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The Dutch Faqoni Orchestra
Well, what more do you need? Didn't you look at the various pages we labored hard to create?
How old is this Dutch guy?
No one really knows for sure.
Why does this web site look like shit?
It was built in 1995.
All kinds. In the beginning, Dutch and Gizmo Avery wrote intricate, yet entertaining tunes. They were designed with theatrics in mind. Sweet Dreams, Icicle World, Around the Block, Infant Dalmations, the Tango Medley and Dr. Rhubarb are good examples.
As new members joined, the show began taking on more of a big band swing sound. Royal Crown Revue played on the same bill as Falconi when they stopped in Sacto, and inspired several Falconi members to write their own jumpers. Louis Prima also became a big influence as the band started shifting from theatrics to music you can swing by. This was in the early Nineties. The band eventually settled into a collage of different sounds and styles. You will get Dutch's tribute to Klezmer one minute, a hot jumper the next, followed by a sultry ballad, some kind of gimmick, some ska, Gizmo Avery doing his thing, and so on.
Dutch has his roots in Vaudeville.
What kinds of theatrics and gimmicks are involved?
Other gimmicks: Dutch as a snake charm healer. Opening at the Cattle Club the audience carrying him in dead, resting in an open faced coffin, surrounded by girls were dressed in black with veils, crying their eyes out while the band marches on in mournful dirge. But then a bouncy Latin tune wakes Dutch from the dead and the party is on.
There have been others. I haven't even mentioned Gene Avery's tunes, but you get the picture.
What was the "Penis Guillotine"?
This is the gimmick that made Falconi famous and notorious. It requires it's own page to fully describe.
Really, just what is this Dutch Falconi thing?
What kind of music does Dutch Falconi play?
To begin - 5 or 6 costume changes per show at the peak. Dalmation masks for Infant Dalmations, Mad Scientist stuff for Dr. Rhubarb, Threepenny Opera gimmicks for the Tango Medley, etc. Rocket Bra Revenge is a crowd favorite, with the girls in tight, black, leather bondage carrying whips and chains, others scurrying about the stage getting attacked. Or suit and tie one night, drag the next. Hell after that. Pirates or maybe Cowboys. We were thankful for Cheap Thrills on 21st & L Street who helped the band always. For a bowling alley show, Dutch had bowling shirts made which became official uniform (they are quite the collectors item now).
It says Dutch Falconi is from Sacramento. Isn't that a cowtown?
Sacramento is the capitol of California - one of the largest economic powers in the world. You don't eat us. We eat you.
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