Ghosty

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Ghosty
Origin	Lawrence, Kansas
Genre(s)	Indie rock , Jangle pop
Years active	1999 – Present
Label(s)	Future Farmer Records (USA) Broken Horse Records (UK) Low Transit Industries OxBlood Records(USA)
Members
Andrew Connor Jeff Ferrell David Wetzel Mike Nolte Josh Adams
Former members
Richard Gintowt Mark Hurst Jacob Baum Andrew Sallee

Ghosty is a Lawrence, Kansas-based indie rock band formed in 1999. They are best known for their collaboration with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, positive reviews by NPR,^[1] and The New York Times's Seth Sherwood saying, “It may only be rock 'n' roll, but Ghosty, The Appleseed Cast, The New Amsterdams and other young bands are playing it with such virtuosity that Lawrence is now perhaps the most vital music scene between Chicago and Denver.”^[2]

1 History
2 Discography
3 Reviews
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

[edit] 1999-2001

In the Fall of 1999 singer-songwriter Andrew Connor and drummer Richard Gintowt met while at a concert. This led to the University of Kansas students to play together at Hashinger Hall, The Bottleneck, and eventually to the creation of Ghosty. In the Fall of 2000 bassist Mark Hurst joined the band, making it a threesome, but Hurst only lasted until December. In the Spring of 2001 Connor and Gintowt were joined by Jacob Baum on the bass and won the critic's vote at the annual KJHK Farmer's Ball. Later that year Ghosty began its first tour in support of the "Five Short Minutes EP." Sondre Lerche described their debut as “U.S., nineties, guitar-based alt-rock Prefab Sprout.”^[3]

[edit] 2002-2005

Ghosty began recording their first full length album "Grow Up or Sleep In" in August of 2002 at Presto! in Lincoln, Nebraska with producer Mike Mogis. After a year of school and performing they went to Bell Labs in Norman, Oklahoma to work with Trent Bell to finish the album. While in the studios they provided backing vocals, sleighbells, acoustic guitar, bass, and keyboards on the Flaming Lips' "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell." In return Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne lent his vocals to their album.^[4] "Grow Up or Sleep In" was released by Future Farmer Records in 2005.

[edit] 2006-Present

Currently the Ghosty lineup consists of Andrew Connor (guitar, vocals), Mike Nolte (bass, guitar, vocals), Jeff Ferrell, (guitar, bass, vocals), David Wetzel (keyboard, guitar, vocals, tambourine) and Josh Adams (drumset).^[5] Ghosty completed a coast-to-coast tour of the United States at the end of 2006 and began working on a new full length album, Answers, which was released on January 11^[6].