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Ted Parsons

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NEWS ABOUT A PAUL RAVEN SERVICE FROM HIS BROTHER DAN! For those who may not be able to make it & wish to send flowers/messages of condolence the funeral home address in france is as follows: Georges Golliet s.a.s, 3 avenue de parmelan, 74000, annecy, francetel 0033 45 052 9104-------------------------------------------------------- ---------- On October 31st, 2007 at 3pm in the South Eastern French city of Annecy, which lies approximately 30 kms from Geneva Airport, there will be a service in the memory of the now truly larger than life, Mister Paul Vincent Raven. The fact that this service falls on the same day as Halloween, while appropriate, is simply a coincidence. No costume will be required. The family understands that the location of this first service (there will be others) will, for many of you, be prohibitive but would like to assure those loved ones and friends that are able to attend that they are very welcome. We intend to organise a wake at L'Usine ( the factory) in Geneva on the evening of the 31st. This is the club where Paul enjoyed his last night on earth. For those of you who have queries, please contact me at [email protected] or Mel at [email protected]. Further information will become clear in the next couple of days and you will be contacted via email as things progress. Those of us who have been with Paul this week will be taking time over the weekend to remember him and to help our families to organise their travel arrangements, so please make plans to join us between Monday and Wednesday, where possible. We hope you understand. Thanks again for your invaluable support.---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------It deeply saddens me to tell you that legendary bass player and friend Paul Raven died yesterday morning of a heart failure in Geneva Switzerland at around 6am . Paul and myself were invited to play on the new Treponem Pal album in Geneva for a week.After a long day of recording the band went out for drinks to celebrate Paul..s arrival and reminisce .We then went back to the house we were staying and I went to bed the other guys stayed up . I found Raven a sleep in a chair the next morning in the living room.I thought nothing of it as Raven would sleep like this on the tour bus in the front lounge all the time.Then I looked closer at him and he looked very grey .I checked his pulse and there was none.I yelled for the other guys in the band .We immediately did some CPR and called for an ambulance .Medics arrived quickly but after an hour of trying to get his heart beat back they could not save him. They said he died in his sleep probably around 6 a.m. it was then 9:30 a.m. Marco and myself have been contacting his family all day yesterday.I..m assuming a funeral service will be held in Wolverhampton U.K. where his family live and his birth place. We made a lot of great music together. Words cant describe how I feel right now I..m devastated.He will be missed by many.He was the king of the one liners. Please send Raven and his family love and light. TedPAUL RAVEN 1961-2007 LOVE AND LIGHT MY BROTHER----------------------------------------------------- ---------------In the mid eighties Ted Parsons was one of the first rock drummers to weave the unflinching relentlessness of a machine, into the fabric of a human groove. That approach to drumming - an aggresive, militant, dead center drive, has since become the rhythmic staple of today's industrial metal, and industrial dance music. Parsons' role at the foundation of those styles is all the more noteworthy when you consider he's done it in relative obscurity. First with New York underground noise merchants Swans, then: Foetus, Prong,Bill Laswell,BucketHead,Dubadelic,Word Sound projects,Of Cabbages and Kings,Twig,Godflesh and Killing Joke.Ted resides in Oslo, Norway and is currently the main drummer for JESU, TELEDUBGNOSIS and N.I.C.Endorsed By: SONOR drums,ZILDJIAN cymbals & sticks,REMO drumheads,RYTHEM TECH percussion.............. src="http://www.maploco.com/vmap/194891.png" alt="Visitor Map"
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My Interests

Spending quality time with my family playing soccer with my son Hunter fishing cooking hand drums tiki collecting hot sauces maps globes flea markets art painting murals tattoos drawing museums aquariums mountain bikeing scuba diving skiing walks in Vigeland park futurist dadaist cubists bauhas movement surrealist movements mexican muralist survival research labratory Kon Tiki Easter Island the Pacific Islands DJing DUB! playing blues harp and of course hittin the ol tubs.

I'd like to meet:

Everybody, as long as they are respectful and kind ! The All knowing force........... ..

Music:

DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB and MORE DUB!!!!!!Surfin Bird by the Trashmen was the first record I owned when I was 4!Loved it then love it now! AC DC Arabic music Adrian Sherwood African Head Charge African Bambaataa C.O.C. AfroRock Alpha Omega Aphex Twin Asian Crisis BaBa Zula BaBa mal Barkmarket Big Wreck Ginger Baker Black Sabbath Brian Eno Burial Mix Biosphere The Birthdayparty Black Flag Bootsy Kate Bush Black Uhuru Bush of Ghosts Black Grape The Bug Blind Idiot God Bo Hansson Buzzcocks Big Black Bad Brains Old Blues Old school hip hop Beasties Bowie Boards of Canada Burnt Friedman Cypress Hill Carcus Can Cabaret Voltaire Coil Crass Clutch Sound Track from John Carpenters THE THING Certain Ratio Johny Cash Cable Regime Captain Beefheart Chet Baker Cheap Trick Creator Of Creation rebel The Cars Celtic Frost Curtis Mayfield Carcus DJ Rupture DJ Logic DR DUB Drum Drops Dub Syndicate Definitive Jux Elp Discharge Dub Gabriel Miles Davis Deftones Destruction DEVO Dead Kennedys DÅlek Dwarves Elo Emergency Broadcast Network Enuma Elish Faust Failure Final Funk Classics Fear Ghana Soundz Godflesh Gang of 4 Ganggreen This is Boston not L.A. Godspeed Grails Halls of the Machine Horace Andy SCotty Hard Innerhythmic Iggy Pop Isis Jah Wobble Buddy Miles Jeff Mills Jaw breaker Joy Division Keith Leblanc Keith Levene Jon Hasell Killing Joke Kraftwerk Kodo King Crimson King Kong King Tubby King Salmonella The Kinks Bill Laswell Little Axe Led Zeppelin Log Splitter Linton Kwesi Johnson The Stooges Bob Seger Mark Stewart and the Mafia Mars Volta Medeski Martin and Wood Massive Attack Mastadon Mazzy star Mogwai Mono Minor Threat Motorhead Muslimgauze Misson of Berma Meat Beat Manifesto Muddy Waters Mutantes Ministry New Order NWA Nitzer Ebb Nils Peter Molvær Nirvana The Normal Neubauten Neurosis Oceansize OD Bastard ON U SOUND SYSTEM The ORB Outcast Patti Smith Prince Fari Prince Buster Prince Peeping Tom PIL Peter Gabriel Philip Glass the Police Pere Ubu Pop Group Poison Idea Public Enemy Ouicksand Radiohead Red Snapper Red House Painters Red lorry Yellow lorry Roots Control Roxy Music Scorn ScratchLee Perry Sigur Ros Hope Sandavol Siousxie and the Banshees Singers and Players Skin Yard Slayer Steve Riech The Sonics Sofa Surfers Sonic Youth Snap Slits Scratch Acid Shelac Solaris Talking Heads Tack Head Techno Animal The big F The Jesus Lizard The Trashmen Trepenom Pal Tribe called Quest Television The Frogs The Upper Crust Technical Itch Tube way Army Twilight Circus Thin Lizzy Tricky Throbbing Gristle The Ventures Velvet Test Dept.Underground Howlin Wolf Son House Von Lmo WU Tang Wire Word Sound artist Crooklyn Young Gods Neil Young Young Marble Giants Zev ZZ Top TerminatorX XTC I could go on and on and on and on to be cont.

Movies:

I love going to the cinema but i dont like remakes here we go Ragging Bull Man bites Dog Blade Runner Night of the Hunter Dr Strange Love The Godfather I&II What ever happened to Baby Jane Gilbert Grape Cool running The Police Every one stares Goodfellows 2001 Space oddsey Heart of Darkness Lord of the Flies Chinatown Monty Python films The Song remains the same A boy and his Dog Zardoz 2 sisters Waiting for Guffman The harder they come Lets get lost A man called Horse Little big man Deliverence Big Labowski Fargo Cohen Bros The man who fell to earth David Lynch films Matin Scorsessi Stanley Kubrik Russ Meyers Catch 22 Slaughter house 5 The Exorcist Harold and Maude Dog day afternoon Taxi Driver Decline of Western civilization I and II the Marathon Man The last Temptation of Christ A boy in a bubble The Thing The Great rock n roll Swindle The kids are all right War of the worlds Soilent Green West World Barberella The Birthday party Shaft The Stepford Wives The Kon tiki man The Story of Chess recordings Basketcase Tetsuo:the Iron Man the Shining Phantasm the Toxic Avenger Cannibal: the Musical the Seventh Curse Silent running Killer Klowns From Outerspace Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Evil Dead The Blob the Stuff Brain Damage Crippled Masters Meet the Feebles Borat Bad Taste Dead Alive Re-Animator The Fly Hellraiser American Werewolf in London From Beyond Bloodsucking Freaks Aliens All the Everyone stares -The police doc Planet of the Apes The Story of O Young Frankenstein Freaks .........

Television:

Discovery Channel National Geographic Animal Planet Little Britian Carnivale Prison Break The Prisoner Lost in Space Batman Twin Peaks Ali G 3 Stooges Shogun Star Trek The Honey mooners Taken Dark Shadows Thunder Birds Twilight Zone Outer Limits Mission Impossible Green Hornet UFO CANNON!!!Hawaii 5-0 Lost in Space 6os and 70s TV.

Books:

JG Ballard Harry Crews Charles Bukowski Hunter s Thompson Camus HP Lovecraft Ian Banks Clive Barker Many lives many Masters Kafka American Scream The Bill Hicks Story Hammer of the Gods To Kill a Mocking Bird Story of Lee Perry- People funny boy The Land where blues began Re Search books Drummin Men big band drummers Traps the wonder dru Lord of the Flies Books on Kundalini The Healing Jourey UFOs Yetis the paranormal Harmonicas Harps and Heavy Breathers Origins of Marvel comics The Tattoo book Drum Sets of the stars History of Zildjian Star Sets Drumming at the edge of Magic

Heroes:

My Wife and Kids most important thing in my life dont abandon them Why have kids if your not in their life to raise them watch them grow. Mom and Dad my extented family my grandmother Saintly Rosie friends Brothers from other Mothas My Blood Brother Algis and All the People who have given me so much support love good vibes and positive energys in sickness and in Health. LOVE AND LIGHT BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Blog

TP Hits the sacks once again

Recording in Geneve with Treponem Pal on Oct. 16th-23rd.Then Jesu dates in the UK NOV 14 -20th , Japan 23rd -29th!!! NIC in DUB comes out late Oct. on Azra US and Hammerbass in Europe. Regular NIC alb...
Posted by Ted Parsons on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:53:00 PST