Schneeball Records
distribution: INDIGO
TON STEINE SCHERBEN
The titles of their songs were rhythmically shouted in unision by demonstrators in the streets. The band’s concerts often transitioned into occupations of vacant dwellings by squads of squatters. The Scherben were Germany’s most important political band in the early 1970s. They moved to the countryside in 1975 and the band went into hibernation for five years, but resurfaced again in the 1980s. Rather than paying off the debts they’d incurred through a contract with Major Records, they opted to disband in 1985. Until then, they were simply the best band in the world of German-language rock music. Their songs had soul. On stage, the musicians were pure rock’n’roll. Scherben’s two songwriters Ralph Möbius and Ralph Steitz are the German equivalents of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards