Artist description Guitar oriented Band, Drums Bass and 2 Guitars 6-String and 12-String Rickenbacker

Music Style Rock/Pop

Musical Influences Byrds, Eagles, CSNY, America, Tom Petty

Similar Artists Byrds, Tom Petty, R. McGuinn

Artist History Cologne rock band founded in 1996

Group Members Horst-Peter Schmidt Ritchie Dunlop Manfred Scheer (no longer) Johannes Scholzen

Instruments Drums, Bass, Guitars

Albums The More Things Change, The Story Of Jim Crosman

Press Reviews Cologne, Germany is home to one of the finest undiscovered bands in the contemporary pop/rock scene : Different Faces (the foursome of Ritchie Dunlop, Manfred Scheer, Johannes Scholzen and Horst-Peter Schmidt). Different Faces sing songs about French Polynesia, the love of sailing, the summer of love, the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the "American Dream" - that take the listener from Philadelphia to New Orleans to the mountains and shores of California. This is not the kind of lyrical content that one would expect to hear from a German rock quartet. Those familiar with the bands earlier (1995) release, The Story of Jim Crossman, know that Different Faces has tremendous reverence for the song styles and themes explored by their musical predecessors. Owing to the musical and cultural influences that each of the Different Faces band members has experienced, these four veteran musicians convey the same stirring conviction that American and British pop/rock icons have displayed during the past four decades.

Location Cologne, NRW - Germany

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