MEMBERS
Spookie | Vocals, Keys
Pete Witham | Guitars
Tommy Diehl | Drums
Tom Martin | Bass

www.spookiedalypride.com

BIOGRAPHY
Spookie Daly (the band’s leader, a singer, keyboard player and unselfconsciously joyous live performer), Tommy Diehl (percussion), Pete Whitham (guitars, vocals) and Floyd Kellogg (bass) have just the prescription for your flagging spirits with this 12-song antidote. Running the musical gamut from hip-hop to jazz to roots rock to N’awlins funk, Spookie Daly Pride (SDP) may have flown under the radar of music critics so far, but their grassroots reputation as a guaranteed good-time live band has registered loudly and proudly with their rabid and growing fan base. Replete with saloon-style piano pounding (think NRBQ, one of the bands’ biggest influences), blazing rock guitar riffs, meaty Memphis-style bass lines and carnivalesque electronic flourishes, the music embraces a wide variety of influences. But from the rhythmic thrust dance beat and double-entendre of “The Bumpin’ Uglies Song” to the cute, infectious groove of “The Personal Ad Song” to the feel-good jazz-funk of “Sooo Delicious!!!” (complete with a Roy Orbison-ish vocal alternating with Spookie’s usual big bad wolf delivery), the music falls squarely within the category they’ve aimed for all along: uncategorically original and FUN.

SDP shares Boston roots with crazy-busy, way hi-profile production team of Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie. Founders of the legendary Fort Apache recording studio in Cambridge Mass., Kolderie and Slade have served as the production powerhouse behind rock bands like the Pixies, Radiohead, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Dinosaur Jr., Buffalo Tom, Hole and countless others. In 2002 the pair opened Camp Street Studios, keeping the Fort Apache tradition alive by continuing to work with vital new bands and eclectic sounds. When they heard Spookie Daly Pride’s hip-hop infused brand of funk rock, the pair enthusiastically signed on – Slade as producer, with Kolderie sharing the mixing duties.

Hailing from Boston has worked some other karma into the mix too: the band does a bang-up business bringing their live show to the college crowd, and have a grassroots army of fans who are devoted to converting music lovers to the ranks of the Pride. Suffice to say their performances are parties (or is it vice versa?). They play their hook-laden, groove-filled songs with joyful, irreverent abandon, and the happy fever’s catching.

Spookie Daly Pride has been mentioned in the same breath as Soul Coughing, Tom Waits, Dr. John, and G. Love. Certainly comparisons can be made. But there’s something completely unique about the playful charisma of lead man Spookie and the swaggering second line antics of the Pride. Having shared bills with the likes of Leftover Salmon, Foo Fighters, Busta Rhymes and Rusted Root, they’ve grabbed the attention of audiences with a wide range of tastes. Songs from their first album, MARSHMALLOW PIE have been used on TV shows on MTV and ESPN; they’ve also had their music placed in feature films, thus widening that illin’ audience even more.