couldn't get Zshare to work just now though...

Hi there! I just stumbled upon this by chance but I honestly think I might be the guy for the job. Are the Pro Tools sessions already set up, or do you still need help bouncing from tape? I run a recording studio out of my basement in Brooklyn called Mama Coco's Funky Kitchen.
Here's an EP i recently produced: http://sonsofanillustriousfather.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-dead-and-reborn-ep
Here's my band which I do all the recording and engineering for also: http://ghostpal.bandcamp.com

Let me know if you're interested! My email is the3droogs@hotmail.com

hey guys
just recently posted a new Ghost Pal track called "Ghost Teen"
it's very stripped back this one, also i was experimenting a bit with autotune to try to reflect a lack of humanity and ghostliness
then we of course have the reverse reverb trick that i think "Feel Flows" originally pioneered and now everyone employs
hope you dig it
http://ghostpal.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-teen
thanks for listening!

Thanks a lot Luther! I really appreciate that. Yeah pastiche can get tired really quickly, it's cute to play spot the influence but if they aren't there in service of an urgent idea, then you're just looking at prettily cloaked air

The skello is basically patterned off a cello (although the tuning is significantly different), constructed out of steel, with a long tall neck and a creepy skeletal rib cage that acts as the back of the instrument. It's very quiet unamplified but is outfitted with a contact mic apparatus and plugged into an amp (in this case). It's Caleb's first instrument, and is not that useful as a melodic voice, but man you can achieve some creepy drones on it!
actually, here's a picture of Caleb with the cello:
http://ghostpal.tumblr.com/post/7231100008/and-here-is-the-skello-longside-its-creator

Hey all
Here's another new Ghost Pal track I think we can easily trace back to a Beach Boys influence..in this case the whole "Wild Honey" LP was real formative
Also we got didgeridoo, harmonium, cello and a new instrument my friend invented called the "Skello". It's insane
Here's the music: http://ghostpal.bandcamp.com/track/retribution

I hope you enjoy it and thanks for listening!

Thanks Luther. I've actually never listened to Apples in Stereo but i'm a big fan of his production for NEutral Milk Hotel, and also Olivia Tremor Control are one of my all time favorite bands

Thanks so much man! Really appreciate it. We've been posting new tracks every week.

New stuff!
Featuring myself and my two younger brothers on vocals in an attempt at that kind of brotherly blend
hope you enjoy
http://ghostpal.bandcamp.com/track/brother-music

hey guys
my paranormal psych-soul project Ghost Pal just released its most recent recording "I'll Shake Stuff That Rattles" yesterday on our bandcamp. I wrote the song, sang it and did the recording, and played some of the instruments as well. This song i wanted to post here cause it's definitely a dark fragment influenced by "Smiley Smile" and other sort of alienated post-psychedelic music we love
we post new music every week though..i really hope you guys enjoy it
here it is: http://ghostpal.bandcamp.com/track/ill-shake-stuff-that-rattles

Not bad at all...

Get rid of the Mao poster though! You do realize how many millions of people died because of his regime?

Of course. That's my parent's house though. They studied in China and I spent most of my childhood in Hong Kong and Beijing. I've taken issue with their collecting of communist propaganda over the years, but as journalists they're definitely well enough informed to know what they're doing...it does offend people sometimes and I have mixed feelings about it, but I guess having lived there for so long and been immersed in that culture, with those posters everywhere, it's become a fascination for them.

Thanks for the kind words everyone too

hey guys
frequent reader of this site, haven't posted much in a while since i sort of prefer to sit back and let the experts go at it. (i'm on clean up duty for loose info)

anyway i just recorded and posted this cover of the surf's up classic at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNf7glRm2M
i kinda messed up some of the lyrics in the second verse and it's really impromptu but i hope you dig it

Let's try to track him some more
Is that him harmonizing with Brian on the "dit, dit, dit, heroes and villains" variations?
I've always wondered

Thanks for the corrections everyone. And Andrew, thank you for your website which was invaluable in providing session dates for my research.
My box set runs like this:

DISC 1
1. Surfin' Safari
2. Lonely Sea
3. Surfer Girl
4. Back Home
5. In My Room
6. Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Don't Worry Baby
8. I Get Around
9. Little Honda
10. Surfin' USA (Live)
11. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
12. Dance, Dance, Dance
13. Kiss Me, Baby
14. Please Let Me Wonder
15. Do You Wanna Dance
16. In the Back of My Mind
17. Help Me, Rhonda
18. Let Him Run Wild
19. California Girls
20. The Girl From New York City
21. I'm Bugged At My Old Man
22. And Your Dream Comes True

DISC 2
1. Sloop John B
2. Papa Oom-Mow-Mow
3. The Little Girl I Once Knew
4. Three Blind Mice
5. You Still Believe in Me
6. Let's Go Away for Awhile
7. Wouldn't It Be Nice
8. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
9. I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
10. God Only Knows
11. Good Vibrations
12. Heroes and Villains (Alternate Take)
13. Wonderful
14. Cabin Essence
15. Our Prayer
16. Good Vibrations (Live)
17. Do You Like Worms
18. Surf's Up (Demo)

DISC 3
1. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
2. Heroes and Villains (Sections)
3. Heroes and Villains (45 Version)
4. Vegetables (Smiley Smile)
5. Little Pad
6. With Me Tonight
7. She's Goin' Bald
8. Wonderful (Smiley Smile)
9. Surfer Girl (Hawaii Rehearsal)
10. Wild Honey
11. Aren't You Glad
12. A Thing Or Two
13. I Was Made to Love Her
14. Can't Wait Too Long
15. Let the Wind Blow
16. Country Air
17. Little Bird
18. Passing By

DISC 4
1. Busy Doin' Nothin'
2. Wake the World
3. Be Here in the Morning
4. Meant for You
5. Transcendental Meditation
6. Do it Again
7. I Went to Sleep
8. Old Folks at Home/Ol' Man River
9. Time to Get Alone
10. Forever
11. Celebrate the News
12. Slip on Through
13. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
14. Add Some Music to Your Day
15. This Whole World
16. Susie Cincinnati
17. I Just Got My Pay
18. Good Time
19. Cool, Cool Water
20. 'Til I Die

DISC 5
1. 4th of July
2. Don't Go Near the Water
3. Long Promised Road
4. A Day in the Life of a Tree
5. Disney Girls (1957)
6. Feel Flows
7. Marcella
8. You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
9. Cuddle Up
10. Only With You
11. Funky Pretty
12. California
13. Trader
14. Fairy Tale Music

DISC 6
1. Sail on Sailor
2. Let the Wind Blow (Live)
3. Ding Dang
4. It's OK
5. Back Home
6. Had to Phone Ya
7. That Same Song
8. River Song
9. Airplane
10. The Night Was So Young
11. Honkin' Down the Highway
12. Solar System
13. Let Us Go On This Way
14. Love is a Woman
15. Johnny Carson
16. Still I Dream of It
17. Baby Blue

what would you do differently?

My mistake!
The link should have read:
jesuschocolatethe.blogspot.com

apologies for my brain fart

Having compiled my own Beach Boys box set, I got to writing the liner notes for disc 1:
they're here on my music blog
http://thechocolatejesus.blogspot.com

if you're interested, i would love some feedback

Brian - Those falsetto squeals in the choruses of "A Thing or Two!!!!!!"
Carl - Man, it really might be the verses of "Baby Blue"
Dennis - "Little Bird"
Mike - All the bass vocals from the Smile sessions
Al - The bridge of "Don't Go Near the Water"
Bruce - The response vocal of "God Only Knows"

The "hello" at the beginning sounds like Brian, a little, I think.

Agreed. If it's Carl, it's a funny reversal of the "Please Let Me Wonder" situation.

I think that it's Bruce singing the title of "All I Wanna Do" in the bridge
I'd give Brian a backup for "Celebrate the News" - "there's been a change" in close harmony
And finally, although it sounds like he may be compounded with other voices, Bruce is definitely in there for the bridge of Take a Load Off Your Feet...it sounds like his more timid falsetto, and the final solo "glass" is unmistakeable.

Good choices so far. How about:

The Band - The Weight/I Shall Be Released
Beatles - I Feel Fine/She's a Woman
Beatles - Lady Madonna/The Inner Light
Beatles - Paperback Writer/Rain
Beach Boys - Add Some Music to Your Day/Susie Cincinnati
Beach Boys - California Girls/Let Him Run Wild
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations/Let's Go Away for a While
Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda/Kiss Me Baby
Beach Boys - Wild Honey/Wind Chimes
Buzzcocks - Everybody's Happy Nowadays/Why Can't I Touch It?
Sam Cooke - Shake/A Change is Gonna Come
Elvis Costello - I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea/You Belong to Me
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary/Born on the Bayou
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Teach Your Children/Carry On
Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower/I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues/She Belongs to Me
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back/Who's Lovin You
Love - Alone Again Or/A House is Not a Motel
New York Dolls - Trash/Personality Crisis
Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People/Sing a Simple Song
Sly and the Family Stone - Family Affair/Luv'n'Haight
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!/I Want to Take You Higher
Sly and the Family Stone - Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin/Everybody is a Star
T.Rex - Jeepster/Life's a Gas
Talking Heads - Take Me to the River/Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties/I'll Be Your Mirror
The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat/Here She Comes Now

The "bop bop dittlieits" or whatever in Add Some Music are harmonized between at least two voices...I'm not even sure I hear Dennis in there. Maybe Al and Carl? Brian?

Who's singing the "All I wanna do" in that song? In the bridge---sounds like Bruce maybe?

I'd put Brian down for prominent backup in "Our Sweet Love" the "doo doo doo doo" ...if only because it's the only vocal on the original track and it's just so damned beautiful.

Who's singing "fly away" in At My Window? Maybe Brian?

Finally, what does Bruce sing in I Just Got My Pay?

It's a pretty faithful rendition (we were attempting it for a movie that wanted pretty much the same), but I'd be curious to hear what aficionados like all of yourselves think. It's up at:

www.music.for-robots.com

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