Klaus Heuser
Klaus 'Major' Heuser ( born January 27, 1957 in Leverkusen ) is a German musician and producer, best known as the guitarist and songwriter of the rock band BAP Cologne.
Heuser's trademark is a leather hat. He wears it on medical advice after a skin cancer disease, so that no ultraviolet radiation can get to his scalp. His nickname derives from the figure of Major Healey from the television series I Dream of Jeannie from: during a discussion on the eve television series from the USA came to the question of how the male protagonist was called. When finally the name was found, Heuser was so amused them that henceforth the Major clung to him.
Heuser's great musical role models are especially the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and in particular their and Eric Clapton, Rory Gallagher and the Dutch formation Golden Earring.
Large gained popularity as a guitarist Heuser of Cologne rock group BAP which he was a member from 1980 to 1999 and their musical style he coined crucial. He wrote, inter alia, the music for the evaporation songs long ago, a woman I 'm looking and all em Lot. The reasons for his departure from BAP he described in July 2013 in an interview with the New Osnabrück newspaper: He had at that time itself the question whether he to old age " in some halls or marquees " always the same BAP hits like evaporation wanted to play long ago. " The answer was: I have only one life, and I will also try out something else."
Heuser 1981, he recorded with Wolf Maahn under the name New home I'll build you a castle of Heintje in the style of Neue Deutsche Welle. Neither Maahn still Heuser were interested to continue the project, and the band became the companion of Purple Schulz.
On 17 February 2006, the album Major & Suzan, the Heuser has recorded with the Berlin singer Susanne Werth appeared.
In a talk show in Bonn Harmonie in December 2008 he met the blues guitarist Richard Bargel. The spontaneous jam session between the two musicians was also the birth of the human joint project in blues. On 12 December 2009, the first scheduled concert of the two musicians took place. Since then, they both appeared regularly together with a two-headed companion. On February 3, 2012, the joint CD of Klaus 'Major' Heuser and Richard Bargel Men appeared in blues. After Richard Bargel suffered a sudden loss of hearing in the fall of 2012, another band activities had to be stopped.
Heuser founded on the eponymous Major Klaus Heuser band that released their first album Men in Trouble in May 2013. In addition to band members of the Men in Blues Cologne singer Thomas Heinen joined the band.
In addition, Heuser worked with the classical guitarist Hubert Käppel on a joint project for a concert series and information about guitar music. The plans failed so far because at Heuser a nervous disease in middle finger of the right hand was training that prevents him until further notice from playing on the level of activity required for such a guitar.
Heuser has been married since 1986. Together with his wife Marion, a former archaeologist, he lives in Cologne. The couple has one adult son.