Date:    Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:33:36 -0800
From:    Martin Acaster 
Subject: Ghost Story #22 6/6/97 The Ghost of the Vibecrusher

Hey There

Well I certainly hope that the actual tour dates don't have quite so
many open saturdays...how am I supposed to make a show with no shows on
saturdays....on my knees pleading for a midweek portland show...the
meadows...the river queen....on a completely different topic....duke
sucks....let's go orangemen.....well this ghost story is truly a
treat...the first ghost....the ghost of the vibecrusher...from the
palatial estate of the second luckiest ex resident of Reading
PA...it is short it is sweet....it bends time....think back to a
time in the not so distant future....back to the days of Amy's
farm or arrowhead....close ...intimate...thanks to Ryan Stroud for the
tape

Ghost Story #22 6/6/97 Charlotte VT
The Ghost of the Vibecrusher

What a party to have been at.....it is of course every fan's dream...the
band playing in their back yard....this tape gives insight into the fact
that it may not be everything you would hope for....it is raw it is
stripped down....it is sloppy and loose...admittedly these are all new
songs so i give credit where it is due...

the prologue begins after some cat calls and hoots from the assembled
party goers...the threat to somebody that they will be thrown out
again...the plea for the band to make it go louder...a request from trey
for more piano in the monitoroonies...and a few practice I feel I
Nevers...a short countoff....and the Ghost of the vibecrusher is upon us
the prologue is mellow funktronica...the flight crew inspecting the
craft...captain herr necklace is playing with the power
supplies...running through all the gear pedals...wing commander gordon
down in the bomb bay is looking over his new array of heavy caliber
munitions...mc neon cellgap is testing out the clavitational antigravity
drive while jacques the gay sailor makes sure all the polyrythmatic
communication vessels are tightly wound and in an upright and locked
position.....the verse break is all funkatronic clavitational gravity
drive....the ship checkes out....time to take her for a little test
flight...the ghosts are late...a few seconds...the first and only
lyrical miscue this ghostfunkster has heard in the course of one of
these flights of fantasy....at 3:15 we have lift off...a little
delayed..a few extra GHOSTS along for the maiden voyage of the olaphian
mother ship...our in flight beverage is a funky little amorphous mug
full of bathtub gin that is ringing the bell of the boogie man....the
first minute or so of the flight is an amorphous funk groove...the gin
starts to take hold...the hyperdrive kicks in and time begins to
bend...someday i will figure out what song it is i hear when the space
time continuum is pushed and pulled and drawn waaaaaaay out....it
happens alll the time in bath tub gin jams...it was very prominent in
the 6/24/95 bowie at the mann center.....it is slow motion face melting
time compression...and I love it...this time warp has a very ring my
bell kind of feel to it...but then what ghost doesn't at about 3 minutes
into the flight (6:02 running time) captain herr necklace tests out a
revolving throbitational power supply that breaks into a wailing
technofunkadelia from mc neon cell gap....a brief boogie man disco funk
as the ship comes from a landing...down down down....to a hard stop at
8:27.  There have been smoother rides...there have been longer
rides...there have been wilder more turbulent rides....but this was the
first trip...the maiden voyage...and unlike the titanic...it didn't hit
any icebergs

who you gonna call

Marty

one 90 minute tape will do it.....send me e-mail telling me how much
duke sucks and a daud/sbd 4 copy of bradstock can be yours too