Thomas- Acoustic Guitar/Vocals
Klaus Funk- additional Guitars
Sean Grove- Bass Guitar/Vocals
Dave Taylor- Drums
Influences
"The Descendents, Ani Difranco, Chris Whitley, Hamell on trial, The White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams I, II, and III, Johnny Horton, Wilco, The Shins, Langhorne Slim, Tom Waits, The Jayhawks, Not From Georgia, Ben Harper, ect....ect....ect
The Pale Barn Ghosts met in the Winter of 2007. Thomas, Sean, and Klaus had been laid off from their jobs and decided to seek employment through a local temp agency.
They were assigned jobs at the local cemetery, working as Cemetery Maintenance Technicians. (The ground was particularly frozen that year, and extra manpower was needed to dig the plots.) Not their first choice for work, but they took what they could get.
The Suicide rate that Winter had nearly doubled from the year before, so the hours were very long. Even on the days when the outside temperature was above freezing, one grave could take up to three hours to dig.
To escape the cold, and to thaw out their frostbitten hands, the three would retreat to an abandoned, civil war era barn, that lie at the far corner of the cemetery property. The old barn was known to the groundskeepers as the pale barn. (It seems that everytime someone would go into the barn, they would come out looking very pale, as if they had just seen a ghost.)
Despite its hauntings, the barn provided a refuge from the cold, as well as a convenient place to take your break. And since the senior groundskeepers lived in fear of its omens, no one bothered you if you decided to take an extra hour for lunch. It was in the barn that the three played music together for the first time.
During an unusually slow work day, the boys decided to do a little spring cleaning in the barn, so they would have a tidy place to relax. While clearing out an old casket, to take afternoon naps in, they found some old guitars.
(As it happens, during a re-investigation of a murder that took place sometime in the 1930's. The guitars had been exhumed, along with the bodies of the victims. The bodies had long been returned to their graves, but the instruments they were buried with had been forgotten in the barn.) The instruments were dusted off and the trio began making up songs to pass the time.
The sounds that came from the barn further added to its spookiness. And from then on, "The Pale Barn Ghosts" were never bothered on their lunch break again.
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hello friends......,,, please come to see the worms play music Reading PA Full band Friday the 25th of Sept. 2009 ... The Works 9-12pm 1109 Bern Road Wyomissing, PA 19610 610.375.2700
Probably I'll do 9:30 to 10:30 or so. If you could be there to set gear by 8:30 or so we'd be golden. I was planning to run my PA and cover sound for ya'll.
Tom, sorry it took until TUESDAY to get this to you...You were AWESOME at Open Mic on Friday! Can't wait to have you back. Please visit often & let's set up something for an upcoming show when the weather gets nice so you can play outside! Take care & thanks a bunch for such a melodious night!
yo tom yo! :) i JUST posted this on kevin's page. the exact same goes for you, so i'll post in on yours, too:
here's the scoop- my buddy sam is an amazing solo jazz/rock guitarist.
he's really good. i'm really weird...
so- we are doing a summer tour, primarily by greyhound bus :)
we'll make it up to gettysburg probably in early june and hope to play around the baltimore area and then make it up to boston, maybe maine.
you have three choices here (choose C...) A. hang out with us and smoke doobies when we are in town... B. join us for our shows in your surrounding areas(mentioned above) C. say fuck it and tour the entire country with us.
Hey Tom all you dudes sound tight and great! I chatted with Brittany Mackley last week and she wants to play out her second CD stuff. I sure miss all the hospitality and fun of hanging with you and the Ragged Edge groups. Mabie this sommer then...
Thanks, Thomas. I'm very excited about the direction in which all three bands are going. We feel so comfortable playing with you guys and Booker Lee. You guys sound great. What a fun night- let's do it again soon.
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