#Scannerz psychobilly full

Since then Sebastian has played with the Hot-Riffs, The Paralysers and today his “Mark Harman meets Cliff Gallup” guitar style can be heard in The Tin Cans. The Scannerz continued a bit with a new guitar player (Michael) and Gonzo back on drums, playing more in a 60’s beat style but it didn’t last and by the end of the decade the band was no longer in activity.

#Scannerz psychobilly full

The band kept on with another drummer (Johannes Bokskopf wasn’t able to join the band full time, which maybe explains why you can’t see the face of the drummer on the cover of the album) called Gammel but the musical direction changed and Semmel left the band. Sadly this is the sole release of the band (with the exception of one demo). She sings b-vox on a couple of tracks and lead on two, including the cover of The Ricochets’ Night Ship and the ska/new wave/psychobilly Change Myself. The songs are well done, with a will to make melodic and original tunes. It’s solid neo-rockabilly with a touch of psychobilly featuring an excellent lead guitar and a powerful slap bass with a sound very close to Restless (Vanish Without A trace/Girl Invisible era). They eventually got a contract with the newly created Maybe Crazy records (later home of Mad Sin, Scallywags) but Gonzo left before the recording because he had to go to the army.The Lp was recorded with Johannes Bokskopf who Semmel knew from another musical project.The album is quite good and has aged rather well. Finally Klaudia Menzel joined the band sharing the vocals with Semmel. Then Pennmütz left and Gonzo took the drums. Murphy stayed with the band for less than a year then left leading Semmel to take over the vocals duties and the band carried on as a trio. Semmel quotes Restless, The Sharks as well as Gene Vincent and Johnny Burnette as influences while the others were more into the 80’s Psycho scene and a bit of Punk too. Klein and Glenz were soon joined by Murphy (singer/second guitar) and Pennmütz on drums (both from Bonn). They were very young (Glenz was 16!) and that was the first band for both of them. Uwe had started to play doublebass and was looking for a guitar player to form a neo-rockabilly / psychobilly band.

Sebastian Glenz aka Semmel (guitar) met Uwe Klein through his older brother. The Slingshots performed a reunion show in 2002 at Wintersun with Doug Wilshire filling in on lead guitar.The Scannerz started in late 1985/ early 1986. Other milestones included performing on the 1999 Warped Tour and supporting Southern Culture on The Skids in 1998 during the Nitrobilly tour. During this time The Slingshots had included three interstate tours, released a debut EP/CD-Rom that included a film clip (one of the few bands to do such a release). Dan became their final, and possibly their most suited, guitarist until the band’s final shows at the end of 1999 when Tyron eventually moved to Melbourne early 2000. Their psychobilly obsession morphed into traditional and neo-rockabilly, swamp rock and dirty rhythm & blues, and that’s how The Slingshots were born.Īfter 5 or 6 lead guitarist changes over a period of six years or so the band recruited Dan Nosovich, who made his debut in the Slingshots. When Phil Adams left the Psyclones in 1994, the decision was then made to change direction slightly.