Cheap Turtle
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| Cheap Turtle | |
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| Origin | Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Genres | Hard rock |
| Members | Michael Baum Juergen Urmann Andreas Koenig Joerg Fischer Stefan Deissler |
| Past members | Christian Saal Thomas Hasenau Thorsten Haronska |
| Website(s) | [1] |
Cheap Turtle are a German Deep Purple tribute band.
[edit] Band History
Cheap Turtle was founded in 1996 in Frankfurt am Main Germany as a Deep Purple tribute band 1996. The members were Stefan Deissler (drums), Thomas Hasenau (guitar) and Christian Saal (keyboards). Joerg Fischer (bass) joined in summer 1996.
The first public performance took place in December 1996. Michael Baum on vocals. Unfortunately Thomas Hasenau and Christian Saal left the band in the beginning of 1997.
Andreas Koenig (keyboards/hammond) and Juergen Urmann (guitar) joined Cheap Turtle. Thorsten Haronska was the new frontman.
In the summer of 1997 Cheap Turtle recorded four Deep Purple highlights ("Highway Star", "Black Night", "Speed King" and "Soldier Of Fortune").
In 1998 a rare Live CD was recorded including "Burn", "Stormbringer", "Soldier of Fortune", "Fireball", "Into the Fire" and "Speed King") followed by several gigs all over germany.
In January 2000 Michael Baum joined Cheap Turtle again.
The first official Live CD was recorded in May 2000 named "Live Strangers".
In 2002 Cheap Turtle was invited to the legendary "Spirit of 66" in Verviers/Belgium.
On the 15th April 2005 the second official live CD named "In April" was recorded.
[edit] Personnel and discography
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[edit] Discography
- Live Strangers, 2001
- In April, 2006
