I happened to get my greedy little bones on a copy of their CD a few months before it was released (a promo copy that was accidentally dropped on it's way off the shipping truck... ya know...) And these guys were damn good. I was never really one for surf rock, but The Ghastly Ones pull it off. When I first threw it in my player, I guess I had picture something along the lines of the Ramones' "Rockaway Beach" but with more distortion and darker lyrics. Oh well, I called it wrong...

Instead, I heard a voice shriek through my speakers "The Ghastly Ones invite you to be horrified..." followed by a "Haunted Mansion-like" surf song titled "The Ghastly Stomp".Most of the songs that came after were the same. I have a newfound respect for surf after hearing this. They were one of the original releases on Rob Zombie's project "Zombie-A-Go-Go Records". They've also done a song with Zombie on the "Halloween Hootenanny" compilation called "Halloween [She's So Mean]" With "The Doctor" Dr. Lehos on guitar, Sir Go Go Ghostly on the bass and Baron Shimmy Shivers pounding on the pots and pans, they're ready to surf horror into the souls of their fans.

"IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, OR WHENEVER THE MOOD IS RIGHT, THREE SWINGIN' UNDERTAKERS WHO CALL THEMSELVES "THE GHASTLY ONES" THRILL AND CHILL THEIR WAY OUT OF THE CRYPT AND INTO YOUR LOCAL GO-GO CLUB. VENTURING FORTH INTO THE REALM OF THE WEIRD AND WAY OUT, THESE THREE GENTS FROM BEYOND FEVERISHLY POUND THEIR INSTRUMENTS IN AN ATTEMPT TO SUMMON THE SPIRITS OF RECENTLY DECEASED GO-GO GIRLS. THIS DECK CAPTURES ALL THAT AND MORE. LISTEN CLOSELY AND BE FOREWARNED...
A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO-GO."