The progressive German musician Andreas
Gruner,
Bonn AG*BN
me 2011
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Foto: 2011 in Bonn
It
all began with classical music, singing in the church and other choirs
- of cause in German, eaven in the opera Carmen and for our chancelor
Adenauer. Of cause thats a long time ago, like me playing the violin,
the viola
and the flute. Classical music, I became a progressive rock musician
only later.
Oh yeah, we were admired
for beeing a pretty progressive rock band, and my lyrics were mostly
German: 1982 with my some times quite funky Avantgarde-Band Fantasy Factory .
That´s where I came from as musician. Surely I was a progressive
German rock musician in the seventies and the beginning of the eighties. I could read in newspapers that I sung and played my guitar
exellently. It was me who composed most of our music, and made the lyrics.
Yes, we were pretty well known regionally. I made love with a
beautyfull singer, but we never cared for the business, and never
published a record. It was
just the music we loved, the applause and the lovely ladies. And we
were young...
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Of cause theoretically I knew this had to change, but I could
not imagine how. Me
and my band Fantasy Factory got infected by jazzrock and black music
too, ´cause I loved dancing so much. So I loved the Stones, Steely Dan,
Taj Mahal (and many more...), and you can hear faint echoes eaven today.
I
could not imagine beautyfull
ladies would force me to make children with them (or leave me) - and I would
love it. That I would prefere to earn my money not so dependent of the
music most people liked.
So I visited India and Iran, and when I was back I got
3 children from 2 ladies. I made my career, and I got allmost killed by
some political idiots. Thats why I got interested in our health system.
Of cause I never would have foreseen this.
Here
my health
politics after I have got a life
dangerously wounded brain by political violence with text and lyrics in
English, with my song: Two Times Help
. Of cause the most of my songs about this got German lyrics: NieMehr (never
again), Erfolge
und Glück (success and love), BondingRap .
Most of my songs presently I do
publish on http://www.myownmusic.de/Andreas_Gruner/
I do think my songs still got traces of my
"progressive" beginnings. Of
cause while I have been working elsewhere I have been playing
the blues
longtimes, and I have learned to play also the alto-sax, just listen.
On my present tracks every note thats me (only expressions: some
drum-tracks, and laydies voices).
So just tell me: Am I still a German progressive musician?
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