Peter Baltes (musician)

Peter Baltes at Wacken Open Air 2014

Peter Baltes (born April 4, 1958 in Solingen ) is a German musician. Since joining the heavy metal group Accept in 1976, he has recorded a total of 15 albums as bassist and took over the vocals on their early albums and later on the 1996 album Predator . Its main instrument is a Fender Precision . In addition to his work at Accept, Baltes has been the bass player in the supergroup Deuxmonkey founded by the former anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz since 2009 .

On November 28, 2018, Baltes announced that he was leaving Accept.

Contribution to albums of other artists

• Recorded background vocals on Scorpions " Savage Amusement " album.
• played bass on John Norum albums "Face The Truth", "Worlds Away" and others.
• played bass and backing vocals on Don Dokken's solo album "Up From The Ashes", and also played bass on the first seven tracks of Dokken's "Breaking The Chains" album.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Matthias Mineur: Favorite bass: Peter Baltes / Accept . In: Guitar & Bass . No. 09/2010 , p. 50 f .
2. ↑ Former ANTHRAX guitarist DAN SPITZ launches DEUXMONKEY. (No longer available online.) Blabbermouth.net, June 26, 2009, formerly original ; Retrieved February 18, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.