Suzy Soundz:
Casiotone MT-40,
Casio VL-Tone, Small Stone Phase Shifter, BOSS Delay unit,
Accordion,
Guitar,
Vocals, various hats, lots of lights!
Influences
Laura Nyro, Judee Sill, P!nk, KT Tunstall, Linda Ronstadt, Melanie, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Nora Jones, Del Shannon, Donovan, Electric Prunes, Procol Harum, Robin Trower, Jimmie Dewar, Strawbs, Barclay James Harvest, The Grassroots, The Byrds, Country Joe & the Fish, The Eagles, Dennis Lynde, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Phil Ochs, Tom Waits, Free, Bad Company, AC/DC, Golden Earring, Queen, Cheap Trick, Heart, Moby Grape, Canned Heat, H.P. Lovecraft, The Moody Blues, The Yardbirds, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, Simon & Garfunkel, It's a Beautiful Day, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, The Zombies, King Crimson, Deep Purple, The Who, Foreigner, Yes, Traffic, The Hollies, Jerry Butler, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Patty Smith, k.d. lang, The Dixie Chicks, Dolly Parton, Melissa Ethridge, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithful, Peter Schilling, Attila Kovacs, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, The Beatles, Whitesnake, The Doctrine of Love, The Cosmic Man, T-Rex, Amazing Blondel, Blondie, Chrissy Hynde, Pat Benatar, Christine (Perfect) McVie, Fleetwood Mac, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper, Edith Piaf, Peggy Lee, Clint Black, Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Del Shannon, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Joady Guthrie, J.P. Jones, Stephen Foster, Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Shooby Taylor, Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Kurt Weil, Maurice Ravel, Richard Dyer-Bennett, George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, Claude Debussy, Frederick Chopin, J.S. Bach, Leontyne Price, Maria Callas, Dawn Upshaw. Spiritual influences: Florence Nightingale, Cindy Sheehan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mia Hamel, Harriet Tubman, Joseph Greenstein ("The Mighty Atom"), Irwin Chusid, Otis Fodder, Sri Swami Satchidananda, Constantin Brancusi, John & Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Yogananda, Quan Yin, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark S. Tucker / Nostramarcus, The Twilight Zone, Art Bell, Linda Moulton Howe, Crop Circles, Greenpeace, PETA, Farm Animal Sanctuary....David Ray Griffin....(LOOK HIM UP!!!)
***"THE SPACE LADY" CD AVAILABLE ON REQUEST AT: thespacelady@hotmail.com
***ORIGINAL SONGS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOADING AT: http://www.comfortstand.com/artists/thespacelady.html
***THE SPACE LADY'S BIO:
Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning Susan Dietrich's life around. At the time, back in the early seventies when Richard Nixon was embroiled in the Watergate fiasco and the Vietnam war was still raging in Southeast Asia, she and her husband, Joel, and their tiny daughter were political exiles living like refugees in their own country, terrified that Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets of Boston. The discovery and purchase of that little squeeze-box inspired Susan to take it into battle, the war on their own personal poverty. Down into the dark, noisy subway stations of subterranean Boston she went, where she slowly learned to pick out simple, familiar tunes like Take Me Out to the Ballgame, and When Irish Eyes Are Shining. There must have been something rather quaintly charming about this thin little street waif literally singing for her supper, for in the very first hour she made twenty dollars in change plus a twenty dollar bill from an elderly couple wishing her well. She soon discovered that by playing from early morning rush hour through the entire day, she could pull in over eighty dollars, an impressive amount for the times and on the street, while Joel stayed home caring for the baby. The accordion was eventually retired in favor of the very first Casio keyboard released on the American market, a toy by today's standards. But with Joel's previous experience playing in various 60s rock bands, they plugged the Casio into a phase-shifter, mic-ed Susan's voice through an echo unit, created a light show by wiring her tip box with twinkling lights, and crowned her with a winged helmet complete with a blinking red ball on top. She worked out arrangements for songs with other-worldly themes, such as Fly Me to the Moon, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Radar Love and Major Tom. The response from the public was overwhelming. Suddenly she was being referred to as The Space Lady, and pictures of her began appearing in the papers and on TV. The cash flow became phenomenal; a cassette of space music soon followed (as did another baby), and the small family was finally able to return to San Francisco where Joel and Susan had met back in the glory days of Haight/Ashbury. Her music was received even more enthusiastically there, and she was flocked by people asking for interviews or requesting to make videos. To this day, 20-some years later, she still receives letters and emails from her fans from coast to coast and around the world. But she says the most valuable and treasured aspects of her career were those of personal growth: acquiring street smarts, becoming humble and compassionate, appreciating people from all walks of life, and discovering her talents and inner strengths, such as her lovely voice, her creativity, her originality, courage, tenacity, and her ability to find humor in the most difficult of situations. And she owes it all to that little Stomach Steinway found in a junk store back in Beantown, Massachusetts.
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Do we need to help the world? I think that will make us old but does it matter? I have reversed aging in myself. By being happy and blissed out no matter what my surroundings. I have noticed many white hairs turn black again. They may be white at the end but are black at the root. And wrinkles return to smooth youthful skin. Because I do not worry. The following clip does raise some valid points, but I say "Don’t cry, dont raise your eye! It’s only teenage waste land." I believe fix yourself first and give the world a reason to fix itself. Envy is god motivation. The thirst is constant. Some Christians believe that God does not look at hell. But they have God confused with Christ in heaven. In heaven we only see bliss.
"You have only to be silent. Silence does not mean absence of speech, it means absence of thoughts. When the mind quietens down it becomes linked to the infinite. Don’t do anything, just sit and watch the flow of thoughts’ just watch. Just watching dissolves thought by itself. The awakening of witnessing brings freedom from the modifications of the mind. With thoughts finished, consciousness is. This is samadhi."
EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTIAN MUSIK IS VERY GLAD THAT YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THIS VIRTUAL COMUNITY, WE GIVE THANKS WITH THIS HEAVENLY PRESENT, A VERY NICE PICTURE CARD FROM THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIRGEN, INCLUDING THE PRAYER TO REPEAT IT FROM HERE TILL THE END OF THE WORLD...
WHERE EVERY MAN LOST HIS WAY IT MIGHT BE ON THE AIR, ON THE GROUND, OVER FIRE OR WATER BELOVED VIRGEN APPEARS TO SHOW AS THE LIGHT TO FAITH FOR THE WEAK TO BE STRONG AND THE FOOL BE SMART.
THIS IS THE SIGN I OFFER YOU THE SIGN OF GOODNESS AND LIBERTY ALTHOUGH I'M A SINNER BUT I KNOW SOMEDAY I'LL NO LONGER BE THAT SINNER.
HELP THE SOULS STUCK IN SADNESS AND THE MOTHERS THAT ARE SUFFERING IN THIS WORLD BE COMBATIVE FOR THE MAN'S FAITH EMANCIPATE THE ONE WHO LOST HIS HEAD EMANCIPATE THE ONE THAT THINKS HE LOST HIS HEAD.
THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE FOR YOUR SERVICE TO HUMANITY WITHOUT ANY INTEREST OF FORMS AND HAILS.
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What an honour. The infamous Space Lady with the ancient curls of Spartacus.
The video with all the guys committing suicide was one of the best I've seen - because of your music. And your version of Major Tom is the real version. I think you must have invented it before Herr Schilling.
I do love your stuff, that's why I have you as a friend. The comment (advert.) before this one was not sent by me so erase that one and keep this one. YOU ARE WONDERFILLED!
Ya know, you and your page are what MySpace is all about.
You ROCK!
"The Season" is nearly upon us. When you're in the mood to blast some techno Sugar Plum Fairy, or chill out to Arabian Dance, you know where to find it!
I first saw you on the wharf when I was only about 9 years old. My sister had taken me to the city to go to the zoo and explore some, I remembered you with your viking helmet and accordian.
At the age of 18 I half-way lived in the Mission with a friend. I passed you several times and always smiled. Every time I saw you was like a warm happy memory. I got the flu really bad one night and instead of tossing and turning I went to listen to you play near Castro. I curled up on a bench and listen to your tales of fantasy and love and drifted in and out of sleep.
I took my teacher to SF one day when I was 20. I showed him all the cool spots and we saw you. He bought your cassette tape and I made a copy for myself.
I am 37 now and live in Texas. I miss home and you ARE TO ME the Queen of San Francisco; the city all wrapped in one loving and sincere soul. You are beautiful Space Lady!
Hello Space Lady. I have no idea who sent you the "Rar!" comment but it wasn..t me. I don..t even know what that means. I do like your music though. It..s like nothing I..ve ever heard. Anyway, thanks.
The Space Lady IS BIG BROTHER WATCHING you, you, you, you, you…. “I am the owner of pretty much everything in the world which matters. I own 20th Century Fox, Fox TV Network, Fox News, Sky News, and now MYspace! I am richer than all of you, so it would serve you well to be MY friend.” (http://myspace.com/rupertshouse) “MySpace.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability. MySpace expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to any part of MySpace Services if MySpace determines, in its sole discretion, that you pose a threat to MySpace and/or its Users.”
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