The day trip

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The day trip or day trip is a song by the composer Michael Heubach and the lyricist Josef “Jo” Schaffer, which was composed in 1973 or before. It was best known in the GDR in the versions of the Horst Krüger band and the band Lift and is considered one of the best rock songs in GDR history.

history

Heubach played with the Bürkholz formation until 1973 , where he composed the song Die Tagesreise . At that time, however, the song was sung with an English text. The German text was later written by the editor Jo Schaffer, then living in the north of the GDR, who wrote about a dozen song texts for GDR rock musicians between 1974 and 1979. After the Bürkholz formation was banned, Heubach joined the Horst Krüger band. In 1975 the song appeared as Die Tagesreise on the Amiga LP Horst Krüger Band with Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk as lead singer. In the same year Heubach moved to the Dresden group Lift. In 1979, Lift released another version as a day trip on their album Meeresfahrt , sung by Henry Pacholski , who died in a car accident shortly after the recording in 1978.

description

The version by the Horst Krüger band is 7:20 minutes, the version by Lift is 8:35 minutes. The song is written in a minor key and belongs to progressive rock .

The version of the Horst Krüger band was recorded alongside other musicians such as the band's founder Horst Krüger, Michael Heubach (keyboard) and guitarist Bernd Römer with four background singers, including Tamara Danz . It begins with a rock instrumental prelude, in which the electronic organ plays the leitmotif . Then you only hear an acoustic guitar and the bass before the singer Horst Krüger quietly recites the first two lines. Brass and woodwinds as well as the drums join in without a transition. The second two lines are performed rockier before the organ plays the leitmotif again. Finally, the expressively singing choir also begins with the leitmotif. The song turns into an instrumental progressive rock intermezzo in which the electric guitar and the organ dominate and which is characterized by a rocky groove on the keynote . The choir sings a line without text. The next stanza, this time four lines, is performed by "Gotte" Gottschalk even more rocky. Organ groove and choir dominate the following part. This is followed by the first two lines and the use of wind instruments / drums before the singer repeats the third and fourth lines, even more expressively than the first time. The conclusion is a repetition of the four-line choral singing, underlined mainly by the organ, and a coda that ends with the drums.

The recording of Lift is similar to the version of the Horst Krüger band. The line-up was as follows: Henry Pacholski (lead vocals), Gerhard Zachar (bass), Till Patzer (alto saxophone), Wolfgang Scheffler (keyboard), Michael Heubach (keyboard) and Frank-Endrik Moll (drums), plus choral singing from several members . Henry Pacholski phrased a little differently, the brass and the female voices of the choir are missing in Lift. The course of the song corresponds to the other version, it only contains a few additional repetitions in the instrumental parts, while the tempo is sometimes a little faster.

The singer describes the thoughts he has in the evening after a “day trip” - what is meant is the daily routine. He reflects on what has happened in a poetic form and believes he can feel “a bit of strength for the next day”. In its four lines, the choir only asks questions and thus relativizes the statements of the solo singer.

The piece has occasionally been compared to the music of the then Hamburg band Frumpy .

Outputs (without compilations)

Albums

  • 1975: Horst Krüger-Band ( Amiga )
  • 1979: Sea trip (lift; Amiga)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 165
  2. ↑ a b c Jürgen Balitzki: electra - lift - star combo Meißen. Stories from the Saxon threesome. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-323-3 , p. 157
  3. ^ Jo Schaffer at discogs.com , accessed July 22, 2012
  4. ↑ Information on the record sleeves of the two albums