Eric Hysteric

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Eric Hysteric (born May 14, 1956 as Erich Knodt ; † January 20, 2016 ) was a German musician, producer and label owner.

Life

In addition to his work as a solo artist (since 1971), Hysteric was a member of SCUM (1978 to 1979), Vomit Visions (1979 to 1982) and the Frankfurt riot combo Der Durstige Mann (1982 to 1995). Hysteric also wrote for various Frankfurt fanzines, including "Same Old Song" and "Ultra Hard Core Punk Sounds", and was notorious for his letters to the editor (including for the English Zig Zag Magazine and the German music magazine Sounds ).

Hysteric's first public project was the punk band SCUM ( Löhnberg / Gießen ). After a disastrous performance at the youth center in Giessen, which was cheered by the art student audience, Hysteric emigrated to London. During sporadic visits to his old homeland, he recorded various songs with Vomit Visions , which emerged from the remains of SCUM in June 1979, and supplied the punks at the Frankfurt flea market with the latest records from Great Britain and the USA.

In 1980, Hysteric went to the studio in London with Andy Groome and Leigh Kendall from Australian punk pioneers Last Words. One result was the album "Drive You Crazy" released under the name Eric Hysteric & The Esoterics. “The esoteric LP DRIVE YOU CRAZY is one of the misunderstood masterpieces of pop music. Not a single weak song, performed uncompromisingly, touching the heart ”(Karl Bruckmaier, Bayerischer Rundfunk March 14, 1990).

In 1982 Hysteric returned to Germany and founded the riot combo Der Durstige together with the legendary chain punk Markus Monoton, who was a member of the Frogs and the Elbe Sailors, under the motto: "If you take us seriously, it's your own fault" Man . While German music critics ignored the thirsty man, who initially also included Oskar (drums) and Marcel Roth (guitar?), Because of the hairstyles of Monoton and Oskar, which had mutated into skinheads around 1980 in protest against punk, which had degenerated into fashion , Barney Hoskyns in the New Musical Express (January 8, 1986) understood the DDM punk philosophy, which was expressed in the programmatic title "This Is Frankfurt Not Boston (Fuck Off LA)", and was enthusiastic: "The thirsty man is a filthy sound far removed from our own (american) punk rock, which is extremely conservative, hedged behind allotments of slogans, etc. (...) Two of them are skins, slouching outside public lavs, the other two wallies linger in front of boutiques in grotesque young men wear modeling poses. I guess this makes them kind of the Cheap Trick of Frankfurt punk. M. Monoton (sing) and E. Hysteric (guitar) say: "I don't give a damn about London and LA," and they are right “.

After the radical trash aesthetic of the first two EPs, the thirsty man, meanwhile shrunk to the duo Hysteric / Monoton, surprised in 1984 with the maxi EP “Saufen ohne Ende” and the album “Bier 4 Tot”, from which the single “Bier Nix Good! "B / w" Where are you going to the station? " Tesco Vee : "Here the guys are really sounding slick enough to enter the world of commercial jingles and the like. Don't get me wrong. It's still boss, the bossest. ”The highlight of this pop phase was the 1985 single“ Im Winter Whiskey Im Sommer Pernod ”b / w“ In Der Vollmondnacht ”.

After discussions and reports in Bravo , a re-release of "Bier 4 Tot" by Rock-O-Rama and a placement in the WOM sales charts, commercial success threatened. Hysteric reacted with a radical change of course: The thirsty man found his way back to his roots with the album "Himmel & Hölle". On the solo albums "The Crazy King (A Fairy Tale)" and "Für Dich", Hysteric further developed his "heavily idiosyncratic, but highly sensitive music".

Trivia

  • The ten chain punks were the first and for a long time only punks in Frankfurt.
  • On “full moon night”, Peter Lack creates a scary mood with his Ilse Werner memory pipe.

Discography

Albums

  • Would You Believe BPT 001 (1979)
  • Drive You Crazy (Eric Hysteric & The Esoterics) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 2 (1981)
  • The Crazy King (A Fairy Tale) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 14 (1985)
  • For You Orgasm Records ORG 6 (1986)

Singles

  • Tropical Vision / Dance And Sing (Eric Hysteric & The Esoterics) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 1 (1981)
  • Life b / w I Hate The World ( Vomit Visions ) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 45 (1982)
  • Fool Around / I Wanna Be A Kid Forever Wasted Vinyl WASTE 9 (1983)

With the Vomit Visions

  • Punks Are The Old Farts Of Today EP Rock-O-Rama 0801 (1980)
  • Too Late - Bliss / Nasty Stains Vomit Visions Records VV 001 (1981)
  • I Hate The World b / w Life (Eric Hysteric) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 45 (1982)

With the thirsty man

EPs

  • This Is Frankfurt Not Boston (Fuck Off LA) Wasted Vinyl WASTE 3 (1983)
  • Bottom up! Wasted Vinyl WASTED 7 (1983)
  • Drinking Without End Wasted Vinyl WASTE 8 (1984)

Singles

  • Beer not good! / Where are you going to the train station? Wasted Vinyl WASTE 12 (1985)
  • Im Winter Whiskey Im Sommer Pernod / Vollmondnacht Wasted Vinyl WASTE (1985)
  • Corpses Are Like You Just Dead / Liebesleid Orgasm Records ORGASM 8 (1987)
  • Kiss Me EP Orgasm Records (1995)
  • Whip Me / Jou Baby Get Happy !! Records HAPPY 10 (1995)

LPs

  • Bier 4 Tot (Frankfurt Jukebox Hits) Wasted Vinyl WASTE (1984), Re-Issue Rock-O-Rama ROR 050 (1985)
  • Drinking Makes Life Fun Wasted Vinyl WASTE 15 (1986)
  • Heaven & Hell Orgasm Records ORGASM 3 (1987)
  • Back to the Stone Age Orgasm Records ORG 12 (1989)
  • Light Blue Orgasm Records ORGASM 14 (1990)
  • Lonely Hearts Ball Orgasm Records ORGASM (1995)

Compilations

  • We're Gonna Fly (Bored Of Directors)

As a guest

  • Your Your Your (Part Time Punx)
  • Quicky Skitzo (Doc Wör Mirran) (EP, supplement to Forced Exposure 27)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bruckmaier: Pop alphabet: Eric Hysteric. Bavaria 2 March 14, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Hysteric, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knodt, Erich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, producer and label owner
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1956
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 2016