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Guitar hero since 1975
If you think electro-punk is dead, you dont know Hermann Schwartz, the guitar player in the French group Métal Urbain. Hermanns guitar playing and his punk politics have made him a legend in his own time.
Schwartz outclasses them all, and here he ups the ante even more by sampling the great thinkers of history and putting them in their rightful places.
HERMANN SCHWARTZ (guitar god)
member of METAL URBAIN, 1977 -1980
member of DOCTOR MIX & THE REMIX from 1979 to 1980
member of the METAL BOYS, 1979
member of DESPERADOS 1980
member of WOLFGANG, 1994-2001
Also successful SOLO ARTIST
Hermann Schwartz was born in 1954, and joined METAL URBAIN in early 1977, six months after their first gig, replacing, with his brother Pat Lger, then guitarist Rikky Darling.
Since then, Hermann as been identified as one of France greatest guitar heroes, with a sound so distinctive you will recognise it instantly after hearing it once. His secret he pretty much simple : he never uses a pick. It's all in the fingers !
Hermann also was guitarist for Doctor Mix & The Remix, the legendary short lived rock'n'roll band Desperados, and hard hitting rockabilly band Wolfgang.
His no compromise attitude, that he sticked to for the last 30 years, as made him one of France's most respected guitar player. As soon as he steps on stage, people in the audience screams his name, which might tell you the degree of popularity he has achieved.
The two tracks above are unmastered unissued mixes recordings, for an upcoming DESPERADOS ANTHOLOGY, to be issued soon on Seventeen Records.
His legendary session with Patti Smith, recorded in Paris in 1976, remains unreleased to this day.
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