- Cheap Turtle
Infobox musical artist
Name = Cheap Turtle
Background = cover_band
Years_active =1996 –present
Origin =Frankfurt/Main ,Germany
Genre =Hard rock
Current_members = Michael Baum
Juergen Urmann
Andreas Koenig
Joerg Fischer
Stefan Deissler
Past_members = Christian Saal
Thomas Hasenau
Thorsten Haronska
URL = [http://www.cheap-turtle.de]Cheap Turtle is a German
Deep Purple tribute band .Band History
Cheap Turtle was founded in 1996 in
Frankfurt am Main Germany as aDeep Purple tribute band. Founding members were Stefan Deissler (drums), Thomas Hasenau (guitar) and Christian Saal (keyboards). Joerg Fischer (bass) joined the same year. The first public performance took place in December with Michael Baum on vocals.Unfortunately Thomas Hasenau and Christian Saal left the band in 1997. Andreas Koenig (Keyboards/organ) and Juergen Urmann (guitar) joined to replace them. With vocalist Thorsten Haronska the band recorded four Deep Purple highlights ("Highway Star", "Black Night", "Speed King" and "Soldier Of Fortune"). In 1998 a rare Live CD was recorded including "Burn", "Stormbringer", "Soldier of Fortune", "Fireball", "Into the Fire" and "Speed King") followed by several gigs all over Germany.
In January 2000 Michael Baum joined Cheap Turtle again. The first official Live CD "Live Strangers" was recorded in May 2000.
In 2002 Cheap Turtle was invited to the legendary "Spirit of 66" in
Verviers /Belgium . The second official live CD entitled "In April" was relesased in 2005.Personnel and discography
Discography
* "
Live Strangers ", 2001
* "In April ", 2005
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