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"That lil' ol' ZZ Top cover band from Hamburg..."

Text (files, forum threads and other links)

• Bluezz Bastardzz info: for bookers, organizers, press, band directories etc., also available as a PDF file with contact address, band picture, biography, and technical rider for the stage setup. Just right-click on the links and choose "Save as..." to download the files to your computer.
• Bluezz Bastardzz repertoire: You can download it as a PDF file or listen to this playlist on Last.fm with original versions of Bluezz Bastardzz cover songs.

• Description of our demos: overview of the guitars, amps and speakers used for each recording in the Tokai forum with pictures.
• Review of three cherry sunburst Tokai Love Rocks LS60 in the Tokai forum with even more pictures.
• Pickup comparison of six bridge humbuckers and the Gibson P-94 single coils, tested in the brown sunburst Love Rock LS120 for the Tokai forum with several MP3 samples for each pickup. Did I mention the pictures yet?
• Review of a Tokai Love Rock II SEB in the Tokai forum, mainly pictures.
• Marshall JMP 50 plexi: description and many - you guessed it - pictures of the '69 2x12" combo with tremolo in the PlexiPalace forum.

• Bluezz Bastardzz on Myspace: live videos, new and remixed demo songs, a short band portrait in English, band pictures, blogs, and our next gigs.
• Bluezz Bastardzz on Facebook: everything you would usually find on Facebook, i.e. band infos, comments, links, videos, photos, and the next gigs.
• Bluezz Bastardzz on Last.fm: my favorite web radio.
• Bluezz Bastardzz on YouTube: some of our live videos and a bunch of interesting music videos in the favorites, e.g. with ZZ Top.
• Bluezz Bastardzz on Twitter: in case you would like to follow us there as well.
• Indigo Rocks on Myspace: "Down home rockin' blues. Tasty as strudel" - the other Hamburg-based blues rock band which I joined in November 2006 covering e.g. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Los Lobos stuff with two guitars, but also playing some own material.

Pictures (band, guitars & amps)

• Official Team Photo 1998: Michael Nagorsnik (bass & vocals), Hans-Jürgen Bardenhagen (guitar & vocals), Thomas Harms (drums) - from left to right.
• Horizontal: possibly my favorite band picture because of the healthy tan.
• Vertical: probably impossible nowadays.
• Even earlier: the Jessie Kiplinger Band "when we was fab".
• "Yeah, baby": from a land before our time...

• Tokai catalog 1986: Die geilsten Paulas der Welt (sorry, not translatable...). ;-)
• Tokai catalog 1986, page 2: even more geilste Paulas der Welt...
• Rev. Willy G: ...so thinks the gentleman on the right as well, especially when played over Marshall amps... ;-)
• Owned!: the "Tokai Electric Guitar Project Team" (baddest band name in the world if you ask me).

• Tokai gathering 2005: four Love Rocks (one LS120 brown sunburst from 1981 and three LS60 cherry sunbursts from 1984/85).
• From behind: Ein schöner Rücken kann auch entzücken (probably translatable...).
• With Strat: the mahogany backs with flash light.
• From above: for a better overview.
• My two on the left: zoomed excerpt of my Tokais, because the other two on the right side belong(ed) to Nils, our rehearsal room sponsor - thanks again!
• LS60 under neon light: the bookmatched flamed maple veneer of my cherry sunburst, 2nd from the left in the first picture.
• With flash light: and again because of the graining.
• Gibson Shaw PAFs: the pickups of the LS60.
• "Gotta badge?": the serial and model number of the 1981 LS120.
• Solid facts: the solid flamed maple top and the pickup cavity of the brown sunburst LS120. More pictures also in the forum thread about the pickup comparison.
• The harem: Ibanez Musician MC300 (my first electric guitar), the self-built Strat and the Luxor ES-335 copy (before the headstock broke...).
• Ibanez: the 1978 Musician at an earlier "modding" stage with DiMarzio PAF at the neck, Bartolini active pickup a the bridge and the original Ibanez bridge.
• Kewl: the pickguard of the self-built Strat.
• Slide attack: the monster - my Hofner 125 ("Club 40") slide guitar with additional Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck at the bridge position, as well as the Tokai LS120 and the Strat again.
• Under construction: my Hofner archtop - or like they called it back in 1963 - "Schlag-Gitarre" 465/S/E3, still waiting for her restoration.
• "Rose-butt": the back of the Hofner 465/S/E3, the sides are made of laminated rosewood as well.

• Bassman: the other monster, has killed every other amp yet - certified since 1962.
• Plexi power: '69 JMP 50 Tremolo combo with two original Celestion G12H30 greenbacks (55Hz). More pictures in the forum thread about this rare bird.
• "Boogie, baby": my first "real" amp, a '79 Mesa Boogie Mark IIB on a self-built 1x12" Thiele cab with an Electro-Voice EVM-12L.
• Ibanez 60 TE: my first amp, not that bad for a solid state model, with switchable preamp and equalizer.

Music

Playlist: Our demo recordings - just click on it, and the browser should automatically play them in the following order. You can also jump back and forth in this list then. By the way, these are old demos from our rehearsal room and live gigs, but you can find newer recordings or remixes and live videos on the Bluezz Bastardzz sites at Myspace, Last.fm, Facebook and YouTube.

1. Thunderbird (ZZ Top)
2. Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings (ZZ Top)
3. Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
4. Beerdrinkers & Hellraisers (ZZ Top)
5. Just Got Paid (ZZ Top)
6. Legs (ZZ Top)
7. Pincushion (ZZ Top)
8. Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top)
9. A Fool For Your Stockings (ZZ Top)
10. Manic Mechanic (ZZ Top)
11. Live medley - excerpt of a mono video track:
    • Arrested For Driving While Blind (ZZ Top)
    • Ein Loch in der Tasche (Marius Müller-Westernhagen)
    • Swingtown (Steve Miller Band)
    • Mit 18 (Marius Müller-Westernhagen)
12. Sexy (Marius Müller-Westernhagen)
13. Lady (Marius Müller-Westernhagen)
14. Es geht wieder los (Rodgau Monotones)
15. Schade, schade, schade (Rodgau Monotones)
16. Buncha Loud Boogie (Michael Katon)
17. Flaschenpost (Police, translated)
18. Every breath you take (Police)
19. Kashmir (Led Zeppelin, testing the effect modules of Audacity with my unplugged guitar)

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