Even with the omnipresence of the Internet, odd things still happen. Over the weekend I got email from one of the guys in Friends Of Ghosts – an impossibly obscure band from San Diego that released one album back in 1986. Cool album – kinda had an early 4AD Records feel to it and a wild range of sound from sparse piano-led songs, to distort-o-sludge, barking dogs, and a groovy swirly-guitar pop closer.
Anyway, it was only released on vinyl and never reissued. Original copies sell for $$ in the used record circuits, assuming that someone even has a copy to begin with. Late last year I finally got around to mp3’ing my scratchy copy and dumped it on my iPod.
Anyway, over the weekend I got an email from one of the guys in the band who got a big kick out of seeing that folks were still listening to it. Better yet, there’s a CD reissue of it available now (check out the site for ordering info and sound files)
Small internet indeed…