| Influences | Frank's:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Klaus Voormann, Manfred Mann, The Byrds, The Turtles, The Who, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Frederick Loewe, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, João Gilberto, Baden Powell, Airto Moreira, Astor Piazzolla, Cat Stevens, The Small Faces, The Faces, The Who, Procol Harum, Moody Blues, Frank Zappa, Cpt. Beefheart, Canned Heat, John Mayall, Cream, Blues Project, Jeff Beck, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart together with Ron Wood, Steve Winwood, The Animals, Eric Burdon & War, Hardin & York, Spooky Tooth, Mott the Hoople, Humble Pie, Lee Hazlewood, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Prince, Charles Mingus, Jefferson Airplane, The (early) Rolling Stones, Neil Young, CSN & Y, Joni Mitchell, The Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, The Hollies, The Bee Gees, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Chris Kristofferson, Townes van Zandt, Tex Perkins, Harry Nilsson, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Ravi Shankar, The Kinks, Charles Trénet, Jaques Brel, Charles Aznavour, Édith Piaf, Paolo Conte, Adriano Celentano, Keith Carradine, Richard Baskin, Ryūichi Sakamoto, J.B. Bach, G.F. Haendel, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Eric Satie, Maurice Ravel, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Peter Tschaikowsky, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss (both), Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Paul Lincke, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg, John Dowland, Michael Nyman, Serge Gainsbourg, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Nice, Jackson Heights, ELP, The (early) Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Michael Franks, Ralph Towner & Oregon, Nick Drake, Neil Finn, Tim Finn, The Rembrandts, Jethro Tull, John Cameron Fogerty, Pentangle, Wilco, Eels, The Long Winters, Julie Doiron, Nico, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, David Byrne, The Talking Heads, Roxy Music, King Crimson, Vanilla Fudge, Pink Floyd, Marc Bolan, Prefab Sprout, Gong, Can, Frumpy, Atlantis, Kraftwerk, Neu, Rheingold, Ideal, Ougenweide, Hannes Wader, Konstantin Wecker, Element Of Crime, Stoppok and many other great musicians and artists!
Particularly: Arno Schegene, Tim Prigge, William Schwarz, Wolfgang Budde, Kirian Scheuplein, Matthias Fraider, some dear friends and my beloved cats...
Arno's:
Pink Floyd, Elle Fitzgerald, Prince, Yes, Eric Satie, Brand New Heavies, King Crimsom, Rufus, Genesis, Dissie Gillespie, Tower of Power, Billie Hollyday, Peter Hammill, Santana, Deep Purple, Frank Zappa, Leon Gruenberg, Rush, Kings X, Embryo, Living color, 24/7 Spyzs, Micheal Rother, Defunkt, J.S.Bach, Wendy & Lisa, Miles Davies, The Who, Chick Corea, Roxy Music, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jonas Hellborg, Limbomaniacs, Terence Trent D' Arby, Matt Bianco, Herbie Hancock, Bop City, Soundgarden, Bill Evans, Scäm Luiz, James Brown, Limbomaniacs, Steve Hackett, Incognito, Steve Vai, Larry Fast, John McLaughlin, Igor Stravinski, Cassandra Wilson, Bob Marley, Can, Kate Bush, rad., Supertramp, Big Country, The Police, John Zorn, Jethro Tull, Claude Debussy, Charlie Parker, John Mayall, Maurice Ravel, Spliff, Charlie Hunter, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Tangerine Dream, Peter Gabriel, Ideal, John Coltrane, Boston, Steely Dan, Grobschnitt, Ton Steine Scherben, John Scofield, Ougenweide, Victor Wooten, Screaming Headless Torsos, Mr. Bungle, Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, The Cure, Frank Bittner, Tim Prigge and so many more artists, some of them are not musicians, like Salvadore Dali, Klaus Kinski, Flann O'Brian, Spongebob Squarepants, Michelle Pfeifer, Marx Brothers...
Tim's:
Abba, Alan Parsons Project, Tribute, Pat Metheny, Elton John, Naoki Kenji, Kraftwerk,
Incognito, Prince, and a lot of other grooving stuff... |
