About the recording
In Ghost Museum, 1983 becomes 2017. A stolen Hall and Oates keyboard sound here a borrowed Earth, Wind and Fire drum beat there: ghosts of a past decade mingle with lyrics about what it’s like to be a 15-year-old in an old man’s body and why it’s impossible to stop writing music.
“Do you want to visit my Ghost Museum?” my son asked. “Ghost Museum” is really a tribute album to my sons, my father(well, what it’s like to be one) and the 80s. The title came from a make shift display of Halloween costumes my son constructed in his playroom when he was 10-years-old. But, the title also really applied to how I felt walking through my dad’s house after he died that same year. The songs are representative of what I was listening to back in the early 80s. But, now I’m telling stories to my kids growing up in 2017. I’m explaining what it was like to fall in love, have sex, get your heart broken, have big plans, have no plans, wonder what the hell you’re doing most of the time and then look back on it all wondering how your body got so old even though you still feel like a confused 15-year-old kid some of the time. I tried to make the new songs sound like if the 80s were still the main mode of pop music today.
The musicians on the new album are a hodge podge of players from around the Indianapolis rock and jazz scenes. A lot of them have played in other bands with me and with each other: ESW, Jonny Socko, Mina Keohane and the Wondrous Flying Machine… the music scene in Indianapolis, like some other cities, is sort of a friendly family musical experiment.
Working with old friends and enemies again. Yuri Duncan did the original business card for my high school band, the Lucky Eddys, and he also did the fantastic new CD and cover art. The final mix was done by Eric Klee Johnson who used to be in an Indianapolis Band named “Exquisite Fashion”. The Lucky Eddys hated Exquisite Fashion. Recently, I told Eric this and he responded, “Yeah, everybody hated us.” (For the record: I don’t hate Eric Klee Johnson.)
“Do you want to visit my Ghost Museum?” my son asked. “Ghost Museum” is really a tribute album to my sons, my father(well, what it’s like to be one) and the 80s. The title came from a make shift display of Halloween costumes my son constructed in his playroom when he was 10-years-old. But, the title also really applied to how I felt walking through my dad’s house after he died that same year. The songs are representative of what I was listening to back in the early 80s. But, now I’m telling stories to my kids growing up in 2017. I’m explaining what it was like to fall in love, have sex, get your heart broken, have big plans, have no plans, wonder what the hell you’re doing most of the time and then look back on it all wondering how your body got so old even though you still feel like a confused 15-year-old kid some of the time. I tried to make the new songs sound like if the 80s were still the main mode of pop music today.
The musicians on the new album are a hodge podge of players from around the Indianapolis rock and jazz scenes. A lot of them have played in other bands with me and with each other: ESW, Jonny Socko, Mina Keohane and the Wondrous Flying Machine… the music scene in Indianapolis, like some other cities, is sort of a friendly family musical experiment.
Working with old friends and enemies again. Yuri Duncan did the original business card for my high school band, the Lucky Eddys, and he also did the fantastic new CD and cover art. The final mix was done by Eric Klee Johnson who used to be in an Indianapolis Band named “Exquisite Fashion”. The Lucky Eddys hated Exquisite Fashion. Recently, I told Eric this and he responded, “Yeah, everybody hated us.” (For the record: I don’t hate Eric Klee Johnson.)
Ghost Museum Lyrics
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Good, Good Friend of Mine
Guitar: Chris Smail The First Sign Guitar: Matthew Wilson Crack the Mountains Vocals: Mina Keohane Guitar: Joel Tucker Last One Out the Door Guitar: Chris Smail Turn It Into Love Vocals: Mina Keohane Guitar: Sandy Williams Breathe the Life Guitar: Charlie Ballantine Noise on the Air Guitar: Joel Tucker Time Won’t Tell Vocals: Mina Keohane Guitar: Sandy Williams Strange Beautiful Feeling Vocals: Mina Keohane Guitar: Chris Smail Makes Me Smile Guitar: Matthew Wilson I’m Still Me Guitar: Charlie Ballantine Brown Eyed Girl Guitar: Joel Tucker |
Vocals, Keys: Jeff DeHerdt
Bass: Randy Melson Drums: Adam White Saxes, Loops: Josh Silbert Music and Lyrics: Jeff DeHerdt "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison Engineered by: Josh Silbert Produced by: Josh Silbert and Jeff DeHerdt Mina Keohane recorded at Earshot Audiopost by Brice Bowman Mixed by: Eric Klee Johnson Recorded and Mixed at The Pop Machine, Indianapolis, IN Mastered by: Andy VanDette, Andy VanDette Mastering Cover: Yuri Duncan |