Carsten Bohn

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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 performing with the band Frumpy in Hamburg (1971)

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 Since then, the affected episodes, with the old mixes of the radio plays, have been replaced by new mixes with pieces of music by other musicians.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"

Set at the Saturn gig on May 6, 2005 in Hamburg

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)

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.

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

Commons : Carsten Bohn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. SPIEGEL Online from July 13, 2010: Radio play cult: Sex, Lies and Audio , accessed on July 18, 2014
  2. Interview with C. Bohn from May 6, 2001 , accessed January 5, 2014
  3. Product information on Carsten Bohn's Bandstand Brandnew Oldies Vol. III on jpc.de. Retrieved December 26, 2014
  4. https://de.wikinews.org/wiki/%E2%80%9EVerlorene_H%C3%B6rspielmusik%E2%80%9C_erscheint_nach_20_Jahren_auf_CD