Why is Mike like he is???
It is never easy to describe all in words, so here are some shots from past to present, no chronological order, just milestones and smiles. Perhaps they make it easier to understand...
MASTERPLAN aftershow fun at Biebob, Belgium, in march 2005, it was a beautiful day, a great band and a lot more to remember. From left to right, Julie, Axel, Jan and vocal master Jorn
The farewell snapshot of the last coop tour with the Jeff Scott Soto band
at Garage Munich nov. 2004. With a big kiss and thank you to my lovely
Julie, who handed me this nice pic.
WHITESNAKE Backstage party in Southampton, UK, Marco Wright an me enjoying some good time with guitar hero Doug Aldrich and Eagles keyboarder Timothy Drury, who performed great with a wide smile. Doug holding the Forgotten Songs Part I album in hands, that's commercial advertising, hahaha!
Jammin'n'smiling backstage with former
KISS guitar hero Mark St. John
THE TORPEDO GIRLS and tour managers over Berlin... THE TORPEDO GIRLS with the JEFF
man, we met lots of people and went to a lot of places in europe SCOTT SOTO band, Axel Rudi Pell and
the last years... great time anyway! Next year we will rock V. Krawczak backstage at Zeche Bochum
the rest of the world!
From left to right: Me, Torpedo Girls drummer Oliver and the incredible Eric Singer, all together on stage during the german KISS Expo in Nuremberg in dec. 2002. Man, it is a very strange, and on the other hand, a great feeling to do music together with one of your real big heroe's so far! Eric was great, in good spirit, and I really belive that he had fun with us Torpedo guys at all. You also see behind us both drumsets of Eric and Oliver: I think that it was not only for me and the "front musicians" a big thing, I am sure that it was a more not-to-describe thing for Oliver to play together with one of the ultimate rock drummers on earth together the KISS song "Do you love me"!!! I can't tell you, how proud I am about this: to be part of a long term dream come true...
Mike with Sean Delaney The Torpedo Girls meet Bill Aucoin!?!
The original Eric Singer drumset! I did SOUND STATION studio, room 1.
hundreds of phone calls and mails to While recording and mix are made
PEARL and ZILDJIAN (Gewa) to get this always with my .95HOLY studio, it
kit to the KISS EXPO... Torpedo drummer is really fantastic to master the songs
Oliver built up the drums and got help with their newest machines and the ears
from Eric himself...! What a fun to see the of H. Dorgarten there!
two guys sitting on the stage- floor and
talking/working like good old friends...
My lovely Isabell with former Stefan from Raeren, Bel-
DIE TOTEN HOSEN drummer gium, and me in 1993. He
Trinni Trinpop in 1992. We asked crashed with his car against a wall,
to do the tour with them, but drunken like hell. He got back from
ASMODI BIZARR got the job... hospital, never able to walk or do somehing without help
from others anymore, and rocked on! We met two times and
I wonder what he's doing now...
Udo Malms, one of the tour- directors
of germany's Herbert Groenemeyer.
I am not a fan of Herbert, but Udo was each
time great for a smile and fine stories...
Lukas from the club SPEKTRUM in Castrop- Yeah, Hammersmith Odeon
Rauxel, here sitting backstage in Bochum's Zeche in London in 1985! I went to
in 1993 Gary Moore, he was in best
condition ever these days!
Sad to know that I did see the
last gig of Phil Lynott before
he died... he was guest for the
last four songs of Gary, it was great!
Some days later he left...
Achim & Carsten, backstage at the Holger and me during a living- room gig in
Holzminden Open Air in 1994 1984, it was much too loud, bad and big fun
anyway...
Andy Langer from "The Blackheads" Carsten, Anke and Andy in preparation of the
together with Isabell and Carsten at Mike- gig at D�sseldorf's WATERS in 1994.
his Farewell- Party in 1993, he's now
living in Switzerland.
Hey, man, still rocking?!
My brother Markus and me, some- The audience of THE TORPEDO GIRLS in
where at a railway station foto box 2001 during the W�lfrath christmas gig.
in 1986. The eyes of Rock'n'Roll... Confetti spray, blood & coloured papers are
part of the show, so take care for the next gig...
Welcome to Pakistan! Nuclear bombs and A view over Cambodia. The whole pic is made
that stuff, but no idea how to concentrate with original skulls from victims of the red
on the main things... I visited this land by khmer in the 70's. Unbelievable: each single
feet, train, air, north and south, I know, family lost more than one member during that
what I am talking about. war!!! This is no CNN news, this is damn
reality...
My best friends in africa... harr harr! Bangladesh after the monsun! The whole
country is filled with water after that, four
weeks later the land is dry again...!
The slums of Lahore, northern Pakistan. The wonderful white side of africa!
You see, we have no problems at all in
industrial countries...
The most comfortable toilet at the Karachi Randy Andy back again in Germany! Together with THE CLUB
airport. A virus gave me a liver desease there, he performed as special guest of THE TORPEDO GIRLS in
is it a wonder?! Believe me, the other toilets autumn 2003, around 10 years after we made our last gig
were MUCH more worse than this one... together! Great to meet you again!
Just checked out all countries that I visited so far, not bad at all! Hope to get further on this permanent vacation, I love it to travel the world...
Afghanistan Algeria Austria Bahrain Bangladesh Belgium China Czek Republik Denmark Dominican Republic Greece Hungary India Indonesia Italy Kroatia Luxemburg Malaysia Mazedonia Netherlands Norway
Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Russia Serbia Slovenia Slowakia Spain Switzerland Thailand Turkey United Erimates United Kingdom USA
