Produced and Engineered by Bob Ebeling
Recorded at Rustbelt Studios 1999-2002
Released in 2002
A mostly instrumental record, this was done in Michigan while I co-owned Rustbelt. I was recording and producing alot of music during this time and this record was my guilty pleasure in several ways. One, when I sent everyone home and cracked open the wine, these reels went on the 2" machine and away I went. A workaholic--not only recording all day, but then well into the next. This was when my engineering and vintage gear craze was reaching a plateau of sorts. So here is all the bells and whistles I was mastering--string arrangements, mellotrons, tube drum tones, fuzz guitar orchestras, sampling, over-compression, etc...
Kind of a light speed era, I felt like everything was moving fast--or that I was at least. I could see everyone fading away from me--hence the ghosts. I felt like I was on the Millenium Falcon and it was stuck in lightspeed.
My buddy Eric Hoegemeyer stopped over one night and by morning we had pieced together 'FRONT RIGHT'. He is an amazing creator, samplist, and MPC-sequencer. You can hear his magic on this song. I asked him for a title, and being he was in a car accident on the way over, he said "front right"--the panel of his car that got crushed. Also, check out the legend--Sam Vail playing guitars on the opening of "SUNSET".