Member Since: 7/19/2006
Band Website: the-electric-church.fr
Band Members: Katrin - Bass and Vocals
Manu - Guitar
Gabriel - Drums
Stefan - Guitar and Vocals
Eddy - Keyboards
"Estacion Heartache" from the 2005 release "Instant Absolution" live in Northeim / Germany. THANKS a lot to the Bluesfreunde Northeim for the invitation and to Michel for recording this with his cell phone!
Influences: Classic Rock artists and bands like Jimi Hendrix, Allman Brothers Band, Popa Chubby, Widespread Panic, Frank Zappa, Government Mule, Rory Gallagher, The Black Crowes, Pearl Jam, Albert Collins, Slash, Buddy Guy, Led Zeppelin, The Who and about every great band we ever heared on the radio while sitting in the kitchen or riding on the bandbus, asking "hey, what's that tune about???"
We don't play for the dancing masses - we play for the small minority that listens!
Sounds Like: It's not all that easy to put the right names here: If we say "we sound like Superstar XYZ" you might measure us against that band or person - and they could in fact mean a completely different thing to you than they do to us
Anyway; if you want to stick some labels to us, know that Katrin & Gab' as the Drum & Bass of The Electric Church wish to sound like
Rory Gallagher 's Gerry Mc Avoy & Rod De Ath
Gov't Mule 's Allen Woody & Matt Abts
Double Trouble 's Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton
Manu & Stefan are the twin guitar tag team of the band and play their interlocking solos and harmonised slide parts in the style of
The Allman Brothers Band 's Warren Haynes & Derek Trucks
Frank Zappa & Steve Vai of Zappa's early 80s live band
and they even let a bit of Thin Lizzy shine through from time to time
We have already been labeled as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Pearl Jam and Allman Brothers Band knockoffs in the local press, so: please try to make something of that by yourself :o)
THE ELECTRIC CHURCH hopefully has a sound of its own
Record Label: Tribal Stomp Records (D) www.shackmedia.de
Type of Label: Indie