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Dieter Geike was born on December 25, 1946 and lives in Bad Oldesloe, Germany. He plays the Guitar, Keyboards, Bass. His band members include Doris Rickmers (bass) & Holmer Harms (drums). Blonker's real name is Dieter Geike, but it's always been Blonker! In the face of digitalized and computerized music technology, the old guitar has had a remarkable renaissance in the popular music of the Nineties. This renaissance logically had its effect on the long tradition of those pop instrumentals that feature the guitar as the song´s melodic centre, like Duane Eddy`s Rebel Rouser, The Shadows and Apache, The Spotnicks and Amapola, Peter Green´s legendary Albatros as well as the radio classic Jessica of The Allman Brothers Band down to Carlos Santana and his Samba Pa Ti or Joe Satriani´s Cryin. Whenever the great guitar-instrumentals in the history of European popular music are discussed, one name and one track must be mentioned: Blonker and Indigo. In the late Seventies the young group from Hamburg surprised the world with that laid back, gently melancholic piece titled Indigo. Without a big promotion campaign Indigo became a massive airplay hit and was soon considered a classic of its genre. In 1979 Blonker turned from a regular group into a one-man-project. Dieter Geike, the man who had written Indigo and defined the sound of the band with his immaculate guitar playing, carried on alone and started a quiet, but impressive solo career. Since the creation of the gem Indigo, Geike alias Blonker has further developed and refined his vision of beautiful, timeless, melodic instrumental guitar music on a series of highly acclaimed and successful albums. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Dieter Geike was born on December 25, 1946 and lives in Bad Oldesloe, Germany. He plays the Guitar, Keyboards, Bass. His band members include Doris Rickmers (bass) & Holmer Harms (drums). Blonker's real name is Dieter Geike, but it's always been Blonker! In the face of digitalized and computerized music technology, the old guitar has had a remarkable renaissance in the popular music of the Nineties. This renaissance logically had its effect on the long tradition of those pop instrumentals that feature the guitar as the song´s melodic centre, like Duane Eddy`s Rebel Rouser, The Shadows and Apache, The Spotnicks and Amapola, Peter Green´s legendary Albatros as well as the radio classic Jessica of The Allman Brothers Band down to Carlos Santana and his Samba Pa Ti or Joe Satriani´s Cryin. Whenever the great guitar-instrumentals in the history of European popular music are discussed, one name and one track must be mentioned: Blonker and Indigo. In the late Seventies the young group from Hamburg surprised the world with that laid back, gently melancholic piece titled Indigo. Without a big promotion campaign Indigo became a massive airplay hit and was soon considered a classic of its genre. In 1979 Blonker turned from a regular group into a one-man-project. Dieter Geike, the man who had written Indigo and defined the sound of the band with his immaculate guitar playing, carried on alone and started a quiet, but impressive solo career. Since the creation of the gem Indigo, Geike alias Blonker has further developed and refined his vision of beautiful, timeless, melodic instrumental guitar music on a series of highly acclaimed and successful albums. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
