MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

CANDY CANE

A track from the PROON July 1994 show at Billy Ray’s Cafe in Winsted, CT. Another sexual innuendo song that I tried to translate through my love for the sound of Sly and the Family Stone. Shelly Asselin and I are giving it everything we have, and props to Bart Holcomb for holding the whole thing together harmonically with that rhythm guitar part. That’s a sense of maturity that a 19 year old kid should be proud of in my opinion. This track is ACTUALLY almost 10 minutes long. I trimmed the intro where we all tried to summon our inner sonic soul brother/sister. Frank Brocklehurst is bass-ing up a storm on his Cinnamon Roll homemade bass. (He still makes basses, by the way.) I am Why is the song so long? Because when you’re going to do all original music and you don’t have a ton of it to choose from you need to “stretch”. This is a moment we decided to stretch. Scotty Allshouse on drums got a bit of a rest ironically with this song. The others were SO fast and involved that he gets to just sit in the pocket for almost 10 minutes. He could play that groove with one hand while having a Jamaican Coffee. If he was old enough to drink , which he wasn’t yet at 19. Wild. What a talent.