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Dead Man's Bones
Wednesday, October 14, 9:00 PM

The Middle East Downstairs
472 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, 02139
General admission
$15.00

Joined by a mutual fascination with ghosts, Dead Man’s Bones members Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields met in Toronto in 2005 and started trying to write a theatrical ghost love story for the stage. The play proved too daunting, but what remained was the music, music with sounds that reflected the music they listened to--a little bit of doo-wop and artists such as The Shangri-Las, The Shags, The Cure, Company Flow, Sam Cooke, The Misfits, James Brown, Bobby Vinton, Joy Division, The Andrew Sisters and Daniel Johnston.

Zach and Ryan were also inspired by two musical programs of the past, the 60’s musical masterpiece Ghetto Reality, and Hans Fenger’s The Langley Schools Music Project, Innocence and Despair, both of which featured the singing of children. There was something about the earnest recordings of those kids that hit a nerve with Zach and Ryan and seemed to resonate with their own musical evolution.  Therefore, it was decided early on that their newly formed band, Dead Man’s Bones, wanted to work kids into what was shaping up to be their first self-titled album.

The outcome is an artistic aesthetic of old Universal horror films, vaudeville music-hall numbers, and silent-screen melodramas perfect for the month of Halloween.

Copresented with the Middle East.

 

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