THE BEGINNING OF KRAUT ROCK - Recorded live at Vestlandhalle in Recklinghausen on 1st April 1970.

 

The event was headlined “Pop & Blues Labor der Amateure”, and it had been organized by the youth officer of the town of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westfalia, Kurt Oster, and his team.

This is a wonderful artefact of the first wave of German 70s bands. That’s when they finally decided to make their trip and are about to find their own style by grabbing what (especially the British) progressive bands gave them. The bands are accumulating every style that is popular at the time, and, mind, 9 of the 14 tracks here are band compositions.

Yes, Sidharta is the correct name of the band, as opposed to Hermann Hesse’s Siddharta.

Listen to the version of L.s.d., and experience the trashier side of Kraut Rock!

01  I’M COMING HOME  -  Sidharta (Soest) (Peter Theissen (Querflöte, Sopransaxophon), Raimund Klomfass (Gitarre), Hans Eugen (Carlo) Kökemann (Bass), Hans Uwe Petersen (Klavier), Peter Wolf (Schlagzeug))

02  FRÜHLINGSMUSIK  -  Sidharta (Soest)

03  LEAVE IT WITH ME  -  Sidharta (Soest)

04  SEASON OF THE WITCH  -  The Faces (Dortmund) (Jochen Bernstein, Bill Barkini, Manfred Göring, Elmar Frohn, Chris Braun)

05  BETWIXT AND BETWEEN  -  The Sounders (Herne) (Brigitte Thielepape, später bei Vox Humana, Michael Thielepape, Klaus-Peter Schau, Heinz Rother, Konrad Steuer, Wolfgang Hamann)

06  YOU’VE BEEN GONE  -  The Sounders (Herne)

07  INSTRUMENTAL  -  The Dakotas (Recklinghausen) (Bernd Sadowski, Wolfgang Vollkmer, Rudolf Müller, Joseph Funke, Wilhelm Leimvater, Erwin Kniesel)

08  JUNIOR’S WAILING  -  The Dakotas (Recklinghausen)

09  I’M A MAN  -  The Giants (Recklinghausen) (Klaus Lütting, Ulrich Habicht, Elmar Habicht, Rainer Obeling, Thomas "Tom" Grochowiak)

10  SOMEBODY HELP ME  -  The Giants (Recklinghausen)

11  THE LIFE  -  Eternal Light (Herford)

12  BOURÉE  -  Eternal Light (Herford)

13  L.s.d.  -  The Firestone Band (Hamburg)

14  DRUM BLUES No. ONE  -  Reaction (Hamburg) (Holger Deppel, Rolf Riesel, Peter Braun)