- Roland Grapow
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name = Roland Grapow
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|8|30|mf=y
birth_place =Hamburg ,Germany
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occupation =Musician Roland Grapow, born
August 30 ,1959 inHamburg ,Germany is a professionalguitarist . Roland is most well known for his time in thepower metal bandHelloween , who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding memberKai Hansen .Roland played on the albums "
Pink Bubbles Go Ape ", "Chameleon", "Master of the Rings ", "The Time of the Oath ", "High Live ", "Better Than Raw ", "Metal Jukebox ", and "The Dark Ride ".During his time with Helloween Roland also formed a solo project. The first release, "
The Four Seasons of Life ", featured members of Helloween playing backup, with Roland trying his hand at singing in addition to guitar playing. On the second album, "Kaleidoscope", current and former members ofYngwie Malmsteen 's band were utilised.In 2001, Roland and bandmate
Uli Kusch were fired fromHelloween due to musical and personal differences. The side project they had been planning,Masterplan , instead became their new full-time band. Roland Grapow is a producer and main songwriter of Masterplan.Discography
External links
* [http://www.truemetal.org/kaleidoscope/index.html Roland Grapow]
* [http://www.master-plan.net Masterplan]
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