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brief overview of my musical activities as they came
and went. At first, the usual stuff, I hummed along
with mum, like everyone, did my weekly singing sessions
in school and in church and played the recorder. Briefly
joined a brass band on the clarinet in very early
teenhood (a "harmonie" in fact, which unlike
a "fanfare" does have a woodwind section),
but then the twelve-string guitar was so much nicer.
The highlight of my career (if there was one) came
relatively early when on the basis of my semi-drunk
party-sing-alongs to the Dutch singer Cuby I was asked
by a bassplayer, who shortly thereafter set his first
step on the road to becoming the biggest drugdealer
in the region, to join his band, and so I gigged around
as a blues singer for a few years until the man got
busted in Germany and shot a cop in the process, by
that time his bass playing had already hit an all
time low, but it was just too hard to fire the guy
who owns the equipment. Exit blues band, and so I
bought a drumset and set up a band with the guitarist
and a mutual friend on bass, just for the fun of it,
we rehearsed once or twice a week and wrote our own
material, I also had taken an interest in the flute
(the influence of Jethro Tull, of course, and Chris
Hinze), the flute being the only instrument I have
seriously studied for 5 or 6 years. And then I got
ill and nothing happened until the early nineties
when the synth arrived on the scene, and the drum
machine and the sampler and the computer, and so that's
where I still am now, occasionally recording something
or doing some sort of collage. Am also a member of
Bump's Exoticaring
btw.
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