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Hey Out of Bodies, I like the feel of your music...it puts me in a good place
Hey Mister Sunshine has a awesome sound and feel! Sounds Great!
dave daeger - the early evening

The Out Of Bodies make some friends at myspace music

Above: Our Manager.

Okay, it's unlikely to find a comment left by Elvis Costello in your myspace inbox, but you will get some interesting feedback from less famous musician contemporaries - such is the case when The Out Of Bodies decided to join the throngs of others and open their own page at myspace music. "Friends" that have joined, musician and pop culture icons, include Julian Lennon, Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Howard Stern, Elvira, Soupy Sales, Conan O'Brian, Artie Lange and even the late, great Harry Nilsson - or at least someone who does it for them. In any event, there you have it... another cyber space portal which leads back to here. Welcome all newcomers and curious onlookers everywhere! To visit the myspace/music Out Of Bodies page go to... myspace.com/outofbodies

I like what you do, very cool.
- mpPatterson

Pink Floyd Founder Syd Barrett dies at 60 - July 11, 2006

Dan, Joe and myself were particularly tickled with Syd Barrett with our introduction to Pink Floyd's first album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn". My favorite song on the album was the very last one on there, a trippy little ditty simply titled, "Bike." It was childlike, funny, and like it's creator, more than just a little bit insane. What did we know about schizophrenia back then? Syd will be missed by Pink Floyd fans everywhere. - Donald

Previously unheard Dan Ban tracks released in June!
Remastered release of Out Of Bodies tracks in works!

Go to burnlounge.com/yourmusic, type the name Dan Ban in the search box, and you'll discover a whole new slew of previously unreleased tracks from the 4-track repertoire of Out Of Bodies musician, Dan Banic! Dan recently announced "So far they put up 6 of my CDs, but there's 4 more they're still uploading - so expect 10 of my Dan Ban CDs in the very near future! Each track is represented by a 30 second sample you can hear. Check out all the songs!"

Dan, who owns most of the original Out Of Bodies 4-track master tapes further announced that eventually he plans on making ALL of the Out Of Bodies music available on the site, but concedes "that eliminates around 40 percent of the Out Of Bodies songs" because many of those tracks are copyrighted by other artists and can't be included on burnlounge. "Believe it or not, we only have two, maybe three CDs worth of material from our 4-track recordings and around two or three more CDs worth of material of our live, 2-track wheezer sessions" explained Dan, "a total of 6 CDs of Out Of Bodies songs! That's only a rough estimate. When I'm finished compiling everything I'll have an accurate total count of Out Of Bodies songs." Still in all, compiling that amount of material from dozens of 4-track master tapes and making them available on-line is quite an impressive undertaking.

As if all of this wasn't enough, Dan further announced his plans to promote clips of Out Of Bodies videos on youtube.com with help from a friend in California, including online downloadable versions of his comedy films "Work Trek" and "Fish Funk". Dan was pleased with the feedback he got from his friends on the coast, including some who work for Interscope Records. "They love our music" he said, "He went crazy over "I Wonder", "Pink and Blue", "Willow" and "Hey Mister Sunshine" - they love the stuff!"

We'll be announcing more about these releases as they come! Stay tuned...

Good Design!
- Timothy

Thank you!
- Michelle

Great work!
- Wayne

If any Out Of Bodies tracks ever get any more airplay and make any money, I better see some damn checks coming my way!!!! All the best to all our fans and to my fellow bandmates.
- Joe

More OOB tracks for the Garage...

"Wendy Will Die", "Don't Go Jzero" and
"Abbott Better Stop (Your Pickin' On Me!)"

Favorite OOB tracks "Wendy Will Die", "Don't Go Jzero" and a comedy song by Lloyd and Donald, "Abbott Better Stop (Your Pickin' On Me) debuted on garageband.com this month with some downright surprising results. Dan's "Wendy" got some interesting feedback - with one reviewer calling it "Lennon's Julia", another refering to it as "Dylan squeezed through a synth box"... "Jzero" was widely recognized as a children's song, "The lyrics seem to be aimed at children ages 1 -5...seeing space men...Rafi might have a song like this"... but it was "Abbott Better Stop" that got the most interesting reviews, and surprisingly - at one point, managed to top all the Out Of Bodies Garage Band entries!

An amazing feat - keeping in mind that almost nobody knew what they were listening to. Only a few got that it was a schlock opera comedy dialogue between Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - the other confused reviewers derived everything else out of the song from high-pitched fat kids to 3 penny opera trannies - and yet still, it managed a "Best Track Of The Day" ranking on February 16, 2006 in the comedy category.

A small example of some of the more interesting reviews...

"Perhaps this is the sort of opera that Puccini would have written had he lived in modern day Los Angeles. A sad, pathetic, Chaplinesque tale of abuse and suppressed revenge. The falsetto opening voice gives way to a deeper voice and so a sense of a dialogue is conveyed. The fat, oppressed character seems to buckle under but I can't help think the plot would have been improved by murder. Or is that what's happening at the end?" - taketwomusic

"Kurt Weill? What kind of fucked up Threepenny Opera shit is this? It sounds like a terribly ironic off-Broadway play with some drag queens. None a single bit of this is a complaint, mind you. I love every bit of it. It should be part of a huge cycle of operas like Wagner's Ring Cycle. It should go on forever. It's better than Cats. Oi!" - j.rouner

holy smoke! you guys is good and your website rules! much better than ours (argylefist.com) which is held together with post-it notes and silly putty. I especially like "monsters".
- amerigo vespucci

we have listened to hey mr.sunshine... its really kewl song. it sounds very ango-saxon - kewl but somehow folky without being silly-jolly... youve done a lovely job there - i love the psychedelic flowery vibe... well kewl.
- PAD

e-mail stirs up memories of old OOB hangout

what a well done website!
a tribute to a better(?) time.
does anyone remember golf city and adventurer's inn?
toothman68

Adventurer's Inn was one of my favorite places in the world! My grandmother used to live in the apartment buildings right around the corner from AI, and she used to bring me there all the time. When I was in elementary school I had many a birthday party there (remember Don?!). As I got older, Adventurer's Inn grew with me! They kept expanding - from a kiddie park to a full blown amusement park (I believe they got a lot of their later attractions from New Jersey's Palisades Park, which closed around the time they expanded). Later, after High School, long after the amusement park was shut down, Don and I would go to the arcade at night and play Popeye and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! We got so good at the Popeye Arcade Game that we could play all night long on one quarter!
- Lloyd

Although the rides and restaurant closed around 1978 or so, the arcade remained open for at least another 10 years or so, I believe - and even though the concrete landing at the top of the arcade entrance way was sinking, and the circular mosaic design of the Adventurer's Inn Pirate was nearly obscured in a perpetual puddle of water - I can still remember visiting this place with fondness. I do actually recall at least one of Lloyd's birthday parties there, when the park and the rides were open - and regarding Lloyd as some type of celebrity. But the longest amount of time I've spent there in one stretch was in 1985 when the union at the company I had just started working for went on strike for three long months. I couldn't have been too worried... Instead of walking picket lines I spent much of that time plunking quarters at the arcade, being I lived just moments away in College Point. By the end of the strike I was a Popeye/Indiana Jones Master. I also vividly recall (much to my horror) one of the long term employees at the arcade who you'd get your quarters from. Lloyd and I nicknamed him "Quasi" (for his uncanny resemblance to Quasimoto). With his change belt straining around his enormous girth, Quasi would be the guy we'd have to contend with before playing our favorite video games. With our hands extended we'd patiently wait - as he'd pinch out one quarter at a time. This up close encounter was horrifying. Quasi's one eye would leer down at his belt, while the other was fixed on us. He would never speak, but his breathing would be loud and laborious. It took us every ounce of courage not to forget the whole deal and bolt for the doors.
- Donald

Yeah, Adventurer's Inn was quite a place in the mid seventies, and you guys are right, it started to go downhill from there. Many of the rides, as Lloyd states, were leftovers from Palisades Park, but some were also from Coney Island and the garbage cans around the place were from the 1964 World's Fair, right down the road in fact!! I remember in it's later incarnation as an arcade, walking through with friends dressed in full ape make up and freaking out all the little kids!!!! The bad thing I remember is that giant cat-sized rats use to chase us back to the car when we left. Not fun!!! Regards to my old friend and fellow film guy Lloyd Goldfine, who, as a young zombie tried to kill me!!! Happy Holidays to one and all.
- Joe

you guys hhrrock!
alf

You guys remind me of the Hamburg Star Club Beatles. You seem very close, crazy, and comfortable with each other and you have that same sense of humor that made the Beatles so appealing. I am very envious of your group!

Your music has all the right roots! I loved Pink and Blue. Your covers were fun and raucous, just as rock'n'roll covers should be. I listened to the Kinks song, that was very special, such a lovely vocal sound! You guys have an infectious spirit that MORE than makes up for the low-tech delivery. Stay with it (that is, technical improvement) and I fully expect you guys to chart in the "big" charts someday soon. Consider me a fan!

Oh, and your website is absolutely dynamite. I feel like I know you guys and it was like sitting in the stuffy room on the edge of the bed with a cheap beer in hand! GREAT!!!!

Johnny P.

my cousin is awesome - you are so talented. Is there anything you can't do?
- anonymous

The Out Of Bodies enter the charts at garageband.com!

Following Dan's lead with his three submissions to garageband.com, Donald took two of his songs recorded with Dan and did the same. "The Unicorn Song" and "Hey Mr Sunshine", both written by Donald, were the two most applicable choices - following the site's strict rules against cover songs. "I'm not expecting Sir George Martin to call me up or anything... I just really wanted to see what the listeners say about these two songs in their reviews." said Donald. "Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, I don't know."

Out of a 5-Star rating system against thousands of other bands around the world (many of them super-professionals who do this sort of thing for a living) - both songs scored surprisingly well! "The Unicorn Song" peaked at 4.3 while "Hey Mr. Sunshine" hit 4.0. Not too bad for songs recorded in a bedroom. As is the main purpose of the site, random reviews were written by other band members which helped determine the song's positioning on the charts. Opinions ran the gamut.

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