ABOUT
TANRIC CYCLE
here we are.
BIG PLANS
They weren’t able to find a whole lot of rock n roll when Peter aka Lez, Paulus and Bones moved to the big city Munich, Germany, in 2005, in the hopes of finding a dedicated rhythm section that wouldn’t flinch, once you told them you wanted to go to Los Angeles, make it big and tour the world. They did find a good drummer and bassist, and their first show, back then as the “Hollywood C*nts”, was a great success at a big band battle in Innsbruck, Austria, that they won. They played several more shows but there was no doubt it wasn’t meant to last. Back on their own, Lez, Paulus & Bones did acoustic shows and electric shows with a drum machine, touring Austria, Germany and Italy, where they won 2 more band battles before heading to Los Angeles the first time in February 2007. It was a bleak arrival. After a long journey the first impression was cold and not in the least as they had imagined. However, the next morning, waking up in the soothing California sun, squirrels, birds and fellow dreamers in the Orange Manor Youth Hostel on Orange Drive, things looked better. Our hearts were pounding. It was time to do things, find our rhythm section, play shows, see the scene, meet people, the famous clubs, the dirt, the record deal, the fame and so on.
All went south of course 3 years later. We were all burned out and didn’t know how the hell to move on. But before that….and after that…things were fantastic. So we sat at Cyberjava, now Tiago’s on the corner of Hollywood Blvd and La Brea, skyping and feeling good. It was beautiful, the warm breeze, the palm trees, t-shirts and shorts on a fine February morning. Breakfast burrito and a café vanilla , chicken pita for lunch, Sunset Strip for dinner. All was well. We felt indestructable. Dressed up and ready to rock, up and down Sunset Boulevard, making friends and foes, booking shows and printing and handing out flyers every day.
Life makes nothing but sense when you’re on such a mission. Then at the Cat Club we ran into a guy who called himself Happenin’ Harry who was full of sh*t but just what we needed. What a character. An jerk by trade, but we didn’t mind much, we got a chance to play and we took it and all the noise didn’t bother us. Harry was, despite his assholism, a great singer and he fronted an all star band we joined and thus got to play with rockers such as Dizzy Reed from Guns N Roses, Billy Sheehan of Mr. Big, the great drummer Ray Luzier and many others. That blew our minds and opened a few doors for us, more than Harry had intended anyways. Soon we had a residency at Canter’s Kibbitz Room where people loved our acoustic sets. One night Satoshi and Yutaka, twins from Japan, bassist and drummer played a show there with a band called STEEL. The band was great, the twins were great and so we had found friends and an incredibly powerful rhythm section. It’s not often in life that you find something like that. They just had the right attitude. It was not about all the bullshit for them, it was about good music and energy. The songs we had written came to new life with those two, it was a magical feeling. We played plenty and paid plenty to play, too, in all the clubs: The Whisky, Key Club, Viper Room, Good Hurt, and later got booked at many other places such as the Rainbow, The Derby, Les Deux and Andy Dick’s Shit Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. In only three months time we went on stage over 30 times before we had to go back to Austria. We returned twice more in 2008 and 2009. With our departures and returns things got increasingly difficult and it’s hard to keep a momentum going. And life didn’t get easier. It takes a lot of stamina, no matter how much in love with music you are, and in 2010, despite our success we were burned out and frankly the LA bullshit had gotten to us. It didn’t hurt us, but we were just exhausted. The scene was terrible. We felt as if we had lost a home.
The band, however, has never been over for any of us. We stayed in touch across the waters and kept working on music as we could, played shows and recorded in LA and Austria in 2014, 2018 and notably 2019 with Guns N Roses’ Steven Adler at Saint Rocke. So although things have been a bit quiet, we have a few more things we’d like you to hear.