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SaxophoneCheck

 
SaxophoneCheck

A rock band checking out the saxophone, breaking all the cages and wrecking all the stages of modern music.

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Picture for song 'Vincent's Panja Flinders' by artist 'SaxophoneCheck'

Vincent's Panja Flinders

A song about our drummer, Vincent.
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SaxophoneCheck is a 5-man Rock/punk/funk/skunk/hardcore/heavy-metal/reggae/pop/ schlager/bagger/gabber/bubbling/samba/rhumba/tumba/folk/country/blues/jazz/bluegrass/ hip-hop-till-you-don’t-stop band, each member coming from a different country. We’ve got an English Drummer, um baixista Brasileiro, un cantante e guitarista Español, een Nederlandse sologitarist/toetsenist, und ein Deutschen zaxophonizt.
Band/artist history
It all started in the year of our lord 2001 A.D. That year, 4 of the band members, who had already been good friends for some years, started to repeatedly harass the local music store Feedback's instruments, while Fritz was still unknown to the 4 others, and was attending saxophone lessons. Vincent found his new home in the drum section of Feedback, and could be found there every day until he was dragged out at closing time. In time, he grew very fond of Feedback's crew, and they, less fond of him. In June 2001, it was Julio's 15th birthday, and he convinced his parents, who had hoped for him to have a succesful career at playing the dulcimer, to give him a Peavey bass guitar, the cheapest one in the store. Matthijs and Paul were fervent acoustic guitar players at the time, and instantly repelled anything that had to be plugged in. Matthijs was the first to succomb to the temptation of the powerful distortion and wailing wah-wah's of electric guitars, and bought his very first Fender Squier Telecaster in october 2001, also, the cheapest one in the store. Starting small, his first amplifier had a whopping 10 cm in diameter. He hasn't bought a new one since. In september 2001, a new school year started, and Paul met the German saxophone player Fritz, who soon came to attend some jam sessions instead of his saxophone lessons. In the beginning, the band was dubious of letting a German into the band, but Fritz proved himself worthy through hours and hours of incessant blowing. They had found their newest band member. From then on, there have been many people that have auditioned as the new newest band member, but they found that they did not need a second saxophone player, a keyboardist, or someone to play the timpani. They started as a nameless cover band, before they had found our own endless fountain of musical inspiration and revolution, and their incredible originality in name-finding. Saxophone Check's first public performance was playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "I Could Have Lied" at their school's Cultural Evenings of 2002, to which they barely passed the audition, were it not for the German's incredible, revolutionary, ear-massaging, body-shaking, world-making, record-breaking, pathfinding, rewinding, trendsetting, stream-lining, feet-stomping, mind-numbing, blowing. He really blew the jury away, and by that, had blown Saxophone Check into their first gig. And the original song didn't even have a saxophone. At that first gig in May 2002, the band's guitarist Matthijs had wanted to show off his musical prowess by playing his guitar solo behind his back. This was made impossible by the fact that this was just too p.i.m.p. for that poor Telecaster to handle, and the guitar had a nervous and technical breakdown on stage, literally, the hole where you have to plug in fell out and had to be taped back on, leaving him with a guitar that would only produce sound if held at a particular angle. Since then, that Telecaster has been repaired several times by Feedback's professionals, until the drummer used a piece of metal he took from his front door lock and in some mysterious way managed to fix it permanently (so far), and, of course, for free. Another thing that occured at that gig, was the discovery of a new disease that their singer/guitarist Paul carried, of which the sole symptom was never being able to finish a whole sentence into the microphone during a gig, because of involutary convulsions that would cause him to slowly shake his head from left to right, constantly. He has been cured from this terrible disease, and has recovered now. Another disease that was discovered for the first time in perfomance history at that gig, was slower-drummeritis, a much more uncommon variant of the relatively common faster-drummeritis, but not less confusing for the rest of the band. He has also been cured from this disease, but has obtained a new one from its antibodies, chronic losing-your-drumstick-in-the-middle-of-your-perfomancitis. After this, the still nameless band retired to Vincent's room for further jam sessions, and mainly played Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Eric Clapton and Beastie Boys songs. The bassist kept asking the band if they could please learn how to play a Sublime song, but these pleas were incessantly ignored by the rest of the band. They would either jam in Vincent's room, or in the school's basement, which would actually immediately place them, by definition, into the "underground hard rock music scene", literally. When they jammed in Vincent's room, he would always indulge them with beverages, which were always some variation of Spa bottled water. Either Spa blauw, rood, groen, +Vitamine C, or whatever, they were always variations of water. They still hope to have a garage to jam in someday, to be able to call themselves a "garage band". Since then, they have been asked to play "Bad To The Bone" at movie premieres, and to be in the soundtrack of the same movie (yes, it was just one movie, One Rose A Gay Day) with covers of the shit-single "Bohemian Like You" by The Dandy Warhols and the bloodcurling "Love Hurts" by Nazareth. In 2003, the band was baptized 'Saxophone Check'. This name came to be when the bassist, Julio, heard a friend of his verbally abuse a Turkish person, saying 'Saksafon Çek', meaning that he wanted the Turkish person to do with him what Fritz did with the jury at our first audition. The bassist had no idea he was speaking Turkish, and assuming he was speaking English, he understood it as a wordplay of 'microphone check', 'saxophone check', and thought it would be the perfect band name for a rock band that puts a saxophone in songs that normally don't have one. He hurried to tell this idea to the other band members. They had found their band name. Anyone that didn't like it, could Saksafon their Çek, or Çek their Saksafon, whatever. The same year, the band auditioned for the Cultural Evenings for a second time. Playing a medley of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Pretty Little Ditty" and the second part of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall". This year, they didn't get through the auditions. As to why, there are many theories: The bassist insists that it was because the school would never let a high-school band sing "we don't need no education" in front of parents. He also insists that the competing band, that did pass the audition, had a teacher as a drummer, and that the jury chose them above "SaxophoneCheck" because a teacher playing together with students would show the tight bond between students and teachers at this school, which was good for the school's PR. The rest of the band, or the whole world for that matter, insists it was probably because the bassist screwed up his bassline during "Pretty Little Ditty" to the point of stopping in the middle of his bassline, shouting "shit", and continuing with his numerous mistakes. In 2004, the band started to write their own songs. Other attempts had been made before, but attempts like Julio's early "Waiting For My Blue Sky To Come" never turned into real songs. The band's singer/guitarist Paul proved himself as a great songwriter, bringing out would-be-hit after would-be-hit, such as "Lied nummer 1", "Funky Lowriders", "Chain Reaction", "Mrs. Sausage" and probably some other ones we forgot, until he wrote what would forever mark him in musical history, the epic "Vincent's Panja Flinders". After this, classics as "D'Artagnan', "Monsieur Poire" "Paul's Jazz", and "Scooter" were created. This was all made possible by the illegal download of incredibly expensive computer programmes, which we will not name for fear of prosecution, but these also gave birth to Paul's next hit, a journey into the extravagant and mystical world of trance music: "one minute trance". Incidentally, the name of this song, that is actually more than 2 minutes long, does not refer to the length of the song, but the time it took to make it. Matthijs, Fritz and Julio only had millions of snippets of songs, that they couldn't be bothered to turn into a song. Until the day came in which they recorded for hours and hours, only to delete everything after recording it. The only reason that Julio has a song is because one time at a jam session, he played a 3-note riff, which he did not find special at all, but was convinced by Fritz and Paul to turn into a new song. This became the Tum-Tum Song. This was scheduled to be put as a B-Side to "Vincent's Panja Flinders" as our first single, but it never got finished in time, so Paul's "D'artagnan" was put in instead. This single was a preparation for the CD that is expected to come out in 2005, Variaties van Water, named after what kept the band alive during those endless jam sessions.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
Yes, wherever whenever. We have our own groupie following in charge of bringing us blue m&m's and throwing thongs at us, for whenever we go live. We believe that no matter how electronic or complicated a song is, you have to be able to play it live, so you can give it to the audience yourself directly, which is the most important act of an artist. Giving themselves to their audience.
Your musical influences
We like to play all styles possible, including those we don't particularly like, like trance music, just to show that music shouldn't be held by borders. We like playing around with music itself, not always taking ourselves too seriously, but some our major influences would be: the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Air, Led Zeppelin, dEUS, Paco de Lucia, Eric Clapton, Moby, and some other guys I can't remember.
Anything else?
We will self-produce videoclips of all of the songs on our next album, 'Variaties van Water' and all of the videoclips one after the other become a full length motion picture, with plot and everything, and of course, a lot of music. See our website at www.saxophonecheck.com
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