Ice Cream Man

We’ve been working on an Ice Cream Man video series for the summer and one of the fun parts is researching music for the title sequence. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who think that putting together tunes for a soundtrack would be the perfect job but it takes a ton of time. Since the series will revolve around me traveling around the country I wanted to be sure to get something that had a ‘driving’ beat. One of the first bands I thought of was Minutemen, thanks in large part to their ode to the road, “Double Nickels on the Dime.” When I was diggin’ through my CDs I found a fIREHOSE)+ album which contains two thirds of the Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley. The album is Live Totem Pole EP and it’s got a bunch of live cuts, mostly covers from the Palamino which used to exist around North Hollywood. They cover Superchunk’s “Slack Motherf_cker”, Public Enemy’s “Sophisticated Bitch” within the seven songs on the album. “The Red and the Black” from Blue Oyster Cult is the song I wanted to use. I love the chug-alug near the beginning and thought it would go well with a rolling ice cream truck. Alas… we’re going for a different track but you should still rock this and… snag the EP.

fIREHOSE – “The Red and the Black”