Feeling B

Feeling B was a GDR punk band that was formed in 1983 in East Berlin under the name Feeling Berlin. She counted in the GDR to the other bands called.

Style

Feeling B was a live band in the first place. The music of their time in the GDR can be assigned to the Fun- Punk, which was also experimented with alternative sounds and Dadaist structures, as they were frequently found among the other bands. In the early 1990s designed Feeling B the evolving scene with the medieval Rocks, in what approaches already in the 1991 album We'll get to make all of you felt. Clearly the Medieval Rock is the subsequent album assign the Masque of the Red Death. Characteristics of music from Feeling B are the anarchic wild singing Rompes, and comparatively aggressive electric guitar sounds, combined with quirky or simple keyboard sounds. The last two elements are found in the style of Rammstein's clear again. The continuing project by Rompe Feeling B after 1993 went to another stylistically, electronic direction. Commercially successful Feeling B was at no time. Well-known in the German punk scene titles of the song is one magnificent.

Band history

Feeling B was founded in 1983 under the name Feeling Berlin. Since there was already a band with that name, was called to order in Feeling B. The band consisted of, among other things, Alyosha Rompe (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Flake Lorenz (keyboards).

The band members went their way a fine line between punk and nationally recognized music group. They understood less as a prosecutor of the State, but as happy - independent people who consistently rejected the traditional life of a GDR citizen and ironic mockery - to occur without clearly critical of the system. At times, members of the band have been observed by the Stasi. Rompe was repeatedly recruited as IM, but a collaboration refused repeated. The band decided to make a classification to become a nationally recognized music group. This disturbed the punk scene, enabled Feeling B, however, to obtain compensation for concerts and publish soon own LP on Amiga. Hea Hoa Hoa Hoa Hea Hoa Hea 1989 was the first published in the GDR and thus commercially punk album. Previous LP releases of DDR - punk bands such as the 1983 album East Germany from below with mucus - germ and Twittering and the 1985 Sampler Live in Paradise with ornament and crime were transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin and were, accordingly, only there in commercially available. How was it possible that the members of Feeling B - accused of anti-social way of life - largely undisturbed in the GDR state could live their lives, is not clear. They avoided the one hand, clearly critical of the system to occur, on the other hand could Rompes stepfather - an SED functionary - have kept a gentle hand over the group. Evidence does not exist, however. In the late 1980s, the GDR increasingly opened their underground culture, because the question arose after the young in the rock music landscape with the Pale of Puhdys and carat. In this context, the other bands moved increasingly into focus.

The turning point in October 1989 was recorded by the band members with mixed feelings. In particular, Flake felt life as a punk in the GDR as quite beautiful and the political changes in 1989 rather disturbing. Feeling B saw themselves as healthy counterpart to the ossified GDR state. Without the GDR now lacked the counterpart, on which the title I'm looking for the DDR alludes, the second Feeling B - opened album. The need to build a new society unlike the raft, later in the character of the scandal rockers Rammstein with a. For gang culture of Feeling B always included a unrestrained alcohol consumption. The title Slamersong describes one of the drinking practices - Rompe was heavily intoxicated at many concerts. Other songs by Feeling B lyrically often seem to Dada.

On their third album, The Masque of the Red Death Feeling B mixed in 1993, medieval instruments and melodies with punk rock elements. The album itself is now regarded as one of the early representatives of the medieval rock scene. Following the release of this album, the band paused, in the Paul Landers, Flake Lorenz Christoph Schneider at the project Rammsein newly forming boarded and stayed there. Rompe sought after new members and so led the band's history up to 1999, continuing until his death on 23 November 2000 at an asthma attack in a mobile home in Berlin.

Feeling B can be seen in the whisper & SHOUT documentation.

At times, the band performed under the name Santa clan.

On 16 November 2007 appeared at the request of Flake at Motor Music a kind of best-of album, enriched with previously unreleased songs and a 160 -page book called Green & Blue.

Discography

• Hea Hoa Hoa Hoa Hea Hoa Hea (1989 )
• We'll get you all (1991 )
• The Masque of the Red Death (1993 )
• Green and blue ( 2007 MotorMusic )