MAN WITHOUT HITS
Gunter Koch: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboard, Digi-Drums, Programming
Eckehard Bluecher: Solo guitars on "I WannaLive" and Blues guitar on "Awake Your Body"
Record Equipment:
  Commodore Amiga 4000/060 with ToccataSoundcard and 4.7 GB Diskspace
  for Sequencing, Harddisk-Recordingand Mixing,
  Tracks ** originally recorded on 4-trackwith Tascam Porta03, digitally remixed.
  Tracks * 4-track, digitally remixedwith additional recordings
Software: Sequencing with Sonix Bookware,Dr.T´s KCS, SEK´D Mignon,
          Recording and Effects with Samplitude SMPTE,
          Mixing and Synchronization of 4 Track Recordings with own Software.
Musical Equipment:
  Fender Stratocaster, Ovation and VesterGuitars,
  Hughes & Kettner Amplifier, Effectswith Zoom 2020 and Pandora,
  Roland E-16 Keyboard, Yamaha DD-11Digi-Drums
  Microphones Profi Sound and Shure BetaGreen.
  Ecki plays Fender Telecaster and Ibanezwith Pandora

All Songs by Gunter Koch, except "Out Of TheQuestion" by Saxon-Serpent.
Recorded between 1992 and 1997, Digitizedand Mixed by Gunter Koch in 1997.
Cover-Design: Gunter Koch and Ralph Lutz

I Wanna Live
This is the only commercial song on this CD(it has been Ecki especially written for Ecki, who promised to accept 50CDs, if he can play at least one guitar solo on any Track).
[I tried to give a touch of ´Grunge´ to that number, because we both like that style.]

Bad Start
I had this song recorded before on 4 track,but the result was not, what I expected. This new version is definitelymore, what I had in mind. (probably the Blur).

1600 Miles
Maybe, a little exaggerated!It was only about100 Miles and I was away only for 2 weeks. Anyway, I was glad being athome again and that is, what inspired the song.

Awake Your Body
Nobody specific in mind. But I used to havean office with a view to the street, where sometimes pretty girls passedbye...

It´s A Shame
For Julia! I wrote the song the day afterwe met in the English Garden. Originally there was no programming, justtwo guitars, one base (pitched guitar) and the vocals. I added the drums,when I remixed the song on harddisk.

Dr. Wertham
This song is character spoiling, just as Dr.Wertham´s essay was character
spoiling the media comic. Eye for an eye!

Camels
This song is for you, Christian (and for allother relapsing smokers)!

All Gone
This is the oldest song on the CD and it wasthe first song, I was proud of. Here you hear the original recording withsome gimmicks, added during mixing on HD.
Mike, I hope you like the re-mix!

Higher
This was one of the first two songs, I didon harddisk, because it has a rather simple structure. It has been previouslyrecorded on 4-track. Harddisk recording allowed experimenting with differentdistorted guitars and mighty hall effects.

Lack Of Knowledge
Not autobiographical - the teacher never gotme!

Out Of The Question
This song has always been a reference songto me. It is one of my favorites from the 60´s. The Seeds, featuringSky Saxon, played the stunning original. I use this song to compare myown songs with my version of "Out Of The Question" and in return comparemy version of the song with the original one. This helps me locating weaknessesin my work. My 4-track version had
awful vocals. The harddisk version is better,but there are still a lot of things to improve.

The following tracks have been originally recorded on 4-Track and no additional tracks have been added for the CD version:

Liar
I confess! This song was born at times, Iwas listening much of the Sisters of Mercy, waiting for their next CD tocome. I am still waiting! This gives Liar some status of a obituary.

All Gone (original mix)
This is the original song, without any additional gimmicks.
You can here the long breaks between the singleparts of the song.
They are the reason for the re-mix (and thefact, that the song was too long).

No Friends
This was never a song! I used it, continuouslyrunning, to do my first steps with an electric guitar. It is only 4 barsfrom the song ´No Friend Of Mine´ by the Sparkles (another60´s band), re-sampled from A down to E (without any kind of permission,but full of respect for that great stuff) and some drum beats added forbetter keeping track, when playing.
[After some hours of guitar practicing, Ifound some guitar licks, I wanted to put on tape. I added the glass-smashingintro and recorded the stuff. I had two tracks, to record my guitar playon, keeping always the better one, but I never got it right, the way, Ihad played before. Finally, in my frustration I mixed both guitar trackstogether and found it does not sound too bad. So I kept the record.]

In The Mirror
This is the first real song with support ofan Electric Guitar (Fender Stratocaster) and the Yamaha DD-11 (Thank youStefan!).
[As far as I remember, the song does not baseon experiences after a drunken night - but then, who remembers nights likethis.]

Idiot
Driving over Germany´s Autobahn, youmeet a lot of idiots. Some of them are drunk, too.

Digi
For all Amiga fans!
This little song experiment is entirely playedby the Amiga´s internal sound channels.
[I am still fascinated by the bass sounds,the Amiga was able to produce. The bass of this song later made it´sway into the song "In The Mirror", too.]

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