A to Z of Classic German Prog

Hi,

This is a fun album, and it is well done, but sadly it was never really appreciated and its availability in those days was horrible. It had a lot of neat stuff, a couple things that ended up showing up later with AD2.

This was, Lothar Meid's solo album ... and it was nice, despite it being a bunch of songs. 

"If My Guru Would KNow ... " ... lots of fun stuff in that album.

None of the AD2 folks that had solo albums made a mark. Chris Karrer had several albums, almost none available anywhere, one with Mani Neumeier. My feeling was that the band was so weird together that any chance of any of them being able to do something cohesive was difficult. Lothar Meid ended up doing a few songs, considering what a monster bass player he was in improvisation in the early days, this was a bit out of the norm, and likely designed/defined by someone else. Chris' solo albums are very different, and they tend to highlight his Sufi abilities with his instruments. No one else, that I am aware of had solo albums, and Renate would have been one for sure, but I think she was better at INTERPRETING what was in front of her than she was at trying to find her own idea and thought. I imagine an album of hers would be all over and too crazy for us all fans, but it could/should have had a sentiment of her voice that was used within a classical context in YETI ... but it would require a long piece, and I'm not sure that AD2 had the ability to do long pieces anymore after 1980 ... it became all songs, and even in the few videos found their ability to do longer stuff sounded bored and not wanting to be there. So they concentrated on the stuff that was better known instead.

I'm quite sure that the Krautrockers knew not so little of the British Prog Rock, so they must have been thinking something about it.

Anyway, my collection of classic German progressive music is not just Krautrock but also including some Prog Rock, Progressive Electronic and a single album of Prog Folk (Hölderlins Traum).