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Extremely cool.  Congrats on the CD, not to mention the book!

 

--Chuck

 

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From: dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Dana Countryman
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:45 PM
To: dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [dotcomformat] Re: Jean Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman in
concert in Berlin

 

--- In dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@...> wrote:
>
> Dana,
> 
> Perhaps you could tell those of us who don't know the story, how you
> got hooked up with JJP in the first place, and how long you have been
> working together.
> 
> Moe>>

Hi Chuck, Morb and Moe --

Thanks for asking. I have been friends with JJ since 1994, when I wrote him
a fan letter. I 
used to cart his LPs to high school with me, way back in 1972. We hit it
off, and when I 
published the magazine, I interviewed him at least three times. He was on
the cover twice, 
and along the way, I became his official biographer.

http://www.danacountryman.com/csm/back_issues.html

I also became his webmaster, a few years back.

http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com

Before all this, I was a professional musician, 

http://www.danacountryman.com/Pink/things.html 

and In 2003, he and I recorded a track in Paris. That paved the way for the
CD we have co-
written and plan to release in August. The focus is on happy music, ranging
from ragtime 
to children's music to sixties rock to techno dance.

http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/jjp/JJ-DC/JJ-DC.html

We are planning two CD release parties / concerts during the first week in
August -- one 
in Seattle and one in San Francisco. I'm sure I'll lug my Dotcom to the
Seattle event, near 
where I live.

It's one of those rare friendships, where you almost instantly connect with
someone, and it 
just keeps on going. So, we've been friends for 12 years now, and have
stayed at each 
others' houses, etc.

After this CD is out, I wil be finishing the book I have started on his
life. I have interest 
from a London publisher, so that's my project for 2007. We recorded most of
our CD, here 
in my studio in September, using the (mostly) Dotcom intensely.

I have to say that at age 77, JJ is still an intensely creative guy, and
it's a pleasure to 
collaborate and play music with him. He is also probably more rock and roll
that I am!

He has a very young mind for a senior citizen, and the (mostly) 22-year olds
in the 
audience in Berlin obviously picked up on that.

Just a word of history: he owned the 2nd Moog ever sold, (Carroll Sound),
with Wendy 
Carlos, getting the first one. His first Moog LP "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations"
(with Gershon 
Kingsley) came out at least a year before Switched-On Bach.

Cheers,

- Dana