It's on my driver's license, which ensures that I don't forget it.

Yes, of course! There's nothing like being on stage with a good band behind you!

It is bringing it to its knees. It's making artists get off their lazy butts to tour again, rather than make a cheesy video and sit back as the cash rolls in. The current generation of pop music artists is ridiculously spoilt!

Would I paint myself with chicken blood and jump into a shark tank? Would you?

Born in Mount Vernon, Westchester, NY, Axella Johannesson's family moved to Long Island, NY in 1963. Her parents later divorced, her mother remarried, and the family settled in St James, NY, where she lived from ages 9 to 18, and considers home .

Johannesson never liked eating meat, and gave it up in late childhood. She did the same for religion, and has been an avowed atheist since before her teens.

Johannesson used birthday money to buy a Sears Silvertone guitar from a catalog, which she used to write her first song at 13 years of age. It was called Save the World , and she later described it as, "pretty awful, as you'd expect. I didn't say how the world should be saved, just that it should be". If nothing else, it foreshadowed the activism that was to come later in her life.

Johannesson has always credited her mother's 45 RPM records of 1960s pop music, as well as her parents' and grandparents' music collections, with inspiring her to write her own songs. She grew up hearing The Animals, The Mills Brothers, Trini Lopez, The Beatles, and many others, played around hers and her grandparents' homes.

Throughout her school years, Johannesson played in cover bands, as well as performing her own songs at coffee house gigs with her acoustic guitar.

After her first marriage, she became an activist in the fight against the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. She was also active as a consumer advocate on issues affecting Long Islanders. She had three children before her marriage broke up.

Johannesson moved to Australia in late 1989. In 1991, she remarried.

Johannesson took advantage of the on-line music revolution in the mid-to-late 1990s. Her music began to appear on sites such as MP3.com, IUMA, Ampcast, Garage Band, and others. She achieved several genre Number Ones on MP3.com, with her song, "Come and Go" , and a cover of Mary Wells "My Guy" being the most successful. She held the number one spot site-wide for an entire month on Ampcast with the song, "Mama Never Told You About Me" , written jointly with Jon Andersen of Texas. Her music has received airplay on internet, community, and commercial radio in many countries.

So far, Johannesson made two CDs available, Fighting the Good Fight , and Mama Never Told You About Me , as well as a number of singles. She continues to reside in Australia, and and is currently at work on a new CD project.

JL Hooker, The Animals, 60's pop, Led Zep, Jefferson Airplane, et al

Pompeii

Lots of guitars, bass, some amps, keyboards, harmonicas