Hans Frommer - Home recordings/Stags - 7" (GER./1978)

HANS FROMMER played in many different bands since he was 14. He per-formed gigs in American GI music clubs in Germany (around Frankfurt a. M.) ever since 1969. Ten years later he released his first LP with his band THE STAGS: "Don't Shoot!"  (1979) and also

 released a single: "Keep On Movin'/Please Don't Go" in 1978, which is now rare as hell. 

The greatest hour of the STAGS probably came, when

 they had the chance to open for HERMAN BROOD and INGA RUMPF in a music club, called Wartburg, in Wiesbaden in 1977.

More different band projects followed (e.g. FURY'S RIDE and MAD

 MAGIC in the early 1990s), playing mostly Rock'n'Roll and Blues/Blues-Rock cover songs, but HANS also started to write more and more of his own material. In 1996 HANS recorded a CD with FAME in Offenbach, featuring Rock'n'Roll songs of the 1950s, but he quit playing live in 1999 and is now recording songs all by his own in his little home recording studio in Stockstadt, Aschaffenburg. "It's only Rock'n'Roll... but I Like it..." (quote Hans Frommer). And so do we!

Listening to his new and old songs, we are once again reminded of now forgotten bands (only joking!) like the DOOBIE BROTHERS, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS or the STEVE MILLER BAND. Enjoy!

 

STAGS - Keep On Movin'/Please Don't Go (7", SSU I 78, 1978)

(13,1 MB, vinyl rip)

 Get it HERE!

HANS FROMMER - Home recordings

(Mp3 zip, 26,3 MB, 7 tracks)

 Get it HERE!

(New links 05/2024)

HANS FROMMER is also featured with an instrumental track on the HLFP 01 Sampler: "Relax And Float Downstream".

Mad Magic - Mad Magic (GER 1992)

No psychedelic music today!

MAD MAGIC evolved out of a party cover band from Mainz, Germany, called FURY'S RIDE, that played JIMI HENDRIX-, ROLLING STONES-, early KINKS- and YARDBIRDS-songs and the like. FURY'S RIDE was active in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and when guitarist Hans Frommer wrote more and more songs and the band played more gigs in the Rhein-Main area, the name was changed to MAD MAGIC.

Without a doubt Hans Frommer was the central figure in the band. He played a solid rock guitar in ROLLING STONES or KINKS fashion (or even, more relaxed, the DOOBIE BROTHERS), wrote songs with great hooklines and melodies, reminding of his old heroes, with an occasional reggae rhythm thrown in for a change. And most of all his voice and singing style brings to mind STEVE MILLER in his prime.

MAD MAGIC played some festivals, concerts and private partys near Mainz and even made a small tour through the south of France – and then split after a few years in the mid-nineties.

 

MAD MAGIC - MAD MAGIC (GER 1992)

(mp3 zip, 13 tracks, 45 min, 67,4 MB, art incl.)

1. Never Coming Back - 4,19

2. Heart On Fire - 2.50

3. Explorer In Love - 3.47

4. Faces In The Night - 2.42

5. Can't Go On - 4.26

6. Dry Your Eyes - 3.03

7. Never Felt In Love - 3.08

8. A Thousand Heartbeats - 4.16

9. Sweet Nothin' - 2.32

10. Explorer In Love - 3.40

11. Faces In The Night - 3.09

12. Guitar Tune - 2.11

13. Bonus track - 5.11

Get it HERE. (New link 05/2024)