KCeMO '96​-​'99



Proudentall was a midwest emo/indie rock band that had its origins when guitarist/vocalist Clay Zimmerman met guitarist/vocalist Matthew Dunehoo while Dunehoo was alphabetizing cd's at CD Warehouse for cigarettes, sometime late 1995. The two bonded over shared musical interests, and soon Dunehoo would place a classified ad in the Pitch Weekly, citing Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, Seam and Jawbox as inspiration for the desired band's sound. Bassist Billy Ning and drummer John Cruz signed on. They played their first show at the Daily Grind in June with The Get Up Kids, Boys Life, and Karate. Throughout the band's roughly six-year life span, they would only record one proper full-length album, but had a number of tracks contributed to vinyl and cd compilations and appeared on a few self-released or indie issue 7 records. Clay had already left the band by the time they recorded their only full-length album in 2000, entitled What's Happening Here. Steve Squire (Everest/Major Games) would provide the second guitar on that album. Matthew Dunehoo recalls: Emo was the style of music I thought we were creating, proudly, at the time. For me, writing and performing these songs was a purely cathartic exercise, a youthful attempt at speaking (screaming) to and processing trauma, navigating life prior to a clinical diagnosis of mood disorder, and lacking the grasp of an effective vocabulary or confidence by which to seek help. All non album songs would later appear on the compilation PROUDENTALL - KCeMO '96​-​'99 which can be found here: https://music.midwestmusicfound.org/album/proudentall-kcemo-96-99 Proudentall was: Billy Ning - Bass guitar John Cruz - Drums/Percussion Matt Dunehoo - Guitar/vocals Clay Zimmerman - Guitars Sean Bergman - Guitars Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.