Vomit Visions

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Vomit Visions
General information
origin Hessen (Germany)
Genre (s) punk
founding 1978
resolution 1982
Founding members
singing
 Rola Rock († 1989)
Guitars
 Eric Hysteric (Erich Knodt)
bass
 Hans Wurst (Volker Hanreich)
Drums, guitar (2nd single)
 Dieter Krist
guitar
 Marcel Roth

Vomit Visions was a punk band from Hessen and the first band to release a record on the Rock-O-Rama -Records label.

Band history

From 1973, Erich Knodt and Dieter Krist, who had met at a concert by Tina York , made experimental music recordings in lo-fi sound with a 2-track tape recorder . After the two had spent the summer of 1976 in London, Knodt became the fictional character Eric Hysteric and Krist started his first fanzine . Attempts to found a punk band failed several times because there were no suitable musicians in the Hessian province.

In 1978, Hysteric and Krist worked as roadies for XTC and sold records on the Frankfurt flea market. They got to know Herbert Egoldt from Rock-O-Rama-Versand (Cologne) and Volker Hanreich ( Gießen ). As a collector of obscure American punk singles, Hanreich was in contact with like-minded people like Greg Shaw (Who Put The Bomp, Bomp Records) and Jello Biafra ( Dead Kennedys , Alternative Tentacles ). Under the name of Hans Wurst, he wrote essays for Krist's fanzines, in which he explored the journalistic ( New Musical Express , in Germany Sounds ) and scientific ( cultural studies ) explanatory models of punk (as art and / or "authentic" expression of the working class) rejected. Fanzines such as “Same Old Song” and “Ultra Hard Core Punk Sounds” were sold at concerts, at the Frankfurt flea market and in the Karl Marx bookstore by Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit .

Hans Wurst, the sociology student Rola Rock and Marcel Roth, editor of the first Frankfurt punk fanzine Shreads, were accepted into the band as bassist, singer and guitarist. Under the name "SCUM" (after Valerie Solanas ), several chaotic rehearsals took place at the beginning of 1979, which resulted in bans in the youth centers in Giessen and Frankfurt-Höchst. Then Hysteric emigrated to London and started a solo career with the support of Australian punk pioneers “The Last Words”.

Without Hysteric, SCUM was quickly exhausted. In the following months, the remaining band members concentrated on the production of fanzines. This changed an appearance of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks at the New York Festival (with the underground films by Scott & B. Beth and Adele Bertei) on June 20, 1979 in 042 ( Nijmegen / Netherlands). The concert ended after eight minutes when Lydia Lunch slammed an (empty) beer glass on the chin of a friend of Krist's, who was taking photos for his fanzine at close range, and stormed off the stage. Impressed by the consistent performance, the three decided to make Vomit Visions records. In view of the current DIY wave of bands like Desperate Bicycles and Swell Maps , the band decided against their own label. Hanreich persuaded Herbert Egoldt to found Rock-O-Rama Records and to release an EP by Vomit Visions.

Eric Hysteric and Leigh Kendall ( The Last Words ) were flown in for record production. On December 27 and 28, 1979 Vomit Visions recorded four songs with a two-track Revox in Krist's basement. Herbert Egoldt tried to acquire all rights to use the recordings. However, Krist insisted on only signing a limited (number of records produced) license agreement in which all rights to the recordings remained with the band. When the EP Punks Are The Old Farts Of Today was released in April 1980, the band and label boss were already falling out. Egoldt's attempt to transfer the rights to the compositions to his music publisher House of Sound caused new problems.

While Alfred Hilsberg wrote of "embarrassingly conventional punk" and Zig-Zag-Magazine (No.102) described the EP as "indescribably rotten", issue 3 of " Kill Your Pet Puppy ", the second fanzine by Tony D. , who published Ripped & Torn from 1976 to 1979, read: “Far out man, makes Crass seem like a bunch of choirboys.” (German: madness, on the other hand Crass look like a bunch of choir boys ) Slash, the house paper of the LA Punkszene commented: “Great title, great name, great sound: they grate on the nerves. I love it. It has the superb production values ​​of "Forming" ( Germs' first single ) ... It sure emptied my tummie quick. "(Eng .: Great title, great name, great sound: they scratch my nerves. I love it. It has an incredibly good production, like with Forming ... I had to throw up really quickly. ).

In May 1981 the Vomit Visions recorded four songs in Studio 61 (Diez) by Tom Dokupil ( The Wirtschaftswunder ), three of which were released. The second single was released, demonstratively without a label, with (at least) three covers . The first version featured a picture of the Krautrock legend Birth Control . Under the title Shove it up Your Ass , Rola Rock and Hans Wurst published a few hundred copies with a picture from a porn magazine. The third cover was a photo by the Sex Pistols from their performance in Huddersfield Prison on December 25, 1977.

Musically, the record produced by Hans Wurst as Volker H. was a perfect copy of the ultra hardcore punk developed in Hollywood and Huntington Beach. Diedrich Diederichsen commented: "Very good punk from Vomit Visions from Germany: ultra-fast, ultra-hard, absolute garbage music, of which there is really too little today." (Sounds 1/1982)

In May 1982, Hysteric and Krist released I Hate The World on Wasted Vinyl Records , the fourth song of the second recording session that Rock and Wurst thought “too commercial”. Under the motto Sell ​​Out , the cover featured Jello Biafra (with a copy of “Same Old Song” in hand) and Hans Wurst. Shortly afterwards the band broke up.

Eric Hysteric initially continued his solo career in London, later he was the driving force behind the Frankfurt riot combo Der Durstige Mann and, as the owner of Orgasm Records a. a. the Part Time Punx. Rola Rock died in 1989 of a heroin overdose in Frankfurt.

Trivia

  • One fan is Henry Rollins , who noted in his tour diary, published as a book, “Didn't write yesterday. Last night, I met Volker and Eric Hysteric from the Vomit Visions. They gave me some of their records, that I had never seen before. It was so cool to meet those guys. ”(Translation: Not written yesterday. Last night I met Volker and Eric Hysteric from Vomit Visions. They gave me records from their band that I had never seen before. It was so cool to meet the two ) In the edition of his internet radio show dedicated to Wagner, Karajan, Kraftwerk, Neu and other German music greats (January 22, 2008), Rollins played "Entertain Me": "We're going to listen to the The Vomit Visions which are ancient german punk rock. (...) The title of the EP is like Punks Are The Old F * of Today . I bought it for two dollars about 150 years ago. Today it goes on sale on ebay for way too much money. "(Translation: We will now listen to Vomit Vision, what really old punk from Germany is. The title of the EP is Punks Are The Old F * of Today . I have it Bought for two dollars back then, today it goes for way too much money on Ebay. )
  • In 1982 Susanne Wiegand (No Time Gallery, Düsseldorf) selected the Teenage Jesus And The Jerks concert report by Hans Wurst (first published in Same Old Song No.?, 1979) for a collection of fanzine texts that were published in The frame of the photo documentation "Guter Abzug" published by ar / gee gleim appeared.

Discography

Singles
  • 1980: Punks Are The Old Farts of Today EP ( Rock-O-Rama )
  • 1981: Too Late (VV Records) / Shove It Up Your Ass! (VV Records 0208) / Too Late (Someone Wasted Vinyl)
  • 1982: I Hate The World / Life (Spliz-7 '' with Eric Hysteric, Wasted Vinyl Records)

literature

  • BILD newspaper (December 31, 1979) (local edition Hamburg)
  • Buckmaier, Karl (1990): Popalphabet: Eric Hysteric (Bayern2, Zündfunk)
  • Fanzines: Same Old Song, Ultra Hard Core Punk Sounds und Primitiefes Leben (all Frankfurt), Kill Your Pet Puppy (London), Maximumrocknroll (Berkeley), Touch & Go (East Lansing), Flipside (Los Angeles).
  • Hilsberg, Alfred (1980), Neue Deutsche Welle. A discography of German New Wave records, in: Klaus Human / Carl-Ludwig Reichert (1980), Rock-Session 4, Reinbek: RoRoRo. ISBN 978-3499173585
  • Walter, Klaus (1993), Dicker Stefan, good child, in: ANNAS, Max / Ralph CHRISTOPH (1993), New Soundtracks for the Volksempfänger, Berlin: Edition ID Archive. ISBN 978-3894080280

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl Bruckmaier : Eric Hysteric in the Popalphabet. Le sample case, accessed on May 26, 2012 .
  2. ^ Henry Rollins : Get in the Van - On the Road with Black Flag . 2.13.61 Publications, Los Angeles 1994, ISBN 1-880985-24-1 , pp. 64 .
  3. ^ Henry Rollins Internet Radio Show, Jan. 22, 2008