Additionally, Thorsten Kiefer joined the band as a keyboarder the same year.
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Simon Gore (born 1988) is a Welsh guitarist, keyboarder, composer, and audio/visual artist.
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The freehand- drawings are from singer Richard J. Thallinger, the band logo from drummer Martin Wagner and layout designs are from keyboarder Klaus Schobesberger.
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2001 Frank Morawa took over the place of Andreas Weber. 2013, guitarist and singer Robert Lennerts and keyboarder / accordionist and singer Marcus Schmitter performed, appearing since 1990 as "Die Original Bergischen Gaudibuam" and since 2006 as "De Spetzbove", Willi Wilden and Dieter Steudter, working together with keyboarder Frank Morawa Cast of the music group. Robert Lennerts left the group in 2015 for professional reasons. For him came Fred Isenberg as a new singer.
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Here she studied at the Grieg Academy. Her debut solo album Looking On (2006) was recorded with drummer Stein Inge Brækhus, bassist Torbjørn Hillersøy, keyboarder Eivind Austad, and trumpeter Snorre Farstad.
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While in the beginning also a lead vocalist, Hinkel is now the band's guitarist. Both share songwriting duties. From 1991 to 2003, bassist Thomas Mangold (b. 25 September 1965), keyboarder Roland Röhl (b. 6.
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E.M.T. (1972–1975) were an international experimental and free improvising music group with German multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth, Swedish drummer and composer Sven-Åke Johansson, Belgian keyboarder and artist Nicole Van den Plas and guests.
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Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome (subtitled "And the Finnish keyboarder who didn't want to wear his Donald Duck costume: Live in Montreal")) is a live album from the German power metal band Gamma Ray, released in 2008.
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Since van Garderen lived a different life where music had no place, he couldn't join Fiala in the band, but he supported her by sending her most of the old recordings to be officially released on vinyl. So she engaged a new keyboarder, wrote new songs and played some concerts. Over time it turned out, that the keyboarder deceived her and ripped her off, so that Fiala had to split up with him and Nine Circles was on the verge of "dying" again. In 2012 Nine Circles was revived a second time.
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Some critics compared it to Oasis, who were at the peak of their popularity at that time. In 1996, Myslovitz were joined by a third guitarist and keyboarder, Przemek Myszor, and released the second album Sun Machine on Sony Music Polska.
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Their seventh album, Tuff Enuff was released only in Austria. In 1996 they disbanded. Original Keyboarder Michael Wallace was killed 1999.reggaeboyzsc.com "Michael Wallace", retrieved 12 January 2018 Chalice regrouped in 2006, ten years after their last performance at Reggae Sumfest.
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Lonely Drifter Karen are a multi-national pop band, based in Brussels, Belgium. The band consists of Austrian singer Tanja Frinta, keyboarder and producer Marc Melià Sobrevias from Spain and the two Frenchmen Maxime Malon on drums and Clément Marion on guitar, who joined the band in 2012.
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Patey has contributed on more than 40 albums. In the 1980s he toured Norway with his own band PATEYs PIPE. Together with the keyboarder Brynjulf Blix, bassist Geir Holmsen and drummer Bjørn Jenssen as the first lineup. Later many other renown Norwegian artists have been on the list.
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During the shows in Iceland and Paris, keyboarder Jónas Sen joined to play new versions of "Pleasure is All Mine" on organ and "Vertebrae by Vertebrae" and "Sacrifice" on the harpsichord. Harpist Zeena Parkins joined during the American legs of the tour and also played a reworked version of "Sacrifice" with a harp.
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Retrieved on 8 April 2010.Frank Marino is a new Dreamscape singer! blogs.myspace.com. 8 July 2009. Retrieved on 8 April 2010. which was released in 2012, titled Everlight. After release of Everlight it became quiet around the band. Keyboarder David Bertok, drummer Danilo Batdorf and former bassist Ralf Schwager joined Sieges Even successor Subsignal.
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At the beginning of 2004, the Baumstam reunited with a reissue of On Tour. Young guitarist and keyboarder Adrian Klawitter took the place of Michael Lobbe. In January 2005, the LP/CD Dreams of Yesterday was released with new songs in the typical Baumstam style. Anna Weigand (vocals, flute, percussion) sang with the band from 2004 till August 2006.
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Andreas "Andy" Töfferl (24 July 1955 in Wolfsberg, Carinthia; - 5 May 2012 in Graz, StyriaORF-Online: Ex-EAV-Keyboarder Andy Töfferl tot; accessed on 6th May 2012) was an Austrian multi-instrumentalist, actor and entertainer. From 1990 until 2001 he was a member of the Austrian band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung and amongst others was a colleague of Franz Zettl.
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After Flashback, Müller left the band and was replaced by Jan Hees with Thorsten Kiefer joining as a keyboarder. The band's latest album, Rise and Fall, was released 20 April 2018. The band's musical style ranges from britpop and pop rock, inspired by bands such as The Beatles and The Who, to baroque pop and electronic pop.
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In December 1995, keyboarder Martin Reichert and in January 1996 guitarist Finn Dierks joined the band. Oliver Fliegel left the band in 1996. After Finn Dierks moved to the U.S. he was replaced by Jörn Schubert. In Summer 1998, Dark Age recorded their first album entitled, The Fall, which was released after a contract with Remedy Records.
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They were released in Europe and South Korea. Songs from these solo albums became part of the group's live repertoire. The keyboarder of Neoton Familia György Jakab was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1995, passing away in 1996. His dream, a last concert was produced without him, but in his memory, in 1998 by all of the ex-members of the group.
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The video also includes an interview with Popović where she talks about balancing her career and her family. In addition to her regular backing band of bassist Ronald Jonker, keyboarder Michele Papadia, and drummer Andrew "Blaze" Thomas, Popović added additional percussion by Stéphane Avellaneda, some brass with Cristiano Arcelli on saxophone and Riccardo Giulietti on trumpet, and some backing vocals by Sandra LaVille.
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They recorded two albums. In 1996, Jacob played on Inspiration, a cover album recorded by Yngwie J. Malmsteen. In the early 2000s, Jacob studied psychology at Stockholm University for a few years. In 2005 Jacob was one of three new players to participate in the Swedish/German hard rock band Last Autumn's Dream for its second studio album, along with drummer Jamie Borger and keyboarder Thomas Lassar.
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Dario Grillo was replaced by Fingerbang singer Dario Cascio. At the same time guitarist Giovanni Santini decided to leave the band and was replaced by Simone Campione. During the end of year 2007, the other founding member, Giuseppe Bondi, left Thy Majestie due to personal reasons. A new keyboarder, Valerio Castorino, was taken in and the band signed with a new record label, Dark Balance Records.
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During it, keyboarder Ewald Beit was supporting the shows for the first time as he had already been playing on the first studio recordings. Amidst the production of records and extensive tours, S.T.S. took creative breaks of several months each. In 1986 the biggest S.T.S. tour so far followed. It included 50 shows and brought the trio to Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, amongst other places.
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For recording the debut album “It Had To Do With Love” and the following tour, Jared Rosenberg joined the band as the second keyboarder. The band now focused on the use of piano and synthesizer. With Rosenberg in the band, the sound of Koufax changed substantially. Through his rhythmic and melodic playing the pieces are noticeably more dynamic and swinging, which continued for the next records.
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He impersonated the teenager Craig alongside Heiner Lauterbach (as Craig's grandfather 'Stanley Oxenford') and Sophie von Kessel (as Craig's mother 'Olga'). In his first feature film, the youth film Rock It! (2010), he played the role of Marc, the keyboarder of the rock band, alongside Maria Ehrich and Emilia Schüle. Before the film, he had keyboard lessons for six years and then got guitar lessons for the film.
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The fourth album of the band, Gæti eins verið... from 1982, showed a completely new style, the new wave music. The acoustic instruments were nearly completely substituted by synthesizers; keyboarder Karl Sighvattson and bassoonist Rúnar Vilbergsson had left the band. After some recording sessions for a new album in 1983 and 1984, the band split. One reason was that the band's success did not progress to countries other than Iceland.
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In 1996 Mario LeMole decided to focus more on his singing and hired bassist Jan Michael Keller and later keyboarder Andreas Dirksmeier. In late 1996, after playing various shows in Germany, the band went on a Europe Tour as support band for Vicious Rumors. The next album Nailed to the Shade was recorded in 1997 and released in 1998. The 4th album named Sings was recorded and released in 1999.
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Keyboarder Adrian Askew Lake also left the band in 2012 to support Clem Clempson in his solo career. Both are already playing on the 2008 produced studio album "Mad Dog Blues", which was released in mid-January 2009. In 2011, they toured with Arthur Brown and Chris Farlowe . In the "Friends for a LIVEtime" tour in winter / spring 2013, the trio Lange / Becker / Wallbaum continued to perform together with the guitarist Miller Anderson .
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He got married in 1974 and became the spokesperson of the "Aktionsgruppe Volksschullehrer" that paved the way for the legal equality of primary and secondary school teachers. 1975 he changed his Anglo-American style mix into Austrian dialect and added elements of folk music. Without much expectation for success for this kind of Alpine music, he toured through Austria and Bavaria with the Coverband "Broadway" as a part- time keyboarder and singer.
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With 1998's Dead School Hamburg (a jab at the Hamburger Schule trend of music), the band further altered their style, pursuing a greater emphasis on electronic instrumentation. Their album Schafott zum Fahrstuhl, takes a more avant-garde direction. Of the founding members, only Schorsch Kamerun and Ted Gaier remain. The new members are Thomas Wenzel (Die Sterne) under the pseudonym Julius Block, keyboarder and drummer Mense Reents (Egoexpress, Stella), and Enno Paluca.
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Mats Anders Björke was born on June 10, 1982, in Falun (Sweden). In 2002 he moved to Stockholm due to music studies; at the same time he worked and played in bands. In spring 2003 Mats ended his music studies with no intention of continuing at another public institution. When he heard that Mando Diao were looking for a new keyboarder after the break-up with Daniel Haglund, he immediately applied for the job.
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Dauner received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in 2016 the Echo for his life's work. The same year, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was awarded a special prize of the 2016 Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberg, as one of the most versatile jazz pianists and keyboarders ("einer der vielseitigsten Jazzpianisten und -keyboarder unserer Zeit") which included a concert in Stuttgart. He also received the Staufermedaille of the state Baden-Württemberg then.
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His first solo album was released in 2004; a live album called Live: Auge in Auge (Live: eye to eye). Quite a few cover songs were on the record, but also original works, penned by Eric or Bodenski. The years of touring start to pay off, with the first sold-out concerts and coverage in the German music press. A new man joins in: Gerit Hecht, at first as backliner/sound engineer, but soon also onstage, as keyboarder.
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A band member in the course of the band's leader was the guitarist Gagey Mrozeck, who later played for Herbert Grönemeyer and then worked as a music producer with artists such as Udo Lindenberg. Other members were the keyboarder Chris Axel Klöber (born August 31, 1948), who had previously played with the Berlin band Curly Curve and Geff Harrison (born August 24, 1947), the former singer of Twenty Sixty Six and Then, who later started the Geff Harrison Band.
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In 1978, Charlie Steinberg (bass), Freddy Homann (guitar and vocals) and Hölmlölm Vieth (guitar) of the band Wotan, founded the band Törner Stier Crew together with the musicians Hans-Martin Stier (vocals), Walter Stoever (bass) and Olaf Schräder (drums). Steinberg becomes keyboarder of the new band. In 1979 the band wins the 1st prize of the Deutschen Phono- Akademie, the forerunner of the Echo Music Prize. 1980 followed an appearance on WDR Rockpalast and many live performances.
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Georgette Cline of AOL's The Boombox stated that the metallic dress showed off her curves during the concert. While on stage, Beyoncé was backed by a 20-piece all-female band and orchestra. The band consisted of a drummer, keyboarder, and guitarist and for the first time in Beyoncé's touring history, a horn section and an orchestra. The band additionally included, among others, two saxophonists, a guitar player, a seven-piece string section, a pianist and a conductor.
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Dream On, Dreamer was formed in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009 with vocalist Marcel Gadacz, lead guitarist Callan Orr, drummer Aaron Fiocca, bassist and clean vocalist Michael McLeod and keyboarder Daniel Jungwirth in the original line-up. After some time, Marcel Gadacz, Michael McLeod, Callan Orr, and Daniel Jungwirth started working on their debut EP which is called Set Sail, Armada. The EP was released on 3 July 2009. Their second EP, Hope, was released almost a year later, via Boomtown Records.
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Martigan was founded in March 1994 by the keyboarder Oliver Rebhan. He used his contacts in the local music-scene to unite different musicians in a new band. Rather than aiming at any commercial success the members of the band chose to write and perform music that meets their personal preferences. The work of 2 weeks composing together with Kai Marckwordt, Jürgen Edlinger, Axel Schütze and Alex Bisch can definitely be named as "Progressive Rock". The first track ‘Painter’ was born.
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Yalın soon started to write songs and eventually collaborated with Kargo's guitarist Selim Öztürk to produce an album. Selim Öztürk produced the album, while Kargo's other members Serkan Çeliköz and Burak Karataş served as keyboarder and drummer respectively. Yalın wrote all of the songs for his first album and Ellerine Sağlık was eventually released in March 2004 under the label Universal Music. The album's lead single "Zalim" became a hit in Turkey, and the album sold 200,000 copies in one week.
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The band later renamed itself to Joice (due to a misprint later as The Yoice) in 1970 with drummer Hermann-Jürgen Nienhaus (brother of Jutta) and Mauro Rattaggi (bass), the only Italian member of the band. During a music festival in Arona, a spontaneous collaboration happened with keyboarder Nikola Pankoff whilst playing a free interpretation of Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother". Pankoff became a band member thereafter. Finally, in 1972, after becoming a more centered progressive rock band, they decided to change their name to Analogy.
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Also in 2010 Frost co-founded Tel Aviv-based alternative electronic band Mambas with Jeki Ameamemet (vocals) and Gil Luz (keyboards). The trio's music incorporates elements of dance, noise and pop. The band's music, though based on electronic sounds, is played live, creating a combination of loop-based dance music and a live rock performance. In 2013 Frost produced the debut album of the Amsterdam and Tel Aviv-based band Hexenschuss by Mambas keyboarder Gil Luz and the drummer Assi Weitz (JAP, ex- Gone Bald).
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His relationship with his parents was never overshadowed by teenage rebellion; Hans and Malin as former hippies and occupied in social work had the skill to block conflicts. Björn became a member of a band for the first time at the age of fourteen when he started playing guitar in a band called “Butler”, which he founded together with Daniel Haglund, who was to be the first keyboarder of Mando Diao. Björn and Daniel knew each other from school. In 1996, Björn and Gustaf Norén met at a party.
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In 1991, Peter Freudenthaler and his childhood friend Volker Hinkel founded the band in Pforzheim and recorded their first eponymous promo-album, Fool's Garden, with Freudenthaler and Hinkel sharing vocals and songwriting and Hinkel playing guitar. Fool's Garden was self-produced with only five copies ever produced. Shortly afterwards, bassist Thomas Mangold , keyboarder Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele joined the band and they recorded Once in a Blue Moon. Released with 1000 copies in 1993, Once in a Blue Moon mostly consists of re-recordings of songs from Fool's Garden.
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Under the Red and White Sky is the first solo album by singer, songwriter and guitarist John Wesley. It was released in 1994 on Racket Records, a label operated by the British progressive rock band Marillion and used mainly for their own and related releases. Wesley had previously worked as a guitar technician on one of the band's North American tour in the early 1990s and was eventually promoted to their opening act. Marillion's keyboarder Mark Kelly appears on all tracks and also produced the album with sound engineer Jim Morris.
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DeMarchi accompanied Dolores O'Riordan in a Live performance on CBC Radio in Toronto Ontario Canada. Download link to the podcast of this radio show Dolores O'Riordan joined guest host Jesse Wente live in Studio Q to talk about her second solo album release, No Baggage, and the reunion of the Cranberries with plans for a world tour in mid November 2009. Dolores O'Riordan introduced DeMarchi on the radio show as her keyboarder. They performed the songs "Linger", "It's You" and "Zombie" between interviews with other guests on the show.
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In 2011, Hsiao played the lead role in the action film The Killer Who Never Kills and won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer for his performance. In 2013, his fourth album It's All About Love won him Best Male Vocalist at 24th Golden Melody Awards. In 2015, he formed a four-man band called Lion as singer-songwriter and keyboarder of the band, and they participated in Singer 2017 and got third. Hsiao later returned three years later on Singer 2020 as a solo singer, where he finished third.
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Dorian Concept (born Oliver Thomas Johnson; 1984 in Vienna), is an Austrian composer, producer, and keyboard artist, whose work draws on an eclectic variety of sources including modal and free jazz, funk, hip-hop, and electronic, ambient, and soundscape music. Johnson adopted his stage name as a teenager as a reference to the Dorian scale. Dorian Concept is also a member of the Austrian funk band Jacob's Salty and Bamboozling Ladder (JSBL). He also has periodically toured as a keyboarder for Flying Lotus (with Richard Spaven on drums) and collaborated with the Cinematic Orchestra.
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A live DVD, Hell Yeah - The Awesome Foursome (And The Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn't Want To Wear His Donald Duck Costume) Live in Montreal was recorded on May 6, 2006 at Le Medley in Montreal, Quebec. The setlist contained songs drawn from all of their albums up to Majestic (excluding Insanity and Genius) and also a cover of the Helloween hit "I Want Out". The DVD finally saw release on November 4, 2008. It entered the German media control charts at No. 9 and the Swedish charts at No. 1, according to the band's official website.
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Chris von Rohr: Hunde wollt ihr ewig rocken: Mein Trip durch den Rockdschungel, 1991, S. 74, 80–81, 83. Meanwhile, the musician von Rohr kept himself financially afloat as a cook in the Solothurn Restaurant & Hotel Kreuz - the first Genossenschaftsbeiz of Switzerland.Chris von Rohr: Hunde wollt ihr ewig rocken: Mein Trip durch den Rockdschungel, 1991, S. 80. After a for von Rohr in terms of musical style all in all very unpleasant but at least financially lucrative short stint with a dance band called On the Road, he and their keyboarder Michi Szabo formed the two- man band Night Train.
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In the winter of 2012, Candlemass founder and bassist Leif Edling started to work on a new project and wrote a few demos. Looking for musical partners, he first reached out to his friend, Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, but due to a lack of time, he declined. Therefore, Stockholm-based guitarist Marcus Jidell (Soen, ex-Evergrey, ex-Royal Hunt) offered to help. Soon, Tiamat drummer Lars Sköld and keyboarder Carl Westholm joined the new band and the line-up was completed by Jidell's wife Jennie-Ann Smith, whose deep and bluesy voice added a new touch to Edling's typical heavy doom riffs.
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Initially they combined hard rock with 1970s-era punk and lyrics that were both angry, yet comedic and pop-like. The band rejected the traditional music industry, seeing themselves as a symbol of artistic independence not wanting to "serve the structures of rock" (Ted Gaier.) Of the founding members, only Schorsch Kamerun and Ted Gaier remain. The new members are Thomas Wenzel (Die Sterne) under the pseudonym Julius Block, keyboarder and drummer Mense Reents (Egoexpress, Stella), and Enno Paluca. In 1986 Die Goldenen Zitronen courted initial attention with their single "Am Tag als Thomas Anders starb" ("on the day Thomas Anders died").
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Although the band's lineup changed many times, Reid was keyboarder and known as the "father and son" of Battlefield Band. One of the many accomplishments credited to Alan Reid, is his use of keyboards in a Scottish folk band. Starting first with a pump organ, then moving later to electronic keyboards, the sound originally garnered approval and momentary objection from fans and music writers alike. But soon, the sound of the keyboards became part of the basic sound of Battlefield Band, and left the door open for other Celtic bands to tailor their sound to their taste.
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Most of the songs are based on Icelandic folk songs; especially the debut album includes many traditional folk tunes which all have been turned into a progressive rock arrangement. The second album Þursabit has more psychedelic influences than the 'folkier' debut album and also features more prominent keyboards, for example the Hammond organ (played by the newly recruited keyboarder Karl Sighvatsson) and the electric piano. The band's 1980 tour is documented by the live album Á hljómleikum and imports jazz influences into the band's music. A punk rock track at the end of the album became a popular and well-known song in Iceland.
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In 1979 Rale Oberpichler, a young singer who worked mainly as a background vocalist, wanted to go solo and was looking for a song writer met Frank Hieber, a Pianist, Keyboarder and composer who had worked with various groups and singers including Rio Reiser, Nena, and worked with Peter Schilling on his International Mega hit Major Tom (Coming Home).Biography at Official Site Retrieved on 2007-01-20. Together they formed Paso Doble. In 1985 they released their first single Computerliebe ("computer love", not to be confused with the Kraftwerk song with the same name), which was debuted on the TV show "Extratour" and hit No. 1 on the charts for several weeks.
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Having trained as a classical pianist as well as being a keyboarder and songwriter for various rock bands in his youth, Stefan Wurz studied musicology and composition at Karlsruhe University, where he also published a thesis on femmes fatales in music theatre. Wurz was the first composer to set the Aldous Huxley classic Brave New World to music in 1994. In 2003, he was commissioned by Czech producer Daniel Landa to create Rockquiem, a rock and dance spectacle based on Mozart's Requiem, which premiered in Prague and Bolzano and was subsequently produced in several European countries. Current projects include The Virtual Mirror, a collaboration with German games creator Wolfgang Walk and American writer Mark Barrett.
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Fuhr was born in Oslo. The first edition of her Band comprised guitarist Bent Patey, pianist Rune Klakegg, bassist Åge Røthe and drummer Bjørn Jenssen, but the breakthrough was with the next edition which consisted of keyboarder Brynjulf Blix, saxophonist Arne Frang, bassist and guitarist Sveinung Hovensjø and drummer Svein Christiansen at the 1979 Moldejazz. She also had a S.F. Quartet with pianist Dag Arnesen, bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr and drummer Svein Christiansen performing at the 1982 Nattjazz in Bergen. She was also part of musical plays like Dans Med Oss Gud, and with Ove Thue, Sigvart Dagsland, Gudny Aspaas among others, she released the album Dans Med Oss Gud (1982), with lyrics by Erik Hillestad.
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Arntzen has been involved in different bands such as Østenfor Sol, and is now part of bands like the piano trio In The Country accompanied by the pianist and keyboarder Morten Qvenild and the drummer Pål Hausken. In the Country has been active since 2003, releasein five (2014) well received albums, This Was The Pace Of My Heartbeat (2004), Losing Stones (2006), Collecting Bones (2006) and Whiteout (2009). They were awarded "Young Jazz Musicians Of The Year 2004" in Norway. Down Beat called their debut album "one of the finest and most arresting albums to come out of Europe" that year, while All About Jazz reviewer John Kelman has suggested Whiteout as a contender for the "best of" list for 2009.
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Cover versions have been recorded by the Welsh alternative metal band Lostprophets, Canadian punk rock band Gob, Australian band Custard, appearing on the 1999 released album The Songs Of Duran Duran: UnDone and the Chilean heavy metal band Los Mox on their album ...Con Cover, released in 2006. DJ's Factory, a Eurodance project of German producer Bülent Aris and British keyboarder Adrian Askew, released a dancefloor-oriented version in Summer 1985, reaching #22 in the German single charts. Shirley Bassey covered the song for an album of Bond theme songs; however, she wasn't satisfied with the quality, so the album was withdrawn from sale. Finnish Melodic Death Metal band Diablo has covered the song, so has Finnish symphonic metal cover supergroup Northern Kings.
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In November 2015, the band announced work on their sixth album, stating it will again be a concept album planned to be released in 2016. It will be a three-CD album called The Clockwork Fable and will feature the voice talents of Mark Benton, Zach Galligan, Bill Fellows, Paul Kavanagh, Paul Barnhill and Tim Munro, amongst others. They also announced, that Blaze Bayley, Arjen Lucassen, Dave Oberlé (Gryphon) and Matt Stevens (The Fierce and the Dead) are contributing to the new album. After releasing The Clockwork Fable on 1 May 2016 and receiving much praise for it, they headlined the second stage in March 2017 at the HRH Prog Volume V Festival in Pwllheli with the help of female vocalist Keri Farish and keyboarder Ben Bell (Fusion Orchestra 2, Patchwork Cacophony).
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Bob Marlette started out as a session musician and the first album he appeared on was Al Stewart's 24 Carrots.Bob Marlette Interview @ Youtube He has then worked as a musician, mainly as keyboarder and pianist, and composer for numerous artists including Tracy Chapman, John Wetton, Laura Branigan, Alice Cooper, Krokus and The Storm. In 1994 he produced Red Square Black's Square EP, his first collaboration with John 5, which would be followed by David Lee Roth's album DLR Band, 2wo (industrial metal project of John 5 and Rob Halford), the mixing of the UK bonus CD of Marilyn Manson's The Last Tour on Earth and Loser. In the late 1990s besides Rob Halford he started producing other big hard rock names like Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi, and Quiet Riot.
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Their live performances are also well known for extensive acts of instrument destruction where especially keyboarder Alf Ator used to deconstruct one or more electronic organs that he had been playing on with a toilet brush or similar before. Singer Stumpen is known for the frequent smashing of TV sets on stage, from which he suffered a glass splinter getting stuck in his thigh that had to be removed by surgery some years later and was then auctioned on the internet. In earlier shows, a lot of furniture pieces were placed on the stage which were then destroyed during the show by Alf or Stumpen, mostly with an axe or a baseball bat. Stumpen is also known for wearing almost nothing on stage except for a woman's bathing suit or underpants.
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Here, among others, he played with Rosa King, Hans Dulfer, Slide Hampton, Chet Baker, and Dave Kamien. During this time, he appeared repeatedly, doing the guitar accompaniment for American artists touring Europe – among others, for Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Gene “Mighty Flea” Conners. In 1979 he reached the attention of the German television public as the regular guitarist in the WDR series “Let's Swing” - directed by Dave Kamien. In 1981, Marshall was one of the founding members of the “Olympic Rock & Blues Circus” - together with Chris Farlowe, Pete York, Colin Hodgkinson, and Brian Auger, who was replaced shortly afterwards by Jon Lord. In 1982, together with the keyboarder Chris Lazenby, he founded the band “Step'In Out”. Their debut album “Another Happy Customer” was praised highly by the press and achieved respectable sales figures.
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Lieber so (Better This Way) is the sixth studio album by German recording artist Yvonne Catterfeld, released by Columbia Records and Sony Music on 22 November 2013 in German-speaking Europe. While production of the album was overseen by Roland Spremberg, several musicians contributed to Lieber so, including producers Marcus Brosch and Christian "Crada" Kalla as well as rappers Kitty Kat and Sera Finale, Jennifer Rostock keyboarder Joe Walter, and Swiss pop singer Mia Aegerter. Upon its release, Lieber so earned mixed to positive reviews from music critics but became a moderate chart success, debuting and peaking at number 14 on the German Albums Chart. A reissue of the album, released in 2015 to accompany Catterfeld's participation in the second season of the reality television series Sing meinen Song - Das Tauschkonzert, the German version of The Best Singers series, surpassed this peak and has since reached number eight in Germany.
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After having finished the group Just Music after a last tour in Poland in 1972 but keeping in regular touch with the Belgian free improvisation scene Harth and Van den Plas moved to live in Frankfurt/Main together with Cremer in Harth's apartment where musicians and artists regularly visited and where the idea came up to found a small music circus. In 1968 Harth had performed with drummer Sven-Åke Johansson (Music is Happening) at the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin where they had sawed the stage as part of their music. Harth called up Johansson in 1972 and founded the trio E.M.T. with him and keyboarder Nicole Van den Plas who started to study art at the Städel art academy in Frankfurt/Main at that time. E.M.T. recorded for the label SAJ which had been founded by Sven-Åke Johansson and merged with the label FMP.
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In 2010, it was re-issued, and has become very popular in Japan. In the mid-eighties he founded the “John Marshall Band”, also known as “JMB”, which appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and was continued, with various line-ups, as the “John C. Marshall Band”. From 1993 to 1995, he was a featured soloist in the RTL Big Band, for which he also wrote arrangements, and with which he recorded the album “R&B; Party”. In this period, too, he worked in the Dutch Acid-Jazz band “Advanced Warning”, together with the keyboarder Herbert Noord, the sax player Rinus Groeneveld, and the Focus drummer Pierre van der Linden. From until his death he was active in various jazz and blues projects, as with Pia Fridhill, A. G. Weinberger, “Men At Jazz”, and as the musical director of the “Big Band Friends” from Düsseldorf. Marshall lived in Düsseldorf, and was active in various jazz formations.
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