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Loaded (2009)
Loaded sees the Munich six-piece, aided and abetted by a hand-picked platoon of likeminded renegades, as a small musical guerrilla unit declaring war on boring radio playlists, unstimulated moments in life and lousy vibes in general.
Their arsenal: guitars, horns, keyboards, drums and voices.
The Stimulators refuse to be pigeonholed. They do what they want to do, which is to mix rock, reggae, Latin music and ska and add a dash of jazz, funk, soul, soukous, jump bluesand surf music.
The songs on Loaded are about positive thinking in difficult times (Gonna Be OK), about the power of music (This Guitar Is Loaded), about the current economic crisis (Everybody s Broke, Money In The Bank), about wanderlust (Flying Down To Rio), about revolution (Last Orders), about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (Football Fever).
Music and lyrics by the Stimulators have equal rights. The band believes in a message delivered with catchy tunes, a great groove, outstanding musicianship and a whole lot of fun.
And Loaded is just that.
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Style (2006)
„Style“ is a limited edition CD/DVD. It features a new Stimulators studio- CD with 13 new songs and a 82 minute concert/ road movie and a booklet with many pictures. The film shows the band live in concert at their homebase in Munich the “Schlachthof” a concert venue where the band plays twice a year. It also includes studio rehearsals, soundchecks, interviews and a concert trip to the USA.
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Spin (2005)
SPIN is the Stimulators’ 5th release. It’s their fourth studio album, and their fifth long-player in all. The CD’s nine original compositions and four covers bear witness to the very individual musical tastes of the Stimulators. If you want to know what happens when the Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” and Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” clash, when old Chess and Blue Note recordings compete with the Buddha Lounge and Ry Cooder’s “Ch..vez Ravine”, and when John Coltrane battles Chuck Berry and the MC5 on the tour bus sound system, then check out SPIN.
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Live ad Direct (2004)
To get an idea of what the Stimulators are like on stage, listen to their previous release, “Live and Direct”. Recorded during a series of Austrian and German dates earlier this year, this is a selection of the band’s on-stage favorites, none of them (with one exception) previously available on CD. In its 2004 critics’ poll, leading German daily S..ddeutsche Zeitung named this album one of the best performances of the year, next to releases by Johnny Cash, J. J. Cale, Nancy Sinatra and Josh Stone.
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Pirate Music (2003)
Two years before, the Stimulators had dropped their third album, “Pirate Music”, with Cuban guest vocalist Ernesto Artiles, lately of the legendary Orquesta Beny Mor... “Pirate Music” was one big tropical beatfest - “like cruising on the Copacabana with the top down”, enthused Playboy magazine. It not only featured high-fidelity studio waxings of ten of the Stimulators’ then on-stage favourites – as an added bonus, it also had a video clip of their updated version of the Beny Mor.. classic “Castellano”, shot partly on location in Cuba.
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Secret Mission (2000)
The year 2000 had seen the release of the band’s second CD, “Secret Mission”, which consisted entirely of self-penned material. “If anything, the Stimulators have become even more versatile on this album. They deliver a moody bar-room blues just as convincingly as they pay tribute to the early Wailers”, enthused Rolling Stone magazine. “Precise arrangements, sassy solos, a tip of the hat to Hip Hop and Raggamuffin – what more do you want?” said another scribe, and on the subject of kingpin Stimulator Peter Schneider’s guitar pyrotechnics, one journalist even compared him to Carlos Santana on a good day. The “good day” referring not to Peter, but to Carlos.
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Voodoo Swing (1999)
The Stimulators’ first album, “Voodoo Swing” (1999), recorded part live, part in the studio, had been a cross-section of the band’s then musical tastes, covering tracks by jazzers Joe Primrose, Lou Donaldson, Eddie Harris and Kenny Burrell, R&B tunesmiths Memphis Slim and Bo Diddley, ska legends The Slickers and Toots & The Maytals, and Cuban classic “Guantanamera” (with some Wyclef Jean and Erik Satie thrown in for good measure). “You thought you were sick of that tune?” wrote the pundits. “Wait till you hear what the Stimulators do with it… The band’s name says it all. This is music that’ll get you moving.
The Stimulators are former Ike Turner sideman Peter Schneider on lead guitar, German ska pioneer Oliver Stephan on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, ace bassist Uli Lehmann, master drummer Oscar Pöhnl, Cuban-trained percussionist Hans Mühlegg and kamikaze trumpeter Florian Sagner, often aided and abetted by Brazilian sax and flute magician Marcio Tubino. Since their inception in 1998, they have been wowing audiences all over Europe with their infectious mix of Caribbean and African styles grafted onto a solid Jazz and Blues-based foundation. The Stimulators have received rave reviews not only from the major dailies, but also from magazines such as Rolling Stone and Playboy. Their fame has even spread to Manhattan, from where they were engaged to support James Brown on a number of dates on two recent European tours. “Flying Down to Rio”, a mini DVD released earlier this year, shows the band on stage during these appearances. But the Stimulators are not only an unusually exciting live act. Their first four albums have garnered praise not only for the fine songwriting featured next to the Stimulators’ idiosyncratic versions of other people’s (usually rather arcane) material, but also for their fine production values, which have led to the inclusion of individual Stimulators tracks on compilations offered by various high-end audio equipment manufacturers.
Live Perfomance
Schlachthof, Munich Germany, 2006
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I'm spinning "This Guitar is Loaded" on The World Beat as I write. Great guitar, vocals, horns, and percussion. The Stimulators have been re-elected...
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Next shows: October 28, Jazzbones in Tacoma, WA October 30, Mississippi Pizza in Portland, OR October 31, Nana's Irish Grill and Pub in Newport, OR November 1, Muddy's Hot Cup in Arcata, CA November 5, Molly Malone's in West Hollywood, CA
Our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
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