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Record Journal

Ralph Hohman

 How about…. Eclectic?

StraddleDaddy’s music is tough to pin down-a heaping helping of funk, but also modern rock, even rap, and the occasional line – movin’ on up – Lifted from the “Jeffersons “ theme and inserted into a song about sunglasses

...They’re good enough to play their own stuff at bars, where covers are a traditional safe way out.

Book ‘em

Straddledaddy warms up a freezing Vermont
Student Association brings the Conn. band to the St. Michael's International Commons

Marissa Petrarca| staff editor

The Echo
mpetrarca@smcvt.edu 

The show begins. The show kicked off around 9 p.m. as the band started jamming. They let the music flow for a few minutes while Perley continued to mingle with the crowd.....

Besides being musically talented, the band also knew how to have fun.... 

....The crowd took some time to warm up, literally and figuratively. However ever, as soon as the band broke into their song, “Ragtop” even the people who were once obvious wallflowers were dancing.

Freshmen Kristin Jarvis and Lauren Harvey were notably enjoying the music as they danced with some of the StraddleDaddy groupies. “I like them—it’s really good,” Jarvis says. Harvey agrees saying, “They are like a funky Sublime.”

Sophomore Abbey Axelrod-Dixon, who at one point was standing back, got recruited by the Straddledaddy groupies, who travel to every show, to dance. “I like them—I think they’re fun,” Axelrod-Dixon says.

At this point, it was hard to find a body that was not moving to Straddledaddy’s music. Perley was not lying when he said that their music won't let the audience stand still.

Senior Ed Burke may have summed it up best:“This is totally awesome—a rush. Anybody who doesn’t like this music had a really bad childhood.”

Local Band Finds Success

By Judy Moeckel

Durham Town Times

You could call them groupies, I suppose. Last Friday night, Kev's Pub in Middletown was packed with young people, as well as a few baby boomers like myself, all there to hear the band StraddleDaddy, whose members have been finding considerable success in their musical venture.

Dave Collins of  Durham, who plays guitar and does backup vocals for the band, says... "We do bring in a lot of people," Collins says. "It's hard to put a finger on the style music we play. It's rock and roll, it's happy, it's funny." He says they do a "little bit of everything" style-wise, including funk and reggae, because the six band members come from diverse musical tastes and backgrounds. They play at many central Connecticut clubs, including Arch Street Tavern and Bourbon Street in Hartford, 50 Fitch Street in New Haven, and La Boca in Middletown. Given their success, it would be no surprise to see them begin to perform outside the area.

Especially impressive about Straddle Daddy is the fact that they write most of their own music….... "Our main goal,” says Erik, "is to make people smile and dance a little. I give the band a song, and they go with it!"……….

Kristen Kleeman of Durham went to hear Straddle Daddy last Friday with the express purpose of recruiting them to play at the Durham Fair this September. She is hoping they will perform on Friday night of the fair. Expect to hear more from this talented group!

News, reactions, tickets, commentary … What more do you want?

By Patrick Ferrucci
Register Entertainment Editor

New Haven Advocate

2/11/05

The last band, Straddledaddy, made me laugh more than any should, but I’m not sure if it was a joke or not. My fellow judges and I didn’t think so, but the person who was sitting next to me said she thought it had to be a joke. A decent four-piece band plus two rappers seems quasi-normal, but Straddledaddy did things that I can’t even explain … this is a family newspaper.

DOWN to 8: Handicapping The Space’s Battle of the Bands finalists

By Patrick Ferrucci
Register Entertainment Editor

New Haven Advocate
2/25/05

 I have to admit, at first I didn’t particularly care for StraddleDaddy, a six-member band featuring two vocalists. But these guys competed in Round 2 and almost three weeks later, I still find myself yelling "Bacteria" while I’m in the shower.

Who knows if this band is a joke or not, but just while writing this paragraph, I’m beginning to smile. My fellow judge Brian LaRue called these guys "white guys playing reggae who have never actually listened to reggae before."

Now that might sound like an insult, but it’s really a compliment. The two of us found ourselves impersonating the band not long after the conclusion of Round 4. Like dense experimental music, StraddleDaddy truly grows on you like a fungus … or bacteria.