nothing is real

Yes, strongly

Yes, a bit

No, I'm indifferent towards those years

No, I have complicated feelings about those years

No, I didn't like those years

I don't remember enough to form an opinion on this

Nuance/results

The fag of the day is Sir Paul McCartney!

Yeah there are photos of that :D Bela's own hair colour is dark brown, and Farin's is what he has described as "dunkel blond" before, so what that is, a darker shade of blond? Looking at his childhood photos it looks like he's also a case of that classic blond that starts almost white in one's childhood and then gets darker by age (mine is the exact same too, btw, altho I've dyeing mine with black since I was 19 :DD).

This is Bela's real hair colour afaik:

I don't remember where I read it and take this with a grain of salt because I can't fact-check this now, but I think I read somewhere that during this time he had read that someone in media or so criticised him for always dyeing his hair and not being capable of being with his real hair colour or whatever, and he decided to be like "you know what? let's not dye it then" and did not dye it with anything for a couple of years. So Jazz ist anders! and OVERKILLER era are Bela with his actual undyed haircolour.

Farin on the other hand, there are not many times when he'd have shown up without bleached hair or otherwise dyed hair. Sometimes he does photography stuff without dyeing his hair, but it seems like he needs his hair to be at least bleached before he agrees to do any music stuff in public. But I THINK he has his real colour or at least roots in most of these images:

Also there are several clips on Schattenreich when they're in studio, and I think that's his own colour. Or, what his hair colour was when he was in his 30s.

I know from an experience that natural blond hair in photos is always a hoax because it always looks lighter or darker than in real life because of how it reflects light, and especially if flash is used (which is very normal in studio photography like promo pics etc.), so I'd say these Schattenreich clips are closest to reality because they're filmed with a video camera without a flash. (Like, I have lots of childhood photos where my hair looks almost brown and then in the next one it's extremely light blond, and I never ever dyed it until I was 19 and went directly to black hair. I think my own colour is very similar to Farin's in these clips so it used to behave the same way in photos.)

His hair is much darker nowadays tho, and I have a bunch of these weird-ass FURT photos that I still don't know why they exists, but here's one, tho it's a bit desaturated photo (and why is there a godzilla at the background, and why have I never noticed that before???):

Have two more actually because they're not as saturated but his hair looks so much darker but again, I have no idea if it's actually that dark irl or if it's just the camera doing things again. (Damn Schrödinger's hair colour the blond hair...)

What comes to more recent photos, as I said, he often does not dye his hair for photography related stuff and you can see his current real haircolour in this photos for his idk how to even call this, but anyway for this talk tour he's gonna do later this year :D This one is from his website.

Anyway, here are a few more pictures of Bela as a teenager with undyed hair.

Yeah there are photos of that :D Bela's own hair colour is dark brown, and Farin's is what he has described as "dunkel blond" before, so what that is, a darker shade of blond? Looking at his childhood photos it looks like he's also a case of that classic blond that starts almost white in one's childhood and then gets darker by age (mine is the exact same too, btw, altho I've dyeing mine with black since I was 19 :DD).

This is Bela's real hair colour afaik:

I don't remember where I read it and take this with a grain of salt because I can't fact-check this now, but I think I read somewhere that during this time he had read that someone in media or so criticised him for always dyeing his hair and not being capable of being with his real hair colour or whatever, and he decided to be like "you know what? let's not dye it then" and did not dye it with anything for a couple of years. So Jazz ist anders! and OVERKILLER era are Bela with his actual undyed haircolour.

Farin on the other hand, there are not many times when he'd have shown up without bleached hair or otherwise dyed hair. Sometimes he does photography stuff without dyeing his hair, but it seems like he needs his hair to be at least bleached before he agrees to do any music stuff in public. But I THINK he has his real colour or at least roots in most of these images:

Also there are several clips on Schattenreich when they're in studio, and I think that's his own colour. Or, what his hair colour was when he was in his 30s.

I know from an experience that natural blond hair in photos is always a hoax because it always looks lighter or darker than in real life because of how it reflects light, and especially if flash is used (which is very normal in studio photography like promo pics etc.), so I'd say these Schattenreich clips are closest to reality because they're filmed with a video camera without a flash. (Like, I have lots of childhood photos where my hair looks almost brown and then in the next one it's extremely light blond, and I never ever dyed it until I was 19 and went directly to black hair. I think my own colour is very similar to Farin's in these clips so it used to behave the same way in photos.)

His hair is much darker nowadays tho, and I have a bunch of these weird-ass FURT photos that I still don't know why they exists, but here's one, tho it's a bit desaturated photo (and why is there a godzilla at the background, and why have I never noticed that before???):

Have two more actually because they're not as saturated but his hair looks so much darker but again, I have no idea if it's actually that dark irl or if it's just the camera doing things again. (Damn Schrödinger's hair colour the blond hair...)

What comes to more recent photos, as I said, he often does not dye his hair for photography related stuff and you can see his current real haircolour in this photos for his idk how to even call this, but anyway for this talk tour he's gonna do later this year :D This one is from his website.

Anyway, here are a few more pictures of Bela as a teenager with undyed hair.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

because SURPRISE, there's no such thing as "plastic" either. every kind of wood is basically the same on a chemical level, but the only thing every plastic has in common is "some of its molecules are long" and that is NOT a quality that determines how things stick together.

I just ordered some stuff I hope will permanently stick a circuit board to a steel sheet and withstand temperatures up to 150 degrees. by the way circuit boards are made of epoxy-bound woven glass cloth which is cool as hell but what the fuck do you glue that with? can any of the 12 kinds of adhesives I currently own do that? no of course not. if I want to stick two pieces of acrylic together so hard they become watertight to a depth of 3000 metres I have some shit that does that, but it does literally nothing else.

Anyway, when I started my diploma in chemistry (like majoring in it for you Americans) I came across a leaflet looking for someone to do their thesis on the interaction between different glues and paper. Like looking into it on a microscopic and spectroscopic level. And I remember looking at this ad and thinking oh my god. This is the most boring thing ever. Who in their right mind would want to research that.

Well I was so wrong. Of course this is a fascinating subject! And so useful!