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Comments & Stories · 22.06.2026

One of my favorite stories is the following: In 1997, I went together with my friend George to see Skunk Anansie in Stuttgart. Outside the venue there were the typical Dutch sellers of merchandise, screaming: "Skorfs, deeshörts". George went to buy one of these shirts for 15 German Marks - 10 Marks cheaper than the shirts, who were sold inside the venue - and put it on. We left the venue, after the concert, because George wanted to have his shirt signed by Skin, Skunk Anansie´s fronter....

Comments & Stories · 19.06.2026

My wife and I heard this promising new song at the legendary concert in the Dominican Monastery in Guebwiller during their spring tour. Live, you could hear the bagpipes and the song had real drive; the bagpipes' mantra-like melodies stayed with me all night long. We were looking forward to the new album from our favorite band. Then, on June 18, 2026, the band released the same song (Hosts in the Sky), which I received as a .wav file, and the production was very dense and powerful across all...

Comments & Stories · 28.04.2026

The picture shows my main personalities; Ripsi Rebellion, with the Punk in his head who adores no gods, no masters, heavystoned, the writer with his special meanings about music business as a form of medieval feudal labor, Nocebo, the one-man-band-project who did quite different styles of music and Egonomic, the AI-project, who first did some Melodic Death Metal. As Nocebo, I could do some instrumental stoner, Etruscan music, Café del Mar and some Postrock with my limited musical skills. I...

Comments & Stories · 21.02.2026

Dieser Tage stieß ich bei der Suche nach einem Wohnmobilstellplatz in der Eifel auf das Ironfest.

Comments & Stories · 07.01.2026

I have numerous favorite bands, each of which I only like a specific phase. For example, with TSOL, I only like the more gothic-influenced period from 1984-1987 with Joe Wood, the Paul Di'Ano era with Iron Maiden, Accept with Udo Dierckschneider, Rainbow with Dio, etc. With Witchcraft, Magnus Pelander has been the only constant for 25 years, and every album is different. The only phase I truly enjoy is the Legend and Nucleus era between 2012 and 2016, which boasted a perfect balance between...

Comments & Stories · 20.11.2025

A few days ago, I stumbled across a short clip on YouTube about the history of "Sultans of Swing," my all-time favorite song since 1978. I was twelve years old back then, when I heard the show "Pop Shop" on my local FM radio station. It was on Sundays from 7 to 8 p.m., I think. Listeners could vote for their favorite songs in the charts by postcard. The songs stayed in the charts for ten weeks, rising and falling, before being replaced by new releases. Around 1978, such great songs as "Nice and...

Comments & Stories · 25.10.2025

You can only really recognize AI-generated music if you've created it yourself. SUNO provides the most likely suitable patterns for each genre and pieces them together so that it almost certainly sounds like the input prompt. Whether it's created in Georgia, the USA, or on my desk in Munich, the music always sounds the same. A month ago, we were at a heavy metal festival in Italy, and what was interesting was that all the bands looked the same and used the same sound, the same mannerisms, and...

Comments & Stories · 07.10.2025

On first listen, I was almost blown away by the album, but something in my subconscious told me something wasn't quite right. So I reread the press release, which listed numerous prominent musicians, something that put me off, as someone who doesn't snoop on names. Then I listened to the lyrics and had them displayed on Spotify. Ah, Western musicians imitate oriental music because oriental music has a clear canon of themes that can be sung about. This includes unrequited love, but not love,...

Comments & Stories · 22.09.2025

Actually, I can't play a guitar; I tuned it to grab power chords or open chords with a finger. I can play bass rather, more like Lemmy, so rather a deep rhythm guitar. So far I have made all the music that I could make alone or with a band; Hardcore Punk, Stoner, Café del Mar or 70's rock. For music that I wanted to do, but could not do it purely craftsmanship, I took the AI to help and the result was the Egonomic project. Now Suno has set up a new function in which you can download stems. In...

Comments & Stories · 10.08.2025

Am 9.8.2025 besuchten wir unser Backstage im Zuge des Free and Easy-Festivals. Wir nutzten eine Umbaupause, um im Biergarten eine Zigarette zu rauchen. Das erste Bild auf dem Bildschirm war das hier: Erwin Schmidt ist tot. Mein Kopfkino setzte ein: Wir lernten uns während unserer Promo-Zeit für Nuclear Blast und Summernights-Open-Air im Jahre 2008 kennen. In zahllosen Nächten standen wir neben Erwin, der damals noch bei einer Security-Firma angestellt war, und erzählten uns Stories über...