About Me
BEETHOVEN FREEZE
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LONNIE HILLYER on BASS/vocals.......Lonnie Hillyer is born and raised on the upper west side, . In the '90s he founded MAGGIE's DREAM- a beloved NYC band, and has worked and toured as a session musician-playing on everything from a BILLY JOEL record, to GORDON GANO(formerly of the violent femmes)& THE RYANS new record, just released, "under the sun". He has also played/toured w LOVE SPIT LOVE featuring RICHARD BUTLER of the PSYCHEDELIC FURS, and many other projects. for more on lonnie hillyer, click on the link below in this myspace page in the 'friends of BEETHOVEN FREEZE' where it reads Lonnie D. Hillyer___________________________________________MERET KOEHLER plays DRUMS/drum triggers.......Meret is born and raised in Switzerland and is a badass drummer, painter, filmmaker, dancer,and more... for more on meret,go to meretkoehler.com____________________________________________
_RUSSELL LIPPAI controls SYNTHESIZERS/samplers/KEYBOARDS/piano/VOCALS.........Russell
Lippai is born in 1969 in long island, NY, and moved to brooklyn in 1987 to attend PRATT where he studied Painting(his paintings can be seen here on the myspace page to the left). He is a classically trained pianist, multi-intrumentalist, street artist, graffitti artist,photographer, wana-be philosopher,and fool. He has toured and worked w BERNIE WORRELL and the WOO WARRIORS, MAXWELL, ROBI 'DRACO' ROSA, the REPERCUSSIONS, JUSTICE DILLA X, just to name a few. in the April of 2009 he founded THE BEETHOVEN FREEZE. ________________________
