Special birthdays often offer the reason to take stock. But you can also simply remember. For example, to the moments when something started, which has not let go of you for a lifetime.
For Gerhard Egger, the music was already a means of expression as a teenager. Before the Most dryer did pioneering work with his dialect songs when it comes to Austropop and Alpinrock, he wrote English songs. “Girl of Mine”, for example, audibly influenced by the Beatles. Or the fleet “Sunday Driver”, in which he tells the story of a carefree factory employee (that was once not so far after). Or “Johnny Harley”, which bears a clear rocker note. No wonder, the cult film “Easy Rider” with Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” inspired the young man from Gosau as a song.
At that time, the young boarding school student, whom it moved from the Salzkammergut to widely remote South Burgenland at the age of 15, lacked the technical and financial resources to immortalize these “first songs” on record. “At the time, there was only a studio in Vienna and it was so far away that I would not have come up with the idea of picking up the songs that were based on the piano and guitar,” says Egger. So they were reserved for the author who “played through every few years” so as not to forget them, as he tells in the OÖN conversation.
Joy of life
“Even though I have written dialect songs for around half a century, my English -language songwriter phase is one that I don’t want to miss,” says the Gosauer. “It is an important part of my artistic work without being all the music that I made afterwards.” Therefore, the personal need to document his joie de vivre at that time.
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