Thursday, Aug 9 - Back Room
The Midnight Ghost Train
w/ Reign Of Zaius, Eidetic Seeing
Thursday, Aug 9
8:30 pm in the Back Room
$8 / 21+
++On August 1st 2007, John Goff was pronounced dead. He died in his small house in Abilene, Kansas from a severe asthma attack. This was the influential event that caused John’s best friend Steve Moss, to start The Midnight Ghost Train, as a eulogy to John. “Something had to be done,” Steve says. “John’s memory and life has to be remembered in some way.” Moss then moved to his hometown Buffalo, New York with a plan to start a band, record a record, and go on tour. This was the idea and the drive that fueled The Midnight Ghost Train’s engine.
As soon as Moss arrived in Buffalo, he began to recruit members for the band. The original lineup included Steve Moss on vocals and guitar, Toby Cole on bass, and Jake Levin on drums. The Midnight Ghost Train has never been too sure on what direction they wanted to take their sound, and what genre to ordain to. All they knew was that their life and soul needed to be dedicated to music. Moss is a big early blues aficionado, so it was inevitable that the music would have strong roots in the blues. It was the heavy (stoner rock) side of their music that was most surprising since the band was never into much heavy music. “But when I’m on stage I love to bang my head and have the feel of loud amps and drums behind me, and when I pick up an electric guitar I like to play it heavy, and with force,” Steve says.
++From the ashes of a society destroyed by mankind rises the Reign Of Zaius
++New York’s most musically innovative borough has spawned a psych rock monster. Formed in Brooklyn in 2009, Eidetic Seeing draw influences from the past and present to sculpt a uniquely contemporary sound that’s all their own. Led by the ‘acid drenched’ guitar work of Sean Forlenza and the relentless rhythmic attack of drummer Paul Feitzinger (who also plays synthesizer) and bassist Danilo Randjic-Coleman, the trio have melted faces along the eastern seaboard with the likes of White Hills, Pontiak, La Otracina, and Human Adult Band.
Their self-titled debut EP, released in 2009 and recorded live and uncut, was sold at local record stores Other Music, Earwax, and Rockit Scientest as well as through several online outlets. They recently released their debut full length “Drink The Sun” on vinyl in November 2011. Produced by Evan Sobel of La Otracina, the album exhibits an evolved sense of songwriting and musical interplay and demonstrates what is a main focus of the band; to redefine their sound, to always remain completely modern.
