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*LIVE theBODI.es GO fAT stINGRays LIVE* ‘FRANKFURTER ALTERNATIVE SCHULE’ celebrates its KLASSENTREFFEN 2014 on Saturday, 01NOV2014 (doors 19:30h) with PLEASE, FUNERAL FIRE and theBODI.es at ELFER Music Club, Klappergasse 5-7, Frankfurt am Main http://www.backstagepro.de/pleasetheband http://www.backstagepro.de/funeralfire www.thebodi.es, www.thebodies.de www.fatstingrays.com www.11-er.de ….more details to come!
LIVE in the Madison “Spritzehouse” Garden! Friday 24Jan2014 at Spritzehaus, Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen featuring ELECTRICK SOUP (aka AutoPlay) ! theBODI.es honour and present fantastic moments of rock history like “Blitzkrieg Bop”, “Basket Case” or “Don’t Cry” with best memories to the fAT stINGRays times and the strong support from our friends of ELECTRICK SOUP (aka AutoPlay). DON’T […]
Interview with Derek Hammer and Christian Kanppe (RadioX & TALKvision TV)
It was a tremendous and awsome CD release party. theBODIes are back on stage…they are in shape, great voices and set-list like a sword. Check out these pictures:
there we go. This is the first music video release – “we don’t care”
ALBUM RELEASE PARTY On 24May13 At ZOOM, Frankfurt Proudly we would like to announce, that theBODI.es will present the new album ‘ANYMORE’ LIVE on Friday 24May13 at the ZOOM in Frankfurt/Main. …surely it is the day of official album release! We are honored to win Frankfurt’s famous Rock-Band ‘SPEEDCAKE’ as double feature partner. This particular […]
Joe Bonamassa in Stuttgart…. Derek has had the honour to follow Mr Detlef ‘Guitar Point’ Alder to Stuttgart to meet his vintage guitar buddies, Joe and his guitar tech Mike, backstage, on stage and in front of the stage. Wittnessing Joe, Mike and Detlef exchanging all their experiences and philisophies about historic guitars even playing […]
….yes, done!!! Last night we finalized the mixes for the new album ‘anyMOre’ ….incredible songs, strong sound, nice surprises…. a treasure, a must have! Within the next 3 weeks mastering and artwork will be processed to have it as the masterpiece of 2013 and following years! …will keep you on track!
Time flies and again today we sit together for the annual celebration of a very productive year at Shaft’s mansion. Yes, you are right, you didn’t see us live that often this year. But the result of our studio work, our new album, will surface the world very early 2013…. You will wonder as ‘ANYMORE’ […]
As already announced, theBODI.es are in the studio being super busy finalising last vocals and overdubs! Plans have changed significantly as the most likely release is scheduled for mid November 2012 (!) on ‘Art Of June Recordings’ ……against all usual behaviour to delay! Engenieer and producer is of course again Heinz Hess, our meanwhile BODI.family […]
Hammer will be back again in L.A. – sourcing better weather! The usual time for him of recreation and new inspirations. On tour with the vintage guitar guru and friend…check out! Pictures of the awsome roadtrip will be online after his return.
Finally the album „we DON’T care’ is officially registered under the label ‚Art Of June Recordings’. The distributions channels via download or physical delivery of the facelift version will be announced shortly.
We are back! Well, still not on stage – but back in the studio. After an exhausting 2011 some of us rearranged their professions and graduated. We took a time off stage, beacause of the incredible momentum of creativity. Here you’ll get the first visual impressions of the latest studio session.
Outstanding rehearsals….. theBODI.es are flying with inspiration the highest for a long time! Some ultra cool new songs in preparation… And we are close to the OFFICIAL RELEASE of ‘WE DONT CARE’! LIVE performances are in preparation… we need to have our kid, the guitar wizzard, passing his last exams… and then we are ready […]
Unbelievable… you nearly could touch the band as the venue in Offenbach was not sold out… what a bad promotion campaign here in GER, unbelievable! Only insider got to know that your heroes are in town…. BUT for the fans it was an extraordinary event experiencing your buddies in a nearly intimate atmosphere… it must […]
On Sunday 26Feb12 Tatjana and Harry Shaft opened their mansion’s doors for a monster grilling of tons of food to celebrate the ususal Hammer anniversary…. Everybody knows that Shaft’s grilling is always getting out of hands in Surf & Turf and good golden liquor…. Luckily we were starving so much, that this time only half […]
Happy Birthday Henry! Outstanding performance in Mannheim! Everybody who missed you, still lives in the pink world of illusion, blindly slingering into the chaos of doom, waking up, maybe luckily enough, to realize one is already dead! Clear words, clear statements, always constructive critical, straight foreward with best sense of humour…. nearly forgotten, that your […]
December 29th, we’ll have our traditional years end meeting at Shaft’s new mansion. Just hanging around with friends – having some salmon from the Bok family and enjoying ourselves. It will be a filicitious end of a great year…let’s head for a challenging 2012. Pictures of the event will follow as usual.
It never occured, that Hammer attended 4 concerts in row with the main act being a singing woman! But it was an exicting experience as Ladies like Anna Vissi (05Nov11), again Sade (16Nov11), Ami Lee from and with Evanescence (17Nov11) and Sharon from and with Within Temptation (25Nov11) performed brilliantly with exceptional bands and incredible […]
Today was the first opportunity to introduce to you our new soon to be released album LIVE! We had big fun at the MuseumsUferFest 2011 Frankfurt at the ‘Frankfurter Rundschau’ stage premiering our album ‘we DON’T care’ LIVE. We even played a new cover in the what we think is the correct speed and power […]
Yesterday Deddy and me, we came back from our adventurous trip from SanFran and LA! Deddy cleaned up the vintage guitar market of the WestCoast! Yes, he now ownes them all, the most wonderful items, please check www.guitarpoint.de! And me? I had the honour to be welcomed by Howie, who introduced me into his world […]
….the first get together with the young master of the video and short-movie, Mr.Erhan Dogan! The magic talent you for sure will hear far more in the near future… Erhan, RJ and me, we checked some viedo ideas for our new album. Derek was enthusiastic……… you will hear more soon! RJ is close to finalize […]
theBODI.es LIVE, they will present their new album ‘we DON’T care’ at the MusemsUferFest, Frankfurt, on Fri 26august2011 (start 16:00h…)
Experiencing Heroes pt.100711 Gregg Allman Band 10Jul11 in Bonn… Gregg, the blues legend, back in Germany after incredible long 20years… He is one of last of the very few white legends, who can sing the Blues! What a brilliant concert with special guests Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, his Band mate in the Allman Brothers […]
