The Stroke

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The Stroke
General information
origin Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Germany
Genre (s) Crossover
founding 1990 as Mikki Byron & The Stroke
resolution 1996 or later
Last occupation
Mikki "I Ain't Got No Big Dick" Byron († 2004)
Roland "Spikey" Schmidt
Electric guitar
 Andy Blocher
Ray (Finkenberger-) Lewin
former members
Drums
 Torsten Dechert

The Stroke was a Hessian crossover band from Frankfurt am Main , which was founded in 1990 under the name Mikki Byron & The Stroke and dissolved around 1996.

history

The band was founded on the night of April 30, 1990 in a Frankfurt club under the name Mikki Byron & The Stroke and consisted of the colored singer and guitarist Mikki "I Ain't Got No Big Dick" Byron from the musician of Eurodance - Project Snap! , the drummer Torsten Dechert , the guitarist Andy Blöcher and the bassist Ray (Finkenberger-) Lewin. After several appearances in the greater Frankfurt area, it was decided in the summer of 1991 to shorten the name to The Stroke in order to draw attention from the singer to the entire band, in other words to indicate that it was not the backing band of a singer on an ego trip acts. In the same year, the band also won the Sony Talent Award. The Freakadelic Rockafunk Experience EP was released later that year through Sony Music Entertainment . About 10,000 units separated from this. In 1991 the band also played as the opening act for Toto in Cologne . In addition, Roland "Spikey" Schmidt, who had belonged to the metal band Vice, joined the band as the new drummer. After moving from Sony to RMG Music , the label of Badesalz manager Bernd Reisig , the debut album How Much Can U Get!?! was released in 1994 . . The album was recorded in New York's Powerstation Studio under the direction of Steve Boyer . The sound carrier contains, among other things, a cover version of the Eagles song Life in the Fastlane . In the same year the group went on tour through Germany and Austria as the opening act for the Böhsen Onkelz . In 1995 the band recorded their second album To the Bone , which was released by RMG that same year. The sound carrier contains, among other things, a cover version of the AC / DC song Shake a Leg . In 1996 the band played at the Böhse Onkelz Festival in Dietzenbach in front of 15,000 visitors. The band later broke up.

style

According to Holger Stratmann in his Rock Hard Encyclopedia , The Stroke is one of the oldest crossover bands in Germany, with the group playing a mixture of funk , punk , hardcore punk , metal and rap . The band's second album was significantly more aggressive than the first. The Frankfurter Rundschau referred to the style in the early phase as “dance floor metal”. For MusikWoche it was a crossover, consisting of influences from Rage Against the Machine to Primus . According to Henning Richter from Metal Hammer , the first three songs on How Much Can U Get!?! "From the funk-metal-crossover school". The next song fluctuates between "the edge of the hand and heartbreak". The vocals don't come close to crooners like Marvin Gaye .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . ROCK HARD GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 396 .
  2. ↑ a b c d dk: The Stroke . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . No. 208/1991 , September 7, 1991, Szene.Leute, p. ? .
  3. ↑ a b The Stroke . How Much Can U Get. In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 5/1994 , January 31, 1994, news, p. 19 .
  4. ↑ a b c d The Stroke. Offenbachrockt.de, accessed on June 27, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Andy Blöcher. (No longer available online.) In: backhaus-48.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 27, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.backhaus-48.de
  6. ↑ The Stroke. (No longer available online.) In: musicmight.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicmight.com
  7. ↑ a b The Stroke . Striking back. In: Metal Hammer . February 1994, p. 120 .
  8. ^ Jens Schmiedeberg: Vice . In: Metal Star . November 1989, p. 86–89 (October or December issue possible, as information is missing).
  9. ^ Henning Richter: The Stroke . How Much Can U Get!?! In: Metal Hammer . March 1994, p. 57 .