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Drahdiwaberl
"Some friends said, 'If you produce the wire waffles, you'll bleed to death mentally!'" (Markus Spiegel)
The band, founded by Stefan Weber in 1969, started out primarily with Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart in mind and in the early 70s called itself an "aggressive contrast to the flower power bands à la Schmetterlinge". The musical expression and above all their stage dialectics were accordingly far removed from the aestheticism of the singer-songwriters. Not so the content: "We used to play a lot at events against the Armed Forces and the like, they were practically always free concerts." Drahdiwaberl - the name is the Viennese designation for a spinning top and also for undecided people - falls and stands with the person Stefan Weber, the frontman, lyricist and singer, who became notorious for his grunts and grunts and taught drawing in bourgeois life. Drahdiwaberl has always been a talent factory, the most famous ex-Drahdiwaberl called himself Falco (he was bassist of the band for five years and presented his first own songs like Ganz Wien and Der Kommissar at Drahdiwaberl concerts). The song Psychoterror from the debut album of the same name is based on quotations from a former district leader in Vienna - a stylistic device that Drahdiwaberl used again and again. With this textual form of actionism they broke open taboo zones and became a bourgeois terror in the restrictive Christian-social Austria. The participation of Franz Bilik, whose last sound recording can be heard on the second Drahdiwaberl album 'McRonalds Massaker', enriched Drahdiwaberl from 1982 until his untimely death with bitterly evil texts and emphasized the cabaret style of the group. A component that has long since disappeared or has a different quality today. Drahdiwaberl is no longer a band, but an institution - an anarchic, shrill, garish, loud, tasteless, obscene, amusing and rarely politically correct institution - today as 30 years ago - that continues to act against bourgeois moral concepts or right-wing ideologies.
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Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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