Germany
Dirk Erchinger
Jazzkantine
Dirk Erchinger profile
- Name:
- Dirk Erchinger
- Personal Website:
- Website
- Band:
- Jazzkantine
- Drumming since:
- dunno...1975?...by now I should have chops like Buddy Rich...but I don't...mh
- With MEINL since:
- 1999
- Birthday:
- August 06, 1969
- Zodiac Sign:
- Gemini
- Place of Birth:
- Hannover/Germany
- Currently living in:
- Berlin/Germany
- Favorite Food:
- Currywurst & fries with ketchup & mayonais at Curry 36/Berlin/Mehringdamm
- Favorite Drink:
- Maternus from Aldi
- Matched Grip or Traditional Grip:
- Matched Grip
- MEINL cymbal series used:
- Byzance, Generation X
- Favorite MEINL cymbal:
- Generation X Safari Ride
- Car that you currently drive:
- Peugeot 407 SW
- Not counting on drums, what do you do for fun:
- hanging with my kids & wife, traveling, eating!!!
- Teacher:
- Eddie Filip, Udo Dahmen, Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphry and more...but somehow I still play the same shit...;-)Eddie Filip, Udo Dahmen, Joe Porcaro, Ralph Humphry and more...but somehow I still play the same shit...;-)
- Drumtech:
- Most of the time: Dirk Erchinger ;-)
- Highlight of your career so far:
- -Jazzkantine was the first german band which hit the german charts (album/single) with live played hip-hop music in '94
-Nr.#1 Hit on US radio-charts (Smooth Jazz) with a cover version of 'Joy & Pain' by Count Basic in '96
-playing at the St. Fallen festival/Switzerland in front of 50 000 people with Jazzkantine and sharing the backstage with the Sex Pistols while Germany won the european soccer-championship...they hated us!
-singing the Udo Juergens smash hit 'griechischer Wein' at Kim's Karaoke Bar/Berlin in 2007 (standing Ovations!) - Drumming strengths:
- hard to say...I try to make some asses move
- Drumming means to me:
- A lot but not everything! (there are so many things way more important than hitting wood on plastic)
- Advice for up and coming drummers:
- practice, open your ears & believe in yourself...and don't be an asshole!
- How would you describe yourself:
- talks a lot...but quiet nice
- When I look back on my life one day, I would like to be able to say:
- "geil !!"
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