schnoed
Germany, Schweinfurt
N1M © 2003—2024
About schnoed
Born 1964 in Stuttgart/Germany. Singer, songwriter, arranger, guitar/bass/drums player, session musician here and there. No contract, no label. No commercial interests.
Singer and guitar player with PAMBAND from 1989 to 1996 and since the PAM reunion in 2011 again; with Platform No 6 since their foundation in 2009, with Schnoed & the High Field Band from 2016 to 2018 and in several other bands
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Album "Leave it all behind" (2023) - Schnoed with Nicole
Download on Spotify or AmazonAlbum "Somehow Incomplete" (2021) by Schnoed & the High Field Band
9,90 € (Amazon mp3 download)Album "way of life" mp3 download
Please see at amazon or itunesschnoed
11 months ago
Hello everybody, I just uploaded the album version of "Closer to the edge" to N1M. This song has been initially written in 2017 and was planned to be released on the "Somehow Incomplete" album, but I was not satisfied at all with the outcome and decided to thoroughly rework the song. I did this five years later in summer 2022, giving the song a completely new musical base while keeping the lyrics at least more or less. Recorded it in a basement version then, and now it has become part of my latest album "Leave it all behind". Nicole is singing a powerful second voice in this album version, and of course Chris Franks's mix and mastering has added a lot of quality to my initial recording. Enjoy. Cheers, schnoed
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1 year ago
Hi all, this is to inform you that my new album "Leave it all behind" is available on Spotify and other platforms since yesterday. 10 songs, lots of guitars, personal lyrics and Nicole singing with me. All revenues will be donated to Trott-War link. in Stuttgart. The album is dedicated to my brother Frank (1967-2021). Here's the Spotify link:
Spotify
Cheers,
schnoed
schnoed
1 year ago
Hi all, I have issued some videos on youtube. Just Nicole and myself, singing acoustic versions of four new songs of mine. "New" means that these songs were written in the last 2 years and haven't yet been released on an album. We just took a Smartphone and captured the songs as raw as they came down. No additional audio rework or so. Here's the link to one of the songs: YouTube
In addition, I am currently working on my next album on which these four songs will be included as well, of course in different versions then.
Cheers, and keep on rockin'!
Yours, schnoed
schnoed
1 year ago
Hi all, yesterday I played in pubic for the first time since nearly three years. Platform No 6 had a charity gig to support a local organization dedicated to helping people in the Ukraine, and we were happy to help. After three hours of intensive singing and playing my voice was gone, but I didn't care at all. The feeling of being out on stage again was overwhelming, and I sincerely hope this hasn't been the last time this year...
Cheers, schnoed
schnoed
3 years ago
Hello all, I have added two more new songs of mine to my N1M song list some days ago. The first one's called "Until further notice" and is some sort of mixture between country and gospel. The other one, "Driven", is a rather straight uptempo rock song, a bit faster than usual. Check 'em out, stay healthy and keep on rockin'! Yours, schnoed
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3 years ago
Hi all, I have just uploaded a new song of mine to N1M. It is still a rough mix, more a sketch than a picture, but I'd like you to listen to it anyway to see if it's got potential or not. All instrumets played my me except the drums which come from an Alesis drum computer. Enjoy listening! Cheers, schnoed
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4 years ago
Good evening everybody,
I just noticed that it’s more than a YEAR ago since I wrote my last newsletter here on N1M, and either I’ll start to do this more frequently again or I should just let go. Let’s see where we end up.
The last 15 months have been one of the most intensive periods in my life, but unfortunately not in musical respect. At work, I had to deal with a fraud and theft investigation which initially started in summer 2017 but became even worse in September 2018. The deeper I dug, the more I found, and I sincerely hope to be able to finally bring this to an end now.
My wife became subject to a despotic manager at work which ended up in a termination of her employment in May after quite some months of struggling and suffering. She fell seriously ill due to this kind of treatment already last winter and is currently trying to recover in a hospital in southern Bavaria. She’ll be back home next thursday after three months of absence, and I’m really looking forward to have her by my side again. Of course it’s even more important that she feels better after all and finds some new faith and energy to start again.
And then there were some more family issues which I will not describe in detail here because I still don’t fully understand why and how this could happen and how to find a way out of this misery. It is sad and strange at the same time, and I feel like being paralyzed.
Due to all this and some more constraints, the work on my next album has somehow phased out. We had one last recording session with Toni (member of Platform 6) who played some trombone and accordion parts, and we had one more working session, just Chris D and myself, in order to recapture where we stand and what we think we still need. That was in spring this year as far as I remember, and since then nothing has happened at all.
Out of the 12 songs, I think that five or six are in a quite good shape and ready to be mastered and issued then. Another three or four are somewhere in between, I feel that something is missing or the song could be done differently. The latter wouldn’t be an argument to skip the song; I have often reworked my older songs and re-issued ‘em again as you might know. My homepage link is full of examples of such metamorphoses. And maybe the doubts will fade away when Chris D has finally completed his recordings. I remember there was a slide guitar on “Big weird love” and a baritone sax on “No one knows” which most probably still wait for the master to get played and recorded by him…but he’s extremely busy as well and tries to serve everybody as good as he can. Which is one of his biggest strengths and weaknesses at the same time, but I won’t start coaching him into a different direction. He’s a fine guy through and through, and I’m proud and happy to have him as a friend and as a partner in several musical projects.
All the ones who still learned counting at school will notice that I talked about 12 songs, and that 2 or 3 are still missing. Well, one is just a disaster and will not be issued. I don’t really know what went wrong, but it must have been quite early when doing the basic tracks. It just doesn’t roll. It feels like driving a bumpy road. There’s no chance to get this repaired. And then there are one or two (depending on the mood I’m in when listening) which are somehow on the border. Not bad but not good enough. In one case it’s the song as such where I think this one could need a complete rework. In the other case I feel the song’s all right but we didn’t do good. Or something’s still missing. Could be another guitar track, or maybe an electric one instead of an acoustic. I hope Chris D and myself will be able to sit together again and decide what to do with these three, and then it’ll be an album or not. I think that nine songs are not enough. Maybe we can agree on ten and skip two.
Anyway, this will be the project for the coming winter. To get all the artwork and conceptual design done (maybe I’ll do a reduced one this time), of course the mastering of the tracks and finally the production of the CD as such. Yes, still a CD. I’m used to this format, and I love having an “album” in hands and not just some streams.
The High Field Band has ceased to exist, or at least has taken a sort of sabbatical year which in fact are two years and two months since our last public appearance in Gerolzhofen. Which is a pity, no question, but on the other hand a fact. My daughter lives far away and has other priorities, so we have to either skip the keyboard or look for a successor. I tend to the first option and would prefer to look for another guitar player, so I could focus on singing a bit more. We had an idea of combining two bands, one being the basement project of Chris D together with Dirk (also a member of Platform 6) and Isabell on Sax, who also played some tracks for my new album, and her brother on drums. The other party would have been Nicole and myself. The gig to be played was planned end of may in Ebenhausen, but just two days after a rehearsal session Dirk suffered a severe heart attack and needed months to recover. Another shock, for him first of all, but for me and his friends as well. As I said before: A difficult and painful time.
So this project is currently on hold, as well as the High Field Band.
But the other ones are not. Platform 6 played a Gig at Würzburg Prison again in January; it was the second time for us to be there. It was a tremendous success again, the 120 guests were yelling and clapping hands all the way through our setlist, no matter which country or continent or culture they came from. There were only men this time; the prison director said that more than 250 prisoners would have had applied for the concert, and they decided to do a show for the female prisoners at another date. Two guys were shouting something at me when leaving the prison hall after the gig; first I didn’t really understand why they were yelling “Liverpool! The Real Thing! Liverpool!” but then it turned out that those two prisoners were from Liverpool and were just completely excited that we played “You to me are everything” from a 70s band called “The Real Thing”, which originated from Liverpool! Those two buddies had tears of joy in their eyes when heading back to their cells, and when I realized what kind of feelings we brought to ‘em with our simple music, my eyes became wet as well.
The Platformers had another gig in August, being the 29th birthday of our singer Nicole (ok, in fact the 22nd time that she became 29), and also this one was just great. We had to get along without Albrecht and thus tailored the setlist a bit different; as a surprise for Nicole we had three songs of Peter Maffay (Lieber Gott, Eiszeit, Sonne in der Nacht) with us which we secretly prepared for this one show, and thanks God it went ok. At least she was absolutely happy, and that was the purpose of it all. And we tried “Radar Love” by Golden Earring for the first time in public. Also this one was proposed by Nicole, and I was rather sceptical in the beginning and decided just to sing this one and put the guitar aside, otherwise the long instrumental part in the middle of the song would have become even more chaotic and loud. But it went ok again, and so we’re looking forward to maybe try another complex one, an all-time favourite of mine: “Carry on wayward son” by Kansas. I’m absolutely unsure whether this is something for a band like ours, but I made the proposal some days ago and earned positive response. But I think we’d need a rehearsal weekend for this one. Well, why not?
With the Erratics, the blues rockers, I played a gig in May at the Montana again (in fact the band seems to play either at the Montana or at the Schmiede in Schwebheim and nowhere else, but both are fine locations for this kind of Music, and the next gig is just around the corner. Saturday, 19th of October, Honky Tonk Festival in Schweinfurt. The Erratics live at the Montana once more!
And then there’s PAM, still alive and still kicking. We had a weekend workshop in October 2018 in Eschwege, and one more in April this year. Both were again as productive and focused as can be. The main purpose was to prepare for the upcomimg 50st birthday of bassman Noop, but we recorded own material as well. The results can be seen on youtube:
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The gig at the birthday party will take place at Cologne on the 26th of October, and again I’m very much looking forward also to this one. At this kind of parties there’s usually much more audience than at club gigs, so I’m taking it as serious as can be.
That’s it for the moment. At least you’re informed again now. I won’t promise to keep you posted on all my activities the way I did the years before, but it won’t take a year again, that’s for sure.
Keep on rockin’!
Yours
schnoed
schnoed
5 years ago
Hello all,
time for a short update again. Last thing I reported on was the gig with the Platformers mid of May. Afterwards the recording sessions for my new album continued, interrupted by a trip to Tel Aviv, and then I spent the second half of June in Denmark with my loved one. We really needed the rest, and I did nothing musical at all in those two weeks. Besides all the tunes that kept going on in my head, but that’s normal, at least for me.
Back from vacation, I had a rehearsal session with Chris O and his family to prepare for a gig at their garden party some days later, followed by two recording sessions for the new album again. Then a rehearsal session with the Erratics in my basement due to the fact that their room got flooded at one of the strong rain falls end of May, and then the next gig with ‘em took place in Schweinfurt, at the Montana once more. Another recording session this week, and next week there’ll be just another one plus a rehearsal with the Platformers. I’m back again at full speed.
Chris O’s garden party is a sort of tradition, at least it was the third event of this kind in the last 10 years. There were some 30 people attending, and we played an interesting mixture of old Heartbeat stuff (Help, She loves you, I can her your heart beat, Beast of burden etc.), songs selected by Chris and his family (Mighty Quinn, some other Gotthard stuff, Perfect by Ed Sheeran) and also three songs of mine, where Nicole joined us in singing (I don’t care, Time and time again, All the things). We’d have done some more, just Nicole and myself, but time was running out and the O’s didn’t want to stress their neighbours after 10 pm, so we had to give in. A pity of course. It would have been great fun for sure.
The gig with the Erratics went quite well, even if we had to play much quieter than we usually do. The event was not intended to be a rock concert but more of a get-together in front of the shop with some music in the background. And so we stood in the shop and rocked ourselves through our programme, some people stayed just close to us, but the majority sat outside and enjoyed the evening and the summer breeze while we played the blues from a distance. But it was a good performance and a good opportunity to listen to ourselves and interact.
Felix, the other guitar player (or better: their lead guitar guy), is quite a good musician and a good mate to play along with. We’re getting closer in understanding each other and agree on the next solo while looking or nodding at each other. When joining the band again, I didn’t have any ambition to play the solos, it was his job and he’s doing great. But he likes my style of playing which is quite different to his one; he’s in a way more sophisticated, he’s got a lot of sounds with his Camper amp, he’s good in using all sort of effects, and he’s basically a Stratocaster player, while I’m a completely puristic one with my good old PRS plus a tube amplifier and nothing else. Guitar, cable, amp. No effects or gimmicks. I like the variety of sounds and styles in his solos, and he likes the punch and energy of mine. As you can imagine, it is pure fun for me to play along with him.
I asked him to do a solo on my album which I tried to play by myself but still was unhappy with the result; he said yes after some days. It’ll be the one in “Soldier in a lost patrol”, and I’m excited to hear him playing in this song with his bluesy style. It’s one of my favourite songs of the new album, and I needed some time to accept that somebody else could do it in a better way than me, but first of all I’m convinced he can, and secondly I am on my way to learn to share. Slowly but steadily. At least I think so…
Next week there’ll be another recording session with Albrecht, the trumpet guy, and a rehearsal with the Platformers as well, but then there’ll be a break of some four weeks with hardly any musical activity at all due to the fact that Chris D, my multi-talented and highly esteemed companion, will be on vacation with his family. Well, he’s deserved it for sure, and I’ll find some moments to sing and play in my basement in the meantime to stay tuned.
The next gigs are not really fixed; there are some projects ongoing with the Platformers and the Erratics, but nothing’s completely clear. I’ll keep you posted, as always.
Keep on rockin’!
Yours
schnoed
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About schnoed
Born 1964 in Stuttgart/Germany. Singer, songwriter, arranger, guitar/bass/drums player, session musician here and there. No contract, no label. No commercial interests.
Singer and guitar player with PAMBAND from 1989 to 1996 and since the PAM reunion in 2011 again; with Platform No 6 since their foundation in 2009, with Schnoed & the High Field Band from 2016 to 2018 and in several other bands and projects over the years.
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Past Events
Sat
Jul 23
1:00 PM
All Ages
Platform no 6 live at the Market Place
Germany, Bodenmais, Market Place
Thu
Dec 01
6:30 PM
All Ages
Platform No 6 live at the SKF After Work Party
Germany, Schweinfurt, SKF Factory 4
Sat
Oct 19
8:00 AM
All Ages
Montana
Germany, Schweinfurt, Innenstadt gegenüner Hotel Ross, 97421
All by myself
Way of life
PAM Sessions 2012/13
Album "way of life" mp3 download
VW Bus
schnoed
PLATFORM No. 6
schnoed
Live 17.9.09
Platform No.6 19.7.14
Live 3.10.09 @SKF charity event
schnoed and Dirk
Live 3.10.09 @SKF charity event
Live 3.10.09 @SKF charity event
Live 3.7.10
Live Muehlheim 19.7.14
Live 21.5.11 Luechow
Live Gothenburg 29.4.14
Live 24.7.10 - Isi, Christian, schnoed
Live 19.9.10 @Hassfurt Airfield
Live 22.4.2012
Live 22.4.2012 Disharmonie SW
PAMBAND 2012
PAMBAND 2014
Live in Bamberg 6.5.13
Live Gothenburg 29.4.14
The High Field Band, Jan 2016
The High Field Band, Jan 2016
The High Field Band, Jul 2016, with Claudia Roth
The High Field Band, Jul 2016
Alarm Clock
The High Field Band, June 2016
Schnoed
Album Cover
PF6 Steyr June 2017
Coverfoto
Schranke KF
Foto von Joachim in Berlin Okt21
CD Cover für Discogs 210123