MEMBERS Torben Askholm / VOCALS Name: Torben Askholm Place of birth: Odense, Denmark Residing: Odense, Denmark Influences: Dio, Bruce Dickinson, Mark Farner, Rob Halford, Paul Mario Day, Brian Connolly, Graham Bonnet, Ian Gillan, Matti Alfonzetti Occupation: Purchase & Logistic Instrument: Vocals Current bands: Stranger Tides Former bands: Prophets Of Doom, Northern Empire, Sanction, Anubis Gate Recordings: Prophets Of Doom "Access To Wisdom", Anubis Gate "Purification", Anubis Gate "A Perfect Forever" Fave bands: Dio, Black Sabbath w/Dio, Kansas, Bruce Dickinson solo, Ark, Jorn Lande, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Freak Kitchen, Wasa Express, Saxon, Fates Warning, Zeno, MSG, Last Crack, Gov'T Mule, Touch, Gongzilla, Brand X, Spaced Out, John Sund, Grand Funk Railroad, Blue Öyster Cult, Bloodrock, Sweet, Foreigner ... Fave songs: Sin's A Good Man's Brother (Grand Funk Railroad) Over and Over (Black Sabbath) Fave Books: The Anubis Gates (Tim Powers); On Stranger Tides (Tim Powers) more or less anything by Powers, The Magic Cottage (James Herbert) Rendezvous with Rama (Arthur C. Clarke) Fave Movies: Silent Running, The Matrix trilogy, but there are just some many great movies out there Fave drinks: Indslev Wheat Bock, Wine, Water, Pepsi Fave Food: Hot & Spicy + traditional Danish food Fave quote: "For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life" Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell) Flemming Hansen / BASS Name: Flemming Hansen Place of birth: Nyborg, Denmark Residing: Nyborg, Denmark Influences: Feelings (light/dark) pop up idears. And a lots of good bassplayers.(Vitor Wooten,Tony Levin, Michael Manring, Billy Sheehan, Marcus Miller, David Harbour,.....) Occupation: Carpenter Instrument : Bass Equipment: Ampeg Current bands: Stranger Tides Former bands: Bad Monday, Torben Enevoldsen Recordings: "DreamCatcher"-Bad Monday. "Heavy persuation"-Torben Enevoldsen. "In Harmony","Basschat"-my solo project Fave bands: DreamTheater, Pain of Salvation, Whitesnake, It Bites, Kings X, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Audioslave, Primus, Mr.Big , Meat Loaf, Inflames, Alanis Morissette ... Fave songs: "Is it love" -Whitesnake. "Bat out of Hell" -Meat Loaf. "Flies and Blue Skies"-Kings X. "Still in Love.."-Thin Lizzy Fave Books: Deen Koontz and Stephen King Fave Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, 007 Fave drinks: don`t drink that much Favorite Food: don`t care Fave quote: The Hero is in everyone Lars Frederiksen / GUITARS Name: Lars Frederiksen Place of birth: Nyborg/Denmark Residing: Odense/Denmark Occupation: Guitarist, Singer and soon Civil Engineer in environmental technology Influences: Everything that includes a serious guitar! Here we are therefore talking about hard rock and heavy-fucking-metal! Anti-influences are everything involving electronica/techno and rap-crap! I get my inspiration from my fantastic girlfriend Paula, my friends/family and all the weird things that happen around me! Instrument: 6-strings Equipment: Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, Gibson Explorer, Fender strat, MesaBoogie 50/50 amp, ENGL530 Pre-amp, Marshall cabinets, AnoxiA custom made SteveClayton Picks Current bands: AnoxiA and now also Stranger Tides! Former bands: Well a couple but nothing to mention ;-) Recordings: No official released records so far unfortunately;-) But that doesn't exclude me from being on following AnoxiA promos: Rain Will Be Blood(1998) - 5 track promo. Far From This Time(2001) - 5 Track Promo. Melanchollision(2003) - 10 Track Promo. Kept In Sin(2006) - 6 Track Promo Fave bands: Uuuuh many, but definitely my band "AnoxiA" is close to perfection according to my ears hehe! There are definitely too many bands to mention here!! Fave songs: Goddamn!!! There are even more great songs than great bands!!! I promise, that as soon as I know what will be on the "greatest hits"-compilation playing at my funeral, I will post the track list here ;-) Fave Books: I'm looking forward to answer that question when I settle down cause right now I'm too damn busy with everything and it takes my focus away from literature. But a good band-biography always rules! Fave Movies: Rockstar, Spinal Tap, Almost Famous and probably the new movie including Marc Storace from KROKUS dressed up like a medicine man! Fave drinks: BEER, wine, whiskey, sangria and Asturian Cider! Favorite Food: Mexican/Italian/Indian/Asian or anything cooked by my Spanish princess! Well, yes I also dig the Danish Christmas food ;-) Fave quote: Hehe ... I like to enjoy the pleasure of silence but unfortunately it is always ruined by someone's favourite quote ;-) Jan Sørensen / DRUMS Name: Jan Sørensen Place of birth: Odense, Denmark Residing: Odense, Denmark Influences: Tommy Aldridge, Mike Portnoy, Jeff Pocaro, Gregg Bisonette, Dave Lombardo, Vinnie Paul, Charlie Benante and Simon Phillips ... Occupation: Designing kitchen and selling them ... Instrument: Drums Equipment: Yamaha Stage Custom and Paiste/Meinl cymbals. Gibraltar hardware. My kit is based on 8" + 10" + 12" toms + 14" + 16" floortoms (in progress) + 22" bassdrum. 14"x4" snaredrum. Cymbals: 16" Meinl crash + 8" splash and Paiste 18" crash + 20" ride Current bands: Currently no other than Stranger Tides Former bands: Quasi Modo, Rigid Domain - among others. I have played a lot of jobs as stand-in for many different bands and all bands mainly influenced by rock'n roll. For the last 15 years I also had my own little trio, playing lots of gigs - but we split up last year Recordings: Far to many to count. Many demo-recordings with Rigid Domain and as stand-in Fave bands: Whitesnake, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Anthrax, Old Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth + more relaxed stuff like John Mayer, Coldplay, U2 - just to name a few Fave songs: "In the still of the night" by Whitesnake (this song has it all) Fave Books: Not into reading - a great movie does the trick!! Fave Movies: Lord of the Rings, War of the worlds, Pirates of the Carribean, Bænken Fave drinks: Beer - Newcastle Brown Ale. Also Redwine from Italy or Chile. And lots of water and coffee Favorite Food: Lasagne, Flæskesteg med rødkål Fave quote: Dooooouh!! Pierre Tassone / ELECTRIC VIOLIN Name: Pierre Tassone Place of birth: somewhere in France Residing: somewhere in Denmark Occupation: musician and mail order owner Influences: Joe Zawinul, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Crimson, Brazilian music Instrument: violin, hand percussions Equipment: Oooooh that's a complex lot of things and it took me years to come to it! Current bands: Taylor's Free Universe, Stranger Tides Former bands: French Connection, several trios, Soon, Dies Irae Recordings: with Taylor's Free Universe, a few indie stuff in the 80's Fave bands: Soft Machine, Zawinul's Syndicate, Pat Metheny Group, Hatfield & The North, National Health, Magma, Henry Cow, King Crimson ... Fave songs: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love (a Mingus tune), Lark's Tongues in Aspic, l' Internationale Fave Books: Huuumm ... Fave Movies: Marx Brothers Fave drinks: Daikiri Favorite Food: Indian food, couscous, all good gastronomic receipts world around Fave quote: "I wouldn't come in a club accepting me as a member" (Groucho Marx)