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Diane Timmons

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Member Since: 30/08/2006
Band Website: www.spacesongs.net
Band Members: Rakadu Gypsy: musicians: Jeff Watts, John Rose, Trip Bratton, Dave Ferris, Farhad Rezai, Diane Timmons; dancers: Teresa Tomb, Melissa McCart Smyth, Melissa King (Queenie), Rachel, Suzie Cutchens, Brooke Pohl, Alyssum Pohl, etc...SPACECRAFT: John Rose, Tony Gerber, Giles Reaves, Diane Timmons, etc...Zoey Speaks: (now recently defunct): Carla Gover, Mitch Barrett, Owen Reynolds...with Jeff Watts and Diane Timmons on drums and backup vocals.
Influences: J.S.Bach; Henry Purcell; Les Cinq (Poulenc, Ravel, Debussy, Satie...what was the other one?); Pink Floyd; Yes; Joni Mitchell; Beatles; the Police; The Who; Styx; Tangerine Dream; Jimi Hendrix; Zoe Speaks; Scott Joplin; Johnny Cash; Janis Joplin; Pentangle; Alan Stivell; Nina Simone; Bjork; Enigma; the Eurythmics; Fairuz; Simon & Garfunkel; Bel Canto; Irving Fine; more...
Sounds Like: Emma Kirkby; Astrid Gilberto; Pink Floyd; Dead Can Dance; Tangerine Dream; ...
Record Label: Lektronic Soundscapes; Space For Music Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Summer has passed

Still busy, but now it's October and I can feel the melancholy orderly introspection of Fall descending upon me. I have a concert with solos with the Lexington Bach Ensemble later this month, I'm sing...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:28:00 GMT

Summer has started

Dylan is home for summer break. He and Claire both had friends over to spend the night last night. Here's what the girls are doing: They washed yesterday's dishes and are making pancakes for everybody...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:30:00 GMT

Kerrville, etc

I went to the Kerrville Folk Festival with Carla this past weekend, and I was really inspired in the songwriting department, especially on the plane on the way home. Since then, it seems my family tak...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 20:45:00 GMT

I have a 10 year old daughter

We are so tired and loopy from our fun party that we had for Claire's 10th birthday yesterday. So many nice people were here, and a few party crashers from next door made for the interesting and unexp...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:55:00 GMT

I have a strange and good mix of feelings

We got through the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun show at Mecca, and we did have lots of fun, even though it was really cold in there and the show almost didn't happen! Everything worked out and now I have...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:13:00 GMT

Cleveland tomorrow, ET tonight

I am going to Cleveland tomorrow for a show at the Massillon Museum (actually in Massillon, a difference I don't yet comprehend, never having been there.) I'm glad someone else is driving and all I ha...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:19:00 GMT

I don't feel like blogging

So I guess I need to do it and get back in the swing of it, like exercise. This time of year I have to work to fight off the blues. So far I am doing OK...probably because it hasn't gotten below freez...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:49:00 GMT

Fam Jamalot

Happy happy Thanksgiving...thanks everybody for the best one ever!! Took guitar and bass to Wheeling and jammed with the whole family. The most wonderfully relaxed holiday on record. (not actually rec...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:08:00 GMT

Nocturnal mania and nutcracking

So we are going to Nashville in the morning for the Sudekum Planetarium show on Saturday and to hang with various cool people there. Tonight we have to: pack a bunch of fun stuff to do with Tony and H...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:03:00 GMT

Knit fits; stewin; ballet watchin; IPod'n; SL-ackin; texting hexing; bloggin.

A really fun day which however started with hacking and spewing my way back into functionality, then proceeded into multiple phone calls about Dylan's extreme texting overages(many of which I am parti...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:33:00 GMT