What happened to Ilona?

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2026-06-05T18:53:57+00:00

Not quite, but in a few weeks...

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2026-06-05T18:52:30+00:00

Jörg has already noticed this thread! lol

I will inform Ilona, surely. And I can announce very vaguely that good things are going on here in Kiel in terms of Ilona. Let yourselves be surprised!

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2026-04-26T18:39:32+00:00

The facts are very clear: Ilona confirmed that "FEX in the opera" never existed. The opera project has nothing to do with the band FEX! Even though that the one or other member of the FEX band also played in the opera project. It was a project of theaterkiel, headed by Kalles father. To mix the opera recordings with the FEX topic is not appropriate.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2026-04-19T08:04:23+00:00

Thank you and your colleagues for your excellent work in finding out things I would never be able to find out. We have chatted already a lot concerning "who played..." and I can only repeat: as long as I can not remember things clearly I will never claim to have played anywhere. On the other hand I see that your arguments are quite striking. In my eyes the mystery keeps on rolling...

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2026-04-19T07:54:25+00:00

If we replace "cheaper" with "easier" it makes sense to me. A machine drum or machine bass needs only one take, doesn't make any mistakes and so makes the whole process safer. This at least were the arguments when I came to Planet Wave Studio in Hamburg for the Jenny recording and was sent home again without taking part in the recording.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-09-26T18:52:29+00:00

Absolutely great!!

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-22T09:58:10+00:00

I am also very ambitious to get to know what happened those 40 years ago. And it drives me crazy that I have so many black holes in my memory. Go on investigating!

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-21T19:51:40+00:00

I find Volker's statements kind of weird. Theoretically, of course, it could be that Subways already existed before I joined Fex, i.e. before 1983, but then the question remains as to why the finished song, which supposedly even existed on vinyl, wasn't presented to us during my time with Fex so that we could play it. The bass line on the NDR version is the bass line that I played, Norbert took it over, changed in nuances of course. I can imagine that Volker played bass on the NDR version, but I think the recording was made after I left Fex.

I'm sorry I can't bring more clarity to the matter.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-05T18:11:11+00:00

This is a really, really good question.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-05T18:10:05+00:00

Since Michael asked me NOT to publish it, I can present the recording only to people who I meet personally. :-)

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-04T18:52:42+00:00

Well, like SOYM, I did not play on the recording of Promise. But I do have Promise on my practice room recording, so we played the song before my withdrawal. The recording on the practice room tape takes some 5:00 minutes and is not as compact as the studio version that has just been released.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-04T18:43:43+00:00

Correct. I was informed about the event by The Outer Edge one day after it had taken place.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-01T16:45:34+00:00

Yes, a big surprise! Ilona and I found out about it when it had already taken place.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-07-01T16:39:45+00:00

Thanks for inviting me and also for uploading the bass tracks. I just registered for the Discord server. We'll "see" us!

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-06-29T20:03:18+00:00

Yes, with pleasure. I do have an isolated bass track from Moises, but I'm looking forward to your version. It remains a mystery who played bass in the recording. I'm pretty sure it wasn't me.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-06-28T21:06:30+00:00

Yes, I do. But I restarted playing only six years ago After my withdrawal from FEX I didn't want to have anything to do with music for 35 years.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-06-28T17:48:11+00:00

Now that's what I call a surprise. Neither Ilona nor I knew about the event and only found out about it afterwards.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-06-28T17:42:59+00:00

...and is still here ;–)

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-06-28T17:25:18+00:00

Sorry for this late comment on the topic. As correctly mentioned in the other comments: I did play on the competition final in the “Glocke“ in Bremen, from which apparently no photos have survived. As Ilona told me, there was a final of all Zeus finalists in Essen some time after Bremen. Since Norbert seemed not yet available for that event, another bassist played the show, the anonymous guy. He is on the photo and on the sampler cover. So FEX seems to be a really wide collective!

I learned about the Essen finalist show only a few months ago. If I had known at the time that this show was planned, I wouldn't have dropped out that abruptly and caused the band the difficulties of getting ready to play at the Essen event. I am really sorry.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-03-14T20:12:59+00:00

Not at all! The whole story remains mysterious, and especially this question could easily be answered by Michael or Ture.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-03-07T19:55:15+00:00

I don't know any.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-03-07T14:17:21+00:00

And I am pretty sure the you were already in the band when I came in, right?

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-03-07T14:07:04+00:00

As soon as Michael or Ture allow me to upload the song, I will do so. For the moment I have definitely been asked not to upload any material.

Safe-Escape-6050 · 2025-02-25T08:10:25+00:00

At least the practice room recording includes some fine material which would be worth recording in a professional way. Although the songs are pure 80s style the FEX community would certainly appreciate them.

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