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Artist
Zomby Woof
12+ albums
Progressive rocksymphonic proggermankrautrocksymphonic
about
1. Zomby Woof , their name a homage to Frank Zappa's "Mothers of Inventions" composition, were a one shot German symphonic progressive rock band. 2. Zomby Woof is a avantgarde rock/metal band based in Lappeenranta, Finland. Currently on a hiatus Zomby Woof, a band from the Swabian town of Reutlingen, named after the Mothers Of Invention song, had been playing keyboard-oriented and highly adorned art rock in the wake of Yes and early Genesis since around 1973. It all began in 1971, when guitarists Heinrich Winter and Udo Kreuß joined Frank Keinath on bass and drummer Thomas Moritz to form a band that had no name and no gigs as yet. Frank Keinath moved away from Reutlingen, and no replacement was to be found. As a consequence, another guitarist, Ulrich Herter, joined the band, and Udo Kreuß changed to bass. Shortly afterwards, Matthias Seelmann-Eggebert on Hammond organ and, subsequently, Matthias Zumbroich on keyboards became band members, which meant that the sound we have come to know later on was created. They used two keyboards for a considerable period of time, following the example of Procol Harum. At the Hayinger Festival in 1974, where Kraan, Birth Control and Embryo also performed, the band had their first television appearance. They declined an offer made by Walter Holzbaur, manager of Erna Schmidt and Kraan, to appear live on the radio because they didn't feel self-confident enough at the time to handle such a project, an opportunity that was not to return. In 19
