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Tyburn Tall
12+ albums
Progressive rockkrautrockheavy proggermanclassic rock
about
Tyburn Tall was formed in 1969 in Speyer (Germany) by Werner Gallo (g, born 1951), Hanns Dechant (dr, born 1948), Stefan Kowa (b, born 1950) and Gunther Göttsche (k, born 1954), all of whom made their musical experience playing in the beat band The Screamers since 1965, with the exception of Gunther Göttsche. Tyburn Tall planned to explore new musical paths by adding Gunther to their original line-up, thus switching from the 60s beat imitation to their own unique mixture of rock, classical and jazz. The band chose their name the same way the Grateful Dead did. They glanced through a history book discovering an English town called Tyburn. Legends tell of a tall tree in Tyburn on which, in the era of Oliver Cromwell, unwanted persons were hung. The band changed 'Tyburn tree' to Tyburn Tall for no other reason than because it just sounded better. In the spring of 1970, the band had their first big success in the Speyer area with their new show mainly consisting of self-written titles. In June, flute player Hermann Damiantschitsch, born in 1951, strengthened the band which, during the summer, finalised an instrumental piece in three movements called "Autagonia", a Greek word meaning "fight with yourself". It was written by the brilliant organ player Gunther Göttsche, son of the musical director of the regional church at the time, and Stefan Kowa who had had classical piano training, supported by the family tradition, as his mother and grandmother gave piano lessons and his g
