[Rudolf Wagner]

Probably one they never performed live. Simply to hear them do it. How great would the Abbey Road Medley be! I’d play the tambourine for all I care 😉

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Howard,

I knew we had lost a “the” somewhere, glad you found it! Don’t be shy if you find more.

We also implemented a new editor, so from now on you should be able to make words bold.

Glad to have you in the Club!
Michaela

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Tim,

Hard to pick a favourite Beatle. For me it was the combination of 4 so distinct, yet close personalities that made the Beatles so insanely likable. None of their solo careers captured my interest anywhere close to how they did as a group. I find that quite fascinating.

The hair colours sort of … happened. We always played around with different hair styles and at some point I dyed my fringe red and Mona made hers blonde. Then over the years it sort of escalated 😉

And we definitely have our differences and argue from time to time but as we all know … life is very short and there’s not time, for fussing and fighting my friend 🙂 We both feel very lucky to have each other as friend, sister AND musical partners!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Personally, I love Joni’s music. “For The Roses” and “Blue” are amongst my favourite albums of all time. I wouldn’t be able to say whether or not she influenced our music directly but with everything in life, the things you like are bound to rub off on you one way or the other.

Would be interesting giving one of her songs a go one day. Definitely a new kind of challenge 🙂

(and yes, the buckinghams would be tempting to try too!)

For the next months we want to focus more on writing new songs however 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Well, you wouldn’t believe HOW difficult it is to come up with something that isn’t yet taken. When you get frustrated, frustrated enough and smash your head into the keyboard a few times … Woolgoose Records appears 😉

[Rudolf Wagner]

“Nothing Is In Vain” was one heck of a project that all in all took us many months to finish! In general, videos like the one we did for “Morning Has Broken” are fairly easy to do in comparison 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Fixed it! Sorry about that and thanks for noticing 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Howard,
I’ll try to keep this short:

How you decided on the school exchange you did?
The initial idea came about after we started working on our own songs in our early teens and very soon reached our lyric-writing limits. Our high school English lessons only went so far so we decided to pick the most exotic and friendly of all places to become more fluent 🙂
Besides, going on a student exchange at that age is a once in a lifetime opportunity for so many reasons (you learn about new cultures, people, places, being independent …) and we’re still so grateful that our parents let us do that.

Which schools were involved in the exchange?
At first Lisa was at Aberfoyle Park High School and I was at Charles Campbell College but after 3 months Lisa changed to my school.

What your favourite subjects were (apart from music of course)?
Drama, dance (though we weren’t any good!) and computer science

Where you stayed while there?
We stayed with two seperate host families and I’m still in touch with mine, they were great!

What you did on your week-ends (not music related)
Besides busking? We explored the city of Adelaide and did things like going to the beach or see concerts or go to the cinema. Weirdly, we went ice skating with friends quite a lot too – not something you’d guess when you think of the driest city in the driest state in the driest continent on the world 😉

Did you have time for any sport?
Does carrying a guitar from and to school each day count?

How you got to Uluru?
Our parents flew over to visit us between school terms and took us on a wonderful trip through the outback and to Uluru.

All in all the 6 months there were an unbelievable experience that taught us a lot. We’ve made amazing friends, had great teachers and we hope to go back one day for a visit.

[Rudolf Wagner]

Don’t worry John, no offence was taken at all 🙂 We’re just glad you’re here and passionate about the same things as we are! We appreciate everyone’s input and support! We’re still getting into the groove of how to best go about things here and time management is going to play a big part. Finding the right balance between forum time, producing new content, etc.
But we’re excited to make it all happen and turn this into the grooviest place on the internet 😛

[Rudolf Wagner]

At least for the time being we have decided to focus more on new videos and music rather than playing live but when the time comes and we put another show together, London is high up on the list!

The plans for the next year aren’t set in stone yet, and we’ll let you all know if live dates come in.

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Jung!
We’re working on implementing a feature that lets you upload pictures directly to our website and post them in the forum. Hopefully that should be up and running in a day or two (dad is on the case as I type). At the moment photos need to be hosted somewhere else to be posted here like photobucket but it’s a bit of a clumsy solution so hopefully we’ll have a better way soon!

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Christopher,
I just realised we answered your question but never said a proper hello here! So here it is: a proper hello :-)!
That’s great that you’re also playing the guitar and writing songs. What a bunch of creative people we’ve got here at the Club, that’s fantastic! We’ll see you around this place 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Tim!

So great to find you here, thanks a lot for joining and for saying hi! #4 at table tennis? That’s amazing! We used to have a table back at our house in Austria but we were never any good at it.
That Michael Jordan story is one for the grandchildren’s grandchildren to tell their kids, how cool is that.

We’re so sorry you had to deal with cancer but relieved to hear that you fought it successfully!! Groovy greetings from all of us in Liverpool and thank you for all the amazing support in the past ♥

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi Paul, I mainly play a Gretsch Duo Jet (with DynaSonic pickups). I’d rather try to avoid effects pedals, because most of the time I like the raw, unmodified sound of my guitars better. For most live situations I just use a Vox Tonelab ST effects pedal for nothing more than a little compression, reverb and volume control and then go straight into a Vox AC30. That’s proven to be a simple yet effective set-up for most of our live shows 🙂

[Rudolf Wagner]

Hi John, our parents definitely played a lot of great music around the house when we were growing up but we didn’t full on “discover” the Beatles until we were about 13 years old. I mean, they were part of the mix of music that was being played in our household as the radio was nearly always on, but we didn’t really pick up on them consciously until we hit our teenage years.

During our childhood there were always musicians and instruments around (due to Dad running his recording studio at the back of our house) and genre wise we were exposed to pretty much anything you can imagine. So we were definitely fascinated and interested in music from the start.

But it wasn’t until we came across the remastered Beatles mp3s on our dad’s computer that their music stopped us in our tracks. I think sort of “discovering” them ourselves helped even more to make us fall heads over heels in love with their music. The fact that it became truly “ours”.

Dad has definitely started and nurtured our fascination with music, made us want to learn how to play instruments, we always sang and recorded together, etc. He shaped our taste and ear for music and taught us so much about songwriting and recording.

And through our obsession with the Beatles when we were 13 we also brought back his love for them and the rest is history haha. We’ve been making music together now for more than 10 years and wouldn’t want it any other way 🙂