Tex Morton (guitarist)
Tex Morton (* 1961 in Emden as Peter Hajunga ) is a German musician who is mainly known as a guitarist .
Life
The musician, who was born in Emden, came to Osnabrück at the age of eleven . According to his own statements, in addition to the saxophone, he learned the instruments guitar, electric bass and drums mainly self-taught.
At a small Hamburg rock 'n' roll record label, he released his first solo single under his real name as a teenager, entitled Honey Sticks On The Guitar . After that, on the advice of a friend, he decided on the stage name Tex Morton. He first played in the hardcore punk band “Delirium” and then founded the band “Tex Morton & The Jet Sets” with friends, with whom he also appeared as the opening act for The Undertones and Link Wray .
The producer and DAF manager Robert "Tijuana" Giddens, better known as Bob Giddens , became aware of him and accepted him into his band Surplus Stock . Since then he has been and is active in numerous bands and music projects. Among other things, he produced the storm damage album Vergessenes Land in 1992 . In 1992 he released the solo LP Shanty Town on Strange Ways Records . The samplers The Ship (1992) and The Ship 2 (1993) were released on the same label, each with a song on them. He has lived in Berlin since 1995 . In the Osnabrück magazine of August 2011 he was mentioned as "the German Keith Richards ".
Next sound carrier (selection)
- 1985: Sunny Domestozs , Barkin 'at the Moon (Drinkin' Lonesome; reissue 2005)
- 1991: Sunny Domestozs , The Complete Sunny Domestozs (Roof Records; compilation )
- 2002: Mad Sin , Survival of the Sickest ( People Like You Records )
- 2005: Mad Sin , Dead Moon's Calling (People Like You Records)
- 2017: The Distorted Elvises , Gun in Acapulco , ( Strandard63 )
- 2018: Friends of the Italian Opera , Via Dolorosa , (Strandard63) (CD)
- 2020: Friends of Italian Opera , Via Dolorosa , (Strandard63 / Major Label ) (LP)
- 2020: Friends of the Italian Opera , Brothers to the Sun for Freedom , with Die Art , - 12 Inch Vinyl Picture Split EP (Major Label)
Band memberships (selection)
- The Chainsaw Hollies
- Chip Hanna & The Berlin Three
- The Raymen
- The Distorted Elvises
- Dusty Gray and his rough ridin 'Ramblers
- The Electric Family
- Fabsi & the Peanuts Club
- The Fidelen brothers-in-law
- Frantic Flintstones
- Friends of the Italian Opera
- Kamikaze Queens
- King bastard
- Lolitas
- Mad Sin
- The Mimmi's
- The Perc Meets the Hidden Gentleman
- Nitro 17
- The Passengers
- Pseiko Lüde & the Astros
- Ray & the Rockets
- The Ripmen
- The black abbot
- Sunny Domestozs
- The Devil 'n' Us
- The Suurbiers
- Viktoriapark
Web links
- Tex Morton at Discogs (English)
- Sound carrier by Tex Morton in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Markus Franz: Tex Morton - Punk with pleated trousers , Ox-Fanzine , Issue 112, February / March 2014.
- ↑ Tex Morton , Rate Your Music . Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Tex Morton - Shanty Town , Musik-Sammler.de.
- ^ The Ship , Musik-Sammler.de.
- ^ The Ship 2 , Musik-Sammler.de.
- ↑ Here lived , Stadtblatt, Osnabrück Magazin, August 2011, p. 16.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morton, Tex |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hajunga, Peter (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emden |