Frank Diez

Frank Diez with Ray Cooper , 2009

Frank Diez (born November 2, 1950 in Berlin ) is a German guitarist , composer , lyricist and producer and was for many years one of the most prominent European blues guitarists . He lives in Berlin.

Life

Inspired by the American Folk Blues Festivals of the 1960s, Diez began playing the guitar at the age of 16 and played a fundamental role in the development of German rock history in the 1970s. To this day he is active as a live and studio artist nationally and internationally. As the only German musician, he played sessions and concerts with Jimi Hendrix , Chuck Berry and Little Richard . Further stations were u. a. Atlantis , Frumpy , Carthage , Randy Pie , Klaus Kinski , your children , Snowball , Emergency ,Johnny Tame , Konstantin Wecker , Eric Burdon , Giorgio Moroder , Donna Summer , Tom Principato , Miller Anderson , Paul Vincent , Maggie Bell and many other well-known artists.

As a founding member, Diez was regularly guitarist and producer of the Peter Maffay Band for 30 years until 2004 . Maffay's producer at the time, Peter Wagner, brought the two together at the time. Diez took part again on the Maffay tour in 2009 and the "Unplugged" concert in Cologne's Lanxes Arena in 2018, this time as a special guest , as well as on the anniversary tour in 2020 .

Project work with other artists and his own band is very important. The Electric Blues Duo with Colin Hodgkinson on bass has been a permanent fixture since 1986 . Well over 1300 concerts in Germany and abroad and seven records have been produced in this formation so far.

In 2000, Diez ran the Bärlin Blues Band project with Ingo Bischof ( Karthago , Kraan , Guru Guru ) on keyboards together with the German guitarist Alex Conti (Atlantis, Lake ), also because of their mutual affinity for the city of Berlin .

From 2011 to 2013 Diez was a member of The British Blues Quintet (BBQ) around Maggie Bell and Zoot Money . In 2014 he worked with Stefan Stoppok and others in 2018 with Siggi Schwarz , Pete York and Chris Thompson .

The guitarist Stephan Diez , with whom he recorded two albums as "Diez Brothers", was his younger brother.

Frank Diez Collection

A collection of guitars, old original tapes of studio recordings, sketchbooks and other records of his many years of activities and experiences in the music industry has put Frank Diez of the Lippmann + Rau Foundation available, through the Lippmann + Rau Music Archive , Eisenach managed, become.

Discography

The following are excerpts from productions in which Diez participated:

1970 Armaggedon
1970 your children
1970 Klaus Kinski
1971 Sonny Hennig (tear gas)
1972 Atlantis
1972 Emergency (Emergency Entrance)
1973 Atlantis (Get on board)
1974 Atlantis (Top of the Bill)
1974 Emergency (Emergency)
1974 Frank Turba
1975 Diez & Bischof (Daybreak)
1975 Diverse (Journey into Space)
1975 Peter Maffay (My Freedom)
1976 Atlantis (Greatest Hits)
1976 Roberta Kelly (The Trouble Maker)
1976 Peter Maffay (And it was summer)
1976 Randy Pie
1976 Donna Summer (A Love Trilogy)
1977 Randy Pie (Fast Forward)
1977 Eric Burdon and Fire Department (Survivor)
1977 Tame & Maffay I
1977 Peter Maffay (Your Face)
1977 Giorgio Moroder (Munich Machine)
1978 Peter Maffay (Live)
1978 Snowball (Cold Heat)
1979 Jackie Carter (Ruby Shoes)
1979 Tame & Maffay II
1979 soundtrack " Timm Thaler "
1979 Peter Maffay (Steppenwolf)
1979 Udo Lindenberg & the Panikorchester (The Detective Rock Revue II)
1980 Eric Burdon and Fire Department (Last Drive)
1980 Volker Lechtenbrink (life the way I like it)
1980 Peter Maffay (revenge)
1980 Johnny Tame (Indistinct Horizon)
1981 Peter Maffay (For the girl)
1981 Peter Maffay (You are like a song)
1981 Johnny Tame (Untamed)
1982 Peter Maffay (I want to live)
1982 Peter Maffay (Live)
1983 Average Businessmen (Average Businessmen)
1983 Volker Lechtenbrink (Live today)
1983 Peter Maffay ( Tabaluga or the journey to reason)
1984 Peter Maffay (Carambolage)
1985 Peter Maffay ( Sun in the Night )
1986 Diverse (Rock versus Atom)
1986 Double V Connection (UnderTaKing)
1986 Electric Blues Duo (Bitch)
1986 Peter Maffay ( Tabaluga and the Shining Silence )
1986 Soundtrack "Please let the flowers live", Frank Duval
1986 Konstantin Wecker (Dohoam again)
1987 Annette Hopfenmüller (Behind the Dunes)
1987 Konstantin Wecker (Wecker & Die Band - Live)
1987 Frank Duval (When You Were Mine)
1987 Soundtrack " The Joker "
1988 Diez Brothers (City Lights)
1988 Peter Maffay (Long Shadows)
1988 Milva (On the way to tomorrow)
1989 Electric Blues Duo (Make Mine a Double)
1989 Peter Maffay (No way too far)
1990 Diez Brothers (Close up)
1990 Peter Maffay (Leipzig - Live '90)
1991 Frumpy (News)
1991 Peter Maffay (love)
1992 Electric Blues Duo (Live with the HR Big Band)
1992 Peter Maffay (Friends and Prophets)
1993 Peter Maffay (Tabaluga and Lilli)
1994 Peter Maffay (Tabaluga and Lilli - Live)
1995 Frumpy (Live Ninty-Five)
1995 Electric Blues Duo (Out on the Highway)
1996 Peter Maffay (ninety-six)
1996 Peter Maffay ('96 - Live)
1997 Electric Blues Duo (Lucky at Cards)
1997 Miller Anderson (Celtic Moon)
1998 Peter Maffay (encounters)
1998 Peter Maffay (live encounters)
1998 Johnny Tame (Johnny Tame - Best of)
1998 Telecats I (with Karl Ratzer , Tom Principato )
2000 Bärlin Blues Band (Berlin Blues - with Alex Conti )
2000 Frank Diez (Stranded on Fantasy Island)
2000 Peter Maffay (X)
2000 Paul Vincent (Rockin 'Bach)
2001 Peter Maffay (30 years ago today)
2003 “Tabaluga” and the luck given away - live
2004 Siggi Schwarz & The Electric Guitarlegends (with Michael Schenker , Geoff Whitehorn, Alex Conti)
2006 Electric Blues Duo (The last fair deal - 20 years Electric Blues Duo)
2010 Electric Blues Duo (2010 LIVE! L'Inoui Luxembourg)

literature

Edmund Hartsch : Maffay - On the way to me. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01029-7 .

swell

↑ FRITZ RAU - BACKSTAGE 50 YEARS: Memories of a concert promoter. Verlag Edition-Tz.De, p. 103. ISBN 978-3-96031-005-1 .
↑ Interview with Frank Diez in the online magazine Rocktimes
^ Official website of Colin Hodgkinson
^ Lippmann + Rau-Musikarchiv, Eisenach ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Diez, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German guitarist, composer, lyricist and producer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] FRITZ RAU - BACKSTAGE 50 YEARS: Memories of a concert promoter. Verlag Edition-Tz.De, p. 103. ISBN 978-3-96031-005-1 .

[2] Interview with Frank Diez in the online magazine Rocktimes

[3] Official website of Colin Hodgkinson

[4] Lippmann + Rau-Musikarchiv, Eisenach ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )