some of the people i have performed or recorded with:
Daniel Sanleandro, Thorsten Praest, Andy Platzer, Tom Croel Croél, Thomas Kroel, Thomas Plum, Antonius Grützner Grützner Gruetzner, Gordian Peters, eikeee eike, pimok, Olaf Kobbe, Ollie Brodhage, Olly Kliem, Rainer Bannasch, Werner Neumann, Matthias Hülshoff Mattes, Alex Alexander Kames, Knut Schultz,
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Thomas van der Horn Hoorn, Thorsten Maluck, Henning Jannsen, Hendrik Timmer, Nico Tackmann, Elmar Gerlach, Carsten Karsten Konopka, Jens Schäfer Schäfer
The Beatles,
AC/DC,
Frank Zappa,
Jimi Hendrix,
Van Halen,
The Police,
Drei vom Rhein,
King's X,
Primus,
Steve Vai,
Scott Henderson,
Claus Fischer
and many more
Michael started playing guitar at age 7 being taught by his dad. He began playing a lot of Beatles tunes before he became a huge AC/DC fan at age 10. He had his first band Anonym at age 12. They played originals only!
At age 15 Michael formed Desert Rock which mainly covered 60s and 70s songs. During the same time Michael was introduced to recording - again by his dad - using an old 4 track machine. Michael later joined the Rock/Reggae Band Insession replacing »Thorsten Praest who started his go at Metal at the time. Shortly after moving to Düsseldorf in 91 Michael joined Thorstens band »Riot Act as their bass player. Originally that was meant to be a temporary solution but Michael soon discovered the bass being his instrument. Riot Act played tons of gigs, released a CD in 93, had clips on MTV and VIVA in 93 and 94.
When time had come to break up in 95 Thorsten and Michael formed »Hühnerfriedhof - a band that still exists today and is his main band! In 2000 Michael picked up the guitar again forming »The Bootles (Beatles Cover) together with Ollie B. with whom he also shared lead vocals. Around the same time B-One was founded in which he also played guitar. A little later Michael joined Sexells (which is best described as a Chili Peppers-like Crossover band) as their bassplayer.
Michael then recorded a CD and toured with PUN in 2003 and did recordings with bands like Tragedy and others...
In 2004 Hühnerfriedhof released their 2nd CD Zieh' Dich aus which soon gained attention amongst critics, listeners and musicians.
The latest Hühnerfriedhof release is the motion picture soundtrack for 0231 - der Film, a very funny movie featuring Willy Thomczyk, Markus Knüfken, Rene Heinersdorff, Stefan Lehnen, Dustin Semmelrogge, Julia Beerhold and others - in cinemas from December 2006.
Michael then signed an endorsement deal with »Warwick in 2007.
In 2008 Michael temporarily joins German Thrash Metal Legend »Assassin, taking over from the great »UFO Walter.
Hi .... vielen Dank für deine Freundschaft bei myspace :-)! Und wieder gibt..s was Neues: I proudly present - "Wahlkrampf 2009" - passend (oder auch unpassend) zur Bundestagswahl ;-)
Liebe Grüße und viel Spaß beim Hören! (natürlich auf meinem myspace Player)
Vielen Dank für Deine Freundschaft! Du bist auf meiner Seite jederzeit herzlich willkommen. My Space is your space!
Übrigens: Ich arbeite an meinem ersten Album nach 9 Jahren. Auf meiner My Space Seite erfährst Du immer aktuell Erscheinungstermine, wann ich wo im TV zu sehen bin, Tour-Daten, kannst in Songs reinhören und Dir exklusive Videos über die Arbeit im Studio ansehen. Schau doch mal vorbei!
Du hattest uns mal nen netten Kommentar geschrieben, dass Dir unsere Musik gefiele... deshalb wollten wir Dich darauf aufmerksam machen, dass unser Album jetzt komplett und kostenlos als 320 kbps MP3s bei uns herutergeladen werden kann. Würde uns freuen, wenn Du mal reinhörst und uns eventuell sogar weiterempfiehlst. :-)
bin jetzt wieder in dieser Welt! ebenfalls große Freude dich kennen gelernt zu haben.... danke dir für das wochenende... und wir sehen uns sicher wieder auf ein kleines bier im backstage...
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