Tyran Pace live at Metal Hammer Festival Sept 14th 1985
Tyran Pace live in Oberstetten 1987
Taken from "The Ralf Scheepers story" on the American Primal Fear fanpage and comes from Ralf directly! Go to the page to learn more about his career!
http://www.geocities.com/primalfearrules/ralfstory.html
"When I was about 9 or 10 years old I always sung along with songs in the radio when my mum used to listen to a „German Schlager“ radio programm. In school I listened to bands like „Sweet“ or „Bay city rollers“ hahaha...
I started to listen to Heavy Metal in late 1978 when I first heard the live album „Tokyo Tapes“ from the Scorpions. Then I heard „Unleashed in the East“ from Priest and it totally knocked me out !!
After visting many Heavy Metal concerts and headbanging to bands like for instance: Maiden, Accept , Preist, Saxon etc. etc.... this heavy stuff really got into my blood !! I started to get in trouble in school as I kept on singing during the lessons ...... so I decided to team up with musical friends just form a fun school band. (The funny thing is that Klaus our drummer from Primal Fear was doing this with me..... so we met very early). After that I joined another hobby band where I used to play the guitar (rythm guitar – but not really good hehehehe) and where I shared the vocal abilities with another guy. But this was no real heavy metal stuff so I looked out for a band who was playing my kind of thing. So I joined a band from Stuttgart called „Beast of Prey“. They really forced me to push my way of singing as I had to compete against those fucking loud „Marshall“ and „Hiwatt“ amplifiers !! So it happened one day that „Beast of Prey“ gave a concert in a school hall. As a surprise the musicians from „Tyran Pace“ have visited the gig ! This was somehow a great honour for me in those days as I heard them playing a long time before and they were really good !! They somehow have gotten a similar style like „Priest“ and covered the song „The Sinner“ as well. So after the show of that band called „Beast of Prey“ they came up to me and asked me if I wanted to join „Tyran Pace“ !! This was like a dream come true to me when I was just 18 years old. I got an offer from a german band called „Helloween“ as they heard the second album of Tyran Pace and liked it very much but I didn’t join in as they were coming from Hamburg which is in the North of Germany and I am coming from the South. And of course I didn’t wanna leave my friends in Tyran Pace. Some years later they had huge success with the album „Keeper of the seven keys“ Part 1 with Michael Kiske as vocalist !! So of course in the end I regreted it that I didn’t join Helloween.... but that’s the way it goes......
After recording 3 albums with „Tyran Pace“ (Eye to Eye, Long Live Heavy Metal and Watching You) and collecting many experience in playing live or recording in the studio we had some bloodseeking so called managers which got us in such a bad situation moneywise that we just had to quit Tyran Pace. "
Tyran pace later in 1998 released one more album with an entirely different lineup as the original guitarists gave up the name to new musicians and recorded "Take a Seat in the High Row" before changing the band name to Falling to Pieces. To date the band is no longer active but is remembered for its awesome pure heavy metal glory with Ralf Scheepers behind the mic and the first step to him joining Gamma Ray and Later forming Primal Fear.Long Live Tyran Pace!!!!
