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R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House (Horror Punk Version) - Not AI!

What if...R. Dean Taylor was a Horror Punk pioneer? Imagine, if you will, it's 1976 in an alternative universe, not unlike our own. R. Dean Taylor is at a transitional point in his career, as Motown have just folded the Rare Earth label, which has been his home for the last several years. Bored and depressed, one August evening, he wanders into Hollywood's Starwood Club, and sees the band that will inspire his new musical direction: the Ramones. R. Dean is staggered by the band's combination of raw energy and power with hooks and melodies that reveal a love of sixties pop and fifties rock n' roll. He's also entertained by the band's macabre sense of humour, as heard in songs like 'Chainsaw' and 'I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement'. In the months that follow, our hero immerses himself in the emerging punk subculture, taking particular note of The Damned - both for their raucous garage-punk assault, and for their frontman, Dave Vanian's vampiric countenance - and the eerie, rockabilly-informed trash-punk of NYC newcomers, The Cramps. Taylor decides to relaunch his music career by combining all of these elements - bubblegum pop melodies, chainsaw guitars, frantic energy and a spooky new image, cutting a radically-rearranged new version of his 1967 song, 'There's a Ghost In My House', which had originally missed the charts, although it later became a Northern soul hit in the UK. Sadly, punk audiences do not take kindly to Taylor's new direction, and after a disastrous national tour, which sees hostile crowds pelting our hapless hero with bottles and other detritus on a nightly basis, he quietly steps back from public performance. However, one particular show in Lodi, New Jersey, inspires a youthful Glenn Anzalone and Gerald Caiafra Jr. to change their names to Danzig and Only respectively, and start their own band, based on the pioneering horror-punk sound of R. Dean Taylor! Written by Holland/Dozier/Holland/Taylor I do not own the rights to the song, R. Dean's vocal, or any of the clips/images used. For a companion video with discussion of R.Dean Taylor, the history of horror-punk, recording insights and more, please click this link:    • Taking an unsung Soul legend to Horror-Pun...   Backing track arranged, performed and produced by me, using GarageBand and whatever instruments I had to hand. I started, as ever, by syncing the vocal to the grid. This was tricky, as the tempo fluctuates considerably, and the backing vocals don't leave many edit points, so apologies if any of it is a bit out. I decided to tweak the tempo, so that the intro was slow and menacing, before breaking into a sprint for the main body of the song. I played the drum part in on my midi keyboard, and didn't quantise or tidy it too much, wanting to keep that loose, raw. Misfits-ish feel. I took a similarly loose approach to recording the bass and guitars, and made sure the sounds I used were all appropriately trashy and dirty! I don't normally like singing on these tracks, but couldn't resits adding some 'woooahh' backing vocals. As a final touch, I overdubbed some synth wind effects and ghostly howls (literally me going 'whoooo!' through loads of effects!) to the intro and outro. If you enjoyed this, please like, subscribe, and check out my other videos:    • What if?   #rdeantaylor #punk #horrorpunk #motown #halloween #misfits #reinterpretation #remix #spooky Thanks!