On October 19^th, 2013 a very unique paranormal idea occurred. It was called Resurrection of the Bands and the city had never heard anything like it before.  This was actually a paranormal investigation using new theories by creative genius Daniel C. Morrison. Live music was used as one of the tools for investigation.

 

Usually, these types of investigations aren’t publicized. But it’s a party and everyone loves a good cover band! Honestly though, the reason to make this a public event was to help raise money for a new online magazine started by Daniel C. Morrison called Louisville Limelight Magazine and also to help raise awareness for Caring Across Counties, a non profit organization started mid year this to take non perishable food items, clothes, etc. to needy families in the region to the towns in most need.

 

Louisville Limelight Magazine – www.louisvillelimelight.wix.com/home

Caring Across Counties – www.caringacrosscounties.org

 

The website, www.resurrectionofthebands.wix.com/home was pretty accurate.  A combination of paranormal groups known collectively as The Dark Side of Louisville Paranormal Society, 5 local musicians (originally 6 but one did not show up), a Demonologist and Spiritualist (the scheduled Medium could not make it) and a group of enthusiastic show goers were going to attempt something never tried before, to communicate with the spirits of famous musicians who have crossed over via musical celebration.  Seriously. Just hear me out here.

 

The theories under investigation:

 

1. By providing a positive atmosphere (can’t have negative spirits bothering us so it was important not to have a location known to be haunted), a party/celebration would occur honoring the spirits of legendary musicians who have crossed over.

2. Having artists perform live music of songs that held a special meaning for the artists who have crossed over would help alert the spirits to a piece of them that had a strong attachment to our physical world.

3. Use the Law of Attraction in advance to make the intention clear and give the Universe plenty of time to coordinate things to make the connection the best it can be.

 

So how did this go? Or rather, what does all that mean?

 

If you’ve ever been to a family gathering, big party, or even passionate music concerts and took pictures you might notice orbs in the picture. Paranormal investigators, Spiritualists and others say that a loved one who has crossed over is always aware of you. In the most happiest times, when the positive energy is at a high they can really make their presence known. Usually, they are dancing and singing and just enjoying that great, high flying vibe that the group is giving off. It’s a matching energy. So they will be there. The orb you see is the light signature of loved ones and other High Spirits and guides just joining in on the phone. The energy that the group of people giving off just happens to supply an opportunity to see the spirits.

 

Ok, we’re good so far. But how do we make sure low entities, or the darker spirits don’t protrude in a public event?

 

Good question. The Law of Attraction states that like attracts like. More specifically, the thoughts you think over and over bring the circumstances in your life. That’s the super basics of it. Trusting in that alone would make the event work out that way. But let’s say that the event planner and musicians and paranormal groups and the event location itself wasn’t constantly brimming with positive thoughts. No worries, bringing in Rob, a Spiritualist, would take care of the other pieces.

 

Rob is fluent in many religions and does healing work and blessings in a multitude of cultures to be more beneficial to as many people as possible. With a history spanning studies in these and other holistic methods his repertoire of blessings can easily repel negative spirits coming through an investigation, a home and even people.  So the event was covered there.

 

Each local musician picked was also the Law of Attraction in force. The Universe lined up to make sure the best possible musicians could be there. In fact, event planner Daniel C. Morrison explained that he sent dozens of messages, hundreds of contacts and had several volunteers helping with gathering the right location and bands. And it was a struggle but eventually the event was blessed with the following local musicians:

 

Anthony Morrison and Todd Cochran – acoustic guitarists and vocals/background vocals honoring the spirits of Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and Layne Staley (Alice In Chains).

Stem Holder of Stem Holder and the Geez – vocalist honoring the spirit of Jim Morrison

Chad Keizer – vocalist honoring the spirit of Kurt Cobain

Larry Montgomery – vocalist of cover band Parts Unknown honoring the spirit of Layne Staley

Rek Lee – vocalist, lead guitarist and song composer honoring the spirit of Jimi Hendrix

Wayne "Prince" Ancrum - performer honoring the spirit of Michael Jackson (sadly, he was a no call no show)

 

This theory was that by having passionate singers/musicians who had an emotionally strong tie to the deceased musicians and the songs selected, their performance and sincere honoring of the deceased musicians would alert the spirits to what was going on. Plus, 10 weeks or more before the event Daniel C. Morrison had asked the Universe to coordinate the chain of events for this event to work out the very best way it could.

 

So what you’re saying is that these local artists would do a heartfelt job performing the songs and by doing that the spirits of the original artists would come through?

 

Precisely! I guess I should’ve said that. But you’re getting it. So, to recap, the theory of a party/celebration atmosphere, blessing the entire area to make sure it brings only the positive spirits through and by using live music which is the true essence of emotion in a very specific, noble way these spirits would come through.

 

One other important note here since this event was theoretical; many Spiritualists and Paranormal Investigators say that when a person crosses over that the positive part of them, the very core of their being, the part of them that is God, goes right back to the Universal Consciousness, or God. The parts that aren’t positive stay behind. The parts left behind we refer to as ghosts, or dark spirits.

 

This investigation was also testing this theory. They only wanted the positive and true nature of the spirits of these legendary musicians to come through which is why the Law of Attraction was put into place long ago and that the area was blessed.

 

Now that you have the back story, how did this event go down? I’ll tell you. First, I want to tell you that at the time of this review going out to be published the Paranormal group, nor any but one of the artists, got anything to me. I could not review the actual footage. This will come later and be reviewed by Daniel C. Morrison. What you will have is a recount of my experience, pictures by Dan Morris and a couple youtube videos of Anthony and Todd’s performance with Larry Montgomery and Chad Kaiser. Sorry about that. It is worth noting that about 4 funerals happened right after the show in the lives of the paranormal group, event planners and performers so it threw the time table way off. Weird, eh? Now on to the show!

 

Daniel did a great job explaining the event and the local artists were there, ready to give it a go. Although most were skeptical it was still too awesome of an idea to not see what occurred. Plus, the theories made sense.

 

When I walked in the atmosphere was pretty good feeling. Union Station nightclub is where this event was held and it did look like a basement. There was a wooden dance floor with some tables and chairs around but not too many.

 

The paranormal group was set up with a ton of equipment.  Cameras and a monitoring system were aimed at the stage, off stage and on the group themselves who sat on a slightly raised platform that had couches and a coffee table. Talk about a neat setup. Sure, we can understand why Union Station looks “ghetto” but honestly, it had a nice creepy look to it. While I wouldn’t have a wedding there, an event like this wouldn’t be bad.

 

As I walked around each I noticed that the artists were highly anticipating the outcome. It’s too bad the headlining artist, Wayne “Prince” Ancrum was a no call, no show. He was to honor the spirit of Michael Jackson. It didn’t happen though, sadly.

 

It also looked like the sound was having some issues. Was this the works of the spirits playing around with Daniel? Turns out, the sound guy setup and had somewhere else to be, leaving the crew to fend for themselves. Luckily, one of the members of the paranormal group was a tech guy who knew a few things about the sound. It’s not all the sound guy’s fault though as Daniel did say early on that he most likely didn’t need the sound guy to stay around. But I agree, to pay someone over one hundred dollars to setup and bail was a bit sucky.

 

These were the only gripes I could muster up from the people in attendance. All in all there were about 40 people there but most of them were performers or friends of the performers with less than a dozen unknowns.  After a bit of questioning and even researching I found out that the event was not advertised by the club owner at all. One weak, misspelled line about the event a day or two before the show on the Union Station facebook page was the only mention by the club owner. It’s unfortunate because the event created quite a buzz online and in smaller local media circles. But with the WWF in town and a lot of other Halloween things going on the attendance was a bit low.

 

Later, the show goers would talk of how thrilled they were to be part of this and how awesome some of the contact was. But I’ll tell you in this step by step, lengthy review how it went down.

 

After Daniel stumbles off stage and violently sprains his ankle (way to keep it quiet dude, I know it was painful), Stem Holder sings 5 songs to honor the spirit of Jimi Hendrix. It does suck a little that he had to sing via a karaoke disc and that Daniel and a couple others tried to work the sound in the darkness on the stage (except for a faint glow coming from a cell phone to help them see the knobs).  But before too long you could hear the majesty in Stem’s voice. Sporting long, curly hair and a facial complexion that looked like a young Jim Morrison with a dress attire to match really stood out. Was Stem purposefully trying to look the part or was this natural?

 

By the time his songs were over I could see that Stem was a natural. His voice was pleasant and at first, seemed to lack a little power, but by the third song he convinced me that somewhere inside of him Jim Morrison did have a huge influence on his musical direction in life.

 

Once he finished the doors were closes and the lights went as completely off as they could. Pattie Hatchel did a great job leading the investigation by asking questions. With an EVP in place the audio was recorded. She also used a Ghost Box (a device that scans radio frequencies in rapid succession allowing spirits to communicate using sounds to form words that closely resemble an answer specific to the question asked). 

 

This investigation lasted about 6 minutes or so. Some of the questions asked were for the spirit to tell us its name. I thought this was a silly question since the intent was to directly contact him. Of course, I may have misunderstood the questions as I wasn’t sitting close enough to hear it entirely. I did hear questions asked of Jim if he liked the performance and his favorite songs, etc. Not really great quality questions but this was a warm up set. As they let him know they had to end the communication to get ready for the next spirit it did sound like a “thank you” was said through the ghost box.