“There’s all different kinds of styles of rock ‘n’ roll that are stripped down and aggressive, and you can kind of put them in a melting pot to make something really interesting in between. “This kind of music is fun because you can meld all different kinds of raw energy,” he said. Sprecher added that though the garage influence is prevalent, it’s not the only pool Candy Apple draws from. It’s got this certain innocence as well, because a lot of those musicians back then didn’t really have that great musicianship. It’s the kind of music you can’t really hate on. I’m sure all of us have enjoyed garage music for a while. It wasn’t like Back from the Grave was our only inspiration. “I knew I wanted to bring that old Farfisa, Vox sound in. “My inspiration for the project came from my fascination with old keyboards,” Barwick went on to say. However, Back from the Grave wasn’t the only impetus behind Candy Apple’s sound. “I started listening to the Back from the Grave compilation, which, basically, a lot of the inspiration of what I was writing before came from that, but I decided to a little more of a true garage sound,” Barwick explained. This decision was inspired, in part, by a compilation released in the mid-‘90s called Back to the Grave, a collection of garage rock that featured bands such as The Outsiders, The Banshees and Ken and the 4th Dimension. Though it wasn’t their original intent, Sprecher and Barwick eventually moved into a more garage sound. We got together one day at my house, and we were listening to my songs, and he said that he liked it and we should try to refine it.” “I had something that was a little bit more - it had the organ thing in mind - but it was a little more punk-y sound. “I wanted to collaborate with Jake again because he’d played drums with Machinegreen before he’d moved away - and then came back,” Barwick said of Candy Apple’s beginnings. In Candy Apple, however, he moved to the foreground sharing vocal duties and playing guitar. Sprecher and Barwick had worked together in Machinegreen, a group in which Sprecher played drums. Tap dance, tambourine, let me show you all my skills,’ but I didn’t know what I was getting into, but it’s been really badass.” “ asked if I knew how to play the tambourine, and I said, ‘Of course. “Do I have to get naked? Because…I’m trying to change my reputation,” Summer joked about her initial reaction to being asked to join Candy Apple. She is also the only member who hadn’t had extensive prior experience with playing in bands. “He asked me if I would be interested in playing, and I definitely was after listening to it.”Īfter bassist Katie Kelley agreed to join the lineup, tambourine player Sunny Summer (who Barwick said will soon make her debut as a lead vocalist with the group) was the last element to be added to Candy Apple. “Scott had approached me with a CD of the stuff he’d recorded on his own - basically those eight or nine songs” Jensen added. Barwick said he “instantly had Wes in my head because he was playing drums with Evil Jack and the Honey Creepers.” “And Jake jumped right on board to start writing stuff, and it’s been a real collaborative process since then.”ĭrummer Wes Jensen was recruited thereafter. “I had eight or nine ideas to kind of fuel the fire,” Barwick said. One reason for the band’s quick jump out of the gate was that vocalist/keyboardist Scott Barwick - also singer/guitarist for Machinegreen - had been working on material for another project before Candy Apple was born. In mid-December, Synthesis had the chance to meet up with four members of Candy Apple, fittingly enough, in the group’s garage practice space.Ĭandy Apple only started playing together as a group in August of 2007 - their first show at Off Limits (now Nick’s Night Club) the following September - but in that short amount of time, the band is already off to a prolific start. Utilizing tambourine and vintage keyboards along with a standard guitar/bass/drums set up, the group creates a dirty, danceable form of rock music that borrows most heavily from ‘60s garage rock. Over the late summer and fall of 2007, Chico local five-piece Candy Apple served as a much-needed reminder to the power of music played fast, loud and free. Styles may come and go, but there will always be an audience for good old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll.
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