{"id":261,"date":"2007-02-09T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:21:29","slug":"let-s-phantom-tollbooth-an-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-phantom-tollbooth-an-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Phantom Tollbooth an Album!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/phantom_tollbooth_beard_of_lightning.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Townsman kpdexter<\/strong> submits the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2003, <strong>Robert Pollard<\/strong> released an album on Off Records called <em>Beard of Lightning<\/em>. What\u2019s interesting about this album, besides the fact that it features some of the most intense, challenging, and exciting music of his career, as well as incredible melodies and lyrics, is the concept behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Bob was given the master tapes to <strong>Phantom Tollbooth\u2019s<\/strong> 1988 album, <em>Power Toy<\/em> (released on Homestead), and allowed to recreate it, wiping the original vocals and replacing them with his own vocals and lyrics, in effect creating a brand new lp. With the band\u2019s blessing, he set about reshaping the album, laboring over it for months, trying to get it just right.<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gXzAMvfkN94?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat he came up with not only improves on the original, but is also vastly different. <strong>This is no karaoke project, this is an entirely new beast.<\/strong> Pollard sings over parts that were originally instrumental breaks, and a lot of the parts that <strong>Dave Rick<\/strong> and <strong>Gerard Smith<\/strong> originally sang over are now the instrumental passages. What was once a \u201cMinutemen-esque\u201d jazz punk fusion, has now been transformed into a a dark, jazzy, psychedelic Math Rock opus.<\/p>\n<p>The question I put forth to RTH is this: <em>Could this conceivably be a new trend in Rock? Are there any other bands that should be considered for a project like this? What singers would you like to see tackle such a project? What other albums suffer from lame-ass vocals but musically are monsters?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For example, I\u2019d like to see <strong>David Lee Roth<\/strong> tackle the tracks for the horrendous <em>Van Halen III<\/em> album, a VH do-over if you will.<\/p>\n<p>How great would it be to hear Prince lay down some vocs and licks on that <strong>Tom Tom Club<\/strong> lp?  <\/p>\n<p>Maybe we could convince <strong>that Antony guy<\/strong> to redo Lou Reed\u2019s vocals on his magnum opus, <em>The Raven<\/em>?  <\/p>\n<p><strong>We get to decide!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman kpdexter submits the following: In 2003, Robert Pollard released an album on Off Records called Beard of Lightning. What\u2019s interesting about this album, besides the fact that it features some of the most intense, challenging, and exciting music of his career, as well as incredible melodies and lyrics, is the concept behind it. Bob <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-phantom-tollbooth-an-album\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}