The Stimulators

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2007
Band Website: stimulators.de
Band Members:
Peter Schneider
lead guitar, vocals

Oliver Stephan
lead vocals, rhythm guitar

Uli Lehmann
bass

Oscar Pöhnl
drums, vocals

Hans Mühlegg
percussion

Florian Sagner
trumpet, vocals

Marcio Tubino
sax, flute

Album Releases

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Style (2006)
„Style“ is a limited edition CD/DVD. It features a new Stimulators studio- CD with 13 new songs and a 82 minute concert/ road movie and a booklet with many pictures. The film shows the band live in concert at their homebase in Munich the “Schlachthof” a concert venue where the band plays twice a year. It also includes studio rehearsals, soundchecks, interviews and a concert trip to the USA.

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Spin (2005)
SPIN is the Stimulators’ 5th release. It’s their fourth studio album, and their fifth long-player in all. The CD’s nine original compositions and four covers bear witness to the very individual musical tastes of the Stimulators. If you want to know what happens when the Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” and Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” clash, when old Chess and Blue Note recordings compete with the Buddha Lounge and Ry Cooder’s “Ch..vez Ravine”, and when John Coltrane battles Chuck Berry and the MC5 on the tour bus sound system, then check out SPIN.

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Live ad Direct (2004)
To get an idea of what the Stimulators are like on stage, listen to their previous release, “Live and Direct”. Recorded during a series of Austrian and German dates earlier this year, this is a selection of the band’s on-stage favorites, none of them (with one exception) previously available on CD. In its 2004 critics’ poll, leading German daily S..ddeutsche Zeitung named this album one of the best performances of the year, next to releases by Johnny Cash, J. J. Cale, Nancy Sinatra and Josh Stone.

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Pirate Music (2003)
Two years before, the Stimulators had dropped their third album, “Pirate Music”, with Cuban guest vocalist Ernesto Artiles, lately of the legendary Orquesta Beny Mor... “Pirate Music” was one big tropical beatfest - “like cruising on the Copacabana with the top down”, enthused Playboy magazine. It not only featured high-fidelity studio waxings of ten of the Stimulators’ then on-stage favourites – as an added bonus, it also had a video clip of their updated version of the Beny Mor.. classic “Castellano”, shot partly on location in Cuba.

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Secret Mission (2000)
The year 2000 had seen the release of the band’s second CD, “Secret Mission”, which consisted entirely of self-penned material. “If anything, the Stimulators have become even more versatile on this album. They deliver a moody bar-room blues just as convincingly as they pay tribute to the early Wailers”, enthused Rolling Stone magazine. “Precise arrangements, sassy solos, a tip of the hat to Hip Hop and Raggamuffin – what more do you want?” said another scribe, and on the subject of kingpin Stimulator Peter Schneider’s guitar pyrotechnics, one journalist even compared him to Carlos Santana on a good day. The “good day” referring not to Peter, but to Carlos.

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Voodoo Swing (1999)
The Stimulators’ first album, “Voodoo Swing” (1999), recorded part live, part in the studio, had been a cross-section of the band’s then musical tastes, covering tracks by jazzers Joe Primrose, Lou Donaldson, Eddie Harris and Kenny Burrell, R&B tunesmiths Memphis Slim and Bo Diddley, ska legends The Slickers and Toots & The Maytals, and Cuban classic “Guantanamera” (with some Wyclef Jean and Erik Satie thrown in for good measure). “You thought you were sick of that tune?” wrote the pundits. “Wait till you hear what the Stimulators do with it… The band’s name says it all. This is music that’ll get you moving.

Sounds Like: nothing else in the world
Record Label: United Sounds (www.united-sounds.de)
Type of Label: Indie