Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

Though his name barely registers among a lot of the Krautrock intelligentsia, Gunter Schickert was both prolific in the backdrop and a significant artist. Combined with the better-known Achim Reichel, Schickert pioneered the echo acoustic guitar, where in fact the repeated acoustic guitar tones create exclusive, multi-layered textures that consider …

When comes up orchestral arrangements with regards to the Beatles, the first name that involves brain is George Martin, their longtime manufacturer/collaborator. Much less well-known, but also adding significantly towards the Beatles’ music within their last days, also to a massive selection of additional recordings in pop, rock and roll, …

This Los Angeles-based quartet, formed in 1978 by Jeanette Chase (vocals), Lear Stevens (guitar), Ronni Hansen (bass) and David Devon (drums), played hi-tech hard-rock, seen as a Lear’s Brian May-like guitar sound and the powerful vocals of Chase. They included components of Queen, Truck Halen and Styx within complicated, and …

Tundra was formed by Doug Hudson (b. 4 Feb, Surrey, Britain), while he was learning Russian at Bradford College or university in York, Britain. The initial, short-lived line-up transformed when Hudson shifted back again to Kent in 1971. Doug added Mike Peters and Peter Learmouth, accompanied by Sue Carroll, (b. …

Kurt Demmler reigned among the top German pop songwriters from the Cool War period, but his creative legacy is basically overshadowed with the harrowing accusations of kid sexual mistreatment that ultimately resulted in his suicide. Delivered Kurt Abramowitz in Posen, Poland on Sept 12, 1943, he was raised in the …

An obscure and wildly idiosyncratic funk act from Washington, D.C., Wicked Witch was the studio room alter ego of Richard Simms, who gained a little but devoted pursuing among enthusiasts of uncommon R&B edges for a small number of self-released singles that combined funk, progressive rock and roll, jazz fusion, …

As half from the famous Krautrock duo Neu!, drummer Klaus Dinger pioneered the hypnotic, perpetual-motion rhythmic design later on dubbed “motorik,” creating mechanised yet profoundly human being grooves that could galvanize successive decades of digital and pop performers. Given birth to in Germany on March 24, 1946, Dinger considered music …

The ’80s Scottish band H2O shares its appellation using a ’90s American punk group. Nevertheless, they aren’t related, plus they audio nothing as well. H2O produced in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1978. After vocalist Ian Donaldson departed in the punk music group Skroo, he founded H2O with Colin Ferguson (bass), Ross …

Terry Cashman (b. Dennis Minogue, 5 July 1941) and Tommy Western (b. Thomas R. Picardo Jnr., 17 August 1942) had been record suppliers, songwriters and in addition saving performers. Most widely known for generating all the strike recordings from the past due Jim Croce, in addition they documented under numerous …

The Uk neo-progressive band Haze was formed in 1978 by Chris and Paul McMahon. The Sheffield group continued to be quite inconspicuous during its ten-year lifestyle, playing basically a few times in the U.K. and liberating only two accurate albums, both which had been vinyl-only. Within THE UK, nevertheless, Haze …