JonesGang

This is the band I played most of my musician's life, spent most of my rehearsal-, travel-, setup- and staging-time together, and I can't imagine another band will ever catch up with the JonesGang. Started out as a 5-piece Country-/Southern Rockband in 1997, I joined one year later. We then slipped over on a more rock-oriented, party-like track. Since 2004 there are only 4 gangsters left and I had the most awesome time with my brothers in crime, Pete, Dixie, Davy (†) and Jason, both human and musicaly.

Are we headin' towards the 700-gig-mark? Jepp, think so.

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Coming up - Richie live

21.12. 2024 - HH Chattahoochee (J.B.B.)

27.12. 2024 - Hamburg Bhf. Pauli (Paniker)

31.12. 2024 - Bischoffsgrün (Mona udfF)

25.01. 2025 - Magdeburg (Paniker)

16.02. 2025 - Hamburg (Paniker, gesch.G.)

22.03. 2025 - Schwetzingen (Paniker)

What's up, Ridge?

Meeting (and rehearsing with) Udo Lindenberg

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Dreams come true. Sometimes. Happened to me in May '22. No kidding', seriously!

In April '22 I got a call from Andy, a guy who turned out to be a member of the „inner circle“ of Udo Lindenberg’s tour production team. In essence: „The artist wants to meet you, Richie! And bring your guitar...“.

Wait... WHAT?!?

Fou...

So, this happened on May 1st 2022:

I drove to Timmendorfer Strand, where UL and the Panikorchester were rehearsing for the tour ’22, and met all these icons I knew from concerts and articles and the telly. I met the man himself and we rehearsed his music all day long. Mark well: Not a tribute band, I was part of the real deal!

I met a totally friendly, overwhelmingly nice guy, professionally well informed about this Richie Jones he was making music with. A man who’s absolutely reflected and aware about his attribute being a national treasure, totally committed to making everybody in the room feel comfortable and easy, including himself.

Maybe the purpose of having me at a rehearsal was to check out some plan B on guitar players against the background of the pandemic.

Since the tour took place without any virus incident (hence me not playing on this tour), you might ask: „Okay, now what’s next?!?“ Frankly, I dunno, though I keep dreaming of being part of Germany’s greatest Rock’n Roll circus. But whatever may come, hey, I’m already on the bright side of life. I played with Udo Lindenberg, he liked what he saw/heard, and nobody will ever take that away from me.

Surely, a dream came true…

Hamburg, May 2022