'The Cover of the LMT' Garners Industry-Wide Attention
Posted Apr 28, 2011 in Industry News
Brian Greer, a waxer at East Tennessee Dental Restorations in Kingsport, TN, is also making a name for himself as a singer/songwriter. He's been performing at Hi-Tec Dental's Annual Rally & Conference for the past three years and, this year, his performance is garnering him industry-wide attention.
Calling it his "ode to lab rats," he wrote The Cover of the LMT, a parody of the song, The Cover of the Rolling Stone (made famous by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show in 1972), and sang it during an evening event at the conference with Tres Hombres, a ZZ Top tribute band, as his backup band. "Although I've sung with Tres Hombres in the past, they had never played the song before and we didn't have a chance to rehearse before I went on stage," says Greer.
Despite winging it, his performance received rave reviews from the 120 laboratory owners and technicians in the audience. "Brian really hit a homerun with writing...