Canadian star rockers Ledgend consisting of guitarist Gary Procyshyn, bassist Todd Lefever, lead vocalist Huguette (Chantal) “Gypsy Wytch” Arsenault, and drummer Neal Busby have unveiled a video for their track “Fright Night” — just in time for Halloween!
“Fright Night” was written in 1987 and played live by Ledgend on the grueling Canadian bar band circuit.
Ledgend‘s press release regarding the same is as follows:
“This is the backstory of the song. Sometime late in 1986, the sudden demise of Neal Busby‘s (Juno Award-winning Slik Toxik drummer) first real band, Chyld left him determined to seek out new players on the Toronto scene, those with the chops to keep up with his legendary marathon rehearsal regimen and a shared dedication to musicianship. He found it in a small classified advertisement in the Toronto Star, it simply said; “GIT and BIT graduates looking for drummer…”.
GIT and BIT were acronyms for the Guitar & Bass Institute of Technology located at the M.I.T. (Musicians Institute in Los Angeles). This of course got Neal‘s attention and the necessary call was made. The GIT part of the team was Gary Procyshyn.
Gary had attended the prestigious Hollywood-based school via a Lenny Breau scholarship. Gary and Neal clicked and after a short stint as a Van Halen tribute band, Ledgend was born. Although Ledgend was primarily a cover band, Gary was determined to write original hard rock music, influenced by the sounds of the day like Ozzy and DLR (David Lee Roth solo band).
Flash forward to 2024, and after reuniting via social media, Neal Busby suggested to Gary that the song “Fright Night”, written in 1987, was perfect and deserved to be properly recorded and mixed. At Gary‘s home in Dauphin, Manitoba, he got to work, recording all the guitar and bass parts in record time. Neal was floored by the results and immediately mapped out and recorded the drums and began mixing everything. But who was going to sing?
Enter Huguette “Chantal” Arsenault, who had some downtime in between writing new songs for her main project, Twirl (5000+ TV episode song placements). Gary really enjoyed the change in dynamic and the addition of mysterious feminine energy that Huguette brought to the sound of the song as it came to life so many years after being written. All involved were so impressed it inspired the next step, to create a complimentary music video, that captures the gothic horror of the song’s lyrics.
Gary filmed his parts in Dauphin, Manitoba. Huguette and Neal filmed in Toronto with the addition of Toxyk Chyld and Gypsy Wytch‘s six-string fret burner, Todd Lefever (Alpha Galates EMI), expertly playing the part of Ledgend‘s bass player. Like a bolt of lightning through Frankenstein‘s corpse, the “Fright Night” video springs to life and rampages through town, with guitars that stab like pitchforks and vocals that shine like fiery torches, as it crushes the locals with an authentic shock of traditional heavy metal!”
Neal Busby has a deep history of playing and teaching drums and has been a part of gold and platinum and Juno award-winning artists like Slik Toxik and April Wine (touring drummer). Being a long-term instructor he has taught many hi-profile drummers like Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace), Christian Tanna (I Mother Earth) and Hollywood actors like Shane Kippel (Degrassi High) and Torrey Devitto (Pretty Little Liars).