Anonymous asked
I saw the rad acoustic version of New Orleans on YouTube that you did with they shoot don't they. What are the chords to the song? Thanks!!

I think the chords in that version are as follows (note: it takes out the bridge before the final chorus):

verse:

A    G    A   G  F E

pre chorus:

F    G  (repeated twice before second chorus)

chorus:

C    G    A    F

pretty simple.  i hope that you are taylor swift and that you want to do a cover of this song.  

Anonymous asked
do you think you'll ever play anything from fleurs live again? just because the songs have nothing to do with your life or are anything you want to revisit doesn't mean you shouldn't play them. those songs helped a lot of people get through tough times, myself included.

Thank you for your question, and it means a lot to me that those songs mean something to you.  It is possible that one of the main purposes for creation is for some human interaction/connection and I value that.  The songs from Fleurs actually have a lot to do with my life but with a specific time in my life.  Whether or not I will ever play those songs live again - I don’t know, I honestly can’t say.  We played quite a few of them on the last Former Ghosts tour.  The fact is also that the meaning of songs change for me over time- and I usually find them to be about myself in the end anyways.  I have put work as Former Ghosts aside indefinitely for now.  I also have no future plans to tour at the moment.  I’m not interested in it.  I think we often wish, and even expect, musicians to drag out the same songs, set lists, and even the same sounds and approach to “song writing” over and over again while this feeling doesn’t necessarily transfer to other art forms.  I think that created things should capture specific moments - therefore, I also understand and am aware that certain things will only relate to certain people and also usually only at certain times in their life.  I don’t have an interest in standing in the same place forever while admitting that similar themes have ran through whatever it is that I am doing.     

Anonymous asked
I haven't been able to really get into anything after Last Rights. What do you think of more recent Skinny Puppy?

I also personally can’t get into anything after Last Rights. But to each their own. 

Anonymous asked
is there anyplace i could get a former ghost lp/shirt?

For LP’s, order directly from Upset the Rhythm.  

They should have Fleurs and New Love both in stock on LP

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

T-shirts are all gone but there were quite a few different designs.  They pop up on Ebay occasionally.  

Anonymous asked
are you home sick? ps. what is more, spending the winter in the Czech Republic instead of in Cali seems to be madness..unless you want to try if you can handle it :-) love is crazy thing :-)

I am definitely homesick.  Mainly for friends, Mexican food, and warm weather.  But I think anyone moving anywhere away from  home, to a location that is drastically different from their home, will feel homesick.  Love, real love, and courage when faced with it, is the most important thing. 

Anonymous asked
Where to start with Autechre?

Depends if you are interested in something more melodic or something more abstract.  Melodic: Tri Repetae Abstract: LP5.  My personal favorite: Untitled. 

Anonymous asked
Have you ever written something in a fit of emotion and thought it summed up yer feelings completely and then looked at it after you had calmed down and been completely embarrassed that you were being such a drama queen? Because this is how i feel about literally everything i write ever.

Yes, I often look back on things I have done and feel embarrassed.  However, I think this is a common feeling among most people who are creating something.  In a way, it helps to push you forward and into new directions.  And yes, sometimes I wish I didn’t say something in a song or later even feel like the lyrics were just plain bad.  But, if you are singing about personal experience without abstracting it, and not doing “story telling” song writing, and later you feel embarrassed you were being a drama queen, I think it is important to remember and realize that it was a snapshot of that particular time and something that you really felt and expressed no matter how embarrassed you may feel now about the way you expressed it.  Recently however, I feel more interested in expressing and practicing restraint.     

Anonymous asked
My favorite thing about you is that every time we played a bill together, you came up to me afterwards and thanked me as enthusiastically as a human being ever could. It struck me as really genuine and helpful. Maybe I would be bummed out about how I sounded, or wondering what the point of making music was if I was just another kid with a laptop making weird sounds. But then I'd be like, "Freddy was really into it!" What are you thinking about when you watch a performer? Listening for?

I’m not exactly sure how to answer this.  I think that everything kind of has it’s own place and taste among people differ widely.  But usually what I admire is not what is often considered someone’s technical prowess.  I don’t often care about this kind of thing.  I care about if what is being done is real and if the person is really putting themselves into what they are doing.  I admire things that are honest and not acted.  I admire people that are also open and available.  I don’t like walls between an artist and the audience.    

Home From The Wars EP

Home From The Wars EP is now available digitally from here: http://freddyruppert.bandcamp.com/album/home-from-the-wars-ep

It is a “pay what you like download” with no minimum payment required, which means you can pay anything from $0(free) to millions of dollars.   

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