Who was/is Richard Weihs ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Richard Weihs
"I'm a harmonious fool, but I know my rhythm." (Richard Weihs)
"Singer-songwriter scene wise, I'm a late-born. Through Al Cook I first came to the blues, I have been singing my own lyrics in German since 1977, one year after the arena cast." Richard Weihs, born in Wels (Upper Austria) in 1956, published short stories for the first time in 1973, and only three years later did he appear as a musician. To this day he has remained an insider tip, although all his recordings have received good reviews, even if not from the mass media, because, according to Weihs: "In Austria it has always been the case that you don't get into the big media with explicitly political things. Others, who perceived him very well, described him as "antithesis to Rainhard Fendrich: where one person slimes his way to following Peter Alexander as the official Austrian heart of Helsinki, the other is practicing following Qualtinger's anti-Viennese songs, and not only in them. The arrangements by Klaus Trabitsch are just as wonderfully weird as the lyrics, which in sum results in some border genial pieces of earthy songs" (Website Weihs). Accordingly, his lyrics, as for example in the new poem of the St. James Infirmary Blues - with Richard Weihs it becomes the Crematorium Blues : "Heit woa i im Krematorium / duat'n ham's mei Frau vabrennt. / Nix is ma blieb'n / ois ihr Osch'n / und ihre foisch'n Zähnd ...". The original composition Donaukanal-Walzer was created in the course of the first solo cabaret (and the resulting LP 'Dunkle Kanäle'), which was performed live in 1988 on the 'Boot' on the Vienna Danube Canal. On it you can hear Otto Lechner on accordion next to Richard Weihs (slide guitar). "Donaukanäu rinnst auf mi zua, rinnst ma davo / und bleibst trotzdem oiwäu do", it says, while the rocking chair creaks comfortably. Weihs: "At that time I thought: Well, you hear that again and again, that's the ox tour, you work your way up slowly and at some point it gets easier and better. And in retrospect, you come up with it, those were the good times when you thought it was going to happen." Richard Weihs also published 'Der Blues-Gustl' (Edition Aramo, 2001), an indispensable novel. The book 'leads directly', as the author of these lines once put it in a critique, "into the Viennese Beisl scene of the 70s and 80s. Tangible, perceptible, but luckily odourless. The book tilts from the exuberant attitude to life of the blues musician into the tragedy of the same." Further book publications by Richard Weihs: 'Wiener Witz - Der Schmähführer' and 'Wiener Wut - Das Schimpfwörterbuch' (both UHUDLA Edition).
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