Bill
"Musican and All Around Nice Guy"

Male
53 years old
NAZARETH, Pennsylvania
United States



Last Login:7/24/2008
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    Bill's Interests
GeneralI like making music from the ground up. I like learning cover songs as well as composing and arranging. Rehearsing can be fun, but the biggest kick is performing for a crowd. I also like the recording process where I can really make artistic statements.

I like to hike in the woods and mountains. I go to the Blue Ridge Parkway almost yearly.

Lately, travel has become a big interest with me. However, I tend to combine it with musical activities. Attending the Ricochet Gathering as a musician has taken me to the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia, the Mojave Desert in California, Germany, Poland, Spain's Canary Islands off the Moroccan coast (NW Africa), and Italy. I have made the most fantastic international friends. The electro-music festival, though local, draws more international friends into my life. Attending Different Skies as a musician takes me to Arcosanti in Arizona, including a side trip to the Grand Canyon. I've also been to the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France to go to concerts, be with friends, or just visit somewhere I've never been before.

When I was growing up, I lived near a University that had a radio station. It was WUJC in those days but is now WJCU. When I was in high school, I used to hang out there whenever possible. Although that interest lay dormant for many years, I finally became active in radio in 1995 at WDIY. In 1997, I started a weekly radio show that is now called Galactic TravelsTM which I still do. Since 2002, I've been doing two shows at WMUH; Afterglow and The AM/FM Show.

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My Current Bands
Pinnacle - Original Progressive Rock trio
Pulse - Classic and Progressive Rock cover band
Malarky - The first Celtic band I joined and the only one that will still have me!
Xeroid Entity - Electronic Music Chamber Ensemble
The Municipal Band of Allentown - A community concert band

Some of My Past Bands
It's Them! - Duo with Victoria Parks doing originals and covers
ShadowPlay - Progressive Rock and Progressive Jazz predecessor of Pulse.
The Critters - Variety of covers by the largest "duo" in the world.

My Radio Shows
Galactic TravelsTM - Hour-long soundscapes of Electronic, Ambient, and Spacemusic
Afterglow - Progressive Rock
The AM/FM Show - EM and Prog Rock
Bill's Galactic Travels - Playlists for all three of the above programs

My Photography
Photobucket - My photos at Photobucket
MusicI have very eclectic and wide ranging tastes in music from classical to pop to rock, to Celtic, to electronic and beyond. Perhaps this is due to my being a musician who is exposed to many types of music. My deepest interests currently are in Progressive Rock and Electronic music. Adventurous music that you typically don't hear on commercial radio is what floats my boat.

Pop music just doesn't do it for me the way it did in the past. Perhaps that's because the pop market has become so corporate driven that it really isn't about music or musicianship or interesting ideas. Drivel that is mass produced as a commodity solely to contribute to the corporate bottom line has ruined pop music for the most part and is, I believe, a major contributor to why sales have plummeted and file sharing has run rampant. Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with making a fair profit. But if it isn't about the music and if the customer can't get what they want at a fair and reasonable price, then something is wrong. Luckily, thousands of independent bands and artists are providing lots of interesting music and I hope that I am contributing in that area.

By the way, I love a well crafted pop song, especially from the Beatles, Klaatu, Toy Matinee, and the Vinyl Kings.

     Bill's Details
Status:Single
Here for:Networking, Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends
Orientation:Straight
Hometown:University Heights, Ohio
Body type:5' 11"
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn
Children:Love kids, but not for me
Education:College graduate
Occupation:Musician/Retired Engineer

   Bill's Schools
Ohio State University-Main Campus
Columbus,Ohio
Graduated: 1979
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Electrical Engineering
Minor: Music and Audio Recording
 

1973 to 1979
Cleveland Heights High School
Cleveland Heights,Ohio
Graduated: 1973
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
 

1970 to 1973



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ABOUT BILL
Some people call me Willem Vos. Others call me Guillaume Renard. Sill others call me Vasili Alipoo. I'm happy to be a musician after leaving the corporate world behind. Now I play in five bands and host three radio programs. My main musical interests are Progressive Rock and Electronic Music.

You can find me on-line at these other fine places:
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OF INTEREST
My Nephew, Seth Richards, has graduated college and embarked on his writing career. Please pay a visit to the magazine website where he works. If you're a music lover, it ought to be of interest to you.

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Who I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet interesting people, musicians, fans of adventurous music like Progressive Rock and Electronic Music. I'd like to meet talented people. You don't have to be a musician. ANY talent will do. We all have them. Let your talent show! I'd like to meet all of you who read this at
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   Bill's Calendar ( View All )
Aug 12 2008 7:00P
Pulse at the Maingate in Allentown @ Maingate
Aug 16 2008 11:00P
Xeroid Entity at electro-music 2008 @ Renaissance Center
Aug 31 2008 12:00P
Pinnacle at ProgDay @ ProgDay at Storybook Farm
Sep 12 2008 7:30P
Riverside and Pinnacle at New Jersey Proghouse @ The Hall Theater at the Reformed Church of Highland Park

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Bill has 721 friends.
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 WDIY 


 Galactic Travels 


 afterglowradio 


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 ~Adrian~ 


 Jenna 


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Bill's Friends Comments
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Ololiuqui





Jun 30 2008 8:14 AM

hello bill,
nice to cu too:)
cu in romania.hope so...
shoutz from hamburg
volker
POWER OF PROG FESTIVAL





Jun 5 2008 5:06 AM

Hi Bill
Thank you for your friendship. Please check out the great bands playing at this year’s festival, and keep up with our festival info; by subscribing to our blog.
Peace, Love and Revolution
Nick
DJ Sparklez [U4U/WMUH/TRUSKOOL]





May 28 2008 11:48 PM

Horror Costume Contest $100 Cash prize for the Bloodiest / Ghoul / Death Costume
Venom "Special 2hr Horror Set"
Volume Productions
Rhode Island

www.myspace.com/djvenom
www.myspace.com/djvenommusic www.djvenom.net
www.volumeproductions.com/venom.htm

DJ Venom has been playing the rave circuit since the early 90's. This veteran has gained notoriety with his superb track selection and his award winning scratching skills. He has produced over 71 underground mixtapes and CDs. His scratching skills have earned him 2nd place finishes 1994 NE Spin-off, 1st place in the 1997 Providence DJ Battle, and two 2nd place finishes at the Winter Music Conference DJ Competitions in 1998 and 1999. He was also voted 1999 DJ of the Year by the Providence Phoenix People's Choice awards. His specialty is hard house, ghetto booty house, and his own style and label: "retro-tech", a modern version of old school techno breakbeat and jungle. Venom started Volume in 94. Few put on a performance quite like Venom. He continues to break barriers, producing and playing tracks that add a new dimension to the music scene.


Dj Tasyty
Dancenationalliance.com / Destroyer.net
Baltimore, MD

More info to come ...


[Makina]"Live PA" 1st Time Appearance
www.myspace.com/projectmakina

...the concept of the man-machine sound producing process is not the only state of mind theory I believe in, but one thing I realized while producing some of the recent songs, is that there are actually some spirituality in human specification blending with the rough, uncaring noizes coming from my machinery scene. As much as I enjoy working on my music alone, inviting another input to the producing helps bring out the unbreakable violence in peace... "
- [makina]

[makina] is the mechanical underground child from the flows of the middle east to the shallow cold hardcore ness of the west. [makina] (named after "machine" which he gets from
Kevin "KalimbaMan" Spears





May 6 2008 9:34 AM

Hey Bill, likewise it was great to meet you and the City Skies crew. Wished we could have talked more. Thanks for your compliments! Peace, Kevin "KalimbaMan" Spears.
City Skies Festival 08





May 7 2008 9:13 AM

Thanks for helping make the inaugural City Skies Electronic Music Festival so successful. The Xeroid Entity set was truly stunning and expansive!
Dreamwind





Apr 17 2008 5:44 PM

Bill,

I try to listen to your shows on Thursday night and Saturday morning every chance I get.

Hope to see you in Atlanta next month.

Andy Douglas
Birmingham, Alabama
City Skies Festival 08





Apr 15 2008 12:46 PM

17 days until Bill and Xeroid Entity help close out the City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival!
Rudy





Apr 2 2008 9:12 PM

Glad to have you as a friend, also, Bill!

http://rudycarrera.com/music
City Skies Festival 08





Mar 11 2008 11:44 AM

Looking forward to your set at City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival!
ProgRock Records





Mar 5 2008 10:52 AM

Thanks Bill for being a friend of ProgRock Records, make sure to come by our site at www.progrockrecords.com and check out all our brand new releases and various CD's on special.
Jim Weider's ProJECT PERCoLAToR





Feb 3 2008 9:23 AM

Hello Bill, we're playing at McCooles Arts and Events Center in Quakertown on Friday Feb 15th. Stop out and see us!

Jim Weider - guitar (The Band)
Rodney Holmes - drums (Santana, Kimock)
Mitch Stein - guitar (Kimock)
Steve Lucas - bass

Don Mayer's blues band opens
Head Case Radio





Jan 2 2008 5:02 PM

Happy Birthday!
Thanks For Being Our Friend!!

HEAD CASE RADIO
J!LL





Jan 2 2008 12:41 AM

Happy Birthday and Happy New Year Bill!
In Lunar Blue





Jan 2 2008 8:18 AM

Merry day of birthing to you.
iLb,
Yet Another Beat Maker





Dec 31 2007 6:08 AM

Have a happy birthday and a great year, Bill!

tOM
ROB ASTOR





Dec 27 2007 9:38 AM

Be sure to have a great birthday and a fantastic new year!
Geoffrey





Dec 28 2007 4:05 AM

Best wishes mate on the second of jan I believe birthday wishes are in order. Also happy new year have a good one mate

talk soon Geoff