Friday, December 30, 2022

PETER WOLF AND GIPSY LOVE

Peter Wolf studied classical piano at Vienna’s Conservatory of Music. At the age of 16, he won the "European Jazz Festival" as a solo pianist. 

In the early seventies, Peter Wolf was a part of Austrian band Gipsy Love. They recorded two albums.

Coming to America in his early twenties, Wolf worked with local musicians such as Neal Starkey (bassist) and Bill Hatcher (guitarist) in Atlanta, Georgia and with Steve Sample Jr (drummer, son of Steve Sample, Sr and Ray Reach (keyboardist, guitarist, vocalist) in Birmingham, Alabama.

After his time in the southeastern United States, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he played keyboards for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s. After his work with Zappa, he then went on to the band Group 87 with Patrick O'Hearn, Terry Bozzio, Peter Maunu, and Mark Isham.

I revisited the Gipsy Love albums this morning.
Seventies rock.
Quite enjoyable.
"Here We Come" includes several tracks that were co-written by Thomas Nordegg, FZ's (but also Dweezil and Steve Vai's) guitar tech, among other things.

  • gipsy love: gipsy love
        (1971, lp, austria, BASF) -> reissued on CD in 2011
  • gipsy love: here we come
        (1972, lp, germany, PAN) -> reissued on CD in 2011
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