Fred Friet - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Janine and me, having some fun:

Here some pictures of live gigs and bandpics:

This is the stuff I use, and yes, do something with wood:

Firebird Fly with me:

My Interests

Music, guitar, recording, mysteries and travelling.

I'd like to meet:

David Lynch, but in a dream. I like to meet Stuart Wilde, but in the Etheric. Furthermore I like to meet the kick ass progrockers Crimson Glory, when they are on stage and I'm in front of it, bleeding Crimson Glory. I like to meet ...

Music:

Crimson Glory: Transcendence, Astronomica
House of Lords: House of Lords, Demons Down
Balance of Power: Book of Secrets
Blue Murder: Blue Murder
Pyramaze: Legend of the Bone Carver
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
Vicious Rumors: Digital Dictator
Judas Priest: Painkiller
Shadow Gallery: Carved in Stone, Tyranny
Rammstein: Mutter

Movies:

Lost Highway, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me , Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Das Boot, Event Horizon, The Godfather I,II and III ...

Television:

For the most, I'm watching the football (soccer) matches on television.

In the past there were some series which I enjoyed very much. Twin Peaks is one of my faves, I've got the DVD box, so me and Janine have a "Twin Peaks weekend" now and then. Another favourite TV series is Nowhere Man. It was broadcasted late night, full of conspiracies and mysteries ...

Books:

Stuart Wilde: The Trick to Money is having Some, Live was never meant to be a struggle, Sixth Sense
Jung, C.G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections, an autobiography
Graham Hancock: Heaven's Mirror, Supernatural
Arthur C. Clarke: 3001 The Final Odyssey
Deepak Chopra: Quantum Healing
Dan Brown: Angels and Demons.
Maxwell Maltz: Psycho Cybernetics
Robert Bauval: Secret Chamber

Heroes:

Warning !

We are supreme beings. We are not subjected to imperfectness. We are very dangerous and eat everything if it tastes nice.

We love some imperfect beings, especially those who care for our food, home and heating devices.

Ivory Merlin

My Blog

Magnetude

Friends,At this very moment I'm joining a new band called Magnetude, together with my bandmates Toine van der Linden (bass), Stanley Sanders (guitars), Erik Stout (drums) and Arjo Miedema (vocals).We'...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:28:00 PST

This rocks !

Yesterday we had a meeting with the new band to check out the new material (and drinking, smoking and setting the stereo installation on 10 ! ). We're a complete band now, great guys, they're one of t...
Posted by Fred Friet on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:50:00 PST

Phyrus promo CD out now !

Hi ! A few months ago, I contributed guitar solo's for the song "For Life" on the solo album of Mike Phyrus. The promo CD is out now ! In the past, Mike joined the band Gravedroid which recorded thei...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:22:00 PST

Year end update: something to be proud of

Last year me and Janine moved from the city to another house in a village. It's an old house, a lot of rebuilding was needed to make the house comfortable for a living. A lot of work has been done, t...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:53:00 PST

Best wishes !

Posted by Fred Friet on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:37:00 PST

Infinity and the limitations of the universe

Since I was young, I wondered about the question of infinity. How is it possible the universe is "endless". Thinking about it, it gives a very uncomfortable feeling in your stomach. Studying the mech...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:54:00 PST

Purity and health

Sometimes I wonder if there's some kind of purpose in the experiences we're facing day-to-day. It's a very interesting process. When having a "bad feeling" about something at the beginning, this turn...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:25:00 PST

New guitar !

Posted by Fred Friet on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:26:00 PST

First live show experience with Profound !

Hi, Last Thursday I had my first live performance with Profound ! All went very well, it was a great time joining the stage and meeting up. Allthough there were some minor things to be worked on in m...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:41:00 PST

Joined Profound ! 4/11/06

Hi ! Some weeks ago I informed you I will join Profound as a second guitarist for live shows. Well, I am that satisfied joining them, I've offered to be a full Profound bandmate. They're ent...
Posted by Fred Friet on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:20:00 PST