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| The Vampires with "Huevo" |
THE VAMPIRES' STORY
VI: FROM 1969 TO EVOLUTION.
In early March, Joe and Paul flew for a few
days at home. On 13 March visited Mickey and Wolfgang visited Cinema in
Castelldefels. When they left the theater after midnight, where there were a
couple of young guys who were asking which of them was Det Ferring. They were
from the criminal police in Barcelona, though there were a few inconsistencies, and to clarify this, would come
Det. Micky and Wolfgang followed the police car, then back to Det take home
with them. They took him to an office in the notorious police station in Via
Layetana. The point was something about the seduction of a minor! Talking with a
recognized layer, Wolfgang could know that Det and Mickey were moved
temporarily to the prison in Barcelona. The whole thing was "muy
dificil" very difficult because they are suspected of kidnapping and child
predation. Then there were many years in prison. Teresa and her friend had run
away from home, but they could do not know, and their totally distraught
parents had turned in desperation to the police. The rest was a matter of
research by the well-organized, powerful police apparatus. At that time women
were in Spain until age 23, men since 21st. The two were 21 and 22
years old., so the law still a minor and the Spanish judiciary was relentless on
this point. Nevertheless, Mickey and Det came into freedom eight days later.
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| Tony Secunda |
From 14 May they were back for a few days in
the recording studio in Madrid, because they had worked four soul tracks. There
were two original compositions: Your time
has gone and I can go down.
Furthermore, two of them arranged Dock of
the Bay by Otis Redding and the traditional piece A Shot of Rhythm and Blues, a traditional piece. And they had committed the brass section of the
band Los Canarios and the British organist of The Mode band: Graham Bircumshaw
. The Mode had as manager to Tony Secunda
(24 August 1940 - 12 February 1995), who was also of Procol Harum
.
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| The Mode |
The
arrangements for the wind Paul had written. 15th during the summer months, up to and
including September 1968, they played with breaks again in Calella, where they
acted in the past year so successful. From 14 to 30 August they made guest
appearances in Madrid, Toledo, and in Bilbao. On their drive towards Euskadi, the Basque
Country. According to their guest performances they back to Calella to bring their
contract to end. This was followed by galas in all parts of the country. End of
the year: Joe left the group and went
along with his Rosie to Germany, back in their hometown of Trier.
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| ABC journal, July 29, 1967 |
The gap that
he created was of the French guitarist Dominique LeBeau, whose cradle was in
Tahiti, closed more bad than good. Dominique had a soft spot for Jimi Hendrix,
and was thus not necessarily on their wavelength. But what could they do? Suddenly,
Mickey and Wolfgang were the only ones that dated back to the early days.
Earlier 1969 this year two men were standing in
front of their door to tell them that they were in breach of Spanish customs
regulations: they drove by with a non-imported and unregistered vehicle on
Spanish roads. Mickey had to hand over the car keys and sign a waiver. Then
they seized their loyal Volkswagen bus. They went inevitably to a junkyard, where they
acquired a used Citroën van, called by Wofgang “huevo”. In March 1969, Mickey
and Wolfgang back to Germany to visit their parents few days.
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| Tony Ponce today |
In early summer, they had a gig near Barcelona,
a Spanish band as the opening act. The band was called "Los Agnis". The guitarist of the band could have been
visually the twin brother of Joe. Only his hair was jet black even longer. He
impressed and fascinated them with his incredible playing technique. During the
break they started talking, because they could vividly imagine integrating it
into their ranks, as finally happened. The next day appeared Antonio Ponce Fernández,
Tony briefly (
facebook), and expressed his willingness to join with them immediately. From
then on they were rehearsing almost every day in a friend's house, and during
this session they created a number of original compositions. (“Domino”,
Dominique left the group at the same time and moved to Zaragoza). Now Tony knew
all people in Barcelona, which was a great advantage for them, because they
fervently hoped for a new recording contract, since the agreement with Sesión Records
in Madrid had gone and they had never heard from them again. During one of their
first gigs with Tony, the manager of a Barcelona new record label (Ekipo)
talked with them. His name is Artur Mas and he had the idea for his company
with a new label called Dimension, to call progressive music to life. They were
exactly according to his ideas. However, a name change would be inevitable,
because he had to give the group a completely new image. The Vampires would
have fizzled in his opinion. He was right.
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| Evolution |
In October, they completed an agreement with
Artur Mas, and called them Evolution, also an idea of Ekipo. Evolution became oe of the most recognized progressive rock band in Spain. But this is another story well documented in the www.
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