Body checks
| Body checks | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Moers |
| Genre (s) | Oi! |
| founding | 1983, 1997-1998 |
| resolution | 1985 |
| Current occupation | |
| Jürgen Drenhaus | |
| Peter Vogel | |
| former members | |
| Willi Usury | |
Body Checks was a German Oi! -Band from Moers , which existed from 1983 to 1985. It was considered one of the first skinhead bands in Germany. In the 1990s, two members reanimated the group and released a second album in 1998. Due to an indexing by the Federal Inspectorate for Writings Harmful to Young People (BPjS), the band is often assigned to the legal rock .
Band history
After the Beck's Pistols (later: Pöbel & Gesocks) dissolved for the first time, bassist Willi Wucher founded the skinhead band Body Checks in 1983. After several demos appeared in 1984 on Rock-O-Rama , the debut album Tattoos + Kahl Shorn that on 30 April 1993, eight years after the dissolution of the band, from the federal inspection station for youth-endangering writings (BPjS) indicated was. The debut album was indexed, among other things, because of the swastika graffiti on the back cover. The categorization as right-wing rock was only based on membership of the skinhead scene, which the authority described in its justification as xenophobic , violent and right-wing radical . The group itself never expressed itself in a xenophobic manner, according to Klaus Farin the categorization as right-wing rock is to be regarded as wrong.
After the dissolution
Jürgen Drenhaus, with several criminal records for assault, reactivated the band together with Peter Vogel for the release Brutal Deluxe on Torsten Lemmer's label Funny Sounds . The publication was clearly assigned to the legal rock. Drenhaus was also the editor of the right-wing rock magazine Rock Nord at the time . Willi Wucher returned to Beck's Pistols, which a little later changed its name to Mob & Gesocks due to a lawsuit from Beck’s . Usury later stated that the band was patriotic but never a Nazi band. At that time, the band positioned itself on the side of the skins. When the band members noticed that they were being counted more and more on the right-wing scene, the band disbanded according to their own statements.
Discography
Demos
- 1984: Ü room
- 1984: Demo 1984
- 1988: Demo 1988
Albums
- 1984: Tattooed + shaved head (LP, Rock-O-Rama , indexed)
- 1998: Brutal Deluxe (CD, Funny Sounds )
Compilations
- 2009: Our Fight (Rock o Rama)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Gazette No. 81 of April 30, 1993
- ↑ Right- wing bands on the German market ... and their evaluation . In: Dieter Baacke , Michaela Thier, Christian Grüninger, Frank Lindemann (eds.): Rock von Rechts . Society for Media Education and Communication Culture , Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-929685-05-1 , p. 32 (media pedagogical handout 3).
- ^ National legal rock publications . In: Archive of youth cultures (ed.): Reactionary rebels. Right-wing extremist music in Germany . Tilsner, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-936068-04-6 , pp. 214 .
- ↑ NAZI ~ LINE THE "HAMLET" NEO-NAZIS. Nazi ~ Line, accessed August 20, 2014 .
- ↑ apabiz.eV: Directory of German-speaking RechtsRock-Fanzines . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 477 .
- ↑ apabiz.eV: Directory of right-wing rock bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 436 .
- ^ Willi Wucher: The right edge of punk (T. 2). Indymedia , April 22, 2003, accessed August 20, 2014 .
- ↑ BAnz AT March 29, 2018 B13