GRAVE

Grave biography
Founded in Bremen, Germany in 1970 - Disbanded around 1980 - Reformed in 1989

Grave were a band of teenagers that formed in the basement of a Brinkum (near Bremen) Youth House. With a primitive tape recorder, and using only two microphones, six tracks were recorded live in the studio (summer 1975), and the one and only album by Grave was released as 'Grave I' that year in a limited edition of 100 copies.

This was plain, straight forward and simple garage rock, like the fast competent rehearsals from a typical neighborhood teenage combo. Nevertheless the album has since become a hunted collector's item, and people are prepared to pay up to 1,000 DEM for it! Three more tracks recorded in 1975 were added to a reissue in the early 90's, and the other four of the seven bonus tracks included on the 1994 and 2003 CD reissues were recorded in 1989 under improved conditions.

in "Cosmic Dreams at Play: A Guide to German Progressive and Electronic Rock" (1996)