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Die Büchse der Pandora,
Finland
"...And after five days walk in the heart of Africa I arrived in a small village. It was midnight and the natives were doing some strange and terrifying rites. They were dancing around the flames like the inside of a mad jukebox, and in the middle of everything was a statue of a man with long grey hair and sunglasses. Suddenly the chief shouted: "Jims Tine Maahn!" And everybody started singing a song which was more grandiose than anything Wagner ever wrote..."
- From the book The Natives Are Restless Tonight by famous explorer Kaivo Pääsiäinen.
Die Büchse der Pandora is my very personal tribute to you. Despite its name, it's in English. I made the first version of it sometime in 1999. It's not an information page or anything like that. It's a collection of my writings about your music and how it has affected me. It may be more about myself than you. Of course this is very narcissistic but that's what I'm like.
I have made fan sites for a few other artists too: Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys and a weird opera/rock singer Klaus Nomi. But these were more normal fan sites, and (at least for me) less interesting. I've thought of making this kind of sites about other artists too, maybe The Beach Boys, Queen or Serge Gainsbourg. But I haven't been able to make these sites yet. I think it's just that your music means to me even more than their music. I've never heard of anybody like you. There are a lot of people who are a bit like you but nobody's as extreme as you are. To have one Steinman, you have to take a bit of Wagner, Little Richard, Brian Wilson, Jim Morrison, Phil Spector, Jacques Brel, Marquis de Sade, Federico Fellini, Salvador Dali and J.M. Barrie. I think your music is more red than any other music. You may or may not understand what I mean with this. It just sounds red. Queen is quite red too. The site is also a tribute to the play "Die Büchse der Pandora" (Pandora's Box) by Frank Wedenkind, the film based on it by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - and of course the star of the film, the divine Louise Brooks. I decidedly didn't put pictures from your albums to my site. I used other pictures that I thought look like your music or have something to do with it: A few pictures of Peter Pan (an old friend of mine), one from the film Nosferatu, Marquis De Sade painted by Man Ray, even photos taken by myself.
On my page I say something about things I'd like you to do and artists I'd like you to work with. But they are just my thoughts, and I think that if you read them, you better forget them. You shouldn't care of what I or other fans or critics or public say. You should only listen to your own brain and especially your heart. If you start listening to other people, soon you won't be able to do anything anymore because there will always be a lot of besserwissers saying things like: "1) Why can't you just make more albums like the first one? 2) That singer sucks. 3) You've sold out to the big money. 4) You should have stopped making music after the first two albums. 5) That song's way too long etc etc etc." So please don't listen to that kind of things. Do whatever you want to do. That's how you will stay as original as you've always been.
Roberto
eMail: robert_storm@hotmail.com
My Jim Steinman page: http://dive.to/neverland
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