Carsten Bohn
Carsten Bohn (born August 18, 1948 in Hamburg , nickname CeBee ) is a German musician from Hamburg and a former drummer of the City Preachers and one of the founders of the popular band Frumpy in the 1970s . He is best known for his music from older European radio plays.
Carsten Bohn runs the record label BigNote-Records ; his son Dennis Bohn is the producer of the German dance formation Brooklyn Bounce . Among other things, Dennis runs the record label Mental Madness Records.
Radio play music
From 1979 to 1983 Carsten Bohn composed 98 pieces of music for the Miller International label Europe , 78 of which were in their well-known radio play series ( Five Friends , TKKG , Die Drei ??? , HG Francis Die Gruselserie (neon-colored), Larry Brent , Macabros , Flash Gordon , Edgar Wallace , Die Funk-Füchse , Pizzabande and others) were used. Carsten Bohn sings the theme song of the Five Friends radio play series ("We are the five friends - Julian and Dick, Anne and George and Timmy the dog ...").
In 1986 it was researched that the music of Carsten Bohn could be heard on 172 radio plays from Europe (a total of 2006 sequences with an average of 3:38 min. Per episode).
In 2008 Carsten Bohn composed new radio play music exclusively for the radio play label canora media and its implementation of the booklet novel series Professor Zamorra from Bastei-Verlag .
Legal dispute with BMG-Miller
The pieces of music were then u. a. published under the pseudonym Bert Brac created by Miller International . Other collective pseudonyms created by Miller International are Ralph Bonda , Phil Moss and Betty George . These pseudonyms were also used by Heikedine Körting and Andreas E. Beurmann .
Since 1988 Carsten Bohn and Sony BMG have been fighting in court for royalties and copyrights as the successor to the record company Miller International. Neither Bohn nor Sony BMG are allowed to use the old music recordings while the proceedings are still ongoing. Since then, the affected episodes, with the old mixes of the radio plays, have been replaced by new mixes with pieces of music by other musicians. With the three ??? this concerns z. B. episodes 1 to 39, for TKKG episodes 1 to 33.
For this reason, the original cassettes or records with the old music mixes have in part a considerable popularity, especially episode 29 of Die-drei - ??? published in 1982. Series (Catalog No. 115 929.1 ( LP ) and 515 929.6 ( MC )) and the episode 15 Horror Pop Sounds from the neon-colored HG Francis Scary series .
The five-friends title song was sold as a product including all exploitation rights and is therefore still used today.
"Brandnew Oldies"
In October 2004, Carsten Bohn released Brandnew Oldies Volume 1, the first CD on which he and his band recorded 18 old pieces in full for the first time. The Brand New Oldies Vol. 2 was released in December 2005.
On October 31, 2009, Brandnew Oldies Vol. 3 was released. On the same day - following the appearance of the three-question mark speakers in the Hamburg Color Line Arena - Carsten Bohn's release concert of Brandnew Oldies Vol. 3 took place in the Delphi Showpalast Hamburg.
The current Bandstand line-up (2009) is: Carsten Bohn (drums / vocals), George Kochbeck (e-piano / keyboards / organ), Bernd Schultze (e-piano / keyboards / organ), Frank Fischer (bass), Carola Kretschmer (Electric guitar), Frank Stehle (electric guitar), Corinna Ludzuweit (percussion) .
Instruments
During his time at Frumpy, Carsten Bohn played a Ludwig brand drum kit with a Black Oyster Pearl finish and the configuration: 22 " bass drum , 13" hanging tom , 16 "standing tom, 5" × 14 " snare , Hi-hat and three cymbals . In terms of its color pattern and number of drums, this set was identical to that of Ringo Starr , the Beatles' drummer .
Discography
Frumpy
- 1970: All will be changed
- 1971: Frumpy 2
- 1972: By the Way
- 1972: Frumpy LIVE
- 1990: Now
- 1991: News
- 1995: Frumpy (live '95)
Various projects
- 1973: Zabba Lindner - full control of percussion
- 1973: Dennis - Hyperthalamus
- 1974: AR Machine - AR4
- 1975: Kickbit Information - Bitkicks
- 1979–1983: Radio play music for various European radio plays
- 1981: P. Baumann - Repeat Repeat
- 1986: Georgie Red - We'll Work It Out
- 1987: Georgie Red - Helpless Dancer
- 1999–2007: Various TV film music projects
- 2008: Radio play music Professor Zamorra
Carsten Bohn's band stand
- 1977: Humor Rumor
- 1978: Mother Goose Shoes
- 1979: CB Radio
- 1993: New York Times (Solo)
- 2004: Brandnew Oldies Volume 1
- 2005: Brandnew Oldies Volume 2
- 2006: Brandnew Oldies LIVE - Limited Fan-Edition (DVD)
- 2007: Brandnew Oldies LIVE, Hamburg, October 2nd, 2004 (DVD and CD)
- 2009: Brandnew Oldies Volume 3
- 2018: Brandnew Oldies Volume 4
Music for TV films & TV series (selection)
- 1985: A case for TKKG (television series) (not named)
- 1998: The Men from K3 (TV series)
- 2000: In Crosshair (TV series)
- 2002: Wedding in installments
- 2000: Großstadtrevier (TV series) Season 17 / Episode 184, On a thin line
- 2000: Großstadtrevier (TV series) Season 17 / Episode 182, Poor Boy
- 2001: kiss me, tiger! (with Uwe Ochsenknecht , director: Jan Růžička )
- 2005: love like the first day
- 2005: Finally vacation!
- 2006: Love rarely comes alone
- 2008: Anna's secret
- 2008: The hairdresser's wife
- 2009: Hope for Kummerow
- 2010: More life in the days!
- 2011: Pilgrimage to Padua
- 2014: The fisherwoman
Awards
On October 31, 2009, Carsten Bohn was awarded 62 gold and 4 platinum records at once for his radio play music composed in the 1970s and 1980s for the Europa label . This has never happened before in Germany in this form.
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The three ???
- 29 × gold
- 3 × platinum
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TKKG
- 19 × gold
- 1 × platinum
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Five friends
- 13 × gold
literature
- Bastian, Annette: The legacy of the cassette children ; 2003, Eccomedia Verlag, ISBN 3-936-78215-6
- Börmann, Christian; Radtke, Jörn: The three ???: 30 years of radio play cult, 2009, Falkemedia Verlag, ISBN 978-3981117189
Web links
- Works by and about Carsten Bohn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carsten Bohn at Discogs (English)
- Carsten Bohn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- bignote.de - official website
- bohn-musik.de - fansite with history, interview, biography, discography and more
- bert-brac.de - fansite
- The radio play researchers: Carsten Bohn's Bandstand - 135 music tracks and their publications as well as exact placement therein (after minutes)
- hoerspiele.de: Soundwerkstatt - database for placing pieces of music in radio plays (according to sequences)
- Carsten Bohn's Bandstand - performance from March 4th 1978 - "For better or verse"
Individual evidence
- ↑ SPIEGEL Online from July 13, 2010: Radio play cult: Sex, Lies and Audio , accessed on July 18, 2014
- ↑ Interview with C. Bohn from May 6, 2001 , accessed January 5, 2014
- ↑ Product information on Carsten Bohn's Bandstand Brandnew Oldies Vol. III on jpc.de. Retrieved December 26, 2014
- ↑ https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/%E2%80%9EVerlorene_H%C3%B6rspielmusik%E2%80%9C_erscheint_nach_20_Jahren_auf_CD
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bohn, Carsten |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | CeBee (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |