Beef

Biography 2-1
Hi, my name is 2-1! I was born in '69, in the previous century that is. I'm a guitarist/composer and before playing in BEEF! I played in a band called "Tree Funk Concept" which was a Zappa-esque powertrio using funk instead of R&B east/west-coast doowop as the foundation of musical experimentation. Funk, to me, was anything from P-Funkadelic to Primus at that time and after five years of clubshows, tours and being opening act for bands like 24-7 Spyz and The Red Hot Chili Peppers we made a record called "Out There" released in the previous century (1995) by Tophole Records. Although there are 16-track tapes of the follow up on "Out There" which were made in 1996 at the Torenpleinstudio in Zwolle, they will never see the light of day due to financial disputes between bandmembers, technicians, management, recordlabel, publisher and producer. It was near the end of '96 that the band broke up. Tired of working very hard and long on difficult music with no commercial potential had taken it's toll.

I went to work in construction while spending my evenings working on a neo-liberal fairytale for mutated chamber-orchestra called "The Little Princess" featuring a instrumental-section in three parts called "The King Of Sushi". This piece was completed in '98, fully charted and waiting on it's first perfomance in The Hintham Zoo Vault. Meanwhile I started playing in a barband, a great way to make some money, and quit working in construction.

In the summer of '99 I got a phone call from Koen Fu saying he had some stuff he wanted me to hear, I had met Koen Fu in my TFC-days as the dynamic leadgitarist of City Pig Unit. He send me some tapes of the underground radio-show he and some friends were doing and I loved it from beginning to end, eventually resulting in my first appearance on Friday 19-5-00 as guitarist of BEEF at the Euro 2000 Festival in Arnhem.

Discography 2-1
"Out There" - Tree Funk Concept (Tophole Records 1995)
"Flexodus" - BEEF (Partners In Crime 2000)

Biography Bramskool
I am born on the 15th of September 1968... in 's-Hertogenbosch.
When I was 15 I got in contact with reggae music trough friends who were playing the music on a gettoblaster in the park.
Since that time I have reggae music in my heart and soul!!!
My first record I ever bought (at the age of 15) was the legendary WA DO DEM album from EEK A MOUSE and from that time I started to get even more interested in J.A. music (some favourites like U Roy, SuperCat, Pinchers and also other close harmony groups like the Abyssinians and Roy Collins and the Royals).

I started to play acoustic guitar from the age of 21 and within like two months i played most of Bob Marley's songs.....

When I came to live in Tilburg I met Ras Fire, a truly roots rastaman, and he asked me if I could play with his group the Righteous Rockers.
So I did and from that point I learned to play roots reggae music as it should be played. With the Righteous Rocker we played many festivals in Europe and we also did a few Marley tributes with many different great singers like Djeyna D, Gabba Longsize, Sister Redlock and many many more.

In the meantime I started to work with United Sounds Soundsystem.
When I was not playing with the Rockers I joined them when they played in dancehalls all over Holland. They play 7inch vinyl instrumentals so singers can sing their song on the riddims and still till this day I join them once in a while and they also feature BEEF shows.

Every sunday we rehearsed at a place in Tilburg and another band called City Pig Unit was rehearsing there too so many times they came to visit us in the rehearsal room to just catch up with the vibe....
When City Pig Unit and the Rockers split up Koen Fu, I Repeat and One Drop started to jam reggae tunes in the studio so they asked me if I would join them playing chops, singing and toasting which I did....
Since that day I am a BEEF member bringing some J.A. vibes!!

Biography BOSS-CAT
My name is Bas. I have played reggae since I was eighteen. Before that I studied the piano for a couple of years. My teacher was the famous (uncle) Hein Franssen, my mum's brother. I have played reggae for a long time with all sorts of people, amongst whom Ras Fire, Delidel Touch and Beef (in an earlier period). When I was 26 I joined Let's Quit. With this band I did many great gigs. But then Beef came along again. They were just about to record Flexodus. Beef and I were made for each other musically and so I decided to go for Beef all the way. One of the best decisions in my life! What else is there to be said? I have had all sorts of odd jobs and for the past five years I have worked -part time of course- as a caretaker at a secondary school. This is a really pleasant job. Nice for the students to have such a famous caretaker.

Biography KOEN FU
I am Koen, bassplayer with Beef! and when I'm not playing bass,I probably be cooking or drawing or taking care of my fish.

I'm especially interested in my tropical aquariums in which I keep a variety of south-american fish.
I live out in the woods and it's very peacefull out there, so I can reload every time we come home from doing shows which I like to do as loud and aggressive as I can.
Playing with Beef is the best job for me, because I used to be a fan of all the individual players before we joined to form this band.

Biography ONE DROP
Hello, my name is Hansz Deijnen, A.K.A. One Drop. Why One Drop? Because it is the reggae beat. I started 32 years ago on the 26th. of March in 1970 with three sisters and one brother. Sinds my mother is from Curacao we listened to a lot of meringue, salsa and of course reggae. At the time I was 4 years old, my mother started to miss some pots and pans, and she soon discovered that they where in my room build up as a drum kit. When I was 14 years old I bought my first drum kit. It was a transparent Pearl and I was very proud. I also started my first band named Brick with a couple of friends. We tried to play a cross-over of funk, punk and reggae. After a year or so I was asked to play in a band called G.V.D. and with them I played in a lot of squads throughout Holland. After this band I was into death metal and played in Abscess for a couple of months. After this band I played with a lot of different musicians from my home town but this was not satisfying so I auditioned for Let's Quit, got it and played with them for 3 years, and in this period I met up with Koen, the guitar player of City Pig Unit. He asked me if I wanted to audition for his band. Which I did cause I was bored with Let's Quit and I got to part. So I played with City Pig Unit and that's when I met up with Pieter. Than after a while some of the bandmembers had problems with their motivation so Pieter, Koen and I started recording in studio Pop-ei where I was getting education at that moment. And that's where Beef started and the rest is history.

Biography I REPEAT
Music in my life is a long time commin' 37 Summers.
Music in my life is a Massif Massif.
Crying hart, a sun in da face, when the Sound's in place.
I I come by, free style like the birds.
Give an other tune and we give it another try.
Arms tight around my family tree
Along the friends that were, are and will be
Always.
P.Ootop a.k.a. Chief PacepietpiemelbothsmokealottaHipenuffUncut
I Repeat sais so
Banana Kid from OOTOP raised by Captain Cocktail
Smoke a smile on my face
Quote a master with taste and let it beef ! Gotcha!
Love my Sushi daily
and chop a moove in the dojo
108 down and many more to come and go to go
Open up the chop shop do'.
And come again Selector.
BOH!