BERLIN-SPECIAL (over 30 pages)
- Music capital Berlin
- Memorable concerts
- Bill Graham
- David Bowie
- Interviews, rankings, opinions on Berlin
- Current scenes: from Psych to Indie
- Pop & Politics: Ton Steine Scherben and the Berlin Agitprop Scene
- East Berlin music scene
- Shopping list: Berlin School
ROCKMETROPOLE BERLIN
Sound of a city
Berlin, Berlin. It is not easy to tell about the music of a city that for many decades consisted of two autonomous complexes and has not yet overcome this division. Countless legends entwine themselves around the music location Berlin. Has the mean Berliner ever heard of it? And isn't the output of Berlin innovations rather low compared to sounding marketplaces like New York, London, Paris or Tokyo? Careful, all these comparisons are limp. Berlin has a special history, and with the city also its music
eclipsed-CHECK
Berlin, your memorable concerts
Probably no other German city has experienced so many musical spectacles as Berlin. Memorable events, which rock fans also reported about years and decades later in a whisper. The memorability of a performance is not always measured by its musical quality
BILL GRAHAM
A Berliner conquers San Francisco
Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Winterland - legendary concert arenas where acts performed whose names still make every rock fan click his tongue today: The Doors, Cream, The Who and many, many more. The home of these "holy halls" were New York and San Francisco. The man who made these places world famous with his concerts came from Berlin and was called Wolfgang Grajonca - better known as Bill Graham
DAVID BOWIE
Holidays from the Drug Ego
Between 1976 and 1979 David Bowie lived in West Berlin. This was probably the most creative, experimental, but also the most obscure phase of his career. From this the nucleus of his so-called Berlin trilogy emerged. Besides that he was in charge of the recordings for the albums "The Idiot" and "Lust For Life" of his soulmate Iggy Pop
BERLIN from a musician's and editorial point of view
Interviews and statements by David Bowie, Tori Amos, Santana, Iggy Pop Alan Parsons, Steve Hogarth, Helmut Hattler, Manuel Göttsching, Alex Conti, Inga Rumpf, Helen Schneider, Edgar Froese and many more
TON STONE CUTTERS AND THE BERLINER AGITPROP
SCENE ...this country is not!
From the middle of the 60s West Berlin was "front city". Demonstration trains pushed through the streets. The student Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman, Andreas Baader was freed from prison by fellow prisoners of conscience. Commune I was founded. Large sections of society were politicized, including many musicians. During this time an influential political rock scene developed in Berlin - with the figurehead Ton Steine Scherben
THE MUSIC CENTRES IN EAST BERLIN
"Honest rabble beat, smooth bonzen beat"
Ostrock was identical to the scene in East Berlin except for a few local niches. A review of its origins and development
eclipsed Shopping List
BERLINER SCHULE - Soundtrack of the Collective Psyche
The Berlin School was founded at the beginning of the 70s. The "big three" of this style are Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Tempel. The individual members maintained close contact with each other and recorded in the same studio. Promoted by the then record mogul Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser as "cosmic music", a clearly identifiable electronically dominated style began to crystallize out of the freely improvised psychedelic Krautrock
Further topics
RUSH
guardian angels go with the times
Last time, it was a sensation. This time it's "only" a pleasant surprise that one of the most influential rock bands of the last three decades continues its career, although the comeback with "Vapor Trails" in 2002 - at least financially - didn't mean a triumphal procession. With this in mind, Rush bassist/singer Geddy Lee answered the questions about the new work "Snakes & Arrows" and, at the same time, gave well-formulated teasing against drastic changes in today's world
TORI AMOS
Five characters until Christmas
"American Doll Posse, Tori Amos' new album, raises a lot of questions. The work is conceived as a concept album on which the female voice of America rises. The versatile artist slips into five different roles. And it is the voices of these fictitious women who intonate the songs of "American Doll Posse". This concept not only shapes the lyrics, but also the music of the album: Tori Amos has tried to combine a different musical mood with each of her characters; from ballads to frivolous eroticism. Sounds complicated. And so it is. eclipsed asked the artist to bring a little light into the darkness
CARLOS SANTANA
Traveller in music matters
To present Carlos Santana to the public would be to carry the infamous owls to Athens. For the likeable, extremely relaxed man who saw the light of day on July 20, 1947 in the Mexican border town of Tijuana and founded the sensational band named after him in San Francisco (where he resides since 1961) in 1969, is at least as legendary in the rock scene as the Athenian owls in historians' circles. While Carlos is working on his successor for his 2005 album "All That I Am" ("Ich bin abergläubisch") in his in-house studio, about which he doesn't want to talk at the moment, a double-DVD/-CD and a double-DVD have been released shortly after each other
THE WATERBOYS
Rocksongs from the Book of Flashes of Spirit
The musical outlaw Mike Scott and his band have so far been denied great commercial success. This circumstance says nothing about the visionary work of the Waterboys and the quality of their "Big Music"
Keep the text up! - Cult songs and their meaning
MARILLION - BERLIN 1989
MARILLION PUBLISHED THE EPIC "BERLIN", WHICH WAS A PERFECT MATCH FOR THE FALL OF THE WALL IN AUTUMN 1989. BUT THE BAND HADN'T SUSPECTED IT YET
THE MISSION
No Random Product
With the tenth official The Mission release Wayne Hussey seems to want to know it again, because he consists of fifteen songs, which make a mammoth work out of the somewhat martial "God Is A Bullet" titled part.
