Engerling (D) | Tour 2024

In the organizer's words:

Back then, in January 1975, five young men took to the stage of a pub in Mahlow near Berlin. They were called "Engerling", said the pub owner and added: "....na, they won't get far with that name.... "He was around 50; I wonder if he lived to be 90? Engerling is 44 and fortunately still not a cockchafer, because as we all know, they don't live very long!
Somehow they didn't really fit in anywhere over the years and yet managed to remain true to themselves and their audience. For the GDR cultural functionaries, the band around pianist and songwriter Wolfram Bodag as a blues band seemed too far removed from the ideal of song-like rock "as an independent GDR contribution to international music culture" for them to really make it big. Blues purists, on the other hand, criticized the lack of authenticity of a blues band that cared little about adhering to the original twelve-bar pattern and instead mixed blues elements with rock and soul elements at will or even got carried away with long improvisations that would have fit much better in the psychedelic flower power camp. For 43 years, the East German band has persistently honed its own style with intelligent lyrics on the border between German rock and blues and has thus created a loyal, but not at all "Ostalgic" audience.

"Rock'n'Blues" with history and a view to the future. 2005 saw the release of a fine 5 CD box set with all 5 studio albums and all 5 singles. A new studio album by Engerling is in the works and the first DVD was released in July 2007. 24 years ago, rock legend Mitch Ryder, who lives in Detroit, USA, also took advantage of the band's musical qualities by touring with Engerling in Europe (D, A, CH, B, NL, F, E, SE).

In 2004 the joint DVD "At Rockpalast" was released - since April 2012 as a double DVD the complete concerts + interviews;
In February 2017, Mitch Ryder & Engerling released their 8th CD "Stick This In Your Ears" and from February 8 - March 17, 2019, they will go on tour together for the 24th time

Line-up:
Wolfram Bodag ( ld, key, voc, harm), Heiner Witte (git), Manne Pokrandt (bg)
Hannes Schulze (drums).

Discography:
"Engerling",1979; "Tagtraum", 1981; "So oder So",1989; "Egoland", (1992 SPV)
"Engerling -Live", (1994 Buschfunk); "Komm vor", (1997 Buschfunk )
"Engerling plays Stones songs at Miles", (1998 Buschfunk)
DCD + Video "25 Years Engerling - The Anniversary Concert", (2000 Buschfunk )
5 CD - Box "The Studio Albums" (2005 Sony / BMG - AMIGA)
DVD "Das Jubiläumskonzert" 2007 Buschfunk
!!!! DCD "40 years on the road" Buschfunk and with Mitch Ryder
CD "Rite of Passage", (Line Records 1994),
CD "The Old Man Springs A Boner", ( Dec. 2002 Buschfunk)
CD "A Dark Caucasian Blue", ( Jan 2004 Buschfunk)
DVD "At Rockpalast 1979 & 2004" (Oct. 2004 ARD-Inak)
CD "The Acquitted Idiot" ( Jan 20, 2006 Buschfunk )
CD "You Deserve My Art" 18.1.2008 Buschfunk