♪ ♫ Melody on Oz Radio ♪ ♫

WELCOME to a little bungle in the jungle....2009 is here with more than a little Bungle in the Jungle of change about to come into play throughout the world on January 20th. Living history is the ultimate reality show needing no air date...just live your history. Now, just get your tunes out there streaming on the radio stations you can possibly tour around too. Forget the record deal...go video or commercial and Stream On. Nothing should ever be written or set in stone with any Concrete Blonde. Jungle Love can drive her mad...making her crazy, crazy...but, she'd rather continue flying like an eagle to the sea while sometimes taking it--to the limit---one more time......This artist owes a debt of gratitude to  Mike McKeig. His artwork speaks this. Thank you to all my fans. Dreams do come true.

Melody has been living by experiencing  learning from many wonderful people along the magical, mystery tour she created for herself to continue to thrive, sometimes in Yellow Submarines. Chances are excellent you are viewing this site after meeting Melody with Love, American Style while she lives her life's song singing, traveling and jamming across musical hemispheres in the 20th & 21st Century Fox DAZE. Most times, these days occurred in various developing countries throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, South Pacific, China as well as other cool countries in other fabulous places like: Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Hong Kong, Macau, Mexico, Egypt, St. Lucia, Aruba, Curacao, Barbados, Venezuela and phew....not all, but a plethora of States in America. She's yet to hit Canada, Russia, Greece, Croatia & France. Anywhere on the Adriatic is still a dream to make true.  

Melody was in Florida in January 2008 just 'to be' and enjoy Siesta Key. The beach home on the white quartz sand beach is still what the heart orders. Anyone caring to visit it, just let her know.

In May, Melody was in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ to see her two pseudo sons Jared & Derek. Pseudo son #2 is Derek Nicoli Teigen and she & Mike got to enjoy him graduate from U of A....her little dehydro boy is all grown up. In late October, 2007 she traveled to the heart of the States in Indiana & cherished the time with her "fave Fam" cousins. They played some guitar, jamming on a new Pearl drumset while passing a few beats for the next generation to rock on. The beat goes on with Jenifer, Andy, Liv, Mark...and uh.....Drake....you are all here to stay, but Drake, just watch your indoor pee brakes and you're good to go? Ewwwww  Some difficult times have recently occurred for her cousin's family; check out http://www.beyondthatrise.blogspot.com and give Mark even more REAL TIME support. He maintains a wonderfully positive attitude with completing the 5th round of chemo. Send a loving hello anytime.

Melody had an extraordinary time preparing for her 4th trip Down Under last year & summer beginning the latter trip in September. Each trip Down Under in "OZ", she met the most compelling and honestly joyful people on planes, trains and automobiles throughout....the Wizard and Toto are doing well too. The first trip was so inspiring meeting people such as her friend Vilma at Jimmy's on the CBD in Oz she was compelled to play out the role of livng life as she can. She very much wishes to thank the DJ she has never met named Arnold who introduced her so kindly as he aired her songs in Queensland. She also wishes to thank Eddie for helping to make that dream possible. The Djembe vibes and drum circles we played indeed helped prove the beat does go on with a little help from your friends. Thank you Eddie. You are a star.

VANUATU was truly a dream come true Melody had since she was 10. The country was called New Hebrides at that time when she told herself she would perform there someday for those wonderful people. The people at Poppy's & the Sebel remain in her heart and she hasn't the vocabulary to thank Kira and Dee at FM 107 enough for their kindness interviewing her live on air September 5th, 2007. You all rock and added so much joy to her life. Marah, Estelle and everyone whom she met all over the islands really touched her life. 

MELODY'S ANGELS : Melody shared some 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 is singing 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 & in Boothbay Harbor, Maine where she spent a week with her wonderful 1st & 2nd cousins & Great Uncle Richard Fellows. It was exactly what Doctor Bombay ordered to kick start her engine again.

As noted, August 2006 in Maine she soaked in at Harborfields in a lovely cabin where her Great Uncle Dick Fellows & his family gathers every summer for decades in their cabins sharing love and good time adventures each summer; it was magic. Helen, her lovely 2nd cousin has a musical and artistic gift with her water color work to go along with her beautiful smile..She played a fabulous duet on flute with her father on guitar Amazing Grace never sounded so great played after a yummy dinner from the grill with Lucia & Jonathan as hosts overlooking the water. Sarah, Melody had a wonderful time with you and enjoyed her dinner together with you in Boothbay. Robbie, what's your total skip record now? Diego & Will...the brain game has still not been shattered in record by you.

In the years 2004-2006, she 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 summers. 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 on her own and came up with a little webpage with the help of "Magick" her 18 year old Blue Russian cat in the cradle at the time pawing out his own text at random. 12 years ago she won #3 in one of the first internet Demo Derby music contests, but "realatively" no one in her family of friends had a computer or knowledge of the internet let alone an email address to vote for her &...#3 will always remain a cherished charm as it truly was based on merit. Now, there are buttons, bells & whistles. Magick her beloved Blue Russian cat helped her get by with a little help as her best friend before he felt the need to break on through to 'The Other Side" of The Doors of Perception himself. Melody held Magick in her arms next to her heart for his last breath June 24, 2004. Magick lives on within her  forever. Yes, the beat goes on.

Her good friend Mike she met at the day job 12 years ago when this online craze began has continued to help her roll and modulate with life's dramatic changes! This newly updated site is thanks to his efforts soley! You have a gift Mike and I thank you for sharing and spending some of it with me.

As life has shown, it turns out Melody is a real survivor/flourisher & cannot ever be voted off any of the islands she sings & plays drums in the Third World islands/countries she loves. They say they "love her" and she does indeed sing for their smiles loving them back. She does not watch reality television; she lives it. This of course does not pay the mortgages too well, but is extremely rewarding for her heart & spirit. Very few rock stars tour with a 'banca boat' named "Sweet Melody" taking them to their island gigs. This particular gal had a childhood dream of being a paleontologist & singing in the Great Pyramid when she was 9...she later lived to experience the passion to bring musical dreams to reality two decades later. Oprah's guestlist didn't exist when the dreams were in the kettle and thankfully, Melody creates her own mischief out of tabloid torture. Many of her fans who did not die in the tsunami December 26th, 2004 still happily live in their trees or shanty shacks. Currently, Myanmar (formerly Burma) was hit by a cyclone and now a strong earthquake of 7.8 in Central China. World Turnin'? These areas are filled with wonderful people in great times of need similar to one's here in the U.S. with hurricane Katrina and now the tornadoes in Oklahoma. Help where you can in your own community, abroad or both.

LEARNING LESSONS: Release all Gone With the Wind friends who may be hanging on for the ride. It's is a challenge at best; however, only shine with like kinds for your spirit to grow. Time after Time when some judge & condemn others before knowing ALL facts...it causes an eternal walk on eggshells without a heartfelt true friend walking by your side to share the good, bad and ugly. This becomes very difficult traversing pebble beaches on anyone's journey. 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 you shatter. Real Friends don't give up on one another, but sometimes...you must let them fly so you can be free to "be". Live your reality & stand by your true friends.

Currently, Melody gets by with a little help from some new bluetooth friends and surrounds herself with quality people forging first class authentic friendships. Introduce yourself to even more wonderful people on your own journey. 

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

THOSE WHOM REQUEST THE DEMO THAT BEGAN THE DREAM: IT'S FREE! The full CD Will be finished when the spirt is in the sky again. Those whom know the live versions, the CD will include "Silver Lining", "Almost Perfect Angel", "Savannah Jane" and "Without You". 
Click here or on the "Music" link above for MELODY'S FREE MP3s. 

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