Charly Maucher

Charly Maucher, live with Jane in December 2004

Norbert "Charly" Maucher , also Charlie Maucher (born May 6, 1947 in Hanover ; † August 28, 2019 in Canada ), was a German rock musician and composer . In addition to the acoustic guitar , he mainly played the bass guitar and was considered "one of the best singers on the Krautrock scene" ( Rocktimes ). Maucher was a co-founder of the German rock band Jane .

life and career

Charly Maucher started his music career in the 1960s and played as a bass player in various German rock music bands . He began in 1965 with the band Lime Lights , moved to the Scarengers formation in 1966 and played with the Coffinbeats from 1967 to 1969 .

In 1970 Maucher (electric bass and vocals) founded the band Jane together with Werner Nadolny (keyboard), Peter Panka (drums, vocals) and Klaus Hess (guitar) , which first appeared in public in December 1970 in Hanover . At the beginning of 1971 the singer Bernd Pulst joined the band. The debut album Together was released by Brain Metronome in 1972 , and Maucher was unable to take part in the recordings for the second Jane album due to illness. The band Jane quickly became a successful representative of the Krautrock genre and had numerous appearances across Europe. After Nadolny left the band, the album Jane III followed in 1974 , where the vocals are mainly from Maucher. After that Maucher left the band after internal disputes.

From 1975 to 1977 he played with the formation Harlis , with whom he recorded the debut album Harlis in 1976 . In 1977 the concept album Night Meets The Day followed , which is set in a maritime environment and was recorded using the then current artificial head technology. After Maucher left, the band broke up, partly due to a lack of commercial success.

In 1980 he recorded his own solo album Performance , for which he hired (electric bass, vocals, guitar) the musicians Ulli Böttcher (guitar), Wolfgang Krantz (piano, keyboard) and Peter Panka (drums, vocals). The album was released as an LP by Teldec .

Maucher then worked on the rock ballet Warlock by Jon Symon (text and music) and Lothar Höfgen (choreography) at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover, which was very successful in 1983/1984 and was performed as a guest performance across Germany. From the former Jane musicians there were Warlock at the rock ballet : Peter Panka, Charly Maucher and Werner Nadolny. Guitarist Detlef Klamann, who later belonged to the then reformed band Jane , was also involved.

At the end of the 1980s and 1990s things became quieter around Maucher, as was the case with other musicians in the Krautrock scene, until this rock music genre became popular again in the early 2000s. In 1999 he played with the formation Dr. Glue .

Since 2000 Maucher played again with one of the reformed Jane follow-up bands, with Peter Panka's Jane together with Peter Panka, Werner Nadolny and Klaus Walz. After the band Jane collapsed in 1994, there was a legal battle over the naming rights. A court ruling stipulated that each of the three musicians, Panka, Nadolny, Hess, may call themselves Jane , but only with an addition. Peter Panka and Werner Nadolny first called themselves Pano's Jane and later Peter Panka's Jane , while the formation around Klaus Hess called themselves Mother Jane .

Peter Panka's Jane has released several CDs, performed at Rockpalast in 2004 and toured Germany and Switzerland in 2006 . After the death of Peter Panka in June 2007, the band was continued at his request; Nadolny, Maucher and Walz therefore engaged the drummer Fritz Randow ( Eloy , Epitaph ) and the guitarist and singer Arndt Schulz (Harlis). In 2008 Nadolny resigned and was replaced by Wolfgang Krantz, who was involved in earlier Jane albums. The band has since performed under the name jane .

Charly Maucher lived with his wife in Canada and came to Germany for concerts and studio recordings.

In 2017 Maucher fell ill with leukemia, but recovered so well by 2019 that he could play concerts again. The illness seemed to have caught up with him again, because he died on August 28, 2019, as his bandmate Klaus Walz announced on his Facebook page on August 30, 2019.

Discography (selection)

Solo album

• Performance , by Charly Maucher Band , album, LP, Teldec 1980

Participations (Maucher: electric bass, vocals, acoustic guitar)

• Together , from Jane , album, LP, Brain Metronome 1972
• Jane III , from Jane , album, LP, 1974
• Harlis , by Harlis , album, LP, 1976
• Night Meets The Day , by Harlis , concept album in artificial head technology, LP, 1977
• Germania , from Jane , album, LP, 1982
• Genuine , by Jane , album, CD, 2002
• Live 2002 , from Peter Panka's Jane , album, CD, 2002
• Shine On , by Peter Panka's Jane , album, CD, 2003
• Voices , by Peter Panka's Jane , album, CD, Cool & Easy Records 2006
• Voices "revised edition" , from Peter Panka's Jane , album, CD, 2007
• Live at Metas , by Peter Panka's Jane , album, CD, 2007
• Tribute to Peter Panka , DVD from the concert in Hanover 2007, published in 2008

literature

• Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony. Celle 2006, pp. 75-77 ISBN 978-3-00-018947-0

Web links

• Information about Charly Maucher on rateyourmusic.com
• Official homepage of Jane

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See information about Charly Maucher in a Rocktimes interview with Peter Panka on www.rocktimes.de (accessed on August 26, 2009).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information about Charly Maucher on www.jane-music.com (accessed on August 25, 2009).
3. ↑ See information about Charly Maucher at Germanrock e. V. >> Lexicon >> Maucher, Charlie >> Harlis (accessed on August 26, 2009).
4. ↑ Information about Maucher, Charly - Performance - 1980 on www.krautrock-musikzertus.de, accessed on August 26, 2009.
5. ↑ Information about Warlock - The Rockballett on www.derikum.de, accessed on August 26, 2009.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Panka's Jane ( Memento from August 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), report in Rock News magazine No. 3, July / August 1998; at www.germanrock.de, accessed on August 26, 2009.