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(Bear Tracks) 20 tracks The Petards have tried the impossible. In the early years of rock... more

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The Petards have tried the impossible. In the early years of rock music, they met as a completely isolated German band from the provinces to achieve their national breakthrough on their own - the dream of international fame in the back of their minds. In their seven-year career, the Petards have made thousands of appearances, five long-playing records, a dozen singles and a lot of experience that groups in this country have been struggling with to this day.

They were among the pioneers of German rock music who faced the thankless task of bringing new music to the rural areas of the Republic, where beat or rock music had previously only been accessible via radio. Although bands like the Petards met a starved and enthusiastic audience there, they were usually denied the boring recognition for their fundamental musical fieldwork...'

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Album titlle: The Petards (CD)
Preiscode AH
Genre Beat
Label BEAR TRACK
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EAN: 4000127714046
weight in Kg 0.21

Petards, The - The Petards (CD) CD 1
01	Golden Glass	The Petards
02	Shoot Me Up To The Moon	The Petards
03	Summerwind	The Petards
04	Roses For Kathy	The Petards
05	Misty Island	The Petards
06	Pretty Liza	The Petards
07	The Fountain	The Petards
08	Some Sunny Sunday Morning	The Petards
09	On The Road With My Bag	The Petards
10	Blue Fire Light	The Petards
11	Pictures	The Petards
12	The Dream	The Petards
13	Keep On	The Petards
14	My World	The Petards
15	Don't You Feel Like Me?	The Petards
16	Good Good Donna	The Petards
17	Rainy Day	The Petards
18	On The Road Drinking Wine	The Petards
19	Baby Man	The Petards
20	Hello My Friend	The Petards

The Petards THE PETARDS IN A FAST COURSE They loved making music and shared a common... more

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"The Petards"

The Petards

THE PETARDS IN A FAST COURSE

They loved making music and shared a common vision and the will to realize it. They revealed surprising abilities and talents with which they almost lasted for a few years for themselves and for the entire Upper Hessian region.

She achieved many of her early goals: Well over 1000 performances, 100,000 sold copies of the 1st LP, repeated tours abroad, No 1 hits, LP release in Japan etc. Only the biggest wish: they were denied a number 1 in the USA. The story of the Petards is a very unusual success story, even if the Schrecksbacher firecrackers never became intercontinental rockets...

They not only had more ideas than most of their rock colleagues, they also implemented them permanently themselves:

They offered a sovereign stage choreography.
They designed their own stage clothes and had them sewn.
They were the first band in the country with an ingenious lightshow (incl. strobe lights). The individual parts for this were purchased from the Kassel-based electrical trade.
They were the first band to distribute stickers with their own logo (and other promotional material anyway).
They built up a network of 380, mostly really active fan clubs, which made them as popular as they are today only possible via MTV/Viva.
They repeatedly exchanged the concert stage with a theater stage
They organized the legendary Herzberg festivals, at which German pop mainstream met the underground for the first time.
To top it all off, Arno delivered his incomparable drum solo every evening at his shooting range with two bass drums (New!).

Eventually they were overtaken by the times, the spirit of the times, the growing competition (with hair, musicians & managers & connections), sometimes even overtaken: For some years they set the bar very high for other bands. They consistently fulfilled their demands, which many an alternative Krautrock/Underground band failed to meet:

They were absolutely independent.
They wrote their own plays.
They were their own road managers for a long time.
The man on the rhythm guitar was the manager.
The man on bass was the fan support.
They designed their own logo, posters and record covers themselves.
They were also as professionals their own promoters, organized many appearance from A - Z themselves.

Actually, this band shouldn't have had any success, because they were carrying around some handicaps. It speaks for them that they took them away effortlessly for years:

The Petards had no manager, no connections in the music business, no role model to copy.
They were, albeit ambitious, yet isolated boys from the deepest province.
Two band members were objectively seen very moderate musicians.
Two band members wore toupees from the beginning because of their sparse hair growth. (A phenomenon that is still rare in rock history.)

With this CD edition of their total output, 25 years after the end of the band, a late happy ending is delivered.

Let's go back to the beginning....

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From: Berge On: 15 Aug 2014

Tolle Songs haben die Petards da geschrieben, charmant und intelligent, ich bin begeistert, da ich Golden Glass als kleiner Junge gehört habe, der zum Glück einen wesentlich älteren Bruder hat und so in den Genuss gekommen ist, die Musik der 60er und 70er Jahre zu hören.

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