El Bosso & Die Ping Pongs featuring Dr. Ring Ding live Sedel Fri, 14-February-1992 with DJ Ras Claude to support. By invitation from Martin Gössi this Ska event is a great success. I played the original version of Prince Buster “One Step Beyond”. Richi better known as Dr. Ring Ding is quite surprised to hear […]
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Pauline Black & Neol Davis reformed The Selecter in 1991. It is The Roots Connection inviting The Selecter to Sedel Club on Monday, fourth of November 1991. DJ Ras Claude
Saturday, 28th of september 1991 live at Sedel. That was my very first live concert I planned and promoted. Togehter with Vesna I have built the Ska Connection agency to promote Ska events in Luzern. This was our first. At that time I was working in a record store in Luzern and saw this CD […]
Disco at Boa with DJ Ras Claude christmas Monday, December 25, 1989 After the first try in June that year that ended up in Sedel (see post). This second try at Boa is planned more serious by Vesna. I can’t remember to have seen a flyer thou, but when we show up, everything was fine. […]
Augustus Pablo & The Rockers Band with Yami Bolo and Junior Delgado plus The Wailers at Volkshaus, Zürich on Friday, first of December 1989
Dizzy Gillespie conducts the United All-Stars Orchestra featuring Ed Cherry, Claudio Roditti, Slide Hampton at Kunsthaus, Luzern, Sunday, June 04 1989 I was in de audience when Dizzy Gillespie invited his United All-Stars Orchestra for a visit in Luzern. My brother took some nice pictures. I was recording more than two hours but still have no idea, what […]
Disco at Sedel with DJ Ras Claude June 1989 It is Saturday, June 03, 1989 and Vesna is asking me to play some fine records tonight. She loves Ska music. So, I pack a pile of selected records and we’re going to the industry, where the Boa is. But when we arrive at Boa, there […]
I was in de audience at this concert with The Leaders featuring Lester Bowie and warmup by Depart. It was Friday, 17 March 1989 in Luzern at Casino Le Chalet My research brought me to this excellent show in Burghausen, where the Leaders also played in 1989. I took the line-up from there: It was at that time, that my brother […]
James Brown, Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, King Sunny Ade, Eek-A-Mouse, Jamaica Papa Curvin and many more at the Loreley Summer Jam in St. Goarshausen in Western Germany 1988 I was in the audience at the Loreley Summer Jam 1988 in St. Goarshausen in the region of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany on second and third of […]
I was in de audience at the Pink Floyd Open Air ’88 at Platz der Republik in Berlin on Thursday, 16 June 1988. The audience was huge with about 500.000 people around the Platz der Republik just close to the still existing wall. Yes, the famous wall. I remember, that I was all alone in this never ending […]