I had this riff in my head for so long and I had been playing it just as long. When I asked Paul Raven to play on my record, he said, "SURE! You know I am down!" We recorded his bass part in a studio in Clinton Hill/Brooklyn where he had been staying with a friend of his working on his Mob Research project. This studio was in a home that was once an Abby for Nuns and was full of ghosts.

I never saw one but I knew they were there. Raven had done his part and I wanted him to play on SOUNDS OF SILENCE while I had him there, but by the time we were done with Mars Becoming it was time to go to The Alibi for some shots and beers. A week later, when I went back to the studio to grab the files we listened on the studio monitors to Mars Becoming. While I was standing outside I was hearing vocals. There were no vocals on the song, but I heard vocals as though the ghosts were singing along with the track. It was the vocals of the ghosts that I used to sing this song.

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