Blonker

instrumental

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,...