Aerodynamic device for Eastern Germans?

Tonight we went to the Zitadelle Spandau to see Tommy (a Swedish friend of mine) perform. He's playing in a band that's supporting John Fogerty during his German tour. I must say though, It was really interesting to experience a Fogerty concert. It will definitely stay with me, at least for a couple of days. I don't think that I've ever felt so young as tonight, the average age must have been at least 65. And I've never seen so fuckin' much old people getting together, drinking beer and singing along to such an old and worn-out artist as Fogerty. We stayed to see some of the Fogerty stuff but It was really hard to focus with all those mullets out there... My god, I mean what's up with those Fogerty fans. It seems like they all decided to cut there hair just like Jaromir Jagr, and then dance away to Fogerty's swamp rock. Could someone please explain to me; what kind of connection is there between Fogerty and the mullet? The only thing I'm sure of is that my eyes have gotten a life time supply of interesting hairdos.

Wikipedia info on the German mullet:
"The German term is "Vokuhila", meaning "vorne kurz, hinten lang" (short in the front, long in the back). The opposite to this is "Volahiku". It is topped by "Vokuhilaoliba", meaning "vorne kurz, hinten lang, Oberlippenbart" (short in the front, long in the back, mustache). Because of its supposed popularity among men from the Eastern parts of formerly divided Germany, the hair cut is in Western Germany also known as "Ossispoiler" ("aerodynamic device for Eastern Germans")."

Insane manager

Our manager will be insane now. Because in the last second of our final demo mix, we just decided five seconds ago to record one of the songs all over again. Heee…

Oasis is “power pop” in the US

No wonder European bands have a hard time breakin in the US. I am currently trying to plant some Willowtree songs on music sites over there, and I have understood that we fall under the category “power pop” together with 90% of all the other European bands.

“Power pop” :D

When I hear that word I think of pink bubble gum.

Oasis = Pink bubble gum
Creed = Big juicy double whopper

Other interesting categories listed are:

Modern Rock (Creed, Fuel, Stone Temple Pilots)
Pop (backstreet boys, Christina Aguilera, Destiny's Child, Elton John)
Indie Rock (Pavement, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill)
Alternative Rock (Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam)
Alternative Metal (Incubus, korn, Staind)

My conclusion:

If you wanna be a proper American, always listen to Creed and always be way too hungry to settle for chick food.

under the spell? time will tell...

to the ones that wonder about why the hell this guy, the guy that once swore to never have a blog, is now having one…. the answer is easy. capitalism. see, i have been threatened by dark forces to pay a fee if not writing in the blog at least 3 times before the dawn of monday. verdict: he fell for the sake of money to be kept in his pocket. i find it funny though. now that i’ve had to do this, i think it was all for the greater good. now I know how it feels and I must admit that for the duration of these writings, i’ve felt quite amused by the whole idea,. who knows? i might even grow to like it. 

crappy us

why are we always stealing? we (us), the people. warum? the only reason that i could write about my u-bahn experience earlier is cos i no longer have a bike. see, someone decided that my bike was now his/hers. sucks, dince now i’m stuck on the public transport with people i wouldn’t have had to have even in the vicinity if rolling down the street, tv-tower in sight, with just enough (usually a bit more) music to work on in the headphones. damn, it’s just not the same anymore. should i weep? no, instead i play it like a man with some lidl lemonade in my hand, missing train after train cos of my non-scheduling brain. i bet a new bike is gonna be in my possession by the end of the week.

u-bahnitory

this city is something special, that one understands as one find himself seated next to a drug junkie on the underground. not sure of what kind of lines was drawn there but it was as hell no idealistic ones. seemed more to me like this fellow berliner had landed himself a morning treat.

to quote one of the not great: “only in belin, kids, only in berlin”

gute nacht und viel glück.

Mayumi & Nomi

Yesterday we had some visitors over. It was are great fan and friend Mayumi and her friend Nomi. We made them dinner, gave them some merch and then we did a secret show here in our apartment. It was a great night that ended up at the CCCP-bar at Torstrasse. Way! Thanks for coming over to our place and hope that we see you in Emmerich!!!

Mayumi & Nomi waiting for dinner...


Mayumi & Nomi RED


Mayumi & Nomi WHITE


Willowtree giveaway

Midsommar!

So, not to long ago we had our Willowtree midsommar dinner. We invited some friends and had a really nice night even though we didn't have a real midsommarstång. :( Better though was that Johan got he's hair done at the same time by our personal and very secret hair stylist.

Our very nice midsommarstång


don't show my face...


I said: DON'T SHOW MY FACE


Well, I know I'm a bit late with the reporting of the midsommer shit but what the heck, better late then never, or?

There is a fine line between genius and madness

The apartment here in Berlin is amazing in its own depravity. The toilet and heater is broke, fortunately though we still have a few warm months left. The ceiling sets off four meters from the floor gives us a sense of creative freedom.

The musician is living the life of the nomad. In our case we got a laptop each and a pair of blazers. The music has completely ruined us, and our expensive jeans have been patched too many times.

At the moment we are mixing Rachmaninoff vodka with synthetic orange juice from Lidl, while we are closing your eyes trying to imagine a Harvey Wallbanger cocktail.

Berlin has given us inspiration for something greater. We have a separate hard drive in the apartment filled with songs for the coming album. And at the moment the music is overshadowing everything else that could have priority in our pitiful lives.

I wouldn’t argue against anyone that would claim that it is complete madness to spend your last set of euro on an expensive blazer or a microphone preamp instead of having proper food to eat. But as someone said in the past, there is a fine line between madness and genius.

Report from the god forsaken apartment at Frankfurter Allee

John and I are currently sitting in the studio. I have spended some time lately on writing lyrics for our new demo. A good friend of mine, Alex Ljung is currently staying in my room. He has moved to Berlin in order to market his new web-concept. The Swedes are really invading Berlin!

Uaah!


Alexs blog:

Welcome to Graceland

haha, no no no... drums is a bit to athletic for me I don't even think that I will be able to play guitar after eating stuff like this... :)


photo: das chaos in deinem kopf

So as mister Gustav said have we been recording today. We are working on new songs and I really hope that we can post some of them really soon on myspace. Way!!!

Working

Full activity in the Studio. John is writing chords for Johan and Olle is working on a drumfill. Perhaps Olle is considering change of instrument?