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 Lynx and Lamb Gaede at the age of eleven.
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| Background information | |
| Born | June 30, 1992 |
| Origin | Bakersfield, California |
| Genres | White Nationalist Pop |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Resistance |
| Website | none |
| Members | |
| Lynx Gaede Lamb Gaede |
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Prussian Blue is a white nationalist pop teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Vaughan Gaede[1] and Lamb Lennon Gaede,[2] fraternal twin girls born on June 30, 1992 in Bakersfield, California.[3]
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Lynx and Lamb Gaede first performed together by singing at a white nationalist festival called "Eurofest" in 2001.[4] They began learning how to play instruments in 2002 (Lamb plays the guitar and Lynx plays the violin). In the same year they appeared on a VH1 special called Inside Hate Rock. In 2003, they were featured in a Louis Theroux BBC documentary, entitled Louis and the Nazis, on racism and white supremacy in the United States. Lamb, Lynx, and their mother April also appeared in the low-budget 2003 horror film called Dark Walker.[5]
They recorded and released a debut CD at the end of 2004 called Fragment of the Future (Resistance Records) which had both an acoustic folk-rock and a bubblegum pop sound. A year later, they recorded their second album, The Path We Chose, which has a more traditional rock sound including both acoustic and electric guitar. Most of the songs on the second album lack the racial and nationalist overtones of Fragment of the Future and are about more mainstream subject matter, like boys, crushes, and dating. On October 20, 2005, Prussian Blue was featured in a critical segment on ABC's Primetime.[6] A DVD, Blonde Hair Blue Eyes, featuring three music videos and some live performances, was released in 2005. The duo toured the United States in 2005. On August 22, 2006, they were again featured in a critical segment on ABC's Primetime.
The duo moved with their mother (April Gaede), their stepfather (Mark Harrington) and their younger half-sister, Dresden from Bakersfield, California to Kalispell, Montana in 2006 because, in their mother's words, Bakersfield was "not white enough." Some of their new neighbors did not welcome them; many city residents passed out fliers warning of the duo's views, and signs proclaiming "No Hate Here" appeared on a few windows around the town. Some of the people who passed out flyers received threatening letters from members of out-of-state white supremacist organizations.[7] The Montana Human Rights Network planned a rally in Kalispell to protest the family's white nationalist views.[7][8]
The duo toured Europe in the summer of 2007, performing at events for white nationalist organizations. They also appeared as guests on The Political Cesspool. As of early 2009, the band's Web site and MySpace page are no longer operational.
The group had strong ties to the National Vanguard organization, a white nationalist group formed by disaffected former members of the National Alliance. Their ideology has been described as racist and white supremacist in nature by many organizations.[6][9][10] The Daily Telegraph reports that, on stage, the twins execute Nazi salutes.[9]
According to ABC News, the girls were homeschooled by their mother, April Gaede, an activist and writer for the white nationalist organization National Vanguard.[6] The twins' maternal grandfather, who lives in Squaw Valley, California, wears a swastika belt buckle, uses the Nazi symbol on his truck, and registered it as a cattle brand.[6] During their ABC interview, the twins said they believe Adolf Hitler was a great man with good ideas and they described the Holocaust as being exaggerated. They have also been criticized for stipulating that goods they donated to Hurricane Katrina victims should go only to white people; "After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia."[9]
The band was named after the color Prussian blue. In an interview with Vice Magazine, the twins stated, "Part of our heritage is Prussian German. Also our eyes are blue, and Prussian Blue is just a really pretty color." They also mentioned that, "There is also the discussion of the lack of 'Prussian Blue' coloring (Zyklon B residue) in the so-called gas chambers in the concentration camps. We think it might make people question some of the inaccuracies of the 'Holocaust' myth."[11] This is a reference to the claims[12][13][14] often made by many Holocaust deniers that the Holocaust either could not have happened as commonly believed, or that the number of victims must have been far lower.
Most of the songs on Prussian Blue's first album are covers of white nationalist songs. The majority of those were written by David Lane, Ian Stuart, and Ken McLellan. Two of Prussian Blue's songs on their first album are dedicated to famous Nazis and neo-Nazi activists, including Rudolf Hess and Robert Jay Mathews. One of those songs, which was written by Lamb, is "Sacrifice".[6]
Another song, "Gone With the Breeze," is dedicated to Robert Mathews. The cover songs on their album invoke ideas like Valhalla and Vinland, taken from Norse mythology and sagas. Several songs, including "Victory Day," refer to a race war which they believe to be coming soon.
Prussian Blue also released a cover of a song called "Ocean of Warriors" in mp3 format, dedicated to white participants in the 2005 Sydney, Australia race rioting.[15]
In 2006, a compilation album was released through the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) titled For The Fatherland.[16]
Prussian Blue was parodied in Ryan J. Davis and Joe Drymala's musical, White Noise.[17] The show received rave reviews and was featured on Good Morning America[18] and ABC Primetime Live.[19] The show has been optioned for a major New York run.[20]
Prussian Blue has appeared in two British television documentaries. The first, 2003's Louis and the Nazis by documentary maker Louis Theroux, was an account of white nationalists, including Prussian Blue. The second, Nazi Pop Twins, by James Quinn, was first aired in 2007. This documentary stressed the tension that existed between the twins and their mother, April. In this documentary, Lynx and Lamb disavowed their mother's race-related views and said that they wanted to perform music that was not focused on race. Lynx told Quinn that they wore the infamous t-shirts a smiley face that resembled Adolf Hitler because she believed they "were a joke" and said that "being proud of being white" did not mean she was a racist.[21] Louis Theroux would later revisit the duo and their mother to collect material for his book, Call of the Weird.
The duo were parodied in a Boston Legal episode entitled "The Nutcrackers," in which Alan Shore successfully defended a family from losing custody of their two daughters, a pair of white supremacist singers.[22]
The duo were also featured in a 2006 issue of Bernard Goldberg's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
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Prussian Blue are a white nationalist band consisting of fraternal twin sisters Lynx and Lamb Gaede.
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Prussian blue, also known as Berlin blue, is a dark blue colour that is artificially made.
It is one of the first pigments made synthetically. It was accidentally found in 1704 by two chemists in Berlin.[1]
The dark blue uniforms of the Prussian army were dyed this colour.[2]
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A colour can be shown by hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, and other computing applications. The hex triplet to represent Prussian blue is 003153.
When using the RGB color model where red, green, and blue light are added together, Prussian blue has the RGB code of 0, 49, 83
Prussian blue is a medicine that is sometimes given by doctors to help remove certain radioactive materials from people’s bodies. It has been used this way since the 1960s.[3]
Prussian blue is a chemical compound. One of the chemical elements in this compound is iron.[2]
Researchers have experimented replacing some of the iron atoms in Prussian blue with cobalt. When the Prussian blue compound is lit with a red light at -150 C, the compound shifts from being non-magnetic (off) to magnetic (on). The magnetic shift does not change back except if deliberately reversed (or undone) with heat.[2]
This magnetism is due to the transfer of an electron from the cobalt to the iron, with light providing the energy, while the electron moves back when heat is applied, the researchers said.[2]
This magnetic property means the compound can be used in computer storage. Because the compound can be turned "on" and "off" in a controlled way, it can remember binary information. Binary information is used for computer storage.[2]
This way of using the compound is still being developed.[2]
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