Music has always been my passion. Both, listening and making music. Since 1992 I am playing the electric guitar. Read the article, if you are interested in the steps taken as a band member and later as a solo musician.

Yeah! Shake to the rhythm, feel the funk! It all started in spring 1991, when we, three friends, had the idea to setup a band. After a very short time it became much more than an idea: Spunky Tosh!

We started to take it quite serious. Three times a week we met in our small studio for a few hours, where we wrote our songs and got trained for the gigs.

There were many small parties and festivals where we could collect some experience. At these kind places we really tested all our music on volunteer, human audiences - over and over again, showing no mercy.

These gigs gave us quite a good impression of what you should not do on a stage. It was good luck - or good management skills - that we mostly cashed in before we played. This was the way to collect some money to buy a basic equipment to make the whole thing louder (initially we thought, that the audience left because they could not hear the music*...).

But one important thing has always been, that we composed and played the music because we liked it. With every gig we got better and with every new song we found a bit more of our style**. And somehow we managed to get sometimes a dancing audience that seemed to like our tunes and vibes.

After a few changes in the band and the music we felt strong enough to go to a professional music studio in 1996 to record some demo tapes. With this material we were invited to play on some nice festivals around the town, where we had a nice audience of sometimes a few hundred people and lots of fun.

We enjoyed that very much, and all the energy we had put in started to pay off. And we knew that we did the right thing! And we did it then for quite a while - knowing that we will have to ask ourselves some when the by young bands so commonly asked question: How much energy can we afford to keep the whole thing flying?

Most of us were in an education that became more and more important. And we were facing the fact that the boundaries of our power sources will get tighter and tighter, and that we should better keep it as a pure fun project!

Today there is no band anymore, and everybody went his own way. I wish you all the best and thank you for the good time we had:

The equipment I used to play with (and I really loved) was composed like that:

The main influences to my playing during my musician career had:

But now, since I only play alone, I love the Spanish and Latin guitar tunes, and Paco de Lucia is one of my most favorite guitar players.

*) After a while we had to realise, that it was not a matter of volume that they could not hear the music :-).
**) Some people said that we just copied the style from others. But we would never admit that! Maybe - let's put it that way - we were a little bit influenced.