Monocle (band)

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monocle
Monocle at the 6th Berlin Rhythm'n'Blues Festival
Monocle at the 6th Berlin Rhythm'n'Blues Festival
General information
Genre (s) Blues rock
founding 1976
Website monokel-kraftblues.de
Founding members
Sebastian Baur
Guitar, vocals
 Wilfried Borchert
Harmonica , vocals
 Frank Gala Gahler
Mario Janik
Jörg Speiche Schütze († May 31, 2020)
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals
 Michael Lefty Left
Guitar, vocals
 Wilfried Willy Borchert
bass
 Michael Pitti Pflüger
Drums
 Dicki Grimm
former members
Drums
 Rainer Lojewski
singing
 Gerd Pöppel
Drums
 Bernd Damitz
Vocals, harmonica
 Bernd Zuppe Buchholz
singing
 Cornelius Lowenstein
bass
 Christoph Frenz
bass
 Holly Burnette
Guitar, vocals
 Bernd Kuhle Kühnert

Monokel is a Berlin blues rock group. Along with Engerling , Freygang , Jonathan Blues Band and Kerth, it was part of the engine of the blueser or customer scene , a GDR-specific youth culture , and is still active today. The hard guitar riffs by Michael Linke and Bernd Kühnert are responsible for the “power blues” .

history

In 1975 Sebastian Baur and Peter Schneider met in the Franz Club , East Berlin's blues domicile. Together with Horst Trümpelmann, Wilfried Borchert and Michael Mirek they founded the band Monokel, which broke up again in the summer of 1976 before things really started.

Sebastian Baur did not give up, however, gathered new musicians and founded the band for the second time. Already in October 1976 it was classified as an amateur band.

The founding members were Sebastian Baur (guitar, vocals), Wilfried Borchert (guitar, vocals), Frank “Gala” Gahler (harmonica, vocals), Mario Janik (drums) and Jörg “Speiche” Schütze (bass).

The band's first reshuffle took place in 1979 with the departure of Sebastian Baur, who later played for Keks , MCB and Knorkator , Wilfried Borchert and Mario Janik. Bernd "Kuhle" Kühnert (guitar, vocals) and Rainer Lojewski (drums) from Engerling joined the team . Wolfram Bodag's band had become too professional for them. In addition, Michael "Lefty" Linke rose from technician to singer and guitarist of the band. Three years later, Gahler left the band to join NO 55 . Gerd Pöppel from Berluc came for him . Bernd Damitz, formerly Metropolitan , replaced Rainer Lojewski, who had fled to the Federal Republic of Germany . The singer Bernd Buchholz came from Passat .

In the autumn of 1989 the band's continued existence was uncertain. The band's manager at the time had emptied the band's account after the fall of the Berlin Wall and went abroad. Sagittarius tried to keep the band. It wasn't until Frank Gahler returned to the band that the crisis was over.

Before the first CD was released in 1996, Jörg Schütze left the band. He opened a music bar in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , founded the Monokel Blues Band, got involved in internet radio www.rockradio.de and argued with the band about the band name in court. Gahler also left the band again. However, his pub was not very successful, so he left Germany. To the delight of the numerous fans, however, on July 16, 2006, for the band's 30th anniversary, he was on stage with Monokel on the Schlossinsel Köpenick . Because of its great success, the anniversary concert was repeated on September 30, 2006.

Dicki Grimm has been playing drums since 1996; Christoph Frenz replaced Schütze on bass. At the concert on October 18, 2008 in Torgau , Frenz announced that he was leaving the band. Frenz switched to Polkaholix . For him came “Pitti” Pflüger, who already played for Bluestift and Blank.

Discography

LP

  • 1986: MONOKEL - Five nice, young men who do 1a power blues ( Amiga )

CDs

  • 1995: Monocle ( bush radio )
  • 1996: MONOCEL - Want to live forever without hardship or grief (gray area)
  • 2000: Estate of a dropout - live (in-house production)
  • 2002: 25 years of Monokel - live in the Kesselhaus Berlin (Das Ohr)
  • 2006: The Monster from the Schilkinsee - Sampler (1610)
  • 2007: Monocle & Guests - live in Köpenick on July 16, 2006 (Buschfunk)
  • 2012: Monocle - 35 years of power blues (live) (Buschfunk)

DVD

  • 2006: 30 years of the monocle

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2020/25/monokel-joerg-schuetze-bluesrock-ddr-nachruf , accessed on June 14, 2020
  2. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/nachruf-auf-speiche-er-war-die-blueslegende-aus-prenzlauer-berg/25877446.html , accessed on June 14, 2020