Franz K. – Rock in Deutsch (1973) (24/44 Vinyl Rip)

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Franz K. – Rock in Deutsch (1973) (24/44 Vinyl Rip)

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Review from "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg":
Formed in Witten in 1969 as Franz Kafka. In their early days they were one of those very Teutonic underground rock bands, akin to Ton Steine Scherben or Lokomotive Kreuzberg, with a hard-edged agit-rock style. By the time of their debut (becoming just Franz K.) they had matured their sound from the early days of Fugs and Mothers style theatre in German. SENSEMANN featured just two side-long tracks offering a great deal of freedom for invention, with aggressive German lyrics and similarly angular freaky guitars characterising their sound. A psychedelic hard-rock twist on Ton Steine Scherben perhaps. Franz K. continued for many years, ROCK IN DEUTSCH is also reputedly good, but on later albums (at least another nine!) the vocals took over and they moved to a more mainstream rock and cabaret mixture, totally lacking the innovation of their debut.

Band history translated from Wikipedia:
In 1969, Franz K. was established by Mick Hannah (guitar, born 15 July 1951), Peter Josefus (bass, vocals, November 6, 1951, † 14 November 1997) and Stefan Josefus (drums, born 24 February 1947). First, the trio played blues and impressively covered blues-rock from bands like Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After – down to jazz/crossover. Initially they held gigs e.g. combined with local political cabaret of their roadie Manfred Günther, after 1970 they worked often together with lyricist Arnold Leifert. The style was in this period increasingly rocking up to hard rock.
In 1972 they released their first album "Sensemann", and thus belonged to the pioneers of German Rock. On this LP, there were only two tracks, each of 20 minutes length. In 1973 came the second album in less progressive vain in German. Both records sold poorly, however. In the next few years Franz K. released several singles. The breakthrough came in 1977 with the album "Bock auf Rock". In the years 1978 to 1983 the band released another six albums. Then it became quiet around the band and with producer Peter Orloff they moved into the pop field.
In 1997 Peter Josefus died of lung cancer. Mid 2000, his brother Stefan released the last recording with Peter "Nachts sind deine Küsse heiß" (Your kisses are hot at night) and put together a CD with pop songs from recent years. On a concert in December 2004 in the sold-out "Zeche Bochum" Mick Hannes and Stefan Josefus played together for the first time in over 20 years. The appearence, in which only six songs were played, was held at the event "Rock for animals". In fall 2008, SPV published a double CD with the two LPs "Bock auf Rock" and "Geh zum Teufel". In the summer of 2009, Franz K. started a comeback. In September 2009, their new album "Mehr Respekt" was published. The 2010 released single "Die Gute" is the only German version authorized by Steve Miller of his world hit "The Joker". A big party for old friends was the open-air concert in their home town Witten-Annen in July 2010.
Line Up 2010: Stefan Josefus (drums), Mick Hannah (guitar), Michael "Momo" Grimm (bass, vocals), Klaus Vanscheidt (guitar), Tim Husung (drums, percussion).