Blackwater Park (band)

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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

Individual evidence

  1. Blackwater Park , krautrock-musik Zirkus.de , accessed on April 19, 2013.
  2. Eduardo Rivadavia: Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English), accessed on April 19, 2013.
  3. Eduardo Rivadavia: Blackwater Park at Allmusic (English), accessed on April 19, 2013.