First ass

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First ass
Album Saddle Up
Album Saddle Up
General information
origin Schwerin
Genre (s) punk
founding 1986
Founding members
Till Lindemann (until 1994)
Vocals, bass
Jörg (Steve) Mielke
singing
 Stefan Schröder
former members
Lead guitar , vocals
 Richard Kruspe (? -1994)
Rhythm guitar , vocals
 Paul Landers (? -1994)

First Ass (Abbreviation for First Autonome Rioters Schwerins ) is a punk band founded in Schwerin in 1986 . The band's founder and drummer was Till Lindemann , who later became the lead singer of Rammstein . In the GDR times, First Arsch was one of the so-called " other bands ". In the meantime they appeared under the name First Art .

history

Till Lindemann and Jörg (Steve) Mielke came up with the idea of ​​founding First Arsch at Lindemann's birthday party in 1986. They then met in Schwerin for their first rehearsals. In addition to Lindemann and Mielke, Stefan Schröder - later known as Stefan Schrör - was the singer and Richard Kruspe as guitarist. At the end of the 1980s, First Arsch applied for a player permit in order to perform in public. After several unsuccessful applications, they were given permission to play in 1989, but with the condition that the band name be changed to First Art.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the band relocated to Berlin again under the name First Arsch . Kruspe, who had meanwhile moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, became a permanent member of the band again, and Paul Landers , who previously played in the punk band Feeling B , joined the band as guitarist. The album Saddle Up was recorded in 1992. After the album, most of the first-ass members turned to other projects. In 1994, Lindemann, Kruspe and Landers founded the NDH band Rammstein together with Oliver Riedel , Christoph Schneider and Christian Lorenz . The First Ass project was continued by Mielke, who has performed under this name with changing musicians to the present day.

Album Saddle Up

In 1992 First Ass produced their first and only album Saddle Up . It contained 15 English-language titles. The album was initially presented to the independent label DDR in Lübeck , which however refused to publish it. The music journalist Falk Schettler then founded the Kessel Records label to publish the album. Saddle Up remained the label's only release. The recordings for the album took place in the Berlin underground club Eimer , in addition to First Arsch, a choir and Die Firma singer Tatjana Besson also took part.

Track list

# title length
A1 Train 2:27
A2 Priest In Love 3:03
A3 SKA (T) 2:08
A4 In The Name Of Love 3:30
A5 Crowded House 2:54
A6 Preagnant 2:24
A7 AHA-ha 2:58
B1 Superstition 3:40
B2 Saddle up 3:00
B3 O-Cult 2:26
B4 Moderate blues 2:20
B5 Come together 2:46
B6 Hip hop flop 2:43
B7 Chicken Steps 2:03
B8 Big Dong (For Saskia S.) 3:58

literature

  • Michele Bettendorf: The origin of the punk scene or “Rammstein would never have existed in the West” . Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 3-8311-4493-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Ulf Lüdeke: In the beginning there was fire - the Rammstein story . Riva Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-677-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Schwerin to America. Schweriner Volkszeitung, October 24, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ulf Lüdeke: In the beginning there was fire. P. 12.
  3. ↑ Michele Bettendorf: The origin of the punk scene. P. 38 f.
  4. ↑ Sören Marotz: Rammstein - From the Eastern Punk Scene into the World. DDR Museum, October 17, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
  5. ^ Till Lindemann: singer of the toughest band in Germany. VIP.de, July 15, 2016, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Falk Schettler: Kessel Records. —Dr. falk of tomorrow, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Michele Bettendorf: The origin of the punk scene. P. 39.