Epitaph - History Box Vol. 1 - The Brain Years [4CD]

Cat. no: MIG02932
Format: CD 4 DISC SET
Barcode: 885513029324
Release Date: 28 Apr 2023
Genre: Rock 'N' Roll

Complex designed 4-CD box incl 16-page booklet with photos, newspaper clippings, liner notes and extensive bonus material

Finally available again or for the frst time digitally and on CD - the 3 Epitaph albums from their time with BRAIN plus the 1982-"Danger Man" album. 

frst "History Box" of the well-known German-British "Krautrock" legendWhen we started our musical journey over ffty years ago, no one would have guessed that Epitaph would still be active in 2023.In the late 1970, we lived with our wives, roadies, dogs, cats and bats in the "Alten Schulhaus" in the small German village of Graue in the Lüneburg Heide and jammed and composed new songs. Our last album "Return To Reality" had been very successful. So, our record company, Brain Metronome, wanted a new Epitaph production.

Our drummer Fritz Randow was impressed by the drum sounds from Hotline Studios in Frankfurt, so we went to record there. It turned out to be a more disco oriented studio with plasmatic people. Not exactly the place for a rock band. But we made the best of it and put out a reasonable sounding recording. Shortly after recording, Michael Karch, our keyboardist, decided to leave the band so we were back to our "Twin Guitars".

We used to play our new songs live before recording. Playing live, our songs had the adrenaline pumping power of Epitaph. This infuenced our decision to record the next album live rather than in the studio. I'm not sure if this has ever been done before, but it was born out of a fear of not getting the Epitaph signature sound on an LP. So, we booked Connie Plank's mobile studio for the album "Epitaph Live" and recorded our new songs live in front of an audience. Only two songs had previously been recorded. Altogether, we recorded three shows in three days. The recordings were then mixed in the Horus Sound Studio in Hanover by Jan Nemec as sound engineer.

Our drummer Fritz Randow had accepted Eloy's Frank Bornemann offer to join the band. Everyone was dissatisfed with the situation, so the line-up split up and Cliff moved to Dortmund to work again with the original line-up of Bernd Kolbe and Klaus Walz and with Norbert "Panzer" Lehmann on drums. This is the line- up which recorded the album "Danger Man". (Cliff Jackson, January 2023) 

Tracks: Good Times / Long Live The Children / Aint No Liar / Snake Charmer / High Wire / Heartless / Long Live The Children / The Daughter / Let me know / Ain't No Liar / Small Town Girl / Do You Feel Right / What About Me / On The Road / Die High / Goin' To Chicago / Tequila Fritz / Kamikaze / Hard Life / Still Alive / When I Lose Your Love / Hold On / Telephone Line / See You In Alaska / Fantasy / Tonight / When I Lose Your Love / Keep On Moving / Bad Feeling / Hold on / Do You Believe In Love / Summer Sky / Return To Reality / On The Road / Strangers / Spread Your Wings / Return To Reality / On The Road / Summer Sky / We Can Get Together / Strangers / Set Your Spirit Free