Thomas Smuszynski

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Thomas "Bodo" ​​Smuszynski live 2014

Thomas Smuszynski (* 26. July 1963 ), nicknamed "Bodo" is a German Metal - bassist .

Life

Thomas Smuszynski started his musical career after high school and his military service with the Dortmund metal band Darxon , with whom he joined in 1986 and with whom he recorded a single and the second album No Thrills . He then switched to UDO , Udo Dirkschneider's band . There he played three albums. He was also a founding member of the first Axel-Rudi-Pell line-up . He then played for Running Wild from 1992 to 2000 . After leaving the professional music business, he retired. He remained musically active with the cover band Bourbon Street, which mainly plays around rocker meetings.

Private life

In addition to his musical career, Smuszynski studied security technology . After studying for around 15 years, during which he worked on his musical career, he graduated in 1998 with a degree in engineering . He wrote his diploma thesis in the electronics research department of the VW Group in Wolfsburg . He then worked at PCC before moving to the automotive industry.

Discography

With Darxon

  • 1986: Holding On / Tokyo (single)
  • 1987: No Thrills (album)

With Axel Rudi Pell

  • 1989: Hear You Calling Me (single)
  • 1989: Broken Heart (single)
  • 1989: Wild Obsession (album)

With UDO

  • 1989: Mean Machine (album)
  • 1990: Faceless World (single)
  • 1990: Heart of Gold (single)
  • 1990: Faceless World (album)
  • 1991: Timebomb (album)

With running wild

With Bourbon Street

  • 2000: Straight up Rock`n Roll (in-house production)
  • 2003: Pure Single Rock (in-house production, DVD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas "Bodo" ​​Smuszynski. Bourbon Street, accessed July 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Beate Pelz: Against all conventions, we fished a new job. VDI Nachrichten , April 2, 1999, accessed on July 26, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Smuszynski, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metal bassist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1963