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Biography 2-1 (Source: www.beef.nl)Hi, My name is…2-1! I was born in ’69, in the previous century that is. I’m a guitarist/composer and before playing in BEEF! I played in a band called ’’Tree Funk Concept” which was a Zappa-esque Powertrio using Funk instead of R&B east/west-coast Doowop as the foundation of musical experimentation. Funk, to me, was anything from P-Funkadelic to Primus at that time and after five years of clubshows, tours and being opening act for bands like 24-7 Spyz and The Red Hot Chili Peppers we made a record called ’’Out There” released in the previous century (1995) by Tophole Records. Although there are 16-track tapes of the follow up on ’’Out There” which were made in 1996 at the Torenpleinstudio in Zwolle and was called “Inhere”, they will never see the light of day due to financial disputes between bandmembers, technicians, management, recordlabel, publisher and producer. “Inhere “ is probably the best TFC-album you’ve never heard. It was near the end of ’96 that the band broke up, tired of working very hard and long on difficult music with no commercial potential had taken it’s toll. I went to work in construction while spending my evenings working on a neo-liberal fairytale for mutated chamber-orchestra called ’’The Little Princess” featuring an instrumental-section in three parts called ’’The King Of Sushi”. This piece was completed in ’98, fully charted and waiting on it’s first performance in The Hintham Zoo Vault. Meanwhile I started playing in a barband, a great way to make some money and quit working in construction. In the summer of ’99 I got a phone call from Koenfu saying he had some stuff he wanted me to hear, I had met Koenfu in my TFC-days as the dynamic leadgitarist of City Pig Unit. He sent me some tapes of the underground radio-show he and some friends were doing and I loved it from beginning to end, eventually resulting in my first appearance on Friday 19-5-’00 as guitarist of BEEF at Euro2000-festival in Eindhoven.Discography 2-1:Out There Tree Funk Concept Tophole Records 1995,Flexodus BEEF Partners In Crime 2000,Flexodus BEEF PIAS 2001,BEEF BEEF PIAS 2002,P.U.R.E. Sessions BEEF PIAS/The Box 2003,Last Rudy Standing BEEF PIAS 2005,SPECIAL EVENTS:First performance Woensel-West-Side Story symphony by Twan van Gerven, performed by Helikon Orchestra on the 19th of June 2005 at the university of Eindhoven.First performance Free Punk Concert by Twan van Gerven, commissioned by Playlab, performed by various artists (Special Request Horns, U-Gene, Maarten Poirters & Paul Verschuur) on the 8th of august 2006 at the theater a/d parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.FACTS OF LIFE:Lowlands, 2000, 2001 & 2002, Edison nomination for Flexodus in 2002, Support UB-40 in Ahoy & H.M.H., Pinkpop, 2002,2003 & 2005, Zilveren Harp 2003, Support Blof-tour 2003, MTV Europe nomination in 2003, Duiveltje for best guitarist in 2004.