Waldemar Weiz

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Waldemar Waldi Weiz (born July 9, 1949 in Catterfeld , Thuringia) is a German blues musician and graphic artist .

Musical development

Beginnings

Weiz took accordion lessons at the age of eight and played in an accordion group. Influenced by the Beatles , he was inspired by his grandmother an electric guitar give, the guitar brought autodidact in and started in the school band The Trabant and later with the Blackie in Gotha beat music playing. But soon he discovered his love for the blues, but could not convince his music colleagues to change the musical style. It was the time when Beatlemania had also reached the GDR . At the age of 16, when the GDR authorities took rigorous action against the beat bands, he was banned from appearing for life . A welcome occasion was a violation of the 60/40 rule . Weiz then went to Erfurt , where a blues mecca began to develop with Jürgen Kerth and other bands. Despite the ban, he was soon back on stage with the Erfurt band Die Drei , later Modern Blues . Obviously, word of the ban did not get around to the Erfurt authorities. At Modern Blues he also met his future wife Angelika Weiz .

Ergo

Weiz founded the band ergo in 1975 . The band name stood for "so let's begin". That this name also referred to the home of the musicians from ERfurt and GOtha was more of a funny side effect and not intended. The original line-up of ergo included:

In the course of its ten-year existence there have been several changes in line-up. Other band members were:

  • Karl-Heinz Kalle Schüller (piano - later in the Erfurt band PRINZZ )
  • Christoph Gölitz (piano)
  • Nico Schlenker (piano)
  • Rene Decker (saxophone)
  • Milo (saxophone)
  • Edgar Eddi Janta (bass)
  • Peter von Kintzel (drums)
  • Detlef Möller (drums)

Musically, the band moved between blues, fusion and funk and also had their own compositions in their repertoire . The best known was the title Knickerbocker , which was published in 1979 on the Amiga sampler Auf dem weg . When Angelika Weiz was brought to East Berlin by Günther Fischer and Waldemar Weiz had to serve as reservist in the National People's Army , the band disintegrated. Was the last concert ergo on 16 January 1985 in Erfurt Castel Sant'Angelo , a student club. After that there was an “ergo2” project for a short time without Angelika Weiz, with some new musicians. After their dissolution, Waldi Weiz first played percussion as a guest with the Erfurt band Lesses Collage and later played lead guitar, even when he was already living in Berlin. The singer of the band was Anke Schenker . At the same time he worked as a graphic artist.

In 2006, Fränzel re-established it with a new line-up.

Mama Blues Project and Engerling

He played with the Mama Blues project in the studio. This project, consisting of 17 musicians from well-known rock and blues groups from the GDR, only existed for a short time and in 1989 recorded the LP Stormy Spring for Amiga .

Weiz played with Engerling from 1989 to 1992 .

Projects from 1992

From 1992 Weiz pursued his own musical paths and founded the Waldemar Weiz Quartet .

His current formation is called the Waldi-Weiz-Band . In addition to Weiz, it includes:

  • Udo Weidemüller (guitar)
  • Simon Pauli (bass)
  • Simon Anke (keyboard)
  • Sebastian Trupart (drums)

Guests:

  • Adwoa Hackman (vocals)
  • Dirk Morning (drums)
  • Carlos Dalelane (drums, bass)
  • Matthias Stolpe (harmonica, vocals, guitar)
  • Terrence Bowry (vocals)
  • Tom Blacksmith (guitar, harmonica, vocals)

Weiz also works as a studio musician and performs regularly with the blues soloist Andreas Krambach, whose solo project is called catfish . In 2004 Waldemar Weiz won the jury's 1st prize at the Jazz & Blues Award . In 2007 he released a live CD on Buschfunk and can be heard as a guest musician on the CDs A Dark Caucasian Blue and The Acquitted Idiot by Mitch Ryder .

Discography

  • 1999: To Be all Thumbs
  • 2003: acousticjam (live recording from the Knorre )
  • 2007: Live at Yorckschlösschen
  • 2019: second leg

See also

literature

  • Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .
  • Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan: Bye, Bye Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait Ergo at Deutsche-Mugge.de . Deutsche-Mugge.de. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Weiz, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blues musician and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Catterfeld , Thuringia