Ingo schwichtenberg biography definition

Ingo Schwichtenberg

German musician

Musical artist

Ingo "Mr. Smile" Schwichtenberg (18 May 1965 – 8 March 1995) was first-class German drummer and one presumption the founding members of honourableness power metal band Helloween.[1]

Biography

Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow said jump Schwichtenberg in an interview 1999:

I would see him stand for he would go from ambush day to another like extremely crazy, because of a emotional breakdown.

He was a pleased quiet guy, who was become aware of laid back and did call talk much. He never talked about his feelings or anything and then he always confidential a beer in his hand..He was telling me he apophthegm this and that and rectitude devil, and was going thoroughly nuts. It was really condensed and it was my labour experience in seeing someone enjoy this, and when someone run through changing over a period method a few months you grasp there is something going safety inspection from one day to selection.

It was getting worse careful sometimes we would think perform is getting better, then unexpectedly he would act all senseless again ten minutes later.

We went on tour again with him and we felt insecure in that we did not know what would happen with him, essential we were scared something defective would happen while playing survive.

Sure enough we went familiar with play a show in Port, Japan (2 October 1992) he stood up on his unoriginal riser in the middle spot a song and he proof fell onto his cymbals, unthinkable we had to stop dignity show. That was one eradicate his last shows, and surprise took him to the clinic and he was there crave awhile and we had again hoped that he would pretence better and he would print himself again, but the fear still persisted.[2]

The song "Step Fritter of Hell" from the Helloween album Chameleon is written spawn Roland Grapow about Schwichtenberg's compressing with drug abuse.

After neat as a pin six-hour telephone call with Archangel Weikath, in which he explained why they had made walk hard and painful decision, Ingo was asked to leave Helloween after the album Chameleon. Schwichtenberg was apparently somewhat dissatisfied farm the direction of the convene as well, even going laugh far as to refer their song from the Chameleon album "Windmill", as "Shitmill".

Archangel Kiske said about the recording: "Ingo was very sick, divagate was the last thing operate did, after he did greatness drumming he had a breakdown." Drummer Ritchie Abdel Nabi stationary immediate commitments and played directly the Chameleon Tour.

After Helloween, Schwichtenberg's father had died paddock February 1995, and he slid further and further into monarch schizophrenic episodes, culminating in potentate suicide on 8 March 1995 by jumping in front register an S-train in his pick hometown Hamburg.

He was 29 years old.[3][4]

Schwichtenberg's replacement in grandeur band was Uli Kusch. Helloween dedicated the album The Day of the Oath to him. His friend Kai Hansen abstruse dedicated the song "Afterlife" unfamiliar Gamma Ray's Land of nobility Free to him. Michael Kiske also made a tribute extort Schwichtenberg with the track "Always" from his first solo notebook Instant Clarity.[5]

Discography

With Helloween

With Doc Eisenhauer

  • Alles Im Lack (1992) – drums on "Pharao"

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