Cheap Turtle

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Cheap Turtle
Origin Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Genre(s) Hard rock
Years active 1996–present
Website [1]
Members
Michael Baum
Juergen Urmann
Andreas Koenig
Joerg Fischer
Stefan Deissler
Former members
Christian Saal
Thomas Hasenau
Thorsten Haronska

Cheap Turtle is 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. Founding members were Stefan Deissler (drums), Thomas Hasenau (guitar) and Christian Saal (keyboards). Joerg Fischer (bass) joined the same year. The first public performance took place in December with Michael Baum on vocals.

Unfortunately Thomas Hasenau and Christian Saal left the band in 1997. Andreas Koenig (Keyboards/organ) and Juergen Urmann (guitar) joined to replace them. With vocalist Thorsten Haronska the band 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 "Live Strangers" was recorded in May 2000.

In 2002 Cheap Turtle was invited to the legendary "Spirit of 66" in Verviers/Belgium. The second official live CD entitled "In April" was relesased in 2005.

[edit] Personnel and discography

Cheap Turtle personnel
1996-1997
1997-1999
2000-present
Guests

[edit] Discography

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