Posted on Nov 21 2007 01:39 PM
Hi,
i´m new in this forum and a very big fan of the "german astronauts" too. But First of all, excuse my bad english in the following lines .
The astronauts come from my hometown and so i had the pleasure to see them more than 3 times now and every gig was a great show (with lots of beer too )
Since i know them, i tried to connect some information from the internet.
Here is some stuff i found:
http://laser-attack.com/
This is the site of guitarrist "Henrick Sprock", you´ll find some soundfiles and photos there, he plays also in an rockabilly/rocknroll-coverband named "The Snake Charmers". You can find also his email adress on his site, i think it was riffrock74NOSPAM@aol.com (but delete the NOSPAM for mailing ;-))
Guitarrist Thilo Pieper (Tilo Pepper??, Tilo Piper?! i dont know his exact name ^^ ) often postes dates for gigs on ehries surf-forum thats true, you might get in contact with him per private message (PM) via the forum. He plays in two other bands, "The Hangover Hearts" (honky tonkin country rockabilly sound;-) and is also in the Snake Charmers with Henrick.
Sometimes after the show he is playing some cool 60s sound as " 7 Inch DJ".
Their Drummer is playing in 2 other bands: http://www.hara-kee-rees.de/ and http://www.curleewurlee.com/ in my opinion some cool beat,garage,trash-sounds
And here i found some nice videos on youtube (one is from me-hehe;-) ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gpB5ODdq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MLzsGaDx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zREa-F45uJ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ems5v5xZqeI
- The guy who grabbed the toilet paper of the bassplayers bass-neck, is a friend of mine )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ApBScuUtw
It would be nice if there are some other "astronauts-fans" who can tell me more about bandhistory and stuff like that.
I know they published a 7" split with the "Phantom Surfers". I´ve heard the astronauts where touring in the USA as well, does anyone know about it?
Im looking forward to get a chance to talk to one of the guitar players after a gig, but i ever missed that chance .
so long, i hope you can understand my broken english
Benny a.k.a Nosferatu