Great concert by the West German political rock band COCHISE from 1981

West Germany's most important political rock band, alongside Ton Steine Scherben, was in brilliant form at this 1981 performance in Mainz at the Open Ohr Festival!
Band singer, guitarist & spokesman Pit Budde recalls this formative year:
'1981 was a year of squatting, demonstrations against nuclear power plants, Sunday strolls along the Startbahn West, the growing peace movement, the mass arrests at the Komm in Nuremberg...
Cochise was on the road all year, often at the hotspots of political struggles, from Hamburg to Munich,from the Ruhr area to Berlin. Around 140 concerts were played throughout Germany that year, plus the recordings for the third Cochise LP, 'Unter Geiern.' In Dortmund, houses were occupied and cleared. In Dortmund Dorstfeld, Cochise musicians
and fellow bands met in the Rock Against Right initiative. Cochise musicians were targeted and arrested by the SEK
(German Special Forces) at demonstrations. The atmosphere was correspondingly charged, and anger at the state authorities was high. It was a wild year.
The Cochise lineup had changed. In addition to the band's founding members: Klara Brandi (bass, flute), Pit Budde (guitar), and Günther Holtmann (guitar and bass), Martin Buschmann now played keyboards, steel drums,and saxophone, and Tom Kühn played drums. The Cochise repertoire at the many concerts and also at the 'Open Ohr' festival appearance in Mainz consisted mostly of songs from the band's first two LPs, some of which had already
become hits.

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Additional Details

Label: Sireena Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 46:07 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/12/25

UPC: 4260182982594