THE BEGINNING OF KRAUT ROCK II - live at Vestlandhalle in Recklinghausen 1970

 

JOIN INN 1972

Again, let us go down to the 3^rd division of German Rock: the non-professionals. And let’s see if they have got something to offer?! And, please, don’t complain about the sound quality! It’s really good enough for a genuine listening pleasure. And just be happy, that somebody plugged his/her tape recorder in.

So this is: Part II of THE BEGINNING OF KRAUT ROCK

Recorded live at Vestlandhalle in Recklinghausen in January or February 1970.

The event was still headlined “7. Beat Festival”, although times had changed, but the organizers, town council officials, didn’t know. Even the German bands were now turning progressive and - as a side effect - throwing in their own compositions. Albeit, some were still a year or two behind…

Mystic Eyes of Hannover were probably not the veterans of the Beat scene who had been playing residencies and shows since 1965, and now, with a changed line-up, were going Blues. The Mystic Eyes – the originals featuring Günther Radny – had hailed from Regensburg, which is a long way down south. But Mojo Mama’s Band from Recklinghausen were the remains oft The Dakotas.

The Union Faces (sponsored by the Union brewery of Dortmund?) had been around for quite a while as the Faces, which they’d soon become again. And they obviously had learned their Vanilla Fudge lesson. “Stop! In The Name Of Love” – f…ing wonderful! Trash Prog Punk !! Third World War (the British band) couldn’t do it better. 

Join Inn later recorded an album and was quite popular in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Coloured could as well be spelled The Colour Red. Who knows? Well, somebody does (or did)!

But all these musicians were amateurs, mostly Grammar School or College boys. In their incompetence they would do some astonishing interpretations… just listen to “Whole Lotta Love”. (Great lyrics, by the way - truly spacebound!)

Yeah, some stuff here is really trashy and punky… nevertheless it turns me on. And additionally – from the historical point of view – it’s an example of what was going on on the highschool scene in Germany 1969/70. These bands could and will have played in most of the school auditoriums in their region then.

 

01 YOU KEEP ME HANGING ON  -  The Union Faces (The Faces) (Dortmund) (Horst Schreiber, gtr, voc, Frank G. Kusching, ld-gtr, Frank Wölm, b, Dieter Bölker, org, Alfred Schade, dr)

02 STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE  -  The Union Faces (The Faces) (Dortmund)

03 WALKIN’  -  The Union Faces (The Faces) (Dortmund)

04 YOU DON’T LOVE ME  -  (unknown) Band 18

05 SUZY Q  -  (unknown) Band 18

06 AIN’T YOU COMING HOME  -  (unknown) Band 18

07 I’M A MAN  -  The Coloured (Wattenscheid) (Jürgen Vogt, ld gtr, Dieter Gorny, b, voc, Thomas Neckel, voc, harm, rh gtr, Siegfried Niemöller, dr, Rolf Friedrich, org, p)

08 AIN’T YOU COMING HOME  -  Join Inn (Marl)

09 GOT LOVE IF YOU WANT IT  -  Mystic Eyes (Hannover) (Jochen Bertram, clar, voc, Axel Polasny, ld gtr, Horst Hengel, gtr, voc, Klaus-Dieter Hamann, b, Peter Henniges, dr)

10 BE MY BABY  -  Mystic Eyes (Hannover)

11 HARD ROAD (Mystic Eyes)  -  Mystic Eyes (Hannover)

12 HEARTBREAKER/LIVIN’ LOVIN’  -  The Red Devils (Hamm) (Manfred Koschnig, b, Egon Assmann, dr, Wolfgang Trapp, ld gtr, Johannes Koch, rh gtr)

13 A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE  -  The Red Devils (Hamm)

14 RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH  -  The Tea Set (Oer-Erkenschwick) (Detlef Brass, org, Karl Weber, ld gtr, Heinz Brentrop, b, Niklas Zeling, rh gtr, Wilfried Timmermeister, dr)

15 GROWING UP  -  Mojo Mama’s Band (Recklinghausen) (Marcel Sadowski, dr, Klaus-Dieter Bleek, tromb, gtr, Wolfgang Oberstuhl, org, Erich Gräber, b)

16 GOT MY MOJO WORKIN‘  -  Mojo Mama’s Band (Recklinghausen)