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BaldJean 
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 Topic: My name is Jeanine
Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:23 |
Hello, I'm Jeanine and was born in the USA (Oakland, CA), but moved to Germany in 1993 and have been living there ever since. I'm 36 years old. Among my hobbies is playing piano (usually classical and jazz), and I'm in a band called "Bald Angels" that will hopefully have their first album out in August (hooray!). I live with our drummer and lead singer, who also happens to be my wife (same-sex marriage is legal here; now don't be shocked). The band is our hobby only; we own a restaurant here. The idea for producing an album stems from the occasional musical performances we give in our restaurant. We play classical and jazz there. The album will be a rock album though (named "The Goat and the Donkey", by the way, after a joke in which a singing goat and a piano playing donkey appear). There'll be 2 classical tracks on it though, "Der Erlkönig" (The Eller King) by Franz Schubert (lyrics Goethe) and "Der Feuerreiter" (The Firerider) by Hugo Wolf (lyrics Eduard Mörike). They are for piano and voice only, but Friederike, my wife, doesn't sing these songs (which both are very dramatic, by the way) in classical style, but more like a female version of Peter Hammill on acid. The rest of the album will not be classical, but prog rock (and the way these classical pieces are sung they are prog rock too, believe me; the piano is very rhythmic in both compositions. Perhaps one or the other of you knows them even).
I like my prog rock avantgardistic and a little dissonant, so the bands who are melodic only are not my cup of tea (though I have nothing against the occasional consonant harmonies and beautiful melodies, as long as it is not ALL in that style). Favorite bands are Van der Graaf Generator (we were in London on the 6th!), Gong, Magma and Guru Guru.
I hope to meet a lot of nice people here and get a lot information about interesting music, just as I will provide the same.
Yours
Jean
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: May 30 2005 at 19:25 |
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Hi and welcome to the forum.Prog on!!!!!
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nacho
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 03:34 |
Hello Jeanine, and welcome to the Hotel California.
Having said that, let me tell you something: you don't exist!!! A female who likes Van Der Graaf Generator??!! Do you expect us to believe that??? 
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BaldJean
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 04:45 |
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Lol, I am a lesbian. Does that explain it?
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nacho
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 04:53 |
 BaldJean wrote:
Lol, I am a lesbian. Does that explain it? |
Well, nor for me, lesbian or not, you are a female... and you claim that you like VdGG!!! 
Anyway, excuse me for such a personal question: we all believe (know?) that if you want to have a real crisis with your female partner, the only thing you have to do is put Pawn Hearts into the CD player. Can you do that with your wife?
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BaldJean
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 05:09 |
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Lol, she happens to be a VdGG fan too. In fact it was she who introcuded me to them.
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nacho
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 05:43 |
That makes TWO of you  . I'm very confused now...
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BaldJean
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 06:15 |
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Lol, we are an extraordinary couple in many ways. You should see us on stage.
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nacho
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 07:14 |
BaldJean wrote:
Lol, we are an extraordinary couple in many ways. You should see us on stage. |
Well, I'd love to. I'm now particularly curious about Schubert and Wolf sung in a Hammill-ish way. It sounds interesting!
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BaldJean
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Posted: May 31 2005 at 07:28 |
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Another interesting track is the title track, "The Goat and the Donkey". The name of our album is based on a joke in which a piano playing donkey and a singing goat appear and make wonderful music. We, however, give a rendition of what we think it would actually sound like: I bang at the piano with my fists only, like a donkey would with hooves, and she makes bleating noises all the time.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 02 2005 at 02:59 |
I'm intrigued, do you have any MP3s available for download? Also, I want to hear this joke about the goat and the donkey...
BaldJean wrote:
Lol, we are an extraordinary couple in many ways. You should see us on stage |
Now you are conjuring pictures...
Welcome to the forum BJ, nice to know my wife is not the only female VDGG fan here.
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BaldJean
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Posted: June 02 2005 at 09:38 |
The joke about the goat and the donkey goes like this: "The pilot of a one-seated airplane has to make an emergency landing in he middle of the desert. He starts walking, and after a few hours he reaches the edge of the desert. There is an old shabby cottage there. He knocks, and an old man opens who is overjoyed to meet him. "Finally a visitor! Come in, come in; you have no idea how it is to live alone in the wilderness.". He serves the pilot some of the finest food he has ever eaten, together with an excellent Bordeaux, and after the meal he says: "Since you are my first visitor I'll show you something special." He leaves the cottage and returns with a donkey. The donkey sits down at a piano and starts playing with utmost virtuosity - Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin. "Fantastic!" says the pilot. "Wait, that ain't all" replies the old man and leaves the cottage again. He returns with a goat. The goat rears on its hindlegs, leans on the piano and starts singing with a beautiful voice to the accompaniment of the donkey - Lieder by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann. "Incredible!" says the pilot. "You could make millions with that. Why do you live on the edge of this desert instead?" The old man starts weeping: "It's all a hoax, it's all a hoax." "What is a hoax?" asks the pilot. "The goat can't sing at all, the donkey is a ventriloquist!"
Since when we get on stage in our restaurant one of us (I) plays piano and the other sings (drums would be too loud in our restaurant) we named the record after this joke.
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