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APRIL FLOWER SHOWERS IN 2010

Thanks  for voting for Melody's Song "Just All Right" in March, 2010! She did not win; however, the point was to keep music in the air......waves!

There's a whole lotta love goin' round in circles. It's 2010 now in Melody's key of life. Living history as it's created has been the ultimate reality show.  Play your tunes all over the world & poof, the radio statons will stream them for the future. Melody streams on Vanuatu's FM107 & Australian radio. Dreams are meant to be lived. You can put the record deal on pause...go global...go video or commercial and Stream on. Fly, be free. It's "The Way it Should Be" That is her album/cd in progress. Fly like an eagle to the Red Sea; sometimes, take it--to the limit---one more time......Melody is very grateful to many wonderful spirits throughout the world for their love & support of her music--"Good Times, Bad Times"...you know, we've all had our share. It's better to cover a Zeppelin tune rather than carry a Zeppelin around your neck. Times have changed; change the key with the times. Music is universal and the song really does remain the same. Dreams do come true; just live them. Melody lives her lyric..."Sing, Child Sing".

 

Playing music with fantastic musicians is always an extraordinary time. Doing the same in Australia aka "OZ" is just plain fabulous to experience. Give it a go! Each trip, Melody meets many compelling and joyful people on planes, trains and automobiles throughout...The Wizard and Toto do quite well in "Oz" too.  To Vilma, at Jimmy's on the CBD in Brisbane...she will always cherish your gift. Your kindness speaks for itself. Melody thanks all the dj's whom play her "tunes" very much with some very special thanks to Arnold for his wonderful introduction featuring her music on Queensland radio. She also wishes to thank Eddie, her Down Under secret agent man for helping her live her dream to reality. Djembe vibes in drum circles turn the beat around with a little help from your friends. Melody just loves jamming with you all.

In May 2008, Melody was in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ keeping time with her two pseudo sons Jared & Derek. Derek Nicoli Teigen is pseudo son #2. She & Michael thoroughly enjoyed watching him graduate from U of A... little "dehydro boy" is officially grown up.

WITH SADNESS: PSEUDO SON #1, JARED EDMUND RAYE TEIGEN PASSED FROM OUR PLANET ON JULY 14TH, 2009 AT THE AGE OF 25. "Jared, California Dreaming will always be "your song". I love you with all my heart. You once told me I was a pillar in life for you;  darlin, you were mine too when I needed pure strength the most. "We all need somebody to lean on"

In January 2008, Melody kept perfect time just 'to be' and enjoyed Siesta Key. Beach homes, not whales on white quartz sand is always what the heart orders. Summer breeze's exist even in winter there. Breathe, breathe in the air.

In October, 2007 Melody traveled to the heart of the United States to Indiana. She cherished more perfect time with her "fave band" of cousins. They played guitars, jammed on the Pearl drumset & passed a few beats between the generations. The beat goes on through Jenifer, Mark & the kids, Andy (17) & Livie (15). Sometimes, challenging times make real time & require all the love and support one can gather. Check out http://www.beyondthatrise.blogspot.com Mark maintains a wonderfully positive attitude after completion of his 5th round of chemotherapy. Mark finished the 26.2 mile Chicago Marathon on October 11th, 2009. He surpassed his personal goal in raising $5K for the Lymphoma society too.  Give him a shout out for his achievments. http://www.pages.teamingtraining.org/in/chicago09/mcostner.com

VANUATU is truly another dream come to life. Melody had a dream since childhood to sing in Vanuatu when the Country was called New Hebrides. She told herself she would sing for those wonderful people someday. The people at Poppy's & the Sebel remain in her heart. Her Bislama lingo needs more work, and she thanks all her fans and friends at FM 107 for their continued support. Marah, Estelle and many others really inspired her life. 

MELODY'S ANGELS : Melody shared wonderful time in Texas in 2006 with Kensey, Prather, Maren & Corbin all of whom are some of the brightest little stars who help her 'see' the light. These angels are stars in their own rights and she absolutely adores them. These particular stars are some of Melody's nieces and nephews and their Great Grandparents Kathie (Gigi) & Bob Ingraham are shining on through these angels. Melody cannot wait to see them again. Her other stars in this gallery are also personal angels...they come in every style. Check them out. Kensey sang her first solo in May 2009 from the Broadway play Annie!

In 2005 & 2006, she remained stateside with time spent well in Florida, Arizona, Palm Desert & Denver, Colorado for her niece Kelley's graduation as Valedictorian. A week in Boothbay Harbor, Maine with her wonderful 1st & 2nd cousins & Great Uncle Richard Fellows was also fantastic. It was exactly what Doctor Bombay ordered to kick start her engine.

She soaked in all she could at Harborfields in one of their beautiful cabins overlooking Boothbay Harbor where her Great Uncle Dick Fellows & his family have gathered each summer for decades. The sailing was just magic. Helen, her lovely cousin has a musical and artistic gift with her water color art. She also played a pretty awesome duet on flute with her father on guitar. Amazing Grace never sounded so great. Sarah, Melody had a wonderful time with you and enjoyed dinner together with your Fellows' fam in Boothbay. Robbie, what's your total rock water skipping record now? Diego & Will...the brain game has still not been shattered in record by you. Both of you are the Kinds of that one to this day!

2004-2006 was quite a bit more challenging to say the least, Melody spent her heart out practicing the fine art of healing her body, mind & spirit after proving one can pick up the pieces and rock on after living through a catastrophic experience.

She currently lives upside down, all around at the Hotel California and changes her tune frequently flying like an eagle still learning to fly, without any wings...coming down, is the hardest thing...wherever her heart beats...she follows. In 2002, Melody lived another lifelong dream to obtain her own little piece of the Key exquisitely disguised as a bungalow where she spent her summers barefoot on a crystal white quartz beach instead of the park with her Grandmother. Her Grama was instrumental raising her in Melody's attempts to 'grow up' while school was out for the summer's. 2004 caused her frequency to change and life is starting again in 2008.

In 1995, she figured out this spanking new HTML programming dot.com hoopla and came up with something now known as a webpage. "Magick", her 18 year old Blue Russian cat in the cradle at the time helped paw out his own text walking across the keyboard. Melody won 3rd place in one of the first internet music contests. Now, tomorrow April 3rd, 2010...we're on to iPads. She still has her first Mac Plus & Mac SE30. 

As life has shown, Melody is a real survivor/flourisher & cannot ever be voted off any of the islands or countries where she sings. Melody doesn't watch reality tv; she lives it. She had a childhood dream of being a paleontologist & singing in the Great Pyramid when she was 9...she has now lived those dreams to life. 

                                    SWEET MELODY: PHILIPPINES BANCA BOAT TO THE ISLANDS

LESSONS LEARNED: Release any Gone With the Wind friends who may be hanging on for a ride. It's is a challenge at best; however, only shine with like kinds as you grow your spirit. Time after Time, when some judge & condemn others before knowing ALL facts...it causes an eternal walk on eggshells. True friends walk side by side with one another sharing the good, the bad and the ugly. Remember to be very careful where you choose to throw your stones in life...the glass house you hit might turn out to be your own that shatters. Friends don't give up on one another, but sometimes...you must let one fly so you can be free to "be". Live your reality & stand with your friends.

THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS IN LIFE...this experience can be taken how you choose to perceive it & should not be viewed for the faint at heart. For those still asking, here is the scoop du jour: March 13th, GHB (date rape drug) was dropped in a drink for Melody by very lost souls to lay the groundwork for becoming an unwilling passenger involved in a near fatal motorcycle accident in Northern California; however, she was revived two times and loves living through it for the brighter things to come in life. Due to popular demand...she was sent back for a reason she will find. It might appear she went to hell in a hand basket. No entry allowed without proper backstage or hall passes. She awoke again to find herself knock, knock knocking on heavens door & gate but again, you can keep on knockin but you can't come in...unless you have the right color hall pass...Purple doesn't work. BTW...it's blueish purple for future reference and it's good on cheese & mixes well with salad. It was the day the music should have died for her but she still thinks she's a Timex watch or the Eveready Energizer Bunny...she took a licking but she kept on ticking. It is taking all the Kings horses and all the Kings men to put her back together again. SHE'S BAAACCCKKKKK.

The others, along with the stalker person who so cowardly contributed to the attempted untimely exit are still wandering around the States aimlessly free including the fanatic stalker driver who resided in a California State prison for his share in the crime until very recently. Those of you who have not done so, (check heart rate while reading this and you will know if this applies to you immediately...best to sit down if it escalates) The wish is for the people who chose to drop out of Melody's life after her life altering experience is to continue to come to terms with what you didn't do to help during her healing process while you claimed to care about & love her when she was on top of he world. All you need is love. Even an email with the word "hello" can save a persons life. Melody is living life again on another frequency to see the Seven Wonders and she almost has; She'll make a path until the rainbows end this time. She's rocking on like all good Gold Dust Women do so she can keep rocking and rolling with the changes. She's been through the Egyptian & Arizona desert on a horse and camel with no name; she is determined daily to survive the experience of losing the ability to perceive sound as she knew it. Staying positive is the name of the game. Never give up.

Her heart is filled with appreciation & loyalty to the wonderful people sticking with her like glue while she feels stuck in middle of C, hanging on by a treble clef. She still drives ini the same make and model vessel she had before thanks to Dr. RAMIN BEHMAND..her own precious stone temple pilot facial navigator. On Sept 13th, 6 months to the day the music almost died...Melody had a purple balloon inserted in her spine to fix her broken back the hospital happened to miss while lounging around for a month in ICU. You say, "A balloon, did she lose her mind too?" It's always the first to go and that's a given to many we're sure. The surgery in was and still is spanking new and called Kyphoplasty. There are 2,200 surgeons trained to do this hot air balloon trick but the best one for her is Dr. ABID QURESHI. She highly recommends this procedure to anyone with spine or hip injuries...especially elderly people...put it this way...she's broken her back twice now in this game of Life and this time, she is still walking 5-7 years sooner thanks to Kyphon's innovative technology and Dr. Qureshi's fine craftmenship putting Humpty Dumpty pieces back together. Melody continues the healing time required to mend her broken back and her shattered spirit as an opportunity to write and reflect on her passion in life--which has always been Music...Everything will be Just All Right. Remember Love is Love and Time is Everything...Listen to me now, your dreams are only dreams.....these are titles to some of her songs to be released later than sooner. If you've heard one tune...you've heard them all...but there TRULY is only one Melody. This is real life, not reality TV.

PUMP UP THE JAM WITH SOME PAST LIFE GIGS: After a 3 year self imposed cocoon hiatus, Melody is beginning a new world score with her musical journey tour of this world in which we live in 2008...just like the one around the end of 2002. It's the same, just different than the previous versions as she followed him...wherever he would go and brought the musical road show dream to people in Hong Kong, Macau and parts of Mainland China. In March of that same year..she spent in the Mexican Riviera...music seems to speak wherever she goes with or without her band or set list...brand new Mp3 internet magic made all this possible with no LABEL backing & yes, so she sings for suppers on cruise ships and at local Mexican pubs, Churches, Fields of Dreams, Stadiums, Rivers, Caves, Pyramids and everyday shanty shacks in her favorite Third World countries where she loves you all. BLOGS are still new and she does have one; however, she still prefers to be a Paper Blog Writer....

OTHER FUN FILLED ADVENTURES BEFORE THE MUSIC ALMOST DIED: March 2001 she spent in New Zealand and Australia! What a great Kiwi musical adventure there and down under. "It was really nice meeting/jamming with you all. My treasured Gibson Starburst and I survived all the planes throughout NZ's North and South Island and minus the kangaroo attack in Australia, it was fabulous." The trip began March 1, 2001 with gigs at the Temple in Auckland, NZ March 5, Dunedin March 8,Sir Gabriel's March 9 in Lawrence, Queenstown @ Pog Mahones March 9, 2001 (Thanks Wayne) March 9 and finally, a small stint at MELBOURNE'S MOOMBA Festival March 12th, 2001. While in Sydney you should all check out Jaime of the band Stonewall at the Hard Rock, Sydney and also Nature Nature in Sydney. All she can say is Egypt in May, 2001 was extraordinary. Singing in the Great Pyramid was acoustically awesome and inspiring and she believes it was "the most intense experience she ever lived to feel." Other impromptu gigs were equally fabulous that she was headed back for planned gigs. Due to the tragic 9-11-01, she cancelled plans to return in October 8th, 2001 to Alexandria and Cairo Egypt.

2000 was a complete change of key traveling and playing with a variety of local eclectic musicians instead of the comfort zone of her band  in California. Doug, Geoff and Lou...you gave me wings...Michael you helped fuel my courage to use them and I thank you! That year she spent 6 months in Florida playing Bob's Boathouse, Gators, The Beach Club, Cap'n Curt's, Gilligan's along with a pubs in Portland, Oregon. Florida Bob..you're the greatest and thank you for sharing your band not to mention your equipment with me.

1999, Melody In ASIA MINOR turned out a wonderful response from 98.1 Monster Rock in Makati, Manila, Puerto Galera, Quezon City, Boracay, Mindoro Philippines. Thanks to ALL my friends (espcially Rey my soul driver)and the club owners in Boracay (Nigi Nigi Nu Nu's, Sulu Star and La Reserve), Manila and Makati (Hobbit House). I'd have to say, playing in Caticlan, Iloilo, Puerto Galera, PI, St. Lucia, Aruba, Grenada and Boracay on the trips over were some of the most inspirational experiences I've ever had..1999 turned me on to the people who are so wonderful where they were. It was worth all the travel and casual machine gun toters for the simple fact that they really just love being happy. Music does that sometimes. That's what keeps music my passion. I recommend to any Indie band or musician to just travel and get your music out there. I did. I used the Internet to book my gigs all over the world before the internet was a household use. I'm not famous anywhere but I am on Mtv Asia Minor...Major Melody's Tunnel Vision. There is no need to wait for a major label anymore. If your passion is playing music...take it to the people. They are waiting. It really does work! I'm living proof. Well, I was. Stay tuned. I'm flat right now losing air. I spent October of 2003 in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. Great experiences. Upcoming gigs were not in the spotlight until late in 2007 in Australia and Vanuatu where Captitol FM107 is still airing her music. Thank you Kyra and Dee. You ROCK. Melody still tends to move where the spirit takes her these days. The spirit took her to the skies across the world once again...

WEEKEND UPDATE: The sound damage anyone experiences overnight is defintely something to be thought about carefully and then go for broke to get the best technology you can that can help you catch up to what you already know...Hi Tech companies invent quickly now due to the so called Baby Boomers...whom don't wish to look like they wear hearing devices...so POOF....all the money is flowing as it should to help everyone with sound damage from rocking out themselves in the 60's. This ride is the funkiest one she's never paid to ride. Picture and hear water running...this is now perceived as the sound of bacon frying on high. All that is required is to learn the new programming language. She's got the beat. The broken back, nose, eye socket, cheeks, multiple facial breaks only needed time as it has remained on her side to heal. Currently, her spirit seems to be a Phoenix rising up from the ash. "Don't take it from me now"...She's back and singing and drumming live in 2007 and 2008 though on a different platform while airing in two countries simultaneously. You can do anything if you just change your tune with your perception of who you think you are. Melody wrote the previous song at her Godparents (Julian & Elain Samuels) place in Palm Springs/Desert in California. They along with her Grandmother reminded her that giving up is not an option nor in her foundation so she chose to break on through to the other side instead. You only get what you give and she's got the music in her. Everyone who happens to read this is obviously a huge part in helping her spirit grow by giving Melody the strength she needs inside to dig deep. All of your love, words, hugs and smiles of support are all that is needed for her to keep on keeping on. She loves her true "FAN—ILY" and answers all inquiries personally. 

Michael, you followed your heart and it lead you the way. You held these pieces and wove them....FAMILY is MADE, NOT BORN. Blood is not thicker than water, love is. Love is love when time stands still............
I stand by you....KISS PROMISE! Mike, Without You....I would not be as far along as I am my true friend.

melodyfellows@yahoo.com

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