Marcus Deml

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Marcus Nepomuc Deml (born August 9, 1967 in Prague ) is a German guitarist, studio musician and founder of the bands Errorhead , Electric Outlet and The Blue Poets . He studied guitar at the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles , worked as a live and studio guitarist in the USA until 1993 and, after his return to Germany, took part in numerous chart productions. He released six albums with his own band Errorhead. He was voted one of the top three "Guitar Heroes" of 2005 by the US American magazine Guitar Player and given him the Guitar Hero Award . That same year he received an award in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland .

biography

A year after his birth, his family emigrated from the Czech Republic to Austria, but moved to Germany a year later. From 1977 Marcus Deml grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where he came into contact with the guitar for the first time. At the age of 12, influenced by musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Blackmore , he began to practice guitar daily and turned to jazz at the age of fifteen . At that time he gained his first live experience with a school band. In 1986 he began studying guitar at the renowned GIT, the guitar department of the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles, where he lectured after graduating in 1988. However, since he did not receive a permanent work permit in the USA despite numerous bookings as a live and session guitarist, he returned to Germany in 1993. In 1994 he recorded the album “Thoughts in past future” with the ambient project Earth Nation and made a guest appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival that same year . In 1995 he was the tour guitarist for the Canadian band Saga . As a studio guitarist he worked for Nena , Snap! , Kingdom Come , or the Rödelheim Hartreim project . He also worked in the studio or live a. a. with Toto singer Bobby Kimball , Rick Astley , Billy Sheehan , Grooveminister , Saga singer Michael Sadler , Simon Collins , Carmine Appice , Randy Jackson , Laith Al-Deen , Moses Pelham , The Inchtabokatables , Michael Sagmeister , Victor Smolski , Achim Reichel and Lotto King Karl together.

In 1995 he left Earth Nation and developed his own band project Errorhead , with which he released the album "Sat 9002.2" in 1998. In 2004 the techno-influenced instrumental album "ErrorRhythm" by Errorhead followed . In 2006 he founded the jazz / fusion band Electric Outlet . In 2008, Errorhead released the rock-heavy “Modern Hippies”, on which Robbie Smith played a singer for the first time . Since this album, the solo project with alternating accompanying musicians had become a solid band structure, which, in addition to Deml, also included bassist Frank Itt and drummer Zacky Tsoukas . Only the singer changed several times after that.

In 2013 Deml performed together with bassist Markus Setzer as Duo M2 . After Errorhead had released their last album "Evolution" in 2014, Deml dissolved the project in 2016 and founded his new project The Blue Poets , with which he released the debut album of the same name on September 9, 2016. Besides Marcus Deml, the band also includes bassist Phil Steen, drummer Felix Dehmel and Australian singer Gordon Gray.

Marcus Deml also works as a guitar lecturer at the Hamburg School of Music and teaches as part of his “Big Foot Guitar Academy” in Hamburg. He is also a guest lecturer at the NewMusicAcademy in Offenbach am Main. Deml also founded the music label Triple Coil Music in 2016 to - according to his own admission - "support music without creative restrictions".

Influences and style

Deml names Gary Moore and Allan Holdsworth as the main influences and "all-time favorite" musician . From his playing, however, typical playing styles and techniques of the LA scene of the 1980s and 1990s can be heard - at that time studio guitarists such as Steve Lukather , Larry Carlton , Dann Huff or Michael Landau were considered to be style-defining.

Deml's playing shows typical blues and rock elements à la Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan , but is also characterized by jazz-heavy scale and arpeggio playing. Marcus Deml often uses a variety of effects devices that give his guitar sounds atmospheric facets. Deml also often combines electronic elements such as drum computers , synthesizers etc. with guitar sounds on his own recordings . Above all, the album "ErrorRhythm" is to be emphasized, on which there is to a certain extent a symbiosis of techno- borrowings and e-guitar sounds.

Overall, Marcus Deml is a technically and theoretically highly versed player who cannot be limited to a single style. Working as a studio musician in particular helped him develop a broad stylistic repertoire.

Equipment

Marcus Deml's guitars are mostly Fender Stratocaster models and Stratocaster-like instruments, which are often modified with other pickups . As an endorser for Fender Guitars , he carried out informational music events (so-called clinics) throughout Europe. Deml almost exclusively uses models from the German company TubeThomsen as guitar amplifiers, from which a Marcus Deml signature model , the TubeThomsen Errorhead , is also available.

Discography

With Earth Nation

  • 1994: Thoughts in Past Future (Eye Q Records)
  • 1994: Alienated (single, Eye Q Records)
  • 1994: Falling Tears (Single, Eye Q Records)

With errorhead

  • 1998: Sat. 9002.2 ( BMG )
  • 1999: The Other Side (Single, BMG)
  • 2004: ErrorRhythm ( soul food )
  • 2008: Modern Hippie (Lion Music)
  • 2010: Modern Hippies Live At Your Home (Live-DVD, self-distribution)
  • 2010: Live (live, House Master Records)
  • 2012: Organic Pill (Rock The Earth)
  • 2014: Evolution (Lighthouse Records)

With Electric Outlet

  • 2006: On! (Lion Music)

With The Blue Poets

  • 2016: The Blue Poets (Triple Coil Music)

As a studio musician (excerpt)

In total, Marcus Deml has already worked on over 300 studio productions, so that a complete overview is almost impossible. An excerpt:

Music videos

With errorhead

  • 2009: Connected (live)
  • 2009: Heaven (live)
  • 2009: 99 (live)
  • 2010: Northern Lights (live)
  • 2010: Little Wing (live)
  • 2011: Táta
  • 2012: "One of These Days" Live at the Music Hall
  • 2012: "99" Live at the Music Hall
  • 2012: "Let Me Get Down" Live at the Music Hall
  • 2012: “Táta” Live at the Music Hall
  • 2012: Song for Gary Moore (live)
  • 2013: Watch my Cloud (live)
  • 2014: Scream (People like us)
  • 2014: Hideaway

With The Blue Poets

  • 2017: Goodbye
  • 2017: With Your Eyes
  • 2017: Alien Angel (live)
  • 2017: Sunshine of your Love (live rehearsel)
  • 2017: Pretty Woman (live rehearsel)
  • 2017: Won't You Suffer (live rehearsel)

With Duo M2

  • 2013: "99" Live @ Kultbahnhof

Press reviews

"Made in Germany" doesn't have to be a bad seal of approval musically, as "Errorhead" proves. If you see the whole thing in the context of the publication date in 1998, one can - in contrast to many other musical products from this country - speak of innovation without exaggeration. "

- Vampster.com via "Sat 9002.2"

“As amazing as it sounds to me," Error Rhythm "is an interesting, varied album that I can even listen to in one piece, which is anything but the norm with instrumental records. You don't have to be a guitar freak to get this piece, but of course it helps somehow. "

- laut.de about "ErrorRhythm"

"The album is really a little heavyweight in the concert of the newer CD releases and therefore recommended for all those who look beyond their own nose - including Prog fans!"

- Babyblaue-seiten.de about "Electric Outlet - On!"

“The amazing thing about all of this is definitely that the guitarist always subordinates his enormous claim to the songs. The songs of "Modern Hippie" do not get excessive in any way and are characterized overall by a pleasant compactness, which is rarely found in this genre. "

- Powermetal.de about "Modern Hippie"

“Errorhead inspires with its sovereignty. The guitar is the main instrument on the record. "Organic Pill" is not a self-expression, but is music for the consumer and there should be plenty of it. "

- Rocktimes about "Organic Pill"

"" Evolution "is joy without compromise. No slacks, no boredom, no platitudes and no fat. Nothing spoils the listening pleasure. "

- hooked-on-music.de about "Evolution"

“The Blue Poets offer highly emotional, contemporary and classic-sounding blues rock at a very high level, both in terms of composition and play, which should not surprise anyone in view of the people involved. "The Blue Poets" is not a posh mainstream story, but with all its sovereignty it has enough dirt under its fingernails. "

- Musicreviews.de about "The Blue Poets"

Trivia

The single The Other Side contains a mirror to show the listener "the other side".

In 2011, Marcus Deml was a member of the jury of the “ Robert Johnson Guitar Awards” along with Uli Jon Roth , Thomas Barth and Mickey Meinert , of which Otto Waalkes was the patron .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.errorhead.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=7&lang=de
  2. ↑ http://vampster.com/artikel/show/?id=13474
  3. ↑ http://www.laut.de/Errorhead/Error-Rhythm-%28Album%29
  4. ↑ http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/album_9549.html
  5. ↑ http://powermetal.de/review/review-Errorhead/Modern_Hippie,11473.html
  6. ↑ http://www.rocktimes.de/haben/e/errorhead/organic_pill.html
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hooked-on-music.de
  8. ↑ http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2016/The-Blue-Poets/The-Blue-Poets/
personal data
SURNAME Deml, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deml, Marcus Nepomuc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist, studio musician and founder of the band Errorhead
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague