Alex Conti, Frank Diez - Berlin Blues (2008)

Alex Conti:
Conti was already a professional musician in 1969 at the age of 17. In 1973 he spent a year with bands (including Curly Curve) in England. In 1974 he joined the band Atlantis, where he replaced Dieter Bornschlegel on the electric guitar. With Atlantis Conti was in 1975 on tour through the USA as a forerunner of Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. He can be heard on the two Atlantis albums Ooh Baby and Atlantis Live. In 1975, after a short interlude with Rudolf Rock & the shockers, Conti changed to Lake, whose debut album in 1976 became a pan-European success and led several charts. Since the band was also successful in the US, led in 1977 and 1978 several tours there, u. a. with Neil Young and again with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Frank Diez:
Inspired by the American Folk Blues Festival of the 1960s Diez began playing the guitar at 16 and had in the 1970s quite elementary part in the development of German rock history. Until today he is active as a live and studio artist nationally and internationally. As the only German musician he played sessions and concerts with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Other stations were u. a. Atlantis, Frumpy, Carthage, Randy Pie, Klaus Kinski, Your Kids, Snowball, Emergency, Johnny Tame, Konstantin Wecker, Eric Burdon, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer, Tom Principato, Miller Anderson, Paul Vincent, Maggie Bell and many other renowned artists ,

As a founding member, Diez was a regular guitarist and producer of the Peter Maffay band for 30 years until 2004. Maffay's then producer, Peter Wagner, had brought the two together. In the Maffay tour 2009 and the "Unplugged" concert in the Cologne Lanxes Arena 2018 Diez worked again, this time as a special guest.