Thumb (band)
| Thumb | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Crossover |
| founding | 1993 |
| resolution | 2002 |
| Website | www.thumbpage.de |
| Last occupation | |
| Claus Grabke | |
| Axel Pralat (since 2000) | |
| Jens Gössling | |
| Jan-Hendrik Meyer | |
| Steffen Wilmking | |
| former members | |
| Axel Hilgenstöhler (until 2000) | |
Thumb was a successful crossover band in the 1990s . The front man and singer was the skateboarder Claus Grabke .
Band history
Thumb was founded in Gütersloh in 1993 . The first demos were recorded in 1994 and a record deal was signed with EMI in March 1995 . The first album Thumb was released on September 14th and the band toured Germany with Bad Religion , Dog Eat Dog , Henry Rollins , Beatsteaks and Such a Surge . On May 5, 1997, the second album Exposure was released . The following tour led Thumb to the Vans Warped Tour in the USA in 1998, where they performed thirteen gigs in front of almost 180,000 spectators in three weeks. The magazine Visions chose Exposure in the top 100 sheets of the 90 ranked 57th
After a two-year hiatus from the band, Thumb began recording the third album in the spring of 2000. The sudden exit of the guitarist Axel Hilgenstöhler in the middle of the year and the subsequent entry of Axel Pralat as a new guitarist threw the band far behind in the recording process. All new songs recorded so far have been discarded.
“It wasn't about finding a new guitarist to just fill in the void. We wanted to write real songs as a unit again. In the past three years we have tried to do this again and again, but our claims have never been fully satisfied. "
The album, which was released on May 21, 2001, was named 3 and entered the German album charts at number 59 . After the tour for the album it became quiet around the band and the members spread out in different directions. Drummer Steffen Wilmking went to H-Blockx , bassist Jan-Hendrik Meyer to Hudson , singer Claus Grabke to Alternative Allstars and guitarist Axel Pralat to Waterdown .
Years after the breakup, the band published one last official statement on their homepage in 2005:
“We are neither working on new songs nor on a new album. Everyone goes their own way and it doesn't look like the paths will cross again in the foreseeable future. [...] Unfortunately, it wouldn't make sense to announce a big THUMB reunion here. "
Discography
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Demos
- 1st Thumb Demo (1993, self-distribution)
Albums
- Thumb (1995, EMI )
- Encore ( Thumb - Re-Release , 1996, EMI )
- Exposure (1997, EMI / Victory Records )
- Maximum Exposure ( Exposure - Re-Release , 1998, EMI / Victory Records )
- 3 (2001, EMI / Victory Records )
Singles
Thumb
Encore
Exposure
3
Web links
- Official website
- WDR Rockpalast: Thumb, live 1998 - concert recording, photos, background report and specials
- Thumb at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poplist.de ; Retrieved December 18, 2007
- ↑ official band biography
- ↑ band homepage
- ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
