Pictures courtesy of Lutz Diehl (left, www.progrockfoto.de) and Joana Baptista-Lessing (right)

 

Name

Fred Lessing

Born

Most likely so

Married

Proudly so

Lives in

Sintra, Portugal

Plays

String instruments, flute, baroque recorder, keyboard, blues harp, angklung & ethnic percussion

Bands

1982-1984 Dead Landscape (totally defunct)

1984 Por Ter Lido Mal O Mapa (just as defunct)

1985-now Daymoon

2003-2005 Mispel Bellyful (defunct)

1988-2008 SP'AM (my dear jam band)

2005 Miosótis (guest musician)

2005-2007 Project Creation (guest musician)

2007 Flora Majora

Daytime job

Translator, Terminologist

Music that I like

J. S. Bach, Telemann, Händel, Klaatu, Mike Keneally, Zpoluras, King Crimson, Isildurs Bane, Keith Jarrett, Flying Circus, Mike Keneally, Steve Unruh, Echolyn, The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, Mike Portnoy, Nick d'Virgilio, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Charming Hostess, Koenji Hyakkei, KBB, Transatlantic, PDQ Bach, Maestoso, and again Mike Keneally (for good measure)

Music that I dislike

Abba, rap, hip hop, techno, 80s new wave, 70s pop, Vangelis, new age, MTV in general, Marillion, grunge & alternative rock, Jack Johnson, soul music & motown, R&B
Likes Cooking, astronomy, spiders, mushrooms, enology, (and all sorts of unimportant natural systems of belief, such as cosmology), (and of course metaphysics as a guide to morals)
Dislikes Religion, new age mysticism, bad food, fundamentalists, politicians, mankind, dolphins and cute squirrels
Gear Electric guitars: Fender Strat, Ibañez. Acoustic guitars: Line 6 Variax 700, Yamaha 12-string. Amplification: Line 6 Spider III 150, Line 6 Pod. Wind instruments: Yamaha flute, Moeck recorders, Hohner blues harp. Keyboards: Technics KN3000, Edirol MIDI controller. Ehtnic instruments: African coconut shawm, African xylophone, Indonesian angklung, Moroccan shawm.
   

 

 

     

Here's a neat picture of me doing the Last Supper with my now-defunct band Mispel Bellyful, and my jam band SP'AM.

From left to right:

 

Paulo Chagas (reeds & woodwinds, Mispel Bellyful and Miosótis)

Pedro Chagas (classical guitar, Mispel Bellyful)

Vasco Patrício (guitar, Mispel Bellyful, guest on Daymoon's Fabric of Space Divine)

Fred Lessing

Paulo 'Stubbles' Silva (guitar & vocals, SP'AM)

Rui Santos (drums, SP'AM and guest for Miosótis)

Fernando Simões (trombone, Mispel Bellyful and Miosótis)

 

 

And as I have no other good pictures, here's one with my defunct band Mispel Bellyful and my daughter Joana (who does guest vocals on Fabric of Space Divine) at the launch event of MB's only album.