The Bauer Melody of 2006, cd release party (14th nov.) at the Paradiso Amsterdam!

The concert is recorded and you can watch it on http://www.fabchannel.com/bauer

Please also visit:
http://www.bauer-plaza.com
http://www.myspace.com/popduobauer

This is a sampler with Dutch bands who where not so well known, except for Brainbox. But there are musicians that became widely known in other formations.
Jan Akkerman plays with Ritmo Natural. He just had left Brainbox and after this recording he formed Focus.
Hans Dulfer (father of Candy Dulfer who played with Prince), also member of Ritmo Naturel, is a successful jazz saxophonist who had a big hit in Japan with Dig! in 1996.
The members of Slight Ache became very famous comedians in the Netherlands named Neerlands Hoop (Dutch Hope).
Continental Uptight Band had some commercial success in the Netherlands.
Never been famous Island is hard trying sounding like Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love.
The lp of Ahora Mazda is available on cd.



To get some attention, the lp was named after the Beatles hit Hey Jude.
This was my second lp and I got it from my mother.

Side one:
1 Brainbox - To you [3:24]
2 Opus - Baby come on [4:48]
3 Slight Ache - Second flood [3:00]
4 Ahora Mazda - Fallen tree [9:10]

Side two:
1 Continental Uptight Band - Please sing a song for us [2:33]
2 September - Litle sister [3:39]
3 Island - Super woman [3:43]
4 Brainbox - So helpless [2:35]
5 Ritmo Naturel - Morning after the third [8:29]

You can find a lot of information, also about this album, on the Dutch Progressive Rock site.

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Supersister did some reunion concerts in 2000.
Now they released a 2 DVD set with the complete registration of the Paradiso concert and a documentary of the rehearsals for and concert at the ProgFest in L.A. Included on the DVD is a slideshow of old pictures of Supersister (including some of the pictures from my high school agenda). But more important is the fact that the music that goes with the slideshow is old, never released Supersister recordings. From the very beginning, when they played blues, to 1969 with psychedelic material, till one of the latest line-ups with Charlie Mariano.



1 Super blues
2 Seven ways to die
3 Session at De Laan
4 Present from Nancy
5 Mexico
6 Judy goes on holiday
7 Transmitter
8 Charlie's return from India
9 Looking back

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But better: [Buy the DVD] the DVD is sold out.

Space versions of popular tunes, mostly moog, some guitar, bass and drums. In my search from which country Claude Denjean actually is coming, I stumbled on a page of Nationaal Pop Institute (NL, now 'Beeld en Geluid') where it states that he arranged three lp's with songs of Annie M.G. Schmidt sung by Conny Stuart. Very Dutch.
Here I found the answer where he is coming from.
Denjaen made two other moog records: Open Circuit and Moods. All on Phase 4.



Side one:
1 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
2 Nights In White Satin
3 Sugar, Sugar
4 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
5 House Of The Rising Sun
6 Everybody's Talkin'

Side two:
1 Venus
2 Come Together
3 Bridge Over Troubled Water
4 Lay Lady Lay
5 United We Stand
6 Proud Mary

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I have wi-fi now and then near the door of my hotel room.

In case you wonder: this is not about Frans Bauer, but the Amsterdam pop duo Bauer.



And remember: Bauer live November 14th in Amsterdam, 18th in Den Bosch.
I'll be there all three times.

I'm in Marseille now (yes, I have a live).



Next week I start off with Claude Denjean - Moog!
Thanks to Gio.