Salinos

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Salinos
General information
origin Gelsenkirchen
Genre (s) punk
founding 1978
resolution 1985
Founding members
Vocals, guitar
 Achim Weber
Vocals, guitar
 Lotte Würch
guitar
 Peter Stankewitz
bass
 Bert Gossen
Drums
 Siggi Hermes † 2006
Vocals, accordion, flugelhorn, Minimoog
 Beate Brosda
Vocals, accordion
 Gabi Guth
Singing, percussion
 Meggi Poepping

The Salinos were one of the first German punk bands .

Band history

The Salinos were founded in Gelsenkirchen in 1978 . The band made their first two appearances in August / September 1978 under the name KOTS (Küchentheater On Tour Secretly) at the first Gelsenkirchen punk event and at the opening of the exhibition by the artist Jürgen Kramer in the New Wave gallery Art Attack in Wuppertal. At the end of June 1979, the Salinos released an EP with 6 tracks, which was one of the first self-produced singles of the New Wave . In September they performed at the “Antifascist Festival” in Berlin. On December 29th, they took part in the event "Noises for the 80s" in the Hamburg market hall . In 1980 the live tape “Persuasion” was released, and in August 1981 the LP “You don't look like I look”, of which a thousand copies were sold within a few weeks. The band played regularly in trendy bars in the Ruhr area until 1982 and repeatedly at the Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf. Their heterogeneous audience included "punks as well as old freaks or many" normal "people". In 1985 the Salinos disbanded. Since then there have been various event-related reunions.

Music style and lyrics

Musically, the Salinos were based on the Ramones and rock 'n' roll . They played their own material. In addition, they adapted classics of the German hit. In their songs they showed a "sense of subtle wit, a rarity in the otherwise stupid, deadly serious German punk scene" ( Sounds , 1979) and "constantly walked on the border between genius and kitsch" ( Spex , 1980). Thomas Groetz recognized a "tongue-in-cheek criticism of social conditions" in the lyrics.

occupation

The photo was taken in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn, the original venue of FC Schalke 04.
(from left to right): Lotte Würch, Bert Gossen, Beate Brosda, Gabi Guth, Achim Weber, Peter Stankewitz, Mechthild Pöpping

The line-up consisted of Achim Weber (vocals, guitar), Lotte Würch (guitar), Peter Stankewitz (guitar), Bert Gossen (bass) and Siggi Hermes (drums); The sound was shaped by the punk choir, which was contributed by the three musicians Beate Brosda (accordion, flugelhorn, Minimoog), Gabi Guth (accordion) and Meggi Pöpping (percussion) to each song. All women also appeared as solo singers.

In September 1979 drummer Siggi Hermes left the band and moved to Berlin. His successor (Reinhard Banker) only stayed a few months. In early 1980 Bert Gossen switched to drums and Lotte Würch took over bass. After 1982 Bill Brown (bass - Fred Banana Combo ) and Gerd Posny (saxophone, drums - Gesundes Volksempfinden) strengthened the band.

Almost all Salinos were also members of the Kitchen Theater , an independent theater company from the field of art-AG / Fluxus Zone West and the Free International University of Joseph Beuys . With the exception of Guth and Pöpping, they all lived together in the band's so-called “headquarters” in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , which had a rehearsal room and a recording studio. Weber and Brosda also raised their daughter Julia, the first of five children together, there.

Publications

  • The Salinos Presented by The Küchentheater, 7 ″ EP 1979
  • Believer in conviction, Livetape, 1980
  • You don't look like me, LP 1981

Sampler

  • Antifascist Festival - Live Berlin 1979, Cassette 1980
  • Noises for the 80s, LP 1980
  • Beautiful living - Abber Fixx, LP 1982
  • Antifascist Festival - Live Berlin 1979, LP 2001

Others

  • The Salinos, along with Minus Delta t , Tempo and Liebesgier, were one of the experimental bands that were attacked by parts of the audience and sometimes physically attacked when they heard noises for the 80s .
  • In 2001, Jürgen Teipel , in the foreword of his documentary novel Verschwende Deine Jugend, counted the Salinos in retrospect as one of the bands that “made a big impression on him at the time”.
  • Bert Gossen released the solo EP “Die Freiheit des Pantoffeltierchens” under the name Sportsmann in 1981 , for which he retired to the band's rehearsal room for a week, played all the instruments and recorded the vocals. In the same year Siggi Hermes took part in the band Dortmund , which released the single "Titanic / The Deep".

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Groetz: Art - Music . German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys. Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 121 .
  2. ↑ The Salinos Presented by The Küchentheater at Discogs
  3. ^ Thomas Groetz: Art - Music . German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys. Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 116 : "The EP [...] is one of the earliest examples of self-produced music in the German punk scene."
  4. ↑ Antifascist Festival Live Berlin '79 at Discogs
  5. ↑ Noises for the 80s at Discogs
  6. ↑ No future was yesterday: Punk in Germany in the Google book search
  7. ↑ You don't look like me on Discogs
  8. ↑ a b c Christoph Biermann : The Salinos . In: Marabo . Bochum September 1981, p. 6-9 .
  9. ^ A b Thomas Groetz: Art - Music . German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys. Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 122 .
  10. ↑ Achim Weber: The Salinos . In: Jürgen Kramer (Ed.): In the field of tension of the expanded concept of art. Gelsenkirchen around Beuys . Gelsenkirchen 2010.
  11. ^ Thomas Groetz: Art - Music . German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys. Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 115–116, 117–118 : “Another music group that presented itself at the FIU working meeting were the Salinos . This band consisted of Achim Weber and other members [...] who had also formed a theater group. The Küchentheater was an ensemble founded in 1976 that performed its pieces [...] largely improvised. "(On the front of the EP published in 1979 there are)" Evidence of the special connection with Beuys' concept of creativity, ..., based on two photos On the left of the lower photo strip you can see a picture of the honey pump that Joseph Beuys installed at the documenta 1977. It was connected with a 100-day working meeting, which the Gelsenkirchen FIU also took part in. Another photo shows Beuys sitting at the piano ... on the back of the record sleeve ... you can see a round Free International University emblem. "
  12. ↑ Jürgen Teipel : Waste your youth . Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 , pp. 213 : “Mike Hentz: The punks would always beat up the singers in the breaks between the pieces. From all of the so-called art bands that played before us - Salinos, greed and speed. "
  13. ^ The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt in the Google book search
  14. ↑ Waste your youth on Google Book Search
  15. ↑ Sportsman - The freedom of the paramecium at Discogs
  16. ^ Dortmund - Titanic / The Deep at Discogs

Remarks

  1. ↑ The name was based on SPOTS (Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly); a pseudonym that the Sex Pistols used in 1977 to circumvent performance bans in England.