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Erick the Ghost

A Taste for Sebastianne Melmoth.

About Me

"Erick the Ghost is Sebastianne Melmoth". So far, this has been the only historical record of my friend, the aforementioned ghost. He has told me that he doesn't like to give away too much, for fear that his fingerprints will somehow mar the silver mysteries his bold and strange music presents...so to end all of the speculation amongst the dozen or so worldwide who have cared enough to ask, I'll let some of the secrets slip: Erick is a psuedo-southern gentleman who likes coffee, hears voices, and is a direct, main-line descendant of King Arthur and a Cornish prostitute." --Sam, Friend and Conspiracy Theorist "This guy is really talented and has a way of creating atmosphere that just isn't heard very often these days. Sure, it's folk, but it's GOOD. Check it out, ADD him, spread it." --Da'vid White, Musician, Florida "St. Mary's own musical genius. Imagine Nick Cave, Nirvana, and a little Dylan. In other words, your new favorite act."--Chris, Promoter "This music is so good my penis just tried to dance with me, then exploded." --Daniel, Friend and Fellow Musician (Joy Radio)Say something nice about Erick and you too can be placed on the WALL OF TESTIMONIALS!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/10/2005
Band Website: lfdm.org
Band Members: Erick the Ghost is Sebastianne Melmoth.
Influences: GENERAL: Thunderstorms, desert ghost towns, old diners and coffee, untuneable guitars, the American Civil War, colonialism, pacifism, the Victorian EraMUSICAL: Syd Barret, Jandek, Little Wings, the Microphones/Mt. Eerie, Yimwu and the Dirty EyelensARTISTIC: Harry Clarke, Margaret Tulloch, Molly Brett, Anne Anderson, Will EisnerLITERARY: E.A. Poe, Will Eisner, The Old Testament
Sounds Like: "A Vermeer painting of an old woman whose been dead for eighteen days sitting in front of a bright window as her deformed son attempts to revive his mother's corpse with pudding." --Producer Dan"Everything that people are scared to believe in. Everything that society rejects. Like the Medieval times knocking at your door." --Punk Mike"Take the blues, drag it through the gutter and then take it to eighty-eight miles an hour in a DeLorean and admit that it's all a dream." --Bandmate Sir Charles, the Glastonbury Grail"The sign and symptom of a change." Bandmate Elizabeth, the Glastonbury Grail"It's extra-ordinary but everything that I'm in love with." --Friend Megan"It's right there on the edge. There but not quite being there. Just being a bitch." --Photog Rio
Record Label: La fin du Monde / Lohvi Tree Lo-Fi
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Erick the Ghost and the Duchy of Dwindling Hope

Nineteen years ago, in what is one of my favorite childhood memories, I sat in a theater with my father and watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  I was seven or so years old.  Last ni...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Thu, 22 May 2008 04:37:00 PST

Erick’s Ghost Stories: Vol 2, Issue III

Hello there, all.  Hope you had a good weekend.  I did.The Glastonbury Grail record is almost done.  And it sounds K I L L E R.  As for me, I’m also...get ready for it...thre...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:20:00 PST

Ericks Ghost Stories - Vol II, Issue 3

"My Journey to ’The Man and the Journey’"by SebastianneSo I’m in the studio working on the new Glastonbury Grail album.  It’s 3:03am.  I have been slaving all day to ...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:18:00 PST

Dispatches from the Land of the Dead - Part the First

It simply cannot be true.  Dave Stevens, creator of the Rocketeer and one of the most refined and beautiful artists comic books have ever known is dead, at age 52 of lieukemia (I'm not even going...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:32:00 PST

Erick’s Ghost Stories - Vol. II, Issue 2

The Erick the Ghost InterviewOn a grey Southern Maryland morning Sebastianne aka Erick the Ghost took questions from friends in a living room.  Jehova's Witnesses came.  Mike stood everybody...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:07:00 PST

Ericks Ghost Stories - Vol. II, Issue 1 -

First of all, please allow me to apologize for taking so long to comment on the show.  This is the first I've had ample time near an interweb-equipped wonder box.  The show on Friday went v...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:45:00 PST

Erick's Ghost Stories - Vol I, Issue 1 - NO REST FOR THE WICKED

A busy weekend spent racing around the known world, hysterical hijinx, and the occasional concert:Left Friday for Baltimore with my intrepid and long-suffering business manager Shane. Played the first...
Posted by Erick the Ghost on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST