From a real dictionary: "gay": 1178, "full of joy or mirth," from O.Fr. gai "gay, merry," perhaps from Frank. *gahi (cf. O.H.G. wahi "pretty"). Meaning "brilliant, showy" is from c.1300.
We're totally straight. Totally! We swear by the Dragons of Merion!
THE CONCEPT OF "PLAYBACK POWER METAL":
Playback-Performance is a form of art. It's origins lie way back in the old days, when the greeks fought all these monsters and shit. Everyone knows the greek theatres, right?
Well, anyway... Who would say "The actor is no artist, because he didn't write the play himself"? No one, right? See!
When we go on stage and we perform awesomely to the brilliant tunes of all the bands we love, we're like actors... We interpret the songs like dancers in a ballet. Imagine a power-metal-disco: The DJ plays the tunes and we enrich your musical experience with our awesome performance from another dimension. Like that amazing, colourful thing, that flickers when you play your music on a media-player. We're the visualization-add-on of Power Metal.
One could say, that we're like gogo dancers, but with instruments instead of dancing poles... yeah, that's it! We're a gay (as in "happy") playback power metal gogo band. Awesome...
So, instead of renting strobos, disco balls, lights and all that expensive stuff, you could rent all that plus the most amazing Playback Power Metal Band IN THE WORLD!! GAY FANTASY!!!
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BAND HISTORY
Gay Fantasy has been existing since 1986. But in 1987 this young and very awesome band split up. It was a painful time especially for Ronnie and Danek. The two founders of the band and the whole concept of Playback Power Metal were so down, that a reunion was not possible until now!! But: Gay Fantasy is back and loaded with awesomeness!!
But let's begin at the beginning. That's where stories always begin.
In 1969 two half twins (same father, different mothers) were born on the backseat of a Mustang Mach 1. Their father was a race driver, bad guitar player and vietnam veteran. When he had to work in a fish factory (his leg has been amputated by a war buddy in the jungle, so no one employed him) to pay for his sick parents, he met the romanian girl Luminita and her best friend Karin from Germany. He took them into town for a night out and they had the best time of their lives!!! Well, Chuck (that's his Name) was a very very handsome man and a cool dude as well. So both girls fell in love with him. By the dawn of the next day they were sitting on the hood of Chuck's Mustang and were watching the sun rise at the make out place of Chuck's hometown. The place was called the Wizzard's Circle, because there was a circle of stones surrounding a bottomless hole in the ground. And that's where the magic happened... BOTH girls got pregnant, but Chuck was supposed to be infertile since his early childhood where he froze his right ball when he saved a dolphin from drowning in icewater!
On the day of the twin's birth both women demonstrated for world peace when suddenly their amniotic sacs bursted simultaneously. Chuck left work and drove them to the hospital. But it was raining like it never had rained before and a Thunderstorm was approaching from the east. Chuck fought his way through the rain and the wind with his awesome car, the windshield broke and a rain of fragments of glass cut his face. But he drove on with wet long hair and to the sound of the radio playing his favorite songs!! When the tape reached "Don't Fear The Reaper" both boys suddenly were born. And when their eyes met for the first time the rain stopped and the sun came out. They both cried for the first time under a rainbow!! Years later both mothers still swore that Ronnie's cry sounded like "draaagooooooooon" and Danek's like "the wiiiizzaaaaaard!".
The women had to go back to their homes in Romania and Germany and Chuck had to stay in the U.S, to care for his parents. Romania was a dictatorship at that time so the young mothers lost contact... Danek was brought up in Romania and Ronnie in Germany. Both half-twins where interested in music from an early age on. Ronnie was a very talented singer. Everytime he sang his solo-parts in church people listened as if they heard the voice of an angel. Old ladies cried and all that!! Danek learned to play the guitar like a young god. He was and still is a boy of few words. He always expressed himself through his music. Both boys were very popular with girls. The boys on the other hand sometimes mistook their love for Glam Rock and their sensibility for the magic of nature as weakness. Maybe the other boys were just jealous. The twins always were awesome and incredibly good looking. They were sporty and always nice. But both felt lonely inside... They knew, that they weren't competely complete. And they felt, that the world was dying.
Danek eventually went to Germany to visit his cousin in Stuttgart. One of his cousin's friend was Ronnie and the boys immediately connected. After a while, they found out, that they were brothers, because both carried one half of an ancient amulet, that they got from their father Chuck when they were babies. What a relief that was! They weren't gay after all. It was brotherly love! From that point on they did everything together even some girls. And how excited they were when they found out that both had a talent for music. The founded the band Grey Fantasy in 1986. They were and still are real 80's metal heads. But you may have noticed the slight difference in the band's name... Well, the half-twins had a rough childhood and they were sure that the world would end soon. So they lived their lifes to the fullest and did some baaaaad things. The lyrics of Grey Fantasy were dark and full of despair. After lots of bad times and conflicts the band split up and Ronnie and Danek went separate ways.
15 years after the split up Danek passed out drunk on an outdoor party in the Blackforest. That's when Danek had a vision. A vision in which the Wizzard of Merion himself revealed the secrets of a better world to Danek. In this gay (happy) fantasy everything seemed right. Now Danek knew what to do!! He went to his brother and told him everything. His brother, of course, believed every single word of Danek's vision and they felt that everything was right now and as if they never had been apart from each other. In that year, 2001, Gay Fantasy was born!!! How awesome is that story? So awesome! So freakin' awesoooooome!