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27 december 2001 Here are the first DeSong live pictures
of the Knabenschule gig thanks to Kai and his digicam. I have taken the
liberty to enhance them a little. Nothing's real nowadays! Frank makes
it a sport to hide his pretty face behind his cymbals on nearly every
shot; must be the drummer's curse. |
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21 december 2001 This was the ultimative birthday party! Thank
you guys for showing up in numbers. If you've seen DeSong perform on 15
dec 2001 in the Knabenschule, please leave your impressions of the gig
in the guestbook. |
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27 november 2001 Don't forget to invite
yourself to my birthday! |
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21 november 2001 I have finally added a lyrics
section, if you care for a little poetry. You must navigate through the
setlist to get there (at least as long as we
play the songs...). |
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26 october 2001 The new Ozzy CD "Down To Earth" has been reviewed for your information. |
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16 october 2001 DeSong wrote and arranged another song called Time.
It's only available as a LoFi version, because of 1) background noise
and 2) its lentgh of 8:43 min. Oli began writing the song by showing off
a bass riff he came up with. Frank and I wanted to bring the thing to
the next level by analyzing it, rearranging it and adding some chord progressions
and rhythm changes that f*#~ed up Oli's original idea. Luckily we found
something after another three rehearsals with which we're all happy. |
| Live in concert on 15 december 2001, Bessunger Knabenschule, Darmstadt |
Yesterday I decided to give a birthday party on 15 december
2001 in the smaller cellar of the Bessunger
Knabenschule, Darmstadt. De Song will play live in the new trio lineup.
YES, DE SONG WILL PLAY LIVE. All the people asking the past 12 months
(and some even longer!), when we will finally get our wide'n'heavy butts
lifted and play, may invite themselves by clicking here.
Concert will probably start between 10:00 and 10:30 pm. Gongrats are received
only after midnight, since I was born on the 16.! |
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26 september 2001 OK. Stop bugging me. A couple of people have asked me, why
I made these pages in english and not in german. Well, given the enormous
popularity of De Song on international stages it was an obvious choice!
For those of you, who would still prefer to read them in german, you could
try babelfish for a good laugh! (And since I don't know wether the translators
and programmers will one day improve their program, check
out what I got as translation in august 2001. Aufrichtiger Ludwig?) |
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16 september 2001 On 31 august I was part of an event that took place in Darmstadt
and was organized by different groups of architecture students. The idea
behind the events was to give new/improved meaning to already existing
places in the city. The large terrace above the university's Audimax was
redecorated as the "sundeck" of a luxury
liner. My part was to play and sing (shout?) at one corner of this
stage to a steadily incoming and leaving audience of about 40 people at
a time. The picture shows me, an ovation
6-string, the tower of the Landesmuseum and a bottle of Beck's
beer... aaah! (Judging by the
position of my left hand on the neck and the ferocity of attack by my
right, I was playing "Got Me Wrong" when the picture was taken.) |
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11 september 2001 If you care for updates on what our ex-axeman ex-Andy ex-Nealen
is doing currently, check his personal tour diary at nealen.com. Unfortunately this day has turned into
a historical date: |
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16 august 2001 Last month I mentioned that I will have some pretty bad
news for you this month. So in order to spoil your wonderful feeling of
happy anticipation of what evil could happen to you, I will now give you
the news: ANDY HAS LEFT THE BAND. He is in Vancouver now, continuing his
2. hobby, which is by coincidence also his professional career: studies
of information science. My knowledge of Canada is limited... I was once
in Toronto for a couple of days and left Canada via the Niagara Falls
(No, not down the falls, I used a bridge to the US). But that's eastern
Canada and Vancouver is far west. I guess over there you must find these
typical Southpark-Canadians like Terrance and Phillip with heads like
trashcans. (Which is why they are called CAN-adians btw as I learned from
Andy. He has such an incredible general education.) |
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20 july 2001 De Song has its annual summer break. Having a teacher as
drummer means that your drummer has a lot of spare time and earns a decent
amount of money, which implicates that your drummer spends his holidays
everywhere but home! |
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30 june 2001 Today it is ten years that I got my abitur and left school
behind. A good opportunity to make a little evaluation of my achievements.
... Mmmmh, o.k., so much for my achievements! |
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17 june 2001 Finally the link section is up and running. If you are interested in stuff I'm interested in it's the right place to go! The review section is growing at a crawl. And last but not least there is a new mp3 song called Balance in the download section. |
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27 mai 2001 I played two gigs in april/mai with a little side project called "Nobody Allstars feat. Heavy Thunder". As the name hopefully implies it was a fun project. We played german 80's "Neue Deutsche Welle" coversongs and a couple of Schlager tunes on birthday parties. Since long hair and mean looking beards do not really symbolize the spirit of that era, I tried to hide my brownielocks under a hat (for at least half of the concert). I'm sure that my mum loves this picture (especially since the tattoo on my left arm can neither be seen from that perspective). |
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11 mai 2001 Pictures of the band and its members (former members, too) are now filed under visuals. The unique and very exclusive shot of the missing shit-coloured 5th teletubbie, who was supposed to be called muchomucho or genussmenschly is probably the highlight at this early state... Hey, what is the singular of teletubbies? Teletubby or Teletubbie? "I know!" Still only 1 review online... sad but true. |
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08 mai 2001 Thank you guys for the mass feedback within the first 6
days of being online (buy that at amazon.de).
I was away for the weekend, so I couldn't react immediately to your suggestions.
First of all I fixed a major bug regarding the Netscape compatibility
of this site. (Although I have to say, that it's more Netscape's fault
than mine. Who was the idiot that implemented the style sheet rules into
Netscape? If he/she did so square with the propositions of the W3-consortium,
I wouldn't have to do everything twice!) |
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02 mai 2001 I put this site "on air" today. It is not entirely
operational at this state, but there already is some stuff to explore.
Mainly the mp3 section. |
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| © 2001 Anand Kumar |
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