Hello, my name is Andrew Wetzel and I am the guitarist/ bassist/ vocals for Fun Machine
My partner in crime, the amazing John Piatkowski plays keyboards/ drums/ guitar/ bass/ and vocals also
We created this page in hopes of more people getting interested in our music so please feel free to email me concerning any questions whatsoever on the band.
The music that we play can not be described. Instead we refer to it as "real music"
We call it this because we do not abide to the boundaries of musical conformity
Instead we play whatever we want to, no matter what kind of music it sounds like. We see these boundaries as sort of a musical prejudice. All music is good music I say
Our first demo was just rescently released to the public. It consists of 7 original songs, newly remasted. The quality of the tape is not as good as we would like it to be but all we have to work with is a four track with a busted 2nd track and hey, the demo is only a dollar anyway so you cant go wrong. FUN MACHINE UPDATE!!!!- we now have a really good, digital 16 track recorder which records right on to cd. We are now in the process of re-recording our demo onto CD. So not only is the quality of the music going to sound the way we want it to, it will also be on CD which is even cooler!!! So far we have "Rocky Maj" recorded and we are in the process of making family vapor and all i can tell you is is going to sound incredible. We would like to get our music out to everyone that we possibly can so we can play some shows
We are also looking for musicians who would be interested in playing with us. We are looking for a drummer and possibly a guitarist. We have lots o' equiptment to use so you would not have to truck your drums along. Our influences are old genesis, pink floyd, the beatles, king crimson, and more rescent bands such as dream thearter. If you are between the ages of 17- 20 and would be interested, email me at Kaleid0scopeEYEZ@aol.com.
Also if you have any questions, comments, or a third eye, feel free to email me as well
Now here are the lyrics, and the story behind our demo.
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--After the song, the man is not completely dead,but he on the brink of it. He cannot tell whether he is dieing or getting better which leads to the next song.
-- Rocky Maj is basically all the pain this man is going through in his near death experience.
-- After the song, the man is found by a small goup of survivors and quickly taken to have surgery.
--- The next song is more of a lead in to "Dream Shift" it reminds me of the sounds you would here in a hospital if you were about to die.
-- after this song he is put to sleep to be operated on. which takes us to the next song
--Dream Shift is based on a dream John had. But in the story, this is when the man is starting to dream during surgury.
---After the song he is traveling in his dream across a wide open plain, running full speed towards a high mountain for safety. When he gets to the mountain, he sees a shadowy character at the peak of the cliff emitting lightning into the sky which leads us to the next song
---March of Loki tells the tale of the evil totalitarian dictator seen at the peak of the mountain named Loki.
---after this song he is detained by Loki and thrown into the desert to die
---Typhoon desert is about his travelings in the desert. At one minute the desert would seem calm and quiet but quick storms fly through the desert at lightning speed making it chaotic and stormy the next.
---He then finally gives up and collapses to the ground where he is met by a Salamander
---Flaking Reality actually has no meaning to it. I wrote this song in hopes of not making any. But in the story, this is where the man starts seeing things and is met by the salamander. Although confused, he finds a weird sort of trust in him
---He follows the salamander to what looks like a hole in reality and swiftly jumps through it. He awakes in a hospital bed, confused and shaken. He looks outside the crumbled window and sees a void of dust and ruins. It is at this time where he realizes he's alive. By now his hair was white and he had a full grown white beard. He runs out of the building as fast as he can to a mound of rubble that was higher than the rest and starts praising the sun, happy just to see the light of day
--The Circular center starts out with our hero praising the sun, later going on the the moon voicing his hatred of the sun. it finally ends the same as it begins, calm, peaceful.
