Schroeder Roadshow

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Schroeder Roadshow
General information
origin Cologne , Germany
Genre (s) Political rock , German rock , punk , clown theater
founding 1976, 2008
resolution 1986, 2009
Founding members
Uli Hundt
Gert Beracz
Richard Herten
Didi Maaz
Peter Michels
Bass , vocals, backing vocals, percussion
Rich Schwab
Last occupation
Vocals, guitar
Gerty Beracz
Bass, vocals
Vladi Nowakowski
Drums
Ben Beracz
Drums, percussion, choir
Richard Herten
Piano, keyboard, vocals
Christoph Stupp
Music, lyrics
Uli Hundt
Jesus Canneloni (Günter Komposch) † March 24, 2009
Guitar, organ, choir, production
Manni Holländer (Manfred Herter) † April 18, 2011
former members
singing
Martina Bako
Congas, percussion, vocals
Brigitte Beracz
Guitars
Mick Gebhardt
singing
Monika Herrmann
Keyboard instruments
Jocko Jänisch
singing
Gerd Koester
Guitar, vocals
Frank stool
guitar
Wolfgang Fedde
bass
Reiner Heidl
Drums
Gerhard Sagemüller

Schroeder Roadshow was a political rock anarcho clown band founded in Cologne , which was known from 1975 to 1986 for its sometimes ironic and political texts as well as its concert appearances. Politically, they belonged to the squatter and anarcho scene and became one of the cult bands of their time in the Federal Republic of Germany . Musically, they could not be assigned to any particular direction.

history

founding

In the 1970s, the underground poet Ulrich Hundt and the drummer Detlef Landmann ran the Cologne trendy bar Daddy's Madhouse , which frequented local greats such as Heiner Lauterbach , Jürgen Zeltinger and others. He was looking for a suitable band to set his poems to music. He found it with Schroeder , who emerged from the band Hoffmann of the songwriter Günter Hoffmann . It was named after the piano player Schroeder from the comic series The Peanuts . The bassist of Schroeder was Rich Schwab, which in Daddy's Madhouse served, had been involved in several projects already and had to realize that with the German love songs in jazz-rock - Arrangements was hardly to be expected commercial success. The guitarist was Gerd Beracz, whom Schwab had already met in 1964 at a beat festival. After seeing a show of clown Jango Edwards and his Friends Roadshow in Cologne cinema further concept was clear: anarchic humor, hearty show and respect for anything or anyone. The Schroeder Roadshow was born.

First record and first differences of opinion

The band renounced the support of the record industry. In 1977 the first record was recorded on an eight-track system in a small studio in Aachen , with borrowed money . It appeared with an edition of 1000 copies under the name Sensational! Ulrich Hundt & Schroeder at large…. !!! The record contained titles like The Bulls Strike Again and an alternative version of the Deutschlandlied , which was incompatible with the political attitudes of the pianist Didi Maaz, who then left the band (former text: “ Germany, Germany stinks everything that stinks to you You like yourself / Unity and justice and freedom have been tortured too much / Corruption, violence and arbitrariness are easy for the state to manage / Think about your children, think German fatherland ”). Richard Herten, who had given up his studies as a classical percussionist , had already come for the drummer Horst Mittmann . In 1978 the Schroeder Roadshow began its tour through the entire Federal Republic and became increasingly popular. In Frankfurt am Main , activists of the women's movement forced a performance to be abandoned because of allegedly chauvinistic texts in the songs Miss Trend and the Strichjungenwalzer . An article in the Frankfurt city magazine PflasterStrand , which aimed in the same direction, provided additional free advertising. HaGe Hein became aware of the band at the alternative Trikont publishing house , offered himself as a manager and secured a record deal.

Gerd Köster as a sick representative

At the end of 1978 the Schroeder Roadshow recorded the album Anarchie in Germoney with Uli Hundt as singer . Within 11 days, but recorded more professionally than its predecessor, the record was released with a cover by the comic artist K. H. Schrörs , who was also to design the next records and also drew the poster for the tour on the road again . This poster, "It's so cool that it doesn't stay hanging in any city for more than a few hours - next to the obligatory Che Guevara poster and a few Indian posters, it is probably the most popular poster in Germany's shared kitchens and hallways " (Rich Schwab on his homepage).

When the new tour was already fully booked in February 1979, singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist Uli Hundt was canceled due to a kidney disease. Three days before the tour started, the youngest member of the band was the 22-year-old geriatric nurse and singer with Zarah cylinder Gerd Köster . Köster fitted into the band concept within a very short time and should become the ideal front man of the roadshow live. Among other things, the band performed on their eleven-month tour at the Rock-gegen-Rechts- Festival in Frankfurt and at Umsonst und out in Vlotho . When Schroeder Roadshow played a concert for the Rockpalast of the WDR on October 30, 1980 in the Metropol in Berlin , Frank Hocker (like Köster from Zarah cylinder) was there as the new guitarist .

The green caterpillar and the broken glass

In 1983 the concert and tour organizer Fritz Rau , confirmed by Petra Kelly , supported the young Green Party in its federal election campaign by organizing the Green Caterpillar . These were political events at which green speakers gave speeches and bands close to the peace movement provided the musical framework free of charge. In addition to Udo Lindenberg and Gianna Nannini , the Schroeder Roadshow was also there. On this occasion, Fritz Rau and HaGe Hein arranged a joint tour of “God's two favorite bands” (Fritz Rau) Ton Steine ​​Scherben and Schroeder Roadshow. The Rockpalast director Christian Wagner captured this tour in a five and a half hour film. The later Green politician Claudia Roth was also there as a manager, about whom Rich Schwab later said: “That she called us 'Schroederles' was forgivable - after all, the woman comes from Swabia. But she preferred to do this in hotels, at half past seven in the morning, to make us aware that the tour bus was ready to leave - three hours after the last drink at the hotel bar! That is unforgivable. "

The end of the Schroeder Roadshow

When Uli Hundt and Rich Schwab left the Schroeder Roadshow in 1984 (Uli Hundt founded Uli Hundt & die Betablocker , then Uli Hundt & Der Wahnsinn ), the band only called itself Schroeder. On the record Hooray none of the founding members was there. The following are listed as band members: Köster / Hocker / Fedde / Heidl / Sagemüller. Gerd Beracz, Rich Schwab and Günter Komposch only appeared as guests. K. H. Schrörs, who had shaped the appearance of the records through his cover design, was no longer there. After a second appearance at the Rockpalast in 1985 in the Markthalle Hamburg , the band slowly fell silent and no more studio records were recorded. Some of the musicians appeared again in 1986 under the name Die Firma in Burglengenfeld at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in front of 120,000 spectators. When they played again in September 1988 at the Werner race of the comic artist Brösel at the Hartenholm airfield in front of 200,000 spectators with an almost old cast, the recording of the concert was their last publication. Their last appearance before the band split up was a year later at the Werner Revival Festival .

In the course of her career, Schroeder Roadshow had worked with, among others, Wolf Maahn as a producer and Wolfgang Niedecken .

During a “Schroeder break” in 1982, Köster and Hocker founded the rock quartet Die jeilen Träumer for a short time and released an album of the same name on Trikont.

After his time at Schroeder, Gerd Köster started his solo career with the Tom Waits project The Piano Has Been Drinking . In the wake of the popularity of The Piano has been drinking , many ex-members of Schroeder Roadshow got together for a farewell concert. Under the motto "Unity and the right to free beer" they played in a large cast (including Hundt and Köster) on January 15, 1992 in Cologne's E-Werk .

New start

After the first presentation of the new formation from Schroeder Roadshow in August 2008 in Berlin, a new CD was released at the end of 2008, in which several musicians from the original line-up and Uli Hundt were again involved. As a guest musician, u. a. Klaus the violinist with. The reviews were mixed. Westzeit wrote that the CD was “coherent and round”, while sound & image wrote that it was “nothing more than sentimental retro sound with texts that at most remind an early retiree of his youth.” In December 2008 a tour started with two Concerts in Düren in the local Komm-Zentrum . After the sudden death of saxophonist Günter Komposch (artist name Jesus Canneloni or earlier Jesus Caneloni and Jesus Cannelino ) on March 24, 2009, who also participated in free jazz projects such as the Intermission Orchestra with Frank Köllges or Triple Trip Touch (aka TTT ) Frank Wollny , Markus Lüpertz u. a. participated, activities of the Schroeder Roadshow are no longer known.

Quotes

"The German Stones  - only smarter ..."

Discography

Publications of the Schroeder Roadshow

  • 1977: sensational! Ulrich Hundt & Schroeder at large…. !!! (Zarah Cylinder Records)
  • 1979: Anarchy in Germoney (Trikont)
  • 1980: Live in Tokyo (Trikont)
  • 1982: DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND ... , live recording (Trikont)
  • 1983: We love the country (EMI)
  • 1984: Hurray (EMI)
  • 1988: Live at the race (EMI)
  • 2008: Rock'n'Roll chansons from the backyard of dreams (Westpark)

Other publications by Uli Hundt

  • 1981: Uli Hundt & the beta blockers: Schweinhundt (Trikont)
  • 1986: Uli Hundt & Der Wahnsinn: Placebo (Trikont)

Individual evidence

  1. Fallersleben ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 17, 2016)
  2. LP clay stones shards in Berlin 1984
  3. http://www.westzeit.de/rezensions/?id=9809&tp=SCHROEDER_ROADSHOW Westzeit
  4. http://www.sound-and-image.de/review_747.htm sound & image
  5. http://www.jazzclubtonne.de/programm/archiv/2009/03/10/ttt-projekt-markus-luepertz
  6. http://www.wollny-artconcepte.de/phpfusion/php-files/viewpage.php?page_id=47
  7. http://mechernich.de/seiten/aktuelles/2009/04/Jesus_Canneloni.php

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