Alec Ferrell, Chris Heine, Ex Drummer, Kent Heine

Fomer Lincolnites, The Holy Ghost, are back in town. They played the last show of their tour here, and are recording their new album with A.J. Mogis at Presto Studio. Their last E.P., the phenomenal "Get Your Funeral Shoes" has been in HEAVY rotation in my stero since I got it. I got an update from Kent & Chris Heine the other day to see how things are going with the new album.

SCS: How's it going recording the new album?

Kent: So far, so good. Working with A.J. has been a pleasure. Since we're still doing a lot of tracking, it is presently unclear exactly how the finished product will sound, but we do feel really good about things.

SCS: Does it have a name yet?

Kent: Yeah, I think we are all leaning towards one name in particular, but I will refrain from disclosing that at this time.

SCS: What are some of the new songs that'll be on the album?

Kent: Titles of some of the songs are "Bastard Sun," "Did I Wear You Out?" "Pyramid," "History, History," and so on. Many of the songs have never been performed live since they were very recently written. We're recording fourteen songs, and only about seven were part of our live set during the tour in support of our new EP.

SCS: Are you producing the album yourselves or are you working with someone?

Kent: AJ Mogis and The Holy Ghost are producing this record.

SCS: I LOVE "Get Your Funeral Shoes", especially " Or Dead" and "Sarah Needed". Gotta ask, was "Sarah Needed" originally written as "Serenaded" and then changed? I ask because all the rhymes go along with "naded", not "needed"

Chris: Very good job, Tery. The original lyric there was "serenaded."

I have a buddy, for lack of better terms, who I always shoot the shit with outside an Amoco gas station/food shop near my house in Brooklyn between 1-6 in morning whenever I am on an early a.m. beer run. One night, I was told that she had been arrested for trying to break into a car through the windshield for either drugs or drug money. This lady was/is an addict, btw. I am not sure why someone would use that particularly hard method to break into a car. But, anyway, she's really normal to talk to. She had a cousin from Jersey who played football at Nebraska, so whenever I would walk up, she simply called me "Nebraska," and then proceeded to ask me if I had a cigarrette. I never knew that she was a junkie until one of her cronies told me. And then I heard about the arrest. And she wasn't arround for awhile after that, so her crony's word seemed likely. Plus, smart people don't become homeless without reason, if you catch my drift. So, after her arrest, I changed SERENADED to SARAH NEEDED, and alas we had lyrics for the song. For some reason, though, and I hadn't thought about it at all until you prudently observed so, I never did get away from rhyming the "aded" sound rather than the "eeded" sound. That's weird. I am glad you pointed this out.

SCS: Are you right back on the road after you're done at Presto, or taking some time off?

Kent: We will be driving back to Brooklyn and taking a month off. After that, we'll probably need to gear up for a Spring tour in support of the album that we're currently recording. I imagine that it'll come out in a few months.

SCS: What made you decide to do the album back here rather than Brooklyn, or anywhere for that matter?

Kent: Presto has been producing great sounding records for quite some time, and we've always talked about coming back to Lincoln to record there. Since we knew that we'd be on tour anyway, it made a lot of sense for us to stop here and do the next record with AJ. We also knew that it would be fun to be back in the hometown working on an album with friends. Everything has been great.

SCS: Did you know that Wasteoid has a song called "Grandma's Funeral Shoes" what's up with Lincolnites and the whole "Funeral Shoes" thing.

Chris: I wasn't aware of Wasteoid's song. We named our album "Get Your Funeral Shoes" because there's a substantial amount of death or near death on the EP. So, as a twisted cousin to the ol' "get your dancing shoes, baby," "Get Your Funeral Shoes" was born.

SCS: When can we expect to see The Holy Ghost back in Lincoln?

Chris: Within five months.

SCS: Cool, I'll be there!


- Tery Daly