I started a live concert mix with one of my longtime hero’s Michael Hoenig. It was both a privilege and honor to be sitting in a room with Michael. He has always been a music pioneer and innovator to me. I first worked with him when I was 21… I distinctly remember one time when he was showing me this brand new cutting edge technology called Pro Tools. Version 1.0. Note: The mixing and editing were TWO different applications. You had to quit the edit app and then launch the mix app. Can you imagine?
AGITATION FREE was one of the leading exponents of German experimental rock music in the early 1970s. Even in the initial phase of its existence, the group had already attained cult status, which was consolidated over the years. Starting in 1967, the Berlin band had begun to develop long and, for its time, very free musical improvisations. They were experimenting in concerts with liquid projectors, slides, and their own experimental films, in ways analogous to the California underground bands Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly. AGITATION FREE soon was counted among the most interesting bands in Berlin, and worked in the avant-garde music scene with composers such as Ladislav Kupkovič, Friedhelm Döhl, Erhard Großkopf, Peter Michael Hamel and John Cage.
