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Rachael Beaver

About Me

I play cello, sing, write, and a few other things here and there:WHAT I'VE DONE: Cornish College of the Arts (the pieces on my player, "Simple Aveu" and "Andante" feature Maxwell Adkisson on the piano, from a Cornish performance), Bad Dream Good Breakfast, Toy-Box Trio, New Seattle Orchestra, Days of the New (six-month tour in 2008), The Producers (2009 production at Tacoma Musical Playhouse), Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band (on their debut album on the tune "On the Collar"), Benjamin Verdoes (on his page on the tune "Waltz for Furnace"), New Kids on the Eastern Bloc, Amyjo Savannah.WHAT I'M DOING: Bones & Strings, The Wizard of Oz (2009 production at Tacoma Musical Playhouse).ALSO: Monty Python's "Deja Vu" sketch is below, because my memory is shoddy (I have to write myself notes for everything) and it's always good to poke fun at yourself.And if you want to check out my art, you can visit my site (my forte is photography):http://platypully.deviantart.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/4/2006
Band Website: http://www.myspace.com/iplayzeecello
Influences: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown "Fire (Live)" -"The Flower Duet (Lakmé)" by Léo Delibes (I wish I knew who was singing) -Daffy Duck as Robin Hood -Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs "Li'l Red Riding Hood" -Interview with Eugene Hütz of Gogol Bordello (I love 'im so very much) -Gogol Bordello "Immigrant Punk (Live)" -Yeah...Steve Martin is that awesome -Danny Kaye as Walter Mitty as a British pilot as a music professor -Danny Kaye as Walter Mitty as Anatole of Paris -Keith Emerson and a flying piano at California Jam (sans explosion) -Parliament/Funkadelic "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (Live)" -Led Zeppelin "Moby Dick (Live)" Part I,Part II,Part III -Nigel Tufnel shares a "very delicate" tune he's been working on..."part of a trilogy, really...in D minor" -Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Sex *But Were Too Afraid To Ask (What Happens During Ejaculation?) -Jonny Greenwood "Convergence" (There Will Be Blood) -Quadrophenia "Love, Reign O'er Me/Bell Boy/I've Had Enough" -Bjork "Isobel (Live)" -MUSE in the studio (recording orchestral parts for "Butterflies and Hurricanes") -The Oneders "That Thing You Do" (talent show scene and a little bit more) -The Jerk "Tonight, You Belong To Me" -Wayne's World (Garth seduces his dream girl) -Spinal Tap "Stonehenge" -ELO "Standin' in the Rain (Live)" -Rolling Stones "The Last Time (Live)" -Glen Hansard "Say It To Me Now" (Once) -MUSE "Map of the Problematique (Live)" -So, I Married An Axe Murderer "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" -James Brown shows you his moves to "If You Don't Give a Doggone About It" -The Ventures "Flight of the Bumblebee (Live)" -Mahavishnu Orchestra "Meeting of the Spirits (Live)" -Bjork "It's Oh So Quiet (Live)" -Radiohead "Life in a Glass House (Live)" -The Tornados "Popeye Twist"/"Love and Fury" -The Novas "The Crusher" -One of the only commercials I like -Queen "Don't Stop Me Now" (Shaun of the Dead) -Radiohead "I Might Be Wrong (Acoustic & Live)" -Ferris Bueller's Day Off (parade scene) -Christopher Walken "Happy Cat" (Puss In Boots) -Paul Simon "You Can Call Me Al" -The Beatles "Your Mother Should Know" -Arcade Fire "Neighborhood 2 (Laika)" -Arcade Fire "Neighborhood 3 (Power Out)" -The Wall "In the Flesh/Run Like Hell/Waiting for the Worms" -Chris Isaak "Blue Spanish Sky (Live)" -Coldplay "Easy to Please" -Fantasia "Night on Bald Mountain" -The Wall "The Trial" -Benny & Joon (playing with food) -The Nutty Professor (1963) "Leap Frog" -The Beatles "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Help!) -Julian Bream begs Stravinsky to let him play for him -U2 "Seconds (Live)" -Radiohead "Just" -Andrew Bird "Imitosis" -MUSE "Muscle Museum" -Victor Borge Meets the Muppets -George Harrison "Here Comes the Sun (Live)" -Paul Simon "I Know What I Know (Live)" -Laurel & Hardy dance to The Proclaimers "I'm On My Way" -Radiohead "Nice Dream (Live)" -Franz Ferdinand "Darts of Pleasure" -U2 "The Refugee" -Arcade Fire "Ocean of Noise (Live)" -The Beatles "Happiness is a Warm Gun" -Jethro Tull "Song for Jeffrey (Live)" -MUSE "Recess (Live)" -Pink Floyd "Bike" -Queen "Bicycle Race" -Monty Python "Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1" -Franz Ferdinand "The Dark Of The Matinée" -Zwan "For Your Love (Live)" -Radiohead "There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)" -Simon & Garfunkel "Sound of Silence (Live)" -Andrew Bird "Sovay (Live)" -Kings of Leon "Revelry (Live)" -Young Shostakovich plays end of Op. 35 -Rostropovich plays Shostakovich "Concerto for Violoncello & Orchestra in E-flat Major, Op.107" -Yan-Pascal Tortelier & Paul Tortelier play Ravel "Sonata pour Violine et Violoncelle - Mvmt. II" -Nine Inch Nails "The Perfect Drug" -David Oistrakh plays Debussy "Clair de Lune" -Maurice Gendron & Christian Ivaldi play Debussy "Sonata for Violoncelle et Piano - Part 1" -DeVotchKa "Death by Blonde" (Film by Daron Nefcy) -George Harrison "When We Was Fab" -Janos Starker plays Kodály "Cello Sonata - excerpt from Mvmt. III" -Frank Zappa on Crossfire -Arcade Fire "Intervention" -The Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight" -Nine Inch Nails "Closer" -White Town "Your Woman" -Blur "The Universal" -Talking Heads "Nothing But Flowers" -Foo Fighters "Everlong" -Radiohead "Knives Out" -Coldplay "Don't Panic" -Interpol "Take You On A Cruise" -Oasis "Whatever" -Pink Floyd "High Hopes (Live)" -The Triplets of Belleville (Opening Short) -Django Reinhardt "Swing (Live)" -Andrew Bird "Lull" -Cry Baby "Please, Mr. Jailer" -Kings of Leon "Charmer" -The Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby (Live)" -Talking Heads "Life During Wartime (Live)" -Flight of the Conchords "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (Live)" -Cry Baby "King Cry Baby" -West Side Story "Cool" -Funny Face ("...and I could certainly use a release!") -The Clash "Guns of Brixton (Live)" -Arcade Fire "Guns of Brixton (Live)" -Young Frankenstein "Puttin' on the Ritz" -The Producers (1968 - The Audition) -Haunted Honeymoon "Ballin' the Jack" -An American in Paris (Gene Kelly and a-tappita-tappita-tap) -Chris Isaak/Etienne Daho/Silvertone "Don't Leave Me This Way" -The Police "Message in a Bottle" -Moody Blues "Tuesday Afternoon (Live)" -XTC "Generals and Majors" -The Police "Invisible Sun" -Arcade Fire "My Body is a Cage" -A Clockwork Orange ("The Durango '95 purred away real horrorshow...") -Greg Lake "Still...You Turn Me On (Live)" -Tommy "Cousin Kevin" -Donnie Darko (school assembly scene) -A Clockwork Orange ("I was cured alright...") -Tom Waits "Chocolate Jesus (Live)" -Tarantino wins an argument with an idiot
Sounds Like: Music invading your earholes...also, I posted a video below that I played on for the Dalai Lama's 2008 visit to Seattle; underneath that, is a Toy-Box Trio performance from 2009 at Pegasus Coffee on Bainbridge Island, WA. Toy-Box Trio @ Pegasus Coffee - Clock Tower III

Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

It's hard to chant "Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band"...but, you'll do it anyway.

Last night was the CD release party for Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band...and what a night!  Rarely do you find an ensemble that is amazing live and on recording...MSHVB is part of the rare breed that mos...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:23:00 GMT

Bones & Strings

You may have noticed a music page for Bones & Strings at the top of my friend list; this is what my ensemble/group/band/etc. will be titled.  I'm working on the music right now; but, it will be up soo...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:21:00 GMT

My first recorded improvisation...hooray!


Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:53:00 GMT

New Ears

THIS WILL BE UPDATED REGULARLY: m2 (descending): D'yer Mak'er (Led Zeppelin) M2 (descending): Yesterday (The Beatles) Everlong (Foo Fighters) No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age) m3 (ascending): Ce...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Weve been reviewed again...hooray!

http://musicsnob90.blogspot.com/2008/03/maybe-i-should-start -eating-breakfast.html
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:32:00 GMT

In the Picture Business Now...

Bad Dream Good Breakfast's music is in this film (The Human Experience, a Grassroots Films production): Toy-Box Trio's music is in this one (My Lucy Charm, a Nathan Anderson film):
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:40:00 GMT

Bad Dream Good Breakfast is in Alternative Press!

Woohoo...Bad Dream Good Breakfast is in the new edition of Alternative Press, a magazine for new artists (based in Ohio). We're in the one with Chiodos on the cover. Check it out.
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:45:00 GMT

Look for it somewhere

    Toy-Box Trio's music is featured in an independent film by Nathan Anderson, called My Lucy Charm.  Look for it; I'm sure you'll find it.
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:32:00 GMT

aMUSEd to death

What is the best concert I've ever been to, you ask? MUSE, live at Key Arena! Holy mother of somebody, this show was amazing! MUSE sounds even better live, and they know how to put on a show...so many...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:23:00 GMT

Georgetown!!!!!!!!!

Well, BDGB just played the Georgetown Music Festival on Saturday...and it went smashingly!  All the bands were fantastic, and we all had so much fun.  The audience was fantastic, as well...e...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:46:00 GMT