physics and astronomy departments at the university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The band\u2019s drummer, Andy Bricker, met Besson in the halls of the department while pursuing an astronomy degree. Bricker said he now teaches at Lawrence High School and that he and Besson were put together again when their children became friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The guitarist and sometimes bass player, Mark Stockham, said he conducted both graduate and undergraduate research with Besson in the physics department. Stockham said he and Besson began playing together six or seven years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Besson said they\u2019re all big physics nerds which spawned the band\u2019s name, though they had to change to the French spelling of galactic because of an existing band with the same name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had to put in some sort of oblique reference to the fact that we\u2019re all physics geeks,\u201d Besson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The group has remained separated through the social distancing measures and developed an innovative recording studio in the garage and kitchen of Bricker\u2019s house. Besson said he plays in the garage and hears Bricker\u2019s drums through the \u201cportal\u201d also known as Bricker\u2019s kitchen window. The recording is then sent to Stockham, who comes over later and records his sections in the garage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo most of it\u2019s me sitting in the kitchen, either playing the drums or running the recording equipment while they take turns coming over,\u201d Bricker said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Besson said the time \u201cStuck @ Home\u201d has allowed the band to work on lots of new material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been fortunate that we\u2019ve been able to get together and have our own recording equipment, or at least Andy does,\u201d Besson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The band members each have different influences and muses. Besson said he attributes most of his musical interest to finding the Velvet Underground while in high school, and his songwriting is either a love song to his wife, or a politically charged anthem. Bricker said his biggest musical influence has been Wilco, but he was really inspired to start playing music again by the local band, LK Ultra<\/a>. Stockham said he likes the classic, guitar heavy rock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a lot different from the style that we play,\u201d Stockham said. \u201cI don\u2019t have much of a background in the genre that Dave brings to it. To me it\u2019s [the band] kind of fresh, it doesn\u2019t sound like any music that I\u2019ve listened to before.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Besson said, historically, the band\u2019s only live performance is at the Sunrise Project\u2019<\/a>s yearly pie auction and celebration, but that they want to start performing more once social gathering restrictions are lifted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe problem is of course, that it’s way past my bedtime, playing at the Replay Lounge,” Besson said semi-jokingly. “I\u2019m going to have to figure out a way to no longer get up at 5 a.m.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-25-at-12.56.48-PM-1024x578.png\")