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About Me

I'm a Finnish musician living in Amsterdam, NL since 1998

Started with Violin in age of 6, Piano when 7. Studied in Helsinki Conservatory Music School, North-Helsinki Music school, etc.

My Instruments:

(Fretless) bass guitar Contrabass/Double Bass/Bull Fiddle Electric and Acoustic Guitar Piano/Keyboards Violin Some of the bands I currently play with:

Mariandoro - Progressive Rock Britt & Band - Vocal Jazz Peter Lavell Band - Blues n Roots Big, Red n Blue - Mainly Blues

Oh and I'm also a software developer, but that's another story.

The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither

See my web site at http://www.zonk.net/ghard for more nfo.

My Interests

(Making) Music, Semantic Web, Self-organizing Networks, Databases, AI

I'd like to meet:

People of intellect, compassion and respect.

Music:

Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Judas Priest, Parliament, Funkadelic, MC5, Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra, Human Feel, Yes, Squarepusher, Kraftwerk, Jethro Tull, Sun Ra, William Parker, Eugene Chadbourne, The Clash, CocoRosie, Gomez, Hayseed Dixie, HÃ¼sker DÃ¼, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Pharoah Sanders, Pixies, The Police, Primus, Terveet KÃ¤det, Rattus, Radiopuhelimet, Kumikameli, Kauko RÃ¶yhkÃ¤, Tuomari Nurmio

Movies:

7 Ronin, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tarkovsky

Television:

Ideal, League of Gentlemen, Bottom, Soap, Absolutely Fabulous, Little Britain, Young Ones, Family Guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, BBC Documentaries

Books:

Roadside Picnic, Baudolino, Master and Margarita, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Venedikt Erofeyev, Leonid Bulgakov, Kurt Vonnegut, Haldor Laxness, Stanislaw Lem

Heroes:

Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lenny Bruce, Frank Zappa, M.A. Numminen, Yuri Gagarin, Jello Biafra