Ghost of the Robot

Ghost of the Robot, alias GOTR, c'était le groupe de rock de James Marsters, qui joue Spike. Vous trouverez dans ce dossier tout sur les 5 membres de ce groupe envoutant...

L'Histoire

Au départ, Aaron Anderson et Charlie DeMars faisaient partie d'un groupe appellé "Soccer Hooligans". Ils ont commencé une carrière mais le groupe s'est rompu.
Le projet suivant pour Aaron et Charlie fut leur propre groupe, "Power Animal", qu'ils avaient formé avec des musiciens Californiens, dont Kevin McPherson, un bassiste de Jazz plutôt bien connu. "Power Animal" s'est ensuite transformé en trio : Aaron, Charlie et Kevin.
Quelques représentations plus tard, Charlie a décidé de partir dans la banlieue de Los Angeles pour y vivre avec son demi-frère, Steven Sellers. Charlie a ensuite été présenté au voisin de Steve, James Marsters. Charlie et James ont commencé à se faire des soirées ensemble, jouant de la guitare, chantant et écrivant des chansons. Puis ils ont eu la formidable idée de former un groupe ! James et Charlie ont fait quelques représentations au 14Below club à Santa Monica, et comme tout s'est très bien passé, ils ont invité Steven, Aaron et Kevin à se joindre à eux.
Et c'est ainsi que "Ghost of the Robot" est né !
En juin 2004, James Marsters a annoncé par le biais d'un communiqué officiel la dissolution du groupe. Voici la traduction de son message :
"A tous les fans du groupe Ghost of the Robot,
Après deux superbes années de création musicale et de concerts, j'ai décidé de dissoudre le groupe Ghost of the Robot. Cela n'a pas été une décision facile à prendre mais elle a été réfléchie en considération de notre public, vous, ces fans incroyables, et des autres membres du groupe. Aucune mésentente ou des différences de créativité ne nous a conduit à cette décision. Je me suis toujours donné à 100% dans mes projets et j'ai réalisé que le groupe et les fans allaient souffrir maintenant que je vais consacrer tout mon temps à un nouveau film (note : James va écrire, produire et jouer dans l'adaptation cinématographique de la pièce "MacBeth" de Shakespeare) et autres projets cinématographiques, puisque “Buffy” et “Angel” sont terminées. Je veux que vous sachiez que j'ai vraiment apprécié le soutien que vous m'avez donné ainsi qu'au groupe. J'espère que ça continuera dans mes projets futurs. Cette décision n'affectera pas ma participation aux conventions prévues. J'ai hate de vous retrouver tous.
Amicalement,
James Marsters"
Steven Sellers et Charlie DeMars ont décidé de poursuivre l'aventure sous le nom de "Gods of the Radio" (le titre prévu du 2nd album de GOTR) et vont réadapter et finir d'enregistrer l'album en question.

Bios

Aaron (David) Anderson
Intruments joués : Batterie.
Anniversaire : 3 Novembre
Hobbies : Bosser, les filles.

Steven Sellers
Intruments joués : Clavier, Guitare.
Anniversaire : 17 Mars
Hobbies : Jouer avec ses chiens, surfer, voyager.

Charlie (Jonas Aries) DeMars
Intruments joués : Guitare.
Anniversaire : 14 Avril
Hobbies : Faire fonctionner ses méninges.

Kevin (James) McPherson
Intruments joués : Basse.
Anniversaire : 23 Août
Hobbies : Ecrire, manger, dormir.

James (Wesley) Marsters
Intruments joués : Chanteur, guitare.
Anniversaire : 20 Août
Hobbies : Chanter, écrire des chansons, jouer la comédie, jeux vidéos.

Photos

Presse

Interview des GOTR dans le magazine Arkanium n°8

Discographie

SINGLES
Titre : Valerie.

Sortie USA : Août 2002
Couverture : Photo de Carmen De Lucia.
Chansons : "Valerie", "Goodbye".

Titre : David Letterman

Sortie USA : Novembre 2002
Couverture : Design de Lisa Lemkin.
Chansons : "David Letterman", "Sounds Like a Personal Problem", "Mefiant".

ALBUMS
Titre : Mad Brilliant

Sortie USA : 02 Février 2003
Enregistrement : Sacramento, Californie, USA
Couverture : Photo de Brian De Lucia, design de Brian De Lucia et Charlie De Mars.
Chansons : "Liar", "Vehicles Shock Me", "Dangerous", "David Letterman", "Angel", "Valerie", "Mad Brilliant", "Call 911", "Blocking Brainwaves", "German. Jewish.", "Good Night Sweet Girl".
Site officiel : http://www.ghostoftherobot.com

NON DISPONIBLES A LA VENTE
"Smile" & "Fire"

Paroles

"Liar"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
I don't mean to sound mean when I talk about the day
I believed every single word she'd say, but, things changed like she'd changed
Something's not the same
Found the things she said, did you?... were never true 'cause
She's a liar
Who won't expire
Fools with desire
Leaves you behind
She didn't break me! (She said) 'Can't you see we'd never be, because your crazy'
Sure I'm crazy
Only crazy'd think
That she would change forever
She would lie even if the truth sounded better
Never tell someone you love them, would they love you?.....' cause
They will die when they hear the truth
She's a liar
Who won't expire
Fools with desire
Leaves you behind
She's a liar
She's a liar
She's a liar

"Vehicles Shock Me"
Paroles de Aaron Anderson et Charlie DeMars
So you caught me all alone,
Did you think i'd care at all?
Now i'm sitting by the phone,
Waiting for you to call...
It rang a million times before I picked it up,
I wear a stupid smile saying now i'm stuck,
The evervecent beauty of a face so thin,
All these stupid questions well they did me in...
Who was I to think to tell,
You drove a 2-0-0h?
Fake plastic trees are dead,
Have a good time when you fall...
Everything, is upside down,
Everything, is over now...
It rang a million times when you lied to me,
It rang a million times when you lied,
It rang a million times, it rang a million times oh,
It rang a million times, it rang a million times...
It's your birthday and I'm not there,
Because you don't even know that I'm here.
Fake trees you plant behind you,
When it's me there right beside you,
I'm the shade that creeps your shoulder,
When you hide your face from me now, I
Can't get over, can't get under,
Can't get around or through to you I
Can't get over, can't get under,
Can't get around or through to you...
Everything, is over now.

"Dangerous"
Paroles de James Marsters
I don't think you know my name
And I think you'd leave me standing in the rain
You're a pretty little girl got a thing for me
But you'd cut me open and let me bleed
But I'm lookin' at you
With your long brown hair
Pretty little feet
Sparkling everywhere
Look so good
When you come my way
But I have to look down
When you talk to me
'Cause you're dangerous
You're Dangerous
Dangerous
And you don't even know it
One baby, two, maybe three more years
You'll be a full grown baby, have all your curves
And here's my little taste of irony
You'll be a ten-hot lady, too good for me
But I'll be looking at you
With your long brown hair
Pretty little feet
Sparkling everywhere
Look so good
When you come my way
But I have to look down
When you talk to me
'Cause you're dangerous
You're Dangerous
Dangerous
And you don't even know it
So little baby, you better stay set
Play with fire when you get too wet
So set me down and leave me be
You'll find a devil when you unchain me
But I'll be looking at you
With your long brown hair
Pretty little feet
Sparkling everywhere
Look so good
When you come my way
But I have to look down
When you talk to me
'Cause you're dangerous
You're Dangerous
Dangerous
And you don't even know it

"David Letterman"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
Wouldn't it be nice, if I could be, David Letterman?
Wouldn't in be rad, if I could be, your favorite t.v. personality?
Wouldn't it be sweet, if I could laugh you to sleep, five nights a week?
And I try as hard as I can, but I could never be David Letterman...
I know he knows you look up to him, but you don't visit his sleep,
I know I know this is what I missed, your eyes are just for me,
really don't see how we could be, I still put trust in fate,
it's something slow that I don't know so I say...
Wouldn't it be nice, if I could be, David Letterman?
Wouldn't in be rad, if I could be, your favorite t.v. personality?
Wouldn't it be sweet, if I could laugh you to sleep, five nights a week?
And I try as hard as I can, but I could never be David Letterman...

"Angel"
Paroles de James Marsters
She comes home to me after a hard night's work
Falls in my arms and sleeps like a bird
Startle, wakes up, like she don't know me
Cocks back her fist like she's going to slug me
Like, who are you anyway
And what are you doing to me?
She's an angel
She can't see it
She's got wings,
But she can't feel 'em
She's an angel
She can't see it
But she's flying above me every day
Every day of my life
Bright diamond eyes with daggers beneath them
She carries the chains of a million decisions
That weren't even hers to begin with anyway
But she carries them all
All the people around her
Who never even notice that she's very very tired
She's an angel
She can't see it
She's got wings
But she can't feel 'em
She's an angel
She can't see it
But she's rising above me every day
Every day of my life

"Valerie"
Paroles de Steven Sellers
Got an old Smiths' record
and I put it on endlessly.
To mourn a lethal fascination
with a girl named Valerie.
She got a XXX rating
and maybe someday she'd have married me.
But, she was born to keep me waiting.
Her name was Valerie.
With a little more time, I was thinking
we could've worked my hooks into you.
Over a recent complication
I came to find that she'd tired of me.
She wrote the book of Revelations.
Her name was Valerie.
With a little more time, I was thinking
we could've worked my life around you.
With a little more time...

"Mad Brilliant"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
We are bitter opposites, it stings when you hit
Me like a kick to the head when I heard what you said
Did you even consider, you are making us bitter
I guess you’re justified, because of your weak mind
When our lips first met, you didn’t get the hang of it
I bet that you still kiss like me,
you realize it when you hear this
You have managed to steer clear, for yet another whole year
Although I did see you, I only caught lies you threw
When you were there with the band,
acceptance letter not in hand
Hugging your “cool” boyfriend, did you ever tell him?
Realize it when you kiss

"Call 911"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
The sun no longer shines on your side
Remember this cold
When the fog won’t lift in your town
And you turn old
I heard you killed your only friend last year
You’re such a disease
You can buy your other friends
But you can’t buy me
Disarm, can you hear the British ambulance
Breaking down, trick, bomb still goes
Tick tick time on by, watching me explode
When did I create you?
Did you ever destroy me?
Can this be settled with questions?
I can’t think of anything.
I’m just a little boy with an untrained voice
But I have cannons for arms
I play the guitar and songs
With hidden missiles and bombs

"Blocking Brainwaves"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
Do you want to be happy?
Do you want to have fun?
Take on buried treasure
I could be the one...
Hear me, out here... hear me, out.
I can't describe
Just can't subscribe
I'm telling vision
Glad to be alive
You say I can't relate to you
Some things I need to prove
Can't find the right words to use
Brainwaves won't pass through
When I wake up from seizures on an island full of slaves
All I see is smiles from the lack of brainwaves
There is no thinking so I check my mind in at the door
Nothing to contemplate I won't need it anymore
Ignorance it must be bliss
Never dealing with things like this
Thinking happy comes from a kiss
Regret all you've missed

"German. Jewish."
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
I'm German, you're Jewish
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
This would make more sence, in another time
Not in America where we're westernized
But if we were, what would I do
What would I have said to what we've gone through?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why i'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving hiding
Behind an old bookshelf
I'm German, you're Jewish
How could we ever make it through this?
I've got this problem, that seems to linger
Everytime I find myself around your finger
you've always been above, in some higher class
i'm just a small rockstar, you're an actress
what could i say, to ever prove to you
that there can be a love between a German and a Jew?
War won't stop me, I'm no Nazi
That's why i'd never tell
If you were fighting, surviving hiding
Behind an old bookshelf...

"Good Night Sweet Girl"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
Are we done for now,
Or is this for good,
Will there be something in time?
With us there should.
Only girl for me is you
There can be no other one
If I didn't have faith
I would come undone
So much promise in your eyes
Seems that I can only see
It always makes me wonder
If you save it all for me
Maybe you do
Maybe you don't
Maybe you should
Probably wont...
Because there will be...
There will be other guys
Who will whisper in your ear
Say they'll take away you sadness
And your fears
They may be kind and true
They may be good for you
But they'll never care for you
More than I do
I'll be always there
There to the end
I can't do much
But be your one true friend
To the end
Through the end
Our lives to spend
With each other till the end
Of time...
Still see the promise in your eyes
And still wonder if it's for me
But i know it's still there
Even when you sleep
So I say, good night sweet girl

"Goodbye"
Paroles de James Marsters
I don't care what people're gonna say about it
I just wanna sit here and drink your sweet wine
Know they're gonna say you're too young for me but
Think if I kiss you that would be fine
Know how it's gonna end before it ever starts now
Gonna give me love sweeter than pie
Part your lips as if you're gonna kiss me
Say a word that's gonna break me
Bye, bye bye bye goodbye
Bye, bye bye bye goodbye
Christopher Robin gave old Pooh up
Grown up, didn't need Pooh no more
Babe, believe me this ain't the first time
I've been thrown down on the playroom floor
Bye, bye bye bye goodbye
Bye, bye bye bye goodbye
Bye bye baby, baby bye bye
Bye bye
Bye bye baby, baby
Sorry baby, I'm just fast

"Mefiant"
Paroles de Steven Sellers
It's not fair ya know
When you're the only one in tune.
It's not fair my love
When you're not broken hearted too.
It's not fair anymore...
All the schemes that you dream about
Won't matter at all when you wake up alone.
And if she really haunts you now
Just pick up the phone.. but, you know you won't.
It's not fair ya know
When you're the only one in tune.
It's not fair my love
When you're not broken hearted too.
It's not fair anymore...

"Sounds like a personal problem"
Paroles de Charlie DeMars
What is this crap, I'm going through,
where am I at, and who are you,
to make me feel, like I'm so scared,
caught me off-guard, was not prepared,
for you,
so smart, so cool,
to me,
life seems, it shouldn't be this way.
So here I am, and there you are,
sitting so close, feeling so far,
from me and I, can't figure out,
what I should say, what's this about,
to you,
to smart, to cool,
for me,
life seems, it shouldn't be this way...

"Smile"
Paroles de James Marsters
In, I'm falling in
I didn't want to
Not so fast, boy
Slow,
Don't wanna hurt the girl
Get her a pretty box
You better fill it
And I get blinded when she opens the door
It's like looking into the sun, you know
And I'm just blinkin', mumblin', starin' at my shoes
And she just looks at me
And smiles
Smiles
Smiles
So, there we go again
And it feels so good
To fall up and down
Damn, it's 2 AM again
And she kisses me goodbye
For the sixteenth time
And I'm driving home, it's 5 AM
And I look at the sun come up over the hills
And the clouds are turning pink and green
And all I can see is her eyes
Eyes
Eyes
I get blinded when she opens the door
It's like looking into the sun, you know
And I'm just blinkin', mumblin', starin' at my shoes
She just looks at me
And smiles
Smiles
Smiles

"Fire"
I'm driving in your car
I turn on the radio
You're pulling me close
I just say no
I say I don't like it
But you know
I'm a liar
'Cause when we kiss
Fire
Late at night
You're taking me home
You say you wanna stay
I say I wanna be alone
I say I don't love you
But you know
I'm a liar
'Cause when we kiss
Fire
You got a hold on me
Right from the start
A grip so tight
I couldn't tear it apart
My nerves all jumpin'
Actin like a fool
Well, your kisses burn
But my heart stays cool
Oh Romeo and Juliet
Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet
They're love didn't deny
My words say split
But my words they lie
'Cause when we kiss
Fire