History Of God Bless Band Indonesia

God Bless is a rock band that has become legend in Indonesia. The Decade of the 1970s could be considered their glory years. One of their big name proof is when God Bless selected as the opening concert of the legendary rock band, Deep Purple world in Jakarta (1975).
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God Bless the establishment begins with the return of the "Iyek" Ahmad Albar returned to the motherland after several years of living in the Netherlands, he dreamed of forming his own band which is more serious. He returned from the Netherlands together with Ludwig Lemans (guitarist Clover Leaf, Iyek band while still in the Netherlands). Iyek then invites (deceased) Fuad Hassan (drums) and Donny Fattah (bass) to form the band. Here's what aspects influenced the establishment Crazy Wheels, before the band's first concerts-in team (Taman Ismail Marzuki) and then follows the stage musical "Summer ' 28", a kind of stage ' Woodstock ' ala Ragunan, Jakarta in Indonesia, followed by a variety of bands from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-changed his name to God Bless on May 5, 1973.

Jockie Surjoprajogo (keyboard) itself recently joined Crazy Wheels/God Bless in early 1973. She is intended as a replacement for Deddy Dores-who had joined God Bless but did not survive long in the band having to take care of his own, theRhapsodia. However Jockie also could not last long. Position he was replaced by (the late) Soman Lubis.

In June 1974, Fuad Hasan and Soman Lubis (keyboard) suffered a traffic accident inTugu Pancoran, South Jakarta. God Bless any time through a period of mourning. Plus more, the guitarist Ludwig Lemans also decided to quit God Bless. Thus, the remaining personnel stayed Albar and Donny Fattah. To fill the void on keyboards, theyinvite Jockie to join again. Jockie then invites Ian Antono (guitar) and Teddy Sujaya(drums) to join with God Bless.

To commemorate the Fuad Hassan and Soman Lubis, God Bless to perform in a TEAM with the theme of memory of the hundred days Fuad Hasan and Soman Lubis with attractions carry the coffin on stage.

In the beginning, God Bless is not a band that has the song. They are just the usualband performed the songs of others, such as Kansas, Easy Beast, Genesis, Deep Purple, on each of their performances. The process of inclusion of this legendary band into recording begins with a try. They wrote the song, and then record it. They recorded it in a studio run by Alex Kumara (broadcast). These recordings get to the earsof Aquarius Musikindo PT because Aquarius-Suryoko-bos often learn guitar at the home of Ian. Both of them are already welcoming a long time ago. And in 1975, she released the album God Bless.

The era of the 80 's 
Towards the making of the second album, Jockie Surjoprajogo out of the formation,its position was later taken over by Abadi Soesman who joined in 1979 and get involved in the making of the album the mirror (1980). Unlike the previous album, recording the way while completing a song, Album, Mirror (1980) was drafted and prepared in mature a few months before entering the recording. On this album, the concept of a music God Bless little changed presents herb arrangement of the songs wereimpressed more complicated, besides needing each skill high personnel also cohesiveness in play, such as the song of the musician, the son of Adam, good morning Indonesia Sodom or Gomorrah. Even when recording, Teddy Sunjaya does not use the metronome like most other recordings. Album Mirror matter is a representation ofthe rebellion against God Bless the domination of the record industry when it mencekokkan that always demands over market commercialism when it is being dominated by pop music is the theme of love in the eyes are narrow. The album is often cited as the most idealistic album God Bless and best of the sides of the musikalitasnya.And become a barometer of the quality of a rock band of that time, while being able to play songs from the album the mirror. Two years after the album was released,Mirror Eternal Soesman resigned.

In the 1980s, one of the promoters of rock, Log Zhelebour began repeatedly performed the rock festival in Indonesia, and begin to awaken the God Bless from "sleep long" by making the songs God Bless as "mandatory" also became casualties of the jury at the festival that eventually gave birth to a lot of rock bands in Indonesia, such as Grass, Rock Elpamas, until the Slank.

Than just being judges, in 1988 God Bless eventually gave birth to the black Ants come back album that explodes in the market at that time, with her hits such as our homes, Black Ants, or life. In sales, the album Black Ant it is God Bless best selling album. In this album, happening again changes the concept of music God Bless. From the more nuanced progressive rock had been drastically changed into a little harderwith the influences of hard rock and heavy metal, along with a commercial elementto consider tastes of the market. Any case, the quality of the music is still strong. The album was also the inspiration for a young child to be able to continue to work in the field of rock music. However, after the album came out Black Ants, Ian Antono stated out of formation, God Bless. His position was then replaced by talented youngguitarist, Eet Sjahranie. After the entry of the Eet Sjahranie, dirilislah 1989 album titled giants with hits Lick the Sun, March 1989, or mystery. EET Sjahranie managed to refresh sound guitar Ian Antono and make God Bless more aggressively. Ian Antono himself, after leaving God Bless countless successful pioneering solo career as a songwriter, producer and aranjer.

The era of the 90 's [edit
After passing through the vacuum time is long enough, in 1997, the members of God Bless, including Eet Sjahranie and Ian Antono convened. The ' Workshop ' that their degree in the area of the peaks, resulting in an album titled What's News. However, this reunion did not last long because the Eet officially resigned from the formation, God Bless and concentration for the band itself, the Edane since 1992 has alreadyreleased its inaugural, The Beast.

Although not widely released album, God Bless, is considered an rock band legendbecause Indonesia is regarded as a pioneer of high quality music. Throughout his journey, the group experienced a 15 times greater turnover of personnel is referred to as the ' formation ', and currently live Ahmad Albar (vocals), Ian Antono (guitar), andDonny Fattah Gagola (bass) can still be described as active personnel group.

The era of the 2000s [edit
The year 2002 could be described as the year of the return of the God Bless. Returnthe vacuum for almost 5 years, God Bless comes with the new line-up, namely Ahmad Albar (vocals), Ian Antono (guitar), Donny Fattah (bass), Abadi Soesman (keyboards), as well as two brothers of the host Noorsaid (drums) and Iwang Noorsaid (keyboards). This line-up didn't last long, not even a year running, kibordis Noorsaid Iwang resigned because of his strenuous at the time that DND is one of the personnel of the Swami. In 2003, following the host's elder brother Noorsaid resigned, his position was succeeded by one of the country's best drummer Gilang Ramadhan. Perjalanam formation is stalled at the end of 2007, when it was the vocalist Albar snagged the legal issues the case of drug abuse. All of the remaining reply God Blesspersonnel, in his statement to the press, stating that God Bless will stop the entire activity waits for the clarity and resolution of the cases of Ahmad Albar. Mid-2008, Ahmad Albar was released from custody. Overwrite case that turned out to be not the community kencintaan to reduce body God Bless. God Bless then went back around and enliven the stage-music stage. In February 2009, they performed on the show Kick Andy on Metro TV with 5 personnel, namely Ahmad Albar (vocals), Ian Antono (guitar), Donny Fattah (bass), Yaya Moektio (drums) and Abadi Soesman (keyboards).Yaya Moektio is the face of the long for God Bless personnel because he shared Albar, Ian Antono, and Donny Fattah also is one of the backbone ethnic rock band Gong 2000. They said it will issue a new album in the near future. And right at the beginning of May 2009, God Bless finally issued his latest album entitled 36th.

The era 2010-Ness [edit
Beginning in 2012, Donny Fattah fell ill. He suffered a heart attack requiring him to rest a total from all musical activities. But when it is, God Bless'm in preparation to perform in any event akbar "Java Jazz 2012" in Jakarta. Had it occurred to to cancel its participation, God Bless finally still appeared in the event. Arya is trusted to replaceSetyadi Donny Fattah as bassist God Bless. Other surprises that come up, on that day God Bless, drummer position was filled by Dawn Satritama that in fact is the drummer of the Edane is the former guitarist of the band God Bless Eet Sjahranie. The dawn of Satritama the day was present as additional player replacing Yaya Moektio. Half a year later, Donny Fattah back. The return of Donny Fattah was greeted happilyby the lover of God Bless, incorporated in the Community God Bless Indonesia, when a pops up again for the first time in Jakarta Fair event. This formation, i.e. AhmadAlbar (vocals), Ian Antono (guitar), Donny Fattah (bass), Dawn Satritama (drums) andAbadi Soesman (keyboards) survived, and these formations that appeared in two major concert event God Bless, celebrate four decades of travel at belantika God BlessIndonesia, namely music concerts To Commemmorate God Bless in the ballroom ofthe Hotel Bandung Harris on 30 November 2014 and concert Stage Sandiwarara God Bless in Ciputra Jakarta Artpreneur August 7, 2015.
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