Maya Bohnhoff

Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff have been playing music together since 1979. Jeff is a guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording engineer. Maya, in addition to having a gorgeous singing voice is a respected science fiction and fantasy author. They are known for writing both parodies and haunting original songs.

Jeff and Maya have recorded three CDs: Retro Rocket Science - a collection of wicked parodies of classic rock songs; their second album Manhattan Sleeps which showcases original songs; and their latest - another CD of parodies, Aliens Ate My Homework!

Jeff and Maya recently collaborated with ex-Duras Sisters Chris Dickenson and Elizabeth Burnham on the CD Harmony Heifers, which Jeff produced and arranged. Jeff also produced and arranged Nancy Freeman's CD Blues for Dumuzi on which he also played many instruments. When not working in their studio, they can usually be found at cons loitering around filk circles late at night. Jeff and Maya are the co-creators of three children: Alex -19, Kristine - 11, and Amanda, who was born in December 2002.

Representative work for the 2005 Pegasus Awards (Note: this song is NOT a Pegasus nominated song- it is a representative work for Best Performer and/or Best Writer/Composer categories):

Won't Get Fooled

(To the tune of "Won't Get Fooled Again")
Lyric © 1995 Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff
Used by permission

We’ll be fighting in the aisles
For the format of our files.
And the OS we were using will be gone.
While the man who spurred us on
Delays our upgrades for so long.
He decides and our systems sing the song.

Chorus
Press any key for the MS solution.
Click my mouse for the new revolution.
Smile and grin at the changes all around.
Will I have enough RAM today,
To boot up Plug & Play?
Better get on my knees and pray -
We don’t get fooled again.

The new OS came today -
It promised us a better way.
We were liberated from 640k.
But my resources are drained.
And my disk access is lame.
They used the banners from the last market campaign.

Chorus

I move my cards and my data aside
If they happen to be left half alive.
I load all my drivers and I pray to the sky,
Because I know the monopolized never die.

There’s nothing on the screen
Looks any different to me.
All the icons are erased by and by.
And the close box on the left,
Is now the close box on the right.
And the page fault errors still rule the night.

Chorus

Meet the new DOS
Same as the old DOS....