Heinrich Beats the Drum

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Heinrich Beats the Drum
General information
origin Munich , Germany
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1988
resolution 2002
Last occupation
Dieter Sablic
Markus Reiser
Keyboard
 Horst Wittmann
Wolfgang Plaschka
Franz "Frenzy" Erl

Heinrich Beats the Drum (HBTD) was a rock band from Munich . The singer and guitarist Dieter Sablic and the keyboard player Markus Reiser founded the band IFF after the dissolution in 2002 . Wolfgang Plaschka has played with the entertainment band Zweckinger since then .

Band history

Prehistory and consolidation 1988–1990

Heinrich Beats the Drum emerged from the wave-funk formation Miss Ellie (1985–1988). The band separated from the singer at the time in 1988, and the second keyboard player left for professional reasons. Erl, Plaschka, Sablic, and Wittmann briefly continued as Miss Ellie, but then renamed the group to a (then) more contemporary band name. At the end of 1988 a new singer was found in Michael Gerlach . Franz Erl had started in 1986 to convert the basement of his parents' house in Gronsdorf near Munich into a studio, thus enabling the band to have a professional working environment from the start. Through the contact of Erls studio partner, a publishing contract was concluded with BSC Music in Munich. In 1989 the first LP entitled Heinrich Beats the Drum was released. The publication brought HBTD mainly concert bookings. In northern Germany, some titles also had some success on the radio. Since BSC-Music was closely associated with the then market-dominating record retail chain WOM , the releases of the band were assured of relatively prominent positions of the releases in their stores and advertising material until the end of the retail chain. In 1990 Gerlach got out as a singer and Sablic became the main singer. On the LP he had already taken on the vocal part of two tracks.

Main phase 1991-2000

The second LP Forever in Dust - produced exclusively by the band itself - was released in 1991. HBTD made a promotional tour through newly united Germany with performances in Leipzig, Dresden and Rostock. With strong English pop wave bands such as Simple Minds, U2 and The Cure Sound, the band found a great response, especially in the then new federal states. The style found here solidified the band and determined the music until 1996. <to be continued>

Discography

Albums

  • Heinrich Beats the Drum (DA Records, 1989)
  • Forever in Dust (Focus, 1991)
  • Age of Mars (Focus, 1993)
  • The Pursuit of Happiness (Deshima Music, 1996)
  • Teenage Wasteland (Focus, 2000)

Singles and EPs

  • When the Sun Goes Down (12 "; Focus, 1991)
  • They Can't Wait (Single; Focus, 1991)
  • I Remember You (maxi single; Focus, 1993)
  • Wild Wild World (maxi single; Focus, 2000)
  • Baba O'Riley (Teenage Wasteland) / Around the World in a Day (Single; BSC Music ; 2001)

swell

  1. ^ Heinrich Beats The Drum , BSC Music.
  2. ↑ http://hbtd.move.successnet.de:80/indexde.html ( Memento from April 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Conversation with Florian Anwander , co-producer of the first LP

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