Dinner w/ friends and Sweet Cyanide II

So I’m having homemade Pasteles with some friends when the topic of Sweet Cyanide came up. I was asked what the new record sounds like. Seems like a fairly easy question until I’m faced with having to answer it. I heard myself say; “it definitely sounds like Sweet Cyanide, yes it’s titled Sweet Cyanide II but… it’s not a continuation of the first record; or maybe it is.” After I said that I thought; oh great, now I have to further explain. Then again, what else is there to talk about other than who the next Bachelor is going to be?

A year or so before the inception of today’s line up of SC, Joe and I were honored to take our previous band on the road with Sal and Ang’s band. I assure you Daytona has never been the same. Take a bunch of dirtbags from NYC and give them a stage, some alcohol and you’ve just created mayhem! I’ve known Sal and Ang for a while prior to playing with them. We’ve been running the same circles in NYC for years, so to get the call to go on the road with those guys was amazing. It was then that I got to know Sal a little better. Nothing like sitting at a bar on the beach and getting into a drunken therapy session with someone you “kinda” know. Ladies, he had me at “Braggiole!” I felt the love connection but as you know, timing is everything. It wasn’t until a year later that I was asked to come on board and throw down some drum tracks for a new project in the works. After hearing some rough mixes, I thought, Hell yeah! (the expression, not the band) A few weeks later we kidnapped Joe and Ang, locked ourselves in our rehearsal room for a week straight living off of beef jerky and coconut milk and put together what would turn out to be Sweet Cyanide I.

All of us have tasted success at different levels. We’ve all been hypnotized by record labels, management and band wagon jumpers. All can get into your head without you even knowing. Not this time Fuckers! Leaving our previous projects behind, a promise was made back then. This time around we would do things on our own terms; write what we wanted to write and be influenced artistically by everything and anything. Sounds cliché, right? Go fuck yourself! (j/k… no I’m not) it’s not easy to always be mindful of this. There are always distractions that try to derail our initial plan but I think we’ve been pretty damn strong sticking to our guns. Let the rats fall where they may!

Getting back to the Bachelor, I turned to my friend and said, “We will never make the same record twice.” That was a promise we made to each other from day one. Don’t worry, you can smell the Sweet Cyanide stank a mile away on the new record but we have become willing victims of self evolution. If you want to hear more songs like the one’s on Sweet Cyanide I then play Sweet Cyanide I! If you want to hear what the inside of insanity sounds like, wait the torturous wait for Sweet Cyanide II.

Late!
M