The Busters
| The Busters | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Wiesloch , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Ska |
| founding | 1987 |
| Website | www.thebusters.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Joe Ibrahim | |
| Richie Alexander | |
| Deniz Alataş | |
| Rolf Breyer | |
| Markus Schramhauser | |
| Stephan Keller | |
| Stefan Breuer | |
| Jesse Günther | |
| Hardy Appich | |
| Robert Solomon | |
| Mathias Demmer | |
| former members | |
trombone |
Jan-Hinrich Brahms (1987-89) |
Drums |
Gunther Hecker (1987-91) |
guitar |
Martin "Fiesi" Keller (1987–94) |
singing |
Thomas "Bräsig" Scholz (1987–94) |
guitar |
Jochen Seiterle (1992–98) |
bass |
Markus "Mäx of Mexico" Grittner (1987–2000) |
singing |
Klaus Huber (1987-2000) |
singing |
Markus Sprengler (1994-2002) |
| Hans-Jörg "Fischi" Fischer (1987–2009) | |
| Peter "Quitte" Quintern (1987-2009) | |
singing |
Richard "Richez" Tabor (2000–2009) |
singing |
Ron Marsman (2005-2017) |
guitar |
Alex Lützke |
The Busters are a German ska band from Wiesloch in Baden-Württemberg , which was founded in 1987 only as a leisure project, but is now one of the most famous German ska bands and has also achieved international recognition.
Band history
1987 to 2008
In 1988 her first album Ruder than Rude was released on the Weser label . In 1989 the group went on their first major tour of Germany with the Bad Manners . In the same year the band recorded two songs together with Laurel Aitken on their album Couch Potatoes and accompanied the musician on a tour as a backing band. Then trombonist Jan-Hinrich Brahms switched from the Busters to the British ska legend Bad Manners. Today he plays in the Darmstadt band Ska Trek . His successor was Robert Göhring.
Around 1990 The Busters with Skaos from Krumbach in Bavaria, No Sports from Stuttgart, The Blue Beat from Jülich, El Bosso & die Ping-Pongs from Münster, Blue Chateau from Hamburg and Blechreiz from Berlin were among the pioneers of the German ska scene and performed numerous concerts together.
In 1991 drummer Gunther Hecker resigned. In the same year, The Busters played a club tour in the USA with the American ska band The Toasters without a permanent drummer . The subsequent album Dead or Alive - for the first time with Stefan Breuer on drums - satirized the American way of life. In 1992 a live album was released with Cheap Thrills . In the same year, Jochen Seiterle was hired as another guitarist.
After another US tour along the west coast in 1993 and the 1994 album Sexy Money , singer Thomas Scholz and guitarist Martin Keller left the band. While Scholz's successor was Markus Sprengler , a well-known singer in the Rhine-Neckar region , no other guitarist was accepted into the band due to Seiterle's experience. In 1995 the Busters got the offer to headline a ska evening at the Montreux Jazz Festival . A live CD was recorded. The Montreux appearance led the Busters to the record company Sony , which released the album Stompede in 1996 and the Best of Boost Best in 1997 . Then the band split from Sony and switched to SPV / Dogsteady Records.
With the album Make a Move and the new guitarist Alex Lützke, the Busters went on tour with the doctors in 1998 . In 1999 the Swingvergnügen project came into being , to which several members of the Busters also belonged. With this band they dedicated themselves to the Neoswing and released the album Road Rage.
After the tenth album Welcome to Busterland , the two founding members “Mäx” Grittner and Klaus Huber left the Busters for professional reasons . In the summer of 2000 the band worked with the doctor- guitarist Farin Urlaub and brought out the single Liebe macht blind with him . The following “No Risk No Fun” tour was the debut of the new members Rolf Breyer (bass) and Richard Tabor (vocals).
The album 360 ° (2001) once again contained the new songs from the single with Farin Urlaub as bonus tracks. In addition, the band will also be performed by Dr. Ring thing supported. The Busters' horns have been accompanying Farin Urlaub and his “ Farin Urlaub Racing Team ” on tour since 2002 .
The band celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2002 with a large open-air concert in their hometown of Wiesloch in front of 7,000 enthusiastic fans. The performance was recorded and a selection of the performed pieces were released as an album in early 2003, on which Farin Urlaub made a guest appearance, as did the “Busters Pension Fund”, a band made up of six former Busters members. In the summer of the same year, the band played on the main stage of the Taubertal Festival as a co-headliner in front of Die Toten Hosen , for which The Busters also acted as the opening act on the “Away Game” tour in December of the same year. Shortly before, in November, Markus Sprengler had left the band.
In the summer of 2003, The Busters fulfilled a long postponed wish to record an album in the style of early Jamaican Ska with Revolution Rock . In November 2004 the band made a successful debut in Japan . Influenced by this, the band released the EP Sukiyaki vs. Tokyo Ska Zone.
The band has now founded their own label "Ska Revolution Records", which also released the 2005 long player Evolution Pop , in which Farin Urlaub is named as the producer of two songs. In addition, singer Ron Marsman, who has since acted as the second front man alongside Richard Tabor, was brought on board for the recordings. In autumn 2006 the live EP Ska, Sweat & Tears was released, which was only available for download on the official homepage and was not released on CD. The double album Double Penetration was released on November 2, 2007 , and The Busters went on a “Plugged Penetration” tour in the winter of 2007/08.
Since 2009
With the conclusion of the “Offbeat Revenge” tour in winter 2008/2009, the Busters announced another line-up change. Mathias Demmer took over the saxophone for the two founding members and long-time saxophonists Hans-Jörg "Fischi" Fischer and Peter "Quitte" Quintern from March 1st, 2009. Shortly afterwards, long-time singer Richard "Richez" Tabor left the band for professional reasons.
After several successful appearances at the Summerjam and Open Air Gampel festivals, among others , The Busters worked on their new album "Waking The Dead", which was released on November 13, 2009. With four songs from the album and six other songs, the band was also featured in the soundtrack of Jonas Grosch's feature film Résiste - Aufstand der Praktikanten . The contact with the director came about through his sister, leading actress and fan of the band Katharina Wackernagel .
In 2010 The Busters played The Concert for Eternity at the Hamburg factory . The evening was recorded by Jonas Grosch, made into the concert film of the same name , and released on a double DVD together with Grosch's one-hour documentary A Band for Eternity . The documentary was u. a. presented at the Biberach Film Festival and shown in local cinemas in some cities before the concert on the subsequent tour “Ewigkeit Tonight”.
The year 2011 began with the participation of the band with four pieces on the soundtrack of Jonas Grosch's second feature film, the "Screwball Musical Comedy" The Last Lie . Stephan Keller and Markus Schramhauser were also responsible for the score and the band could also be seen in the film as "Lyin 'Buster Cats". In the summer the band will cross over to Venezuela at the invitation of their friends from Desorden Público and the Goethe Institute . There they play a concert in front of several thousand locals in the Plaza La Castillana in Caracas. After further summer appearances, u. a. At the Open Flair and Summerjam festivals , The Busters went on a traditional winter tour under the motto “Brutales 1-2-3”.
In 2012 the band celebrated their 25th anniversary in the Wiesloch Palatin with fans, friends, former members and prominent friends such as Katharina Wackernagel, Götz Widmann and Dr. Ring thing. Then it went with Dr. Ring-Ding as “Special Guest” on an extensive tour of Germany.
In 2013, Dr. Ring-Ding under the real name Richie Alexander as the second singer and permanent member of the band. The fans experienced the premiere on the “4 Fists for a Summertime” tour in 2013 and 2014. On November 14, 2014, the 17th album Supersonic Eskalator was released. A vinyl LP called Supersonic Scratch was released on December 19, 2014.
Since 2015 the band has been running a side project called Schramme11 . There the entire band plays German-language rock music with elements of world music and hits . At the end of 2016, the 18th sound carrier was released as a live double album Ska Bang 87 for the 30th anniversary tour of the same name.
On August 5, 2017, Ron Marsman played his last concert with The Busters at the Ruhr Reggae Summer after 12 years .
Discography
Albums
- 1988: Ruder than Rude ( Weserlabel )
- 1989: Couch Potatoes ( Weserlabel )
- 1991: Dead or Alive ( Weser label )
- 1992: Cheap Thrills ( Weserlabel )
- 1994: Sexy Money ( Weser label )
- 1995: Live in Montreux ( Weser label )
- 1996: Stompede (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1997: Boost Best (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1998: Make a Move (Dogsteady Records / SPV; Re-Release: Ska Revolution Records, 2011)
- 1999: Welcome to Busterland (Dogsteady Records / SPV; Re-Release: Ska Revolution Records, 2011)
- 2001: 360 ° (Dogsteady Records / SPV; Re-Release: Ska Revolution Records, 2011)
- 2003: Live ( Pork Pie / Vielklang ; Re-Release: Ska Revolution Records, 2008)
- 2004: Revolution Rock (Ska Revolution Records / Vielklang)
- 2005: Evolution Pop (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2007: Double Penetration (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2009: Waking the Dead (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2014: Supersonic Escalator (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2014: Supersonic Scratch (Vinyl, Ska Revolution Records)
- 2016: Ska Bang 87 (30 Years - 30 Songs) (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2017: Straight Ahead (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2019: The Busters (Ska Revolution Records)
Singles and EPs
- 1988: No Respect ( Weserlabel )
- 1989: Don't Worry, Be Happy ( Weserlabel )
- 1989: Rude Girl ( Weserlabel )
- 1989: She Was My Girl - feat. Laurel Aitken ( Weser label )
- 1989: Summertime ( Weserlabel )
- 1994: 94 hits ( Weserlabel )
- 1996: Behind Your Door (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1996: Ubangi Stomp (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1997: Ska Muzik (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1997: Candy (Mambo Music / Sony )
- 1998: Come On (Dogsteady Records / SPV)
- 2000: love is blind - feat. Farin Urlaub (Dogsteady Records / SPV)
- 2001: My Girl (Dogsteady Records / SPV)
- 2001: We won't let it happen (Dogsteady Records / SPV)
- 2005: Sukiyaki vs. Tokyo Ska Zone (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2005: Radio Smash Hit (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2005: Whiskey 'Til I Drop (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2005: Clocks Don't Rock (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2006: Ska, Sweat & Tears (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2007: The Wrong Song (Ska Revolution Records)
- 2009: Live It Up (Ska Revolution Records)
Video albums
- 2010: The Concert for Eternity (Ska Revolution Records)
Web links
- The Busters website
- The Busters at Musik-Sammler.de
- The Busters at laut.de
- The Busters - Double Penetration Album review at allska.de in the web archive
Individual proof
- ↑ "Résiste! - Uprising of the interns ”with a Ska soundtrack. In: punk rock news. January 21, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2009 .