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 orn Seb Fosdal during the
hazy, trippy summer of ’67 Bashun da Bass is a direct descendant and
reincarnated spirit of the Danish minstrel Random Harmonix, who travelled
to the breadth of Europe as part of his Bardic training.
Random Harmonix had several
unfortunate accidents during his travels, which he started with his more
famous brother Total Cacophanix who settled in Gaul after meeting those
heroic Roman bashers Asterix and Obelix. Taking some of the Gaulish magic
potion, Random Harmonix decided to continue on to Brittanicum to gather
material for his Magnum Opus "Ode to Something Wonderful and Slightly
Perplexing."
Unfortunately Harmonix had
not gone far when he was captured by Romans who set him to work on a Roman
galley, moving troops across to England. Harmonix managed to escape
however by sneaking into the galley drummers post gig session and teaching
them some wicked break beats after plying them with copious amounts of
some fine Babylonian Red Weed. Needless to say the drummers wanted to try
these out the next day and during the ensuing chaos, whilst the galleys
were going backwards and forwards and spinning on their sterns, Harmonix
managed to jump overboard and floated to nearby England.
Arriving in Londinium
without a Denarii to his name, Harmonix soon landed a gig playing a regular
session in a rowdy tavern called "The Disgruntled Tribesman" and
it was here that he bumped into a member of the Iceni tribe who after a
skinful, managed to back his chariot over Random’s instrument and
feeling remorseful of this dire deed, invited Harmonix to come to the
court of the Iceni Queen Boudicca as the tribe had been called to war and
a Bard and Druid was needed to raise the spirits of the tribe and to
compose sagas of the forthcoming rebellion.
Bashun da Bass, being of the same ilk as his
ancestor also wandered the length and breadth of this country playing with
a variety of entourages and moving steadily but inexorably towards the
Iceni Homeland as if called by an inner voice to lay down a bombastic bass
background to the tribal outpourings of ICENI!!!! Further adventures of
both Bashun da Bass and Random Harmonix will appear on this page.
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