Son Of A Groon is a cruciferous retro rock opera, available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other music sharing platforms.
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Son Of A Groon is a cruciferous retro rock opera, available on Spotify, Apple Music, and other music sharing platforms.
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Tambourine
Reactions are varied. Turns out the Groon can be very polarizing. Some folk love you, and others just hate you. It’s a chemistry thing, like a lot of things in life. A couple years back I did a weird thing called Groon Radio, and it grew on me. My other folky music seems so serious compared to these Groon projects. Reviewers kept using the word poignant when reviewing my folk songs, so I liked the bizarro energy when I was just being silly rocking out with the Groon.
It was at this Groonish moment I realized much of my inspiration comes from cartoons and Muppets. I love the voice talents of Mel Blanc, Frank Oz and Jim Henson. I liked using some of the cartoony weird voices that I make, and to be honest, I’d rather be funny than poignant. I mean, I already have this sort of thing bouncing around inside my mind, why not record it so others can Groon out with me? It’s who I am and what I do! I am the Groon.
Hazel de Mesa once again adds her magic vocal tracks, bass guitar, and keyboards. Yay team!
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See ya, Jay E Moores
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Son Of A Groon
A cruciferous broc & roll musical in 14 tracks. Available on Apple Music, Spotify, and other music sharing platforms.
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I Am The Groon
Nothing I can do about it. I am the Groon.
Just when you feel you have suffered enough, here comes the Groon to challenge and trouble you even further. You know, being a creative person is weird. Over the past few decades I found myself writing little campfire songs, working them out in my journal, practicing them until I feel it is right, and then recording it. After a while I noticed too many of my songs are very serious heart felt songs that folk would use the word poignant to describe. I wanted to deviate from that path for a bit and get into something fun and fresh.
I started out listening to the music Mark Harvey and I recorded as Rain Station, and decided that the Dark Ride album was my favorite because of the raw energy, fun party vibe, sense of humor, and immediacy. We made the whole thing up in the studio and came out with a really fun album in just a few days time. Dark Ride is epic, and most of the album is animated at JackOLantern.ORG.
I wanted to include some of the unusual influences I have lurking inside me. My love for Muppets, Betty Boop, Mel Blanc, Sponge Bob, Ween, Bowie, early 80’s Punk, Sid & Marty Krofft, Teletubbies, old radio shows like Inner Sanctum Mystery, Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Planet of the Apes, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Circle of Fear, Brothers Quay, Weird Tales Magazine, MAD Magazine, National Lampoon Magazine, Freak Brothers, R. Crumb, Shel Silverstein, Monty Python, Steve Martin, and Cheech & Chong. I love the characters, the voices, and all the weirdness these folks brought to my quiet hum drum life growing up on a small Maine farm.
I put a little of all those influences into a rock and roll experience I would like to call, Groon Radio.
A Groon has moved into town and all the locals are a little upset. There’s no room in this town for no Groon. This ain’t Groontown. Tune into Groon Radio and find out what happens next!
