Saturday 4/18/2009, 10:30 PM, at Pearson’s Lounge, Middlebury College:  We’re playing a charity show tonight with our friends The Dead Jettsons.  We’re especially stoked to see Dead Jettsons drummer Charlie Henschen, a real powerhouse who has shared stages with Kevin and Karl in the past.  Proceeds from the show benefit a women’s farming collective in Africa.  Mark Christensen is joining us on second guitar, so prepare to have your ears first caressed and then mercilessly destroyed.  You should all know that Mark is Middlebury’s most precious natural/unnatural resource.

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WRMC DJ Bente Madson let us drop in and pick out some tunes to play during her radio show Herd.  She graciously shouted out the info for our show tonight at Pearson’s Lounge with The Dead Jettsons, while we talked about the phenomenon of animal band names (Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic…).  After Bente’s show, DJ Salen Andrews went on the air with her show Into the Void, a classic rock heavy show named after the awesome Black Sabbath song.  On Salen’s show we made our live radio debut, playing “Forest Fires” live on the air with just an acoustic guitar, a tambourine, and our three voices.  Thanks, Salen, you rock.  We hope to catch you next time we hit Middlebury.

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We dropped by the Old Stone Mill open house here at Middlebury College to catch Alex Consalvo’s stenciled graffiti art (seen in the picture at left) and t-shirt designs.  There we saw an open piano that called out to us, saying “drop some tunes on the unsuspecting artgoers.”  So we did, rocking piano and vocal arrangements of a few songs.  Old Stone Mill is a beautiful building in downtown Middlebury that students get to use for art/music workspaces.  Up at the top of the stairs we caught a bearded cat named Phillippe and his rad band jamming out on their improv instrumentals.

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So we were hanging in the green room at McCullough Social Space, and in comes Ernest Russell (WRMC 91.1 FM general manager) to invite us to play a late night set at The Mill.  The Mill is a famous/infamous social house at Middlebury, known for hosting killer parties and epic shows.  We got the offer, discussed it for about five seconds, and decided to throw Ernest and our gear into the back of the cargo van, headed to The Mill for a late night after-party set.  We played until the party ended, packing up around 4 AM.  We played a long set, including many songs we don’t play much live.  Again, the Middlebury crowd impressed us, dancing it up and supplying us with seemingly endless beer, elixir of a long set.  According to local legend, the game Beer Die was invented in the room next to where we were playing.

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The Sepomana music festival at Middlebury College was a total blast.  We got to share the stage with Brown Heir, Tobacco, and The Death Set.  We also got to play with our good friend Mark Christensen, who tore it up on guitar, leaving bits of Gary Busey all over the stage.  The crowd at Middlebury is great–really into music and ready to dance at the slightest provocation.  Thanks so much for dancing, Middlebury, you made our night.  Biggest thanks go out to WRMC 91.1 FM and Middlebury CCAL for running such a great show.

Ghost Ghost does not confirm or deny rumors of a late night show at The Mill.

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