Welcome To The
Rock Candy Website
The CD is finally out! I'd like to thank everyone for visiting the website. I
appreciate your support and I hope that you've already purchased a CD. I
realize that although I am a founding member of zebra, that you have no idea
what I sound like without randy and guy! Don't let it
remain a mystery. If you like good music,
you'll love Rock Candy. Please let all of
your friends know about the CD, and
call your favorite radio station and
request them to play rock candy.
Thanks again, peace...
Felix
I'd like to thank my family,
friends and fans for visiting the website. Rock Candy is my very
first solo album.! I'm extremely excited about it and thought I'd
introduce you to the project and the history.
Rock Candy
The working title was Little Things, (the old website littlethings.net)
which is a song by me on this album and is also on Zebra's second
album, No Tellin Lies; but as I moved forward with the project I thought
Rock Candy would be the best choice. Rock Candy, as I'm sure many
of you know, is a song that I sing with Zebra when we play live shows.
Rock Candy has been recorded for this album with Randy Jackson and Guy
Gelso for the first time anywhere. Rock Candy is an original song
by the group Montrose, featuring Ronnie Montrose on guitar and Sammy Hagar
on vocals. Anyway, Rock Candy has been adopted by me and is associated
with me featuring the song........so I decided since everyone associates
Rock Candy with me, then that would be the best title for the album.
There are ten tracks on the album and the titles are: Little
Things, Jonathan Jones, If You Try, Rock Candy,
Inspiration, Bad Blood, Odd Fellows Rest, Reaching For Rainbows,
My My But You're Strong (Neat's Song), and last but not least I Need Your
Love.
All songs were recorded at Courtesy Studios in West Hempstead
N.Y. for KMA records, which started around October 1998. The album
was recorded by my very close friend Bruce Zwelsky who is the co-producer
and engineer. I wrote, played and produced the entire project.
There are several key players on this album and they are: Mike Sorrentino
on drums...Mike did an amazing job on the drum tracks and plays on seven
tracks out of the ten. Mike joined the project through performing
with Zebra at live shows in 1998. I'd like to thank Mike for all
of his patients and talent. He gave strength to all of the
tracks that he played on. Hernan Romero appears on the cut,
I Need Your Love , playing phenominal flaminco guitar. Hernan
Romero is an internationally renowned artist who has played with Al Dimeola,
Stevie Nicks and other major artists and has graced my album with his great
energy and talent. Lead guitar and harmonica are as hot and sweet
as you can get with Tom Giannandrea. Tom has performed with many
bands on the Long Island circuit and gives a solid rock element to three
tracks; If YOu Try, Little Things and harmonica on Bad Blood.
Jim Carol plays tablas on Inspiration helping provide an exciting Eastern
sound to the track and good vibes all around. On Odd Fellows Rest,
Tom Staab sings backing vocals in the chorus, creating a spooky, dark and
haunting sound. Last but not least on guitar and drums on the
title track Rock Candy are Randy Jackson and Guy Gelso. I'd
like to thank both of them for taking the time to come to the studio to
get it all down. As I said before this is the first time anywhere
that Rock Candy has been recorded by all three of us. I'd like to
thank all of the players for doing such a great job, but most of all to
my friend Bruce Zwelsky for helping me realize my dream and making
this album come to life. I'd also like to thank Lisa Ripi for
giving me the confidence and the courage to see it through!
