Michael Weikath

Date of birth: 7 August 1962
Place of birth: Hamburg
Height: 190cm
Weight: 75 kg
Former group: Powerfool
The influence of music: The Beatles, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Scorpions, UFO, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Wishbone Ash



07.08.62 Michael Weikath born in Hamburg, West Germany. At birth, he spent almost all the free time in the tube stereo parents, to listen to all the stations are available at the time, often too long and he was feeling dizzy and very need to go to bed.

He has a few days of this year it was education. "You have a small transistor, battery power radio, also, the first tape recorder when my 9-year ...», he said," Making a big water "Oooh No No No" Ukulele xylophone Washing powder drum recording with some class, people are evil! "

Michael started the school in 1969. Make implemented by the Beatles best 62-66 and visited the first rock concert at the age of 13 years: the sea, the wishbone Ash / Boston type Hamburg band .... Very drunk that night and have a problem with his mother.

He tried to go watch their show all the ...

In 1974, he was learning to play acoustic guitar for a year and was himself an electric guitar and the distortion of 1 1 / 2 years later. Then, as he repeated the experience with friends, and even punk band called imaginary effects.

Both attended the main Aerosmith rock concert in 1977 in Hamburg Auditorium Maximum, fresh 5-C ($ 2) at the time. He graduated in 1982, the school and used heavy social, not military tasks after the service.

She first created in 1978 called Powerfool, but he played in bands since the parallel 81/82, and the school band, SAS Band, (he has been recruited especially for the regime, but also eventually play the guitar just boredom, the original version of "How many tears "recorded with this group too), or blast furnace (with Mark Grosskopf on bass, later joined by Powerfool" sometimes drum 83/84. Kai Hansen is a little play guitar in Powerfool for several weeks, to fill gaps in the former the keyboard player. Several weeks later, they left and ended the reform Powerfool Digital Image Stabilization old "Iron Fist" and basically the name Helloween, Mark stove top; try to get the concept of Helloween and start running training room with a vociferous band Records Berlin; is ... In when the problem started ...

Michaels first songs / solos: While my Guitar gently Weeps, Let It Be, I Want You (The Beatles), Smoke on the Water / Burn! (Deep Purple), backward / Caroline / Bye Bye Johnny (status quo), Whole Lotta Rosie (AC / DC) ... House Of The Rising Sun (I know), you really Got Me (The Kinks / Van Halen) hole in the sky / Company Black Sabbath, Samba Pa Nangkring front of the computer all day (Santana), chandra (Heart) Hotel California (Eagles) , Strange Out (Chic), Summer Night City (ABBA), Tattoed Lady (Rory Gallagher) Gonzo / grip / just what the doctor strait (Ted Nugent), etc. ...

Favorite band / influence: The Beatles, Deep Purple, 60/70ies/teenie band (Sweet, Bay City Rollers, mud, Slade, Rubette, Bonjour, Suzi Quatro, T. Rex, Kincade, etc.), Gigliola Cinquetti, Mother Finest, rory Gallagher, wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, Alan parson Project, ELO, Wizard, Pink Floyd, Van Halen (I think I was the first in Germany, that their first record ...), KISS, Dio, Def Leppard, Journey, Brian Auger , Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Ted Nugent, KRUIZ, Omega, Sex Pistols and punk bands span, Motorhead, Gary Moore, April Wine, Y & T, Sammy Hagar, Montrose, Johnny Winter, Doobie Brothers, Allman Bros., balance, the city , UFO, Michael Schenker Group, Boston, Frank Zappa, Rush, the Rolling Stones, Demis Roussos and Aphrodite's Child, YES, Geordie, AC / DC, Uli Jon Roth, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, The Kinks, CCR TenCC, Jeff Lynne, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Mamas and the Papas, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al DiMeola, Glenn Miller, Randy Rhoads, Buddy Holly, Walter Trout, Vanilla fudge, Saga, BB King, Loudness, Robert Palmer, The Who, Ten Years After, Chuck Berry, Joe Cocker, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Santana, Jethro Tull, Judas Priest, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ABBA, Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Rainbow, Foreign, eldritch Tooth, Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, I Lizzy, heart, Eagles, nectar, Focus, Camel, a German and international success, or the person or classical composers; Simon & Garfunkel, Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, Burt Bacharach, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn, aaaah ... . The other?

German artists: Udo Lindenberg, Udo Juergens, Katja Ebstein, Klaus Doldingers Passport, Volker Kriegel, Lenny Wolf, Atlantis, Frumpy, Kraftwerk, Nina Hagen, Peter Maffay, Spliff, Supermax, Baccarat, birth, Kraan, Wallenstein Scorpions, Accept, Extrabreit , Hubert Kah, Rio Reiser, destruction, Pink Cream 69, East German artists: Renft, Karussell, Cesar Peter Glaeser, Rust, Reform.

"Just because all the people to know and pisses me every time I ask you, I do not get particularly influenced by Metallica and Iron Maiden. So cut!

If too many requests to find this biography, I threaten you, I updated this May!

During the 23 Anne Michaels Weikath has been and still is a founder member of "Helloween". His dedication to the band members and lead to more success for many years, with sales and sold at concerts around the world.

At the same time, although they are not surfing the net, he just wrote a new song "Helloween", followed by the Guard of the Seven Keys - The Legacy.