Glam-Rock and Disco were in, the Shadows were still more or less inactive and Spotnicks toured Europe alright but playing a progressive and heavier style than their older things. Together with his friends, producer Roland Heck (who released records as organ-player Denny Blue) and Gerd Koethe (who released records as sax-player Cisco Silver) Hans decided to record an album of guitar instrumentals at a time - 1975, when almost nobody was interested in this style of music. He can be heard on lots of records of many German-speaking artists such as Paola, Roberto Blanco, Costa Cordalis among many.He worked for Albert Hammond who recorded a successful LP in Berlin at that time. In 1973, Hans joined a rock-band called Joy Unlimited, which, under the name Hit Kids also recorded more commerical stuff and then Hans started to do more and more session work.
* and, not to forget, two white Fender Stratocasters (a 1962 model, serial-no. * a special G & L electric by Leo Fender (silver-fleck like a stratocaster with a silver look and extremely low noise, Humbucker-like pick-ups, * a Gibson solid body electric guitar, not unlike the SG-models,
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* plus Banjo, Bouzouki, Mandoline and Balalaika, * a Suzuki 12-string (which he used as rhythm guitar for 'Verde' from the intro on), * two solid body electric guitars especially built for him by Hofner, * two Martin D35 acoustic guitars (6 & 12 strings) Today, his Ramirez-guitar is part of his guitar-collection which also includes: Due to his musical studies at the Karlsruhe Music-High-School he qualified as a Spanish guitar teacher. He practised night and day and invested the then very high sum of DM 3.600,- (about 1500 GBP) in an original Spanish Ramirez-guitar. He recorded and released his first self-written song co- written with Gerd, titled Night-Work with The Moonlights which was released as 7" on Metronomes.įive years later The Moonlights split up, and Hans was getting more and more interested in playing classical Spanish guitar inspired by Segovia and Julian Bream. He changed again to The Moonlights, who were popular in the Karlsruhe-area playing American GI-clubs and dances, guesting in radio- and talents-shows. and went to a band called The Twenties although Hans himself was just only 18.īesides his job as radio-technician, he studied classic Spanish guitar at the Karlsruhe Music- High-School where he met Gerd Koethe who studied saxophone. It was a solid body Hofner model with three pick-ups and a vibrato system, not unlike the stratocaster. and he changed from acoustic to an electric guitar which cost him around DM 275,- (about 100 GBP). In 1962 on he joined a band called The Fellows. Hans was, like many other guitar-playing kids, deeply impressed and fascinated by this new type of sound. A brandnew guitar-sound rushed all over the world in those days The Shadows. At the same time, he joined his first band and his guitar skills got better and better. He took first lessons from a guitar-teacher from Offenburg and, due to his interests in electronics he was taught to be a radio-technician. A short time later he got a better one, also acoustic, and he taught himself his first chords and joined in with records of then-popular artists such Peter Kraus (a German rock and roll singer who ist still active and successful nowadays in the German-speaking area), Elvis and Bill Haley. Due to high distance between the steel strings and neck, it was a bit difficult and paining to play, so it was not much fun for him. When he was 12 - it was the time of Rock and Roll - his parents presented him with his first acoustic guitar, a cheap no-name model. Ricky King was born 12th March 1946 as Hans Lingenfelder in Rastatt (near Baden-Baden.
Completely and unexpectedly, he became successful, established himself and today, in the new millenium, he is still active and playing.
This excellent, sometimes underrated German guitarist, writer, arranger and guitar-teacher stepped onto the scene in the mid-70's at a time when instrumental guitar music was out of public interest except for a handful of hardliner-fans. Hans Lingenfelder, born on March 12, 1946.
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