Blackwater Park (band)
| Blackwater Park | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Germany |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock |
| founding | around 1970 |
| resolution | around 1975 |
| former members | |
| Richard Routledge | |
guitar |
Michael Fechner |
| Andreas Scholz | |
| Norbert Kagelmann | |
Blackwater Park was a hard rock band from Berlin from the early 1970s.
Band history
In 1970 bassist Andreas Scholz left the progressive rock band Murphy Blend for musical reasons to move to Blackwater Park. In order to survive on the international market, they hired the English singer Richard Routledge. In 1971 the band management was able to negotiate a record deal with BASF . Their support for the band and the recording conditions for the debut album are said to have been inadequate, so Routledge quickly left the band. Blackwater Park continued to work as a live band in various line-ups, but deviated from their original mix of hard rock, blues rock , psychedelic rock and progressive rock in favor of a more commercial orientation. The band broke up in the mid-1970s. Their only album has developed into an insider tip and collector's item over the years. Opeth named their fifth album after the band.
Discography
- 1972: Dirt Box
Web links
- Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blackwater Park , krautrock-musik Zirkus.de , accessed on April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English), accessed on April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English), accessed on April 19, 2013.