Oliver Riedel

Oliver Riedel (2010)

Oliver Riedel (born April 11, 1971 in Schwerin ) is a German musician and bassist in the German band Rammstein .

life and career

Oliver Riedel grew up in an at least partially music-loving environment. According to Riedel, his mother listened to Bob Dylan's music particularly intensely . After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as a plasterer in the second half of the 1980s . After completing his training, he continued to work in this profession. At the beginning of the 1990s he gave this up for his dream, music.

Riedel started playing bass when he was in his early 20s. He lived with his future band colleagues Richard Kruspe and Christoph Schneider in a shared apartment . At this time he received an offer from The Inchtabokatables to replace their pregnant bassist Franzi Underdrive (aka Franziska Schubert). After some hesitation, he agreed to play bass there for a limited time. Like all members of the band, he had a stage name; his was orgy ollie . Just one year later, as announced, he got out of the Inchies , although there he received a fixed monthly sum plus an annual profit sharing and thus lived in comparatively orderly economic circumstances. In an interview book, the band manager at the time said:

“On the last day he stood there and doubted because the Inchies were doing very well with their money. As a farewell he made another saying that was meant rather funny: 'I never learn to play bass with you guys.' He went into uncertainty, but it was worth it for him. "

- Falco judge

Together with his roommates, the official band founder and guitarist Kruspe and the drummer Schneider, he formed a new band project called Tempelprayers , which later became Rammstein . Riedel is one of the founding members of what is now the six-member formation.

Riedel gives only a few interviews and, according to his own statements, prefers a withdrawn way of life, away from the community. So it happened that during the production of the 2009 album Love is there for everyone for whom the band had withdrawn to an estate in Sonoma, California near San Francisco , lived alone in a tree house belonging to the area. In the documentary Anakonda im Netz , part of the 2006 DVD Völkerball , he stated that he liked to travel with the crew in the tour bus on tours, while the rest of the band members now preferred to fly.

In the 2017 book Today the World Has Birthday , his band colleague Christian Flake Lorenz mentions that Riedel - like him - suffered from a certain degree of fear of flying in previous years and therefore accepted time-consuming journeys by himself in buses and mobile homes on tours.

In addition to bass, Riedel also plays acoustic guitar and surfs in his free time. With a height of two meters, he is the largest Rammstein member.

He is married to the designer, stylist and artist Marie Riedel and father of a daughter born in 2002 from this marriage. He lives in Berlin.

Equipment

Riedel prefers Sandberg basses and has also received its own signature model . He plays bass guitars of the type California 4-string, Custom 5-string and a plasma bass from this brand.

Web links

Commons : Oliver Riedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Oliver Riedel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Discography on discogs.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viva Jam, episode 176: Rammstein , 1997
2. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 373.
3. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 373.
4. ↑ Rammstein GbR / Universal: DVD Rammstein in America , making of zu Liebe is there for everyone , original sound from 9:50 minutes
5. ↑ Anakonda on the Net - A Rammstein Documentary , Bonus DVD on Rammstein Völkerball , Universal Music Domestic Division, 2006.
6. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday. 1st edition, S. Fischer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 , p. 305.
7. ↑ musik-produktiv.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on June 14, 2017