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Steiff (notes from Munich)

  • Writer: stephen lee
    stephen lee
  • Nov 11, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 20, 2022

In 1880 Margarete Steiff started her company in Germany to sell handmade fabric clothing and toys, first elephants and then monkeys and other animals.

By 1897 Harrod’s in London was selling Steiff products.

In 1902 Steiff made the world’s first plush toy bear with movable arms and legs.

By 1906 these became famous as Teddy Bears, named after U. S. President ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt.

By 2022 antique Steiff toys are worth a lot of money now.


 
 
 

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  This first album Worlds Apart... 33 years in the making.  

  A musical meteor, blazing trails across the heavens, raging against the dying of the light...  

  Led by classically-trained rock musician and songwriter  Stephen James Lee, here is Stone Fabel's first album. 

  Years ago, never one of the cool kids, friendly but living a solitary life, Lee was spending hundreds of nights in a cabin

 in northern Ontario woods without power or plumbing, reading and communing with nature, playing guitar and flute, snowshoeing and growing plants and picking blueberries, meditating and writing songs by the fire...  

  Now, inspired by a wandering imagination from solitude and life at the cabin, then teaching band out west so loving

the wind instruments while crafting this album with professional musicians,

here is an alchemy of blue sky thinker music with new rock arrangements

-- throwing it out there to see who might like it... 

Worlds Apart is 67 minutes of fine studio recordings -- with gratitude, 

thank you to essential co-writers and contributors, guest musicians and friends: guitarist Bob Wegner, drummer Adam Bowman, sound designer Philip Strong, fiddler Daniel Lapp, drummer Dave King, Steve Lucas (bass),

Attila Toth (bass, mixing), John Bottomley (electric guitar), Linda Nash (lyrics),

Jeremy Major (lyrics), Nancy Reinhart (lyrics), Henry Vandenberg (backing vocals), Doug Kuzell (moog),

Michael Avetesian (dulcimer), David Bottrill (mixing), John Oliveira (producing, mixing),

Andrew Kolu (engineering), Glen Drewry (engineering), Matt Meyer (engineering),

Geoff Hudson (composing), Bob Doidge (Grant Avenue Studio), Ian Court (mastering),

Dave King (the Barn Studio), Terry Sebastian (Pepper Creek Studio),

Di-Arts for DMA Discs (graphic design), Estiaan Keuler (art design),

Harrisaputra (art design), Darren Humphrey (photography),

and especially grateful to David and Ruth Lee (parenting). 

Produced and written by Lee (vocals, piano, bass, guitars, percussion, winds)

 --  this is interesting new music

 in classic piano rock style from the first gen x  

 with hope that this may be listened to, read like a book, as a whole album... 

  Placed a few ads and several songs added to playlists and radio shows in the UK and Brazil. 

  Thank you!  Over four thousand likes in the first two months -- wonderful to see!  

 

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