History Stern-Combo Meißen

Profile

DDR rock band from Meißen/Saxony. They started as beat in the mid 1960's, absorbing western influences alongside developing their own style. As Stern Combo Meissen they reinvented themselves as the foremost progressive rock outfit from the German Democtratic Republic in the mid 1970's onto the early 1980's.

Throughout their career the "Stars of Meissen" have been constantly changing, and almost changed completely in between recording some albums. Yet they returned (almost) to their best-known line-up when reforming much later.

A previous contributor listed the following run-down of band musicians...

Martin Schreier (voc, dr, ld) 1964...

Norbert Jäger (keyb, voc, perc) 1964 - 1969, 1971 - 1980, 1996...

Bernd Fiedler (b, voc) 1964 - 1979

Werner Bertram (sax) 1964 - 1969

Günter Manicke (g) 1964

Gottfried Sieber (g) 1964 - 1967

Dieter Schreiber (g) 1964 - 1965

Reiner Päsch (g, voc) 1967

Joachim (Jokkel) Förster (g, voc) 1967

Werner Kunze (g, tp) 1966 - 1969, 1971 - 1975

Detlev Hesse (g, voc) 1966 - 1969

Michael Zimmer (g) 1969 - 1970

Hartmut Kabelitz (keyb) 1969 - 1970

Veronika Fischer (voc) 1970 - 1971

Mico Nagel (fl, sax, viol) 1970 - 1973

Matthias Pflugbeil (tp) 1970 - 1972

Manfred Nytsch (tb) 1970 - 1971

Thomas Kurzhals (keyb) 1972 - 1983, 1996 - 2002

Axel Gothe (sax, fl) 1971 - 1972

Gerhard Lau (tb) 1972 - 1973

Christian Höhle (tp) 1972 - 1973

Reinhard Fißler (voc, g) 1972 - 1982, 1996...

Hans-Jürgen Gerber (fl, tp, voc) 1973 - 1975

Peter Werneburg (keyb) 1975, 1977

Lothar Kramer (keyb) 1975, 1979 - 1980

Werther Lohse (dr, voc) 1978 - 1979

Michael Behm (dr, voc) 1979 - 1982, 1996...

Peter Rasym (b) 1979 - 1984

Uwe Haßbecker (g, viol) 1980 - 1985

Peter Förster (dr) 1982

Ralf Schmidt (voc) 1982 - 1989, 2004

Andreas Bicking (keyb) 1983 - 1989

Matthias Phillip (dr) 1984 - 1986

Frank Schirmer (dr) 1986 - 1989

Axel Schäfer (b) 1984 - 1989

Michael Lehrmann (g) 1985 - 1989

Klaus Scharfschwert (dr) 1989

Alexander Procop (b) 1996...

Eghard Schumann (keyb) 1996...

Frank Nicolovius (keyb) 2003

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