It was in autumn 1993 when Gernot took the western guitar of his father and drove to Holzi's house situated in the next village in the outskirts of Munich City. They both didn't knew each other very well, but Gernot was searching for a bass player to start a band together with vocalist Florian. They knew that Holzi owned a double bass - and after this spontaneous guitar & bass session Holzi joined them. Alex, a former classmate of Gernot did the drums and so the first Grave Stompers line up was completed. Inspired by classic horror and obscure rock'n'roll they started playing traditional old-school psychobilly. It took a few months and the Psycho quartet from Fürstenfeldbruck (Germany) supported lots of international bands on countless Festivals in Germany.
Just the first foto session with the new line up caused big trouble for the band: equipped with skulls, bones and axes the guys went to the foto shooting at a local cemetery and just when the work was finished and the band left the graveyard several armed policemen arrived at the scene. The Grave Stompers managed to escape but they got charged with grave violation. The case got dismissed after some witnesses got questioned and stated that they didn't felt threatened by the band... At that period of time the sound of the Grave Stompers became very hard and dark with metal influenced guitar riffing and fast drums+bass.
Just the first foto session with the new line up caused big trouble for the band: equipped with skulls, bones and axes the guys went to the foto shooting at a local cemetery and just when the work was finished and the band left the graveyard several armed policemen arrived at the scene. The Grave Stompers managed to escape but they got charged with grave violation. The case got dismissed after some witnesses got questioned and stated that they didn't felt threatened by the band... At that period of time the sound of the Grave Stompers became very hard and dark with metal influenced guitar riffing and fast drums+bass.
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