Friday Featured Track for Nov. 13, 2009: A song from Carney, AKA Spider-Man’s band
Carney
Reeve Carney (Associated Press photo)
The song that has been on my brain the most this week:
- “Testify,” Carney, from www.myspace.com/carneytheband.
Truth be told, I’ve had just the general blues-rock sound of Los Angeles-based band Carney going through my head all week. I’ll pinpoint “Testify” in particular because it’s my favorite of their songs, a sonic trip that sounds just a bit as if someone mashed together Metallica’s “Ronnie” and Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”
Of course, the reason this song and Carney’s music in general has been jamming its way through my head is simple: Lead singer Reeve Carney was announced last week as the choice to play the title role in the upcoming Broadway musical “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.” According to the Associated Press, the production is set to open sometime in 2010. It will be directed by Julie Taymor of “The Lion King” fame and features a score by Bono and The Edge of U2.
The lavish show has had a troubled history, with work on the musical stopped for last summer because of financial difficulties, according to the AP. But the producers have said financing is in place now.
Reeve Carney has a great soulful voice, so it’s easy to imagine him as a singing-and-web-slinging Peter Parker. The California vocalist became a finalist for the role after Taymor cast him as Ferdinand in her upcoming film version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” said Zane Carney, the band’s guitarist and Reeve’s younger brother. She invited Reeve to audition for the movie after seeing one of the band’s gig.
When I spoke to Zane over the summer, he said the bandmates weren’t sure when their debut album on Interscope would be released since Reeve was a finalist for the Spider-Man role.
“Those things are pretty crucial and are obviously big exposure things for our band, so I think Interscope is trying to wait to see if he gets Spider-Man. And then if he does … they might want to wait until Spider-Man starts,” Zane Carney said. “But I would hope it would be within in the next six to eight months.”
In the meantime, the band has a single called “Love Me Chase Me” out on iTunes and will be looking forward to watching its frontman swing onto a Broadway stage.
And check out this fan-shot video of the band performing an extended jam version of “Testify” live:
-BAM
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