Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Creamtastic Ghostfinger Daytrotter Session
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Those of you already familiar with the site Daytrotter know the deal: Bands play live sets, and it's cool.
Recently, our local heroes Ghostfinger paid a visit so that they might record four songs, including two unreleased ditties ("White Rain" and "Marina Show") and two released ditties ("Lady" and a particularly ivory-ticklin' rendition of lifestyle jam "Give Me Some Money"). In addition to getting this sweet illustration of themselves to use as a MySpace avatar, the 'Finger are also now cemented in Daytrotter lore by way of the entertaining stretch of prose that accompanies their session. A sampling:
As the punctuation marks for the crescendo of the evening might have been obvious to normal people, [Richie] Kirkpatrick is not normal and there he was jamming a key into the bottom side of a can and popping the tab at the top to let it flow in a rushing, right into his gullet. Out there amongst the clear stars and dead silence of a neighborhood long retired to sleep, we made it until nearly 4 a.m. dining on some asinine, but uproariously entertaining dialogue about a valiant and trustworthy hawk/falcon named Trixie that feasted (or was it tormented?) dogs and was a faithful companion to anyone taking the speaking role of the narrator/owner at the time. We still think about that hilarious conversation from time-to-time, but it was likely forgotten by Richie the next minute, not because of the high alcohol intake, but because he didn't need to retain such moments. He has a surplus of these bizarro inklings and absurdities. They keep his mustache curly at the corners and also a clever smile - that of a playful serial killer - on his face.
If you've never checked out the site before, it wouldn't kill you to spend some time with their archive, which is a veritable who's-what of indie rockdom. If you're into that kind of thing, uh-huh.
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