Blues vital

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Blues vital was a blues band from Gotha . It emerged in 1972 from the beat band The Polars and existed until 1981. The band, which had dedicated itself to the authentic blues, was one of the most famous bands on the Thuringian blues scene in the 1970s .

Band history

The band, led by bassist and singer Wilfried Willi Woigk, emerged from the oldest and most famous beat formation in Thuringia. The original cast also included drummer Michael Schwandt , guitarist Robert Albracht, keyboardist Thomas Tommy Abendroth and saxophonist Wolfgang Klawonn. When the Erfurt band Nautiks was dissolved in 1973 , the guitarist Werner Zentgraf and the drummer Siegfried Stifte Hörger joined the band. Schwandt switched to the Horst-Krüger-Band and later to Karat . Albracht had to do his military service in the NVA and later went to the Elefant group . Ulrich Faßhauer came for him. In the same year Thomas Abendroth left the band and also switched to the Horst-Krüger-Band. Furthermore, Bärbel Müller was one of the few musicians on the blues scene to be active in the Blues vital .

The band became more and more well-known and attracted attention, especially with the blues of the fleetingness of time . The title appeared on the Amiga sampler Hallo Number 8. Text and composition were from Klawonn. The band was delegated to the world festival , won several prizes in national competitions and was invited to radio productions .

In 1975 Blues vital got professional status , changed the musical style and at the same time the name. Under the name Vital, the band, influenced by the guitarist Zentgraf, presented itself rockier, but could not build on the previous successes. This prompted Woigk in 1981 to break up the band and to revive the original line-up of the Polars. In 1983 Woigk found his way back to the blues with the newly founded band Pasch and played in both bands at the same time until he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany.

See also

literature

  • HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
  • Michael Rauhut : Beat in the gray area. GDR rock 1964 to 1972 - politics and everyday life . BasisDruck Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86163-063-X .
  • Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan: Bye, Bye Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .
  • Melody and Rhythm , Berlin (East), issue 5/1977

Web links

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  1. ↑ Michael Rauhut : The customer book. Blues in Thuringia. Erfurt 2011.