Episode 1560
Commander Proof Band
Wed, 2021-Aug-11 00:07 UTC
Length - 4:01
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.
The random article for Wednesday, 11 August 2021 is Commander Proof Band.
The Commander Proof Band is an Austrian rock band from Vienna which arose out of the group Lord Proof & The Proof Cats (formed in 1970 by John "The Professional" Zekar & Hansi Lang) in 1974. The core members at that time beside Zekar and Lang were Fredl Petz on bass and Harry "El" Fisher on drums as also as sister Irene Fisher and Traude Sapek on backing vocals.
In 1975 Fisher left when he switched to guitar and was replaced by exceptional drummer Peter Kolbert who died untimely in 2000 by a drug overdose. The band played extended tours in Austria, Jugoslavia and Scandinavia followed by a growing unsteady lineup. For the time being they disbanded in 1976.
Over decades this band then was revived a few times with different lineups up to summer 2010 when the only remaining original member John Zekar (guitars, MIDI-guitars, vocals, composer) reformed the group with German native Lissy Fo (lead vocals), Joe Schirl (fretted & fretless basses & vocals) and Herbert "Heavy Hand" Musil (drums, vocals).
This lineup recorded the album Waterproof during summer 2011 at Penzing Records Studio in Vienna (owned by bassplayer Hans Schön) and subsequently reached a contract with German label Amber Music which released the CD officially early 2012 entitled Don´t Believe, taken from the single A-side). In Velten, a city in Germany where the label is resident, a video using a shortened album version of "Don´t Believe" was produced in March 2012 too.
Instead of shorten the original LP version to a suitable length for a radio edit, this song was re-recorded for the German release with slightly different vocal parts, however, the drums were laid down new completely and in difference to the album version here the track fades out.
The Austrian edition "Waterproof" (distributed by Penzing Records with a different cover) contains 12 tracks incl. the full-length album version of the original tune "Don´t Believe", the single edit of this song and a cover of Unchain My Heart which due copyright complaints of GEMA (a performance rights organisation in Germany) was banned from the German release.
The year 2013 brought the next lineup changes when Fo and Schirl were replaced by vocalist Doris Krsko and bassplayer Robert "Gigl" Schmidt, furthermore Josef Gröller (guitar) was added to the lineup. Krsko already left March 2013 and Schmidt quit in July. Rainer Bonelli joined on bass and vocals in August.
Unable finding a suitable singer the band continued as a four-piece while the members sharing all the vocals.
During live shows the band time by time is supported by Peter Mayrhofer (percussion, vocals).
Since July 2013 the band is without any contract and followed by a frequent stage presence Commander Proof will probably enter the studio in the near future recording a new album.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:07 UTC on Wednesday, 11 August 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Commander Proof Band on Wikipedia.
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