This hompepage
shows the activities of the german multiinstrumentalist Walter Westrupp.
Born 1946 in Krumbach/Schwaben/Germany, grown up in Essen near by the
Ruhr, risen for making music with trumpets and trombones, predestinated to
play the ukulele in diverse groups, never becoming tired in the search of
good old skiffle & jugband music - and from there still active. In
early days member in trombone bands and chantries, then the step to
skiffle and jazz with the Night
Reveller Skiffle Group
Essen and the University Jazz Band Bochum, after that the side trip
with Bernd
Witthüser into the
Krautrock. 1973-2008 frontman in the Skiffle- & Jugband Walter
h.c. Meier Pumpe,
in addition a little social critical phase with Frank Baier in the duo BaierWestrupP,
followed by a duo with the german guitar player Heri Horstig called Dabbelju
Jugband with
selected old blues, jazz, skiffle and swing. Last music project was a
soloproject with his 1
Man Skiffle Band.
In 2004-2005 Walter
Westrupp produced the
DVD Als wäre es
gestern erst gewesen:
90 minutes movies and pictures - old material out
of the w&w-archive. It includes videos from TV-Shows and documentations,
showing
the way of
Witthüser &
Westrupp from
1968 to 1973,
also - after this time - Bernds activities with Otto&Bärnelli
and Walter with his band Walter h.c.Meier
Pumpe.
Special highlights on the DVD
are films shot in 1968:
1. the story of a W&W-invention: the sensationel tea
bag heaving mashine
(enlightenment, creation and examples of use) and
2. Walters solo-concert
for electric coffee mill
with rockband and orchestra. Since
2000 Walter Westrupp is writing in an never finished multimedia
online-book 68er
nach Noten in
which he tells
the story of W&W
and about the time between 1967-1973.
He recalls Hippies, Slobs, Krautrock, the International Essen Songdays 68,
the Fehmarn-festival 1970 on hand from stories, photos, movies and videos, soundfiles,
lyrics - and a lot
more: if your are interested in have a look here (sorry: it´s only in german)
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