Dhani in a duet with Liam Lynch

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Dhani has been busy with Liam

You can see a clip here

http://www.liamlynch.net/main.html

Go to Visual and you will see

"Liam hosts from a spacestation with his robot servant, "5". Special guest Dhani Harrison. Videos, animations and fun"

I could not get through, but I hope you will.

[Bexy_Starkey]

I can't see it! Some of the other stuff is cool though

[ABCKO]

Liam... who ?

[Siobhan]

I can't see it either, oh well.

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LOL okay...so the conclusion is.

who is Liam

where is the clip

LOL...it will come around

[Legs]

Will wait.

Can't wait to find out who Liam is.

[Siobhan]

I remember reading about him a few years ago vaguely. He was a LIPA student who Ringo got involved with I think. He certainly seems to have a few Beatley connections anyway.

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He did some "fake Beatles album" and has worked with Ringo too...and I believe also with Olly...

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Liam Lynch is best known for his stint with Matt Crocco as MTV's favorite sock puppets on The Sifl and Olly Show. Who knew this funnyman once studied guitar with an ex-Beatle? Born in the Midwest on September 5, 1970, Lynch and Crocco first met as kids in the suburbs of Ohio. For fun, the two would perform skits for each other, for they were both crass, ironic, and witty. Family and friends would receive homemade tapes from the teenage Lynch (Olly) and Crocco (Sifl), and oddly enough, one of these tapes sketched out early episodes of Sifl and Olly.

By his early twenties, Lynch was already a published poet and writer. He'd spent time in music publishing and working in studios in Nashville. At 26, Lynch was making shop in England. While in Liverpool, Lynch was one of 40 musicians chosen from around the world to study at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. This school, founded and financially supported by Sir Paul McCartney, gave Lynch the opportunity of a lifetime. He was part of the school's first graduating class, but also one in five students handpicked by McCartney himself to study guitar on a one-on-one basis. Later, Lynch worked in various recording studios with Beatles producer George Martin and befriended ex-Roxy Music synth player/famed producer Brian Eno after several of his lectures.

Lynch and Crocco opted to give their sock-puppet alter egos a chance in the mid-'90s. Lynch sent a few tapes to MTV Europe in 1996, leaving them to become "idents," or short buffer clips played in between videos. Europe caught on immediately and a year later, these "idents" turned into half-hour shows. MTV in America started airing Sifl and Olly in July 1998, but the show only lasted two seasons. Plans for a third season were slated to air online, but those too fell through the cracks. The new millennium, however, gave Lynch new life.

One of Sifl and Olly's most popular songs, "United States of Whatever," started reappearing on the request charts on L.A.'s KROQ after a fan had leaked the tune from a U.K. import, becoming the station's number one most requested song before 2002 came to a close. Lucky for fans, Lynch was already in cahoots with S-Curve to release an album of Sifl and Olly spoofs and other song parodies. Liam Lynch made his debut in April 2003 with the CD/DVD release of Fake Songs. He was also on board with Ben Stiller's production company to write and direct a forthcoming feature film starring Tenacious D. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

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He was one of only five musicians working with Sir Paul McCartney at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He wrote and recorded his
first album at 15, was a published poet by 18, and was producing bands, acting in TV commercials, and consulting with software designers by his mid-20s.

Oh, and he has a hit right now with "United States of Whatever," a snotty little surf song he concocted off the cuff. He’s postmodern Renaissance man Liam Lynch ... and he used to ride the short bus.

"When I was a kid, I was taken out of school three days a week for a gifted program," said Lynch. "But I also had all these learning disabilities: I was colorblind and dyslexic, I had attention deficit problems and sequential order deficiency. I’m a watered-down idiot savant."

You can hear some of the absurd creativity on his hilarious new album, Fake Songs, which includes silly and spot-on homages to Bjork, David Bowie, the Pixies, and Depeche Mode.

Though songs such as "I’m All Bloody Inside" and "Rapbot" may initially sound like the kind of parody you see on Conan O'Brien, insomniac perfectionist Lynch is too big a music geek to merely ape a bunch of pop styles. The individualism shows on songs such as "Sugar Walkin’," which sounds like an outtake from Beck’s Midnite Vultures and "Well Hung," which could be a slice of psychedelic sludge from early Black Sabbath. New wave and hip-hop also come under his scrutiny.

He does more in one day than most people do in a year, so hold on tight as we spin through a few moments of Lynch life and find out about the time he asked McCartney to play drums in a Beatles cover band, how he got Ringo to guest on Fake Songs, and why his high school guidance counselor thought the only jobs he was suited for were circus manager or psychic.

VH1: Can anybody make a fake Bjork or David Bowie song?

Liam Lynch: Anybody that paid attention to those artists. They're valentines. I've listened to them so much, I had to show how much I get it. The Bjork and Bowie ones are my favorite. Everyone thinks it's a girl singing the Bjork one. It was on Napster as a B-side. Someone had put that song on a mixtape for a friend and lied to them and that person put it up on Napster as a rare Bjork song. I know they didn't know what was going on, because in the song I say, "I live in a little city" and the name on Napster was, "I Live in a Suitcase." They totally weren't paying attention.

VH1: Have you heard from any of the people you parodied?

Lynch: No. I tried to get one to Bjork. It's not like I'm f*ckin' Weird Al Yankovic and I'm taking one of their songs and making the lyrics about food. I really don't care [if they like them or not]. It's just for fun. I was watching the Sundance Channel and they had this special on Bjork with her in studio. By the time it was over, I was so Bjorked out, I said, "I could totally do a Bjork song right now."

VH1: Did it take you more than four minutes to write "United States of Whatever?"

Lynch: That was the first and only take. That took four or five minutes to record and write. You're actually hearing me make it up as I go along.

VH1: Do you consider it a novelty song?

Lynch: Is it novelty if it’s on every radio and video station in the world? Or is it novelty if it's the beeping sound that comes out of a birthday card? It's definitely a comedy song. It has a catchphrase, so in that way it has a lifespan. I don't think it's a timeless piece of music. A good analogy is Beck's "Loser." It’s a funny song from a quirky guy nobody's ever heard of. He did it on four-track and it was his way of knocking on everyone's door. For me, this was a way to knock on everyone's door and connect the dots of the things I've done.

VH1: What inspired it?

Lynch: I was working on a script, thought of the phrase "my United States of whatever," ran downstairs and plugged in a bass. I had been in England for four years and was freshly back in the U.S. so I was a bit America crazy. Going from Liverpool to Nashville is pretty f*cked up. I was feeling funny because I couldn't believe I was experiencing culture shock [in my own country].

VH1: How did you get a spot at the Liverpool Institute?

Lynch: I heard about it early on and applied. I passed the interview and had to audition - I played some songs and showed my work. I had been releasing my own albums since I was 13 years old. I worked summer jobs to pay for studio time. There were 40 musicians there and we had to put an original song on tape. Paul [McCartney] picked a few people to work with one-on-one and I was one of them. I was having these solo lessons with Paul McCartney where we'd sit and work on songs and talk about stuff.

VH1: What was the first thing you asked McCartney?

Lynch: I knew he had a good sense of humor and I wanted him to know I was willing to have fun with him. I said, "God, it's really great to meet you. I've been wanting to talk to you because I'm forming a Beatles cover band and I need someone to play Ringo. I know you really know the Beatles material and you can play drums. I don't know if you'd be into that." I totally threw him off guard and he just smiled and said, "Watch it, lad!" I had some life changing moments with him. The first thing he told me was, "No one can tell you how to write a song." I also worked in the recording studio with Sir George Martin. He's the f*ckin' Gandalf of recording. He helped invent it and can still tell you about ProTools. The first thing out of his mouth was, "There are no rules. Open doors in the middle of things that people aren’t expecting are there." If anyone could have an ego and tell you how to do these things it would be Paul McCartney and George Martin. But they didn't. It's still totally new, there are no rules.

VH1: Ringo Starr bangs the drums on “Cuz You Do.” Did Paul hook you both up?

Lynch: It was totally unconnected. It was the most outrageous coincidence ever. I released "United States of Whatever" in England last year as a single. Ringo heard the song and flipped out and had somebody track me down. He had no idea that I had lived in Liverpool and worked with McCartney. I mean, how the hell is it that I’m getting to work with two existing Beatles? He was forming a label [Pumpkinhead Records] and wanted me to be the first artist. He said, "I could come over there and set up me drums in your bedroom." Being with these guys makes sense because they remember that it’s about having fun.

VH1: Do you remember the first song you wrote?

Lynch: It was called, "My Sister Took My Lungs and She Hid Them." I was 10 and I wanted to be weird.

VH1: Did that freak your parents out a bit?

Lynch: No, my parents loved it. I would sing it really exasperated as if I couldn't breathe. When I was three years old I got my first toy tape recorder. I’ve had two tape recorders my entire life. I have recordings of me doing shows when I was three. That’s an important thing in my life because that’s the most basic form of art, creating something that's you outside of yourself. As an artist, you get confident by witnessing the self outside of yourself.

VH1: What did you guidance counselor in high school tell you was your future?

Lynch: I was in the gifted program, but also in the lowest level math, history and science courses. They did these hardcore tests on me to see what jobs I might be good at pursuing after college. They called my house to give me the results ... and this has become sort of a family joke now, but the test came up with two jobs my personality would be suited for. They were: Circus Manager or Psychic Advisor

VH1: Did you watch a lot of TV growing up?

Lynch: No. Our TV was broken for years and so we stopped watching TV completely. I've made up for that in my adulthood. I always leave televisions on while I work, though usually muted. I just like the visuals. I have a TV in my studio and run videos of Doctor Who while I record.

VH1: How's the Tenacious D movie coming?

Lynch: I'm directing it and co-writing it with Jack [Black] and Kyle [Gass]. It’s called, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. It follows the creation of the D, with a very important adventure in their beginning that helped them become greatest band in the world. There will be plenty of awesome rock cameos. It’s not Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, it’s not The Blues Brothers, it’s not Cheech and Chong, Bob and Doug McKenzie, or Jay and Silent Bob. It will be what the D fans want. It stays true to them.

VH1: You worked on a song for Dave Grohl's Probot project?

Lynch: I wrote lyrics and a singing part for one of Dave's tunes. "I am the Warlock." It is the hardest song ever recorded. Nothing rocks harder. It's beyond Black Sabbath-hard.

VH1: When do you sleep?

Lynch: I am always working. I have insomnia. I will have nights when I don't sleep at all. I have no body clock or schedule. There’s never two nights where I get the same sleep

[Bexy_Starkey]

In short, he's a singer/songwriter/author etc. who did 'United States of Whatever' (Remember that?!) and often works with Mark and Ringo. What a happy chappy indeed!

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Here is another clip of Liam and Dhani where Dhani even is doing a little bit of acting

"We're All Stars"

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=15490965