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AVANT DUEL
AVANT DUEL is a two piece band featuring VON LMO and Otto von Ruggins. According to Blog to Comm, "These guys use electronics the same way William Burroughs used language!"
VON LMO (pronounced VON ELMO) is an extraterrestrial hybrid. His ancestors came from a planet called STRAZAR. He has been reincarnated many times from the beginning of his teleportation to Earth. His penultimate reincarnation took place in the 16th Century, coming from the 14th Century. This incarnation was for a short lifespan, lasting only a fortnight & simultaneous with Leonardo da Vinci's death. He came back in the 20th Century and began his music career upon his rebirth. There is no age or time element in this reincarnation; therefore, his appearance is ageless and timeless. VON LMO is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/songwriter and lyricist. He is one of the founding fathers and pioneers of No Wave/Post Punk Rock/Industrial/Space/Heavy Metal. The DAILY NEWS called VON a NY institution. It has been said from the many reviews, critics, and just plain word of mouth throughout the four corners of the Universe, that VON LMO is without a doubt, truly the most radical, revolutionary musician on the face of the Earth. He is a Renaissance Man, a leader of his own visions - far beyond the future of the Arts & Sciences. He has invented the renowned Metaphysical Scientific Formula X + Z = 0, the equation that adds up to everything, which equals nothing. This formula has achieved great cult following, deep throughout the Underground music world. Somewhere in Germany, a very prosperous production company has named the company after the formula X + Z = 0. A French band has called themselves X + Z = 0. Countless musicians have recorded VON LMO covers on their albums. They have even gone as far as to claim that they were VON LMO! VON has touched many souls throughout many places in the world. In the late '70s, VON put together one of the most radical cult bands in the world - RED TRANSISTOR. They broke every rule in music you can think of. Marty Thau of Red Star Records banned the band and shelved them for three years. VON took things into his own hands and started the VON LMO band. In 1981, he started his own independent label called STRAZAR and released the FUTURE LANGUAGE LP. This album was considered one of the greatest heavy metal/space rock releases in the world. In fact, Chuck Eddy, one of the leading critics and writer for Rolling Stone Magazine put out a best-selling book called THE GREATEST 500 HEAVY METAL ALBUMS IN THE UNIVERSE. Along with Jimi Hendrix, The Stones, Led Zeppelin and Motorhead, just to name a few, VON's FUTURE LANGUAGE made the list. VON released several albums after FUTURE LANGUAGE on Peter Crowley's Variant Records label. Crowley was the booking agent and manager of the famous rock club Max's Kansas City, where VON had lines around the block of fans that would fly in from all over the world to catch his unique & great performances. VON was the first to use Power Tools on Instruments as a source of Sound & Visuals. JULIAN COPE declared his work as Genius. He is a 21st century Psychic Visionary & Creator of Cosmic Inanimate Art. He is a Professor of Surrealism & a Master of the Avant Garde - A Metaphysician & Consultant to the Extraterrestrial Cosmic Forces throughout the Universe. He is currently in the process of building an Anti-Matter Generator, which will create Supersonic Fuel for the use of traveling through Space. Along with this Anti-Matter Generator, he is building a Time Machine that will enable him to go into the Future to see the Progress of his Creations. In short, VON LMO is working on a Blueprint for a better Universe!
Otto von Ruggins, self-proclaimed Master of the Unheard Øf, was born on the 24th of July on a leap year, so his birthday is really July 25th (Christmas In July) three out of every four years. He is currently featured in the movie Evocateur: The Morton Downey, Jr. Movie, which recently premiered @ the Tribeca Film Festival in April, 2012. He remembers his first experience of rock'n'roll watching the Dick Clark countdown on Friday nights with his older sister. Seeing Jerry Lee Lewis banging on the piano and his stage performance made him want to be involved in music making, so he took piano lessons, but didn't enjoy the discipline required to learn music theory. He stopped until The Beatles showed up playing their own instruments. It was probably The Dave Clark Five that inspired him to close his savings account and buy a Vox Continental Organ. Not long before that he had purchased his first 45 - 'A Quarter To Three' by Gary U.S. Bonds. His first band was 'From Down Under' (which had no relation to the land of Oz, as he was expressing the concept of the 'underground' before there ever was one). They played original songs and a repertoire that included early Animals, Who, Yardbirds, Them and Small Faces material in the mid-60s. What followed next was 'Christmas In July' (he really isn't an egomaniac). His reputation for jamming was such that two former band mates of VON LMO once presented Otto with a jar of jam while he ate at a local pizzeria! His first encounter with VON LMO was at the Village Theater where VON announced that he had just challenged Keith Moon to a drum battle. When Otto got backstage, this was confirmed when The Vagrants' drummer Roger Mansour indicated some crazy guy had indeed laid down the gauntlet. Soon after, VON LMO encountered Otto von Ruggins, while Otto was trying to catch a butterfly without a net. Next came 'Funeral of Art', with VON LMO on drums and a concept of getting the 1% to donate their worthless art to be burned onstage (they intended to make copies & keep the originals) , but when that didn't work, Otto conceived of the band playing inside a giant computerized box with cameras projecting their performance onto large screens - well before its time (this was back in the 1960s)! Otto & VON went off to England trying to get signed, following the path of Jimi Hendrix, who coincidentally died the day Otto was buying his traveler's checks. They recorded demos, but couldn't get signed in England, or even by Mike Appel, who courted them to return to NY. VON & Otto went in different directions soon after. Otto played first played synthesizer at Shea Stadium during the Avant Garde Festival in 1974. His sounds attracted such crowds that he describes the effect as feeding pigeons. By the mid-70s, VON LMO & Otto were back together in 'Kongress'. A first gig at CBGBs generated their initial review by Kirby of Variety - "Kongress is a band who expect a lot of auditors...with clarity a victim." Sure enough, soon thereafter, Otto was audited by the IRS. After a duo performance, again at CBs, Hilly told them to find a new place to rehearse, so it was off to Max's Kansas City, where booking impresario Peter Crowley introduced Otto to pictures of one Geoffrey Crozier who really was a Magician from Oz. They jammed together with Geoffrey, but VON went home and broke his leg drop-kicking a local combatant and was not there at Max's for the first gig with Geoffrey, which Peter claimed that nobody could have followed - not even Kiss or Alice Cooper - and that the crowd response was better than for the NY Dolls. They managed to record two tracks on Otto's 29th birthday in Studio 29 on 29th Street in NY. These have not been released, but reflected the climate of fear over the Son of Sam ('Sam Son' and 'I Survived'). The theme of being banned, not released and prevented from being seen or heard followed VON & Otto. After VON's return on drums at CBGBs, which prompted Hilly to once again to declare he never wanted to see them in his club again, an article about Kongress never got published. It was to be a cover story in Punk Magazine, featuring some of VON LMO's incredible artwork, but publisher John Holmstrom told them he had changed printers and they lost the issue of Punk that never was. A footnote to the CBGBs performance was Holmstrom declared Kongress "the most dangerous band in the world" in a later column. Another turning point came at a gig at The Place in Dover, NJ. It was the same weekend Marc Bolan died in a car crash and the first set ended with Geoffrey throwing a chair at VON LMO to get him to stop playing drums. VON returned the favor, throwing his drumkit back at Geoffrey. That was VON's last gig with Kongress. Otto then got together with Kongress guitarist Robert Crash and put out an EP, 'Movie Viewers', which came w/ 4D glasses & a double groove, and included videos too hot for MTV back in 1980. In the ‘90s, Otto, VON LMO & Marilyn combined to form ‘Virtual Reality’, but a car accident put Otto out of music for years. Amazingly, it has come back full circle with Otto von Ruggins and VON LMO together again in the 21st Century, as the ultimate Cosmic Rock duo, AVANT DUEL. They have released their first masterpiece called - BEYOND HUMAN. If you have this in your view, they will no longer be ‘unheard of.’ Last year (2011), Hello Music declared in a review of their 'Parallel Universe' that AVANT DUEL is "...on the cusp of greatness" and that their "music is its own art form" with comparisons to Kraftwerk, Daft Punk & Pet Shop Boys. All that and they had't even seen the video for the song, which you can see NOW @ www.youtube.com/avantduel!Ottovr93 (talk) 05:10, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
November 2012
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