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Drei , at times also Drei Band , was an East German pop and country band . The band was founded in January 1978 and broke up in 1990 after several line-up and renaming.
Band history
Founding members were:
- Ingo Koster (* 1950), vocals , guitar , formerly with Team 4, Thomas Natschinski & Gruppe and Brot und Salz
- Carsten Görner (1951–2019), vocals, guitar, formerly October Club , Alexanders , Ostkreuz, bread and salt
- Burkhard Neumann (* 1952), keyboard , vocals, previously with Peter Holten sextet and bread and salt
Drei was stylistically based on the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young . The band's first concert took place on January 8, 1978. About 1,500 concerts followed, including numerous tours through Eastern Europe ( USSR , including the Baltic Soviet Republics, the Comecon Gala Show, Bulgaria, Poland , CSSR and Hungary ) and a tour through Sweden . Her first big success was Mal travel , followed by climbing like a falcon and you can't just walk like that .
In 1983 the band expanded
- Michael Behm (* 1951), drums , formerly star combo Meißen , Transit and New Generation , who later went to Bajazzo , as well
- Tonio Ruschin (* 1957), keyboard.
At the same time the band renamed itself to three bands .
In March 1982 they received a silver medal in the interpreter's competition in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Chemnitz ), took part in the 1982 song festival "Menschen und Meer" in Rostock, and had some TV productions on the DFF and on USSR television. About 50 tracks were produced with the band. The band's last concert for the time being took place in August 1988.
As of 1983 Drei Band was the only band in the GDR that mastered five-part vocals. In 1986 they released their only GDR long-playing record under their old name Drei . From 1988 Neumann and Koster worked together with Gaby Rückert and called themselves Little Boat. In 1998 the band started a comeback.
Discography
- 1986: Climb like a falcon (LP, Amiga )
- 2000: Die Drei - Comeback (EP, Mezzo Music)
literature
- Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
Web links
- Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
- ^ Ingo Koster's website , accessed on November 6, 2011
- ↑ Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 4, 2014