The Stimulators

There have been at least two music groups called The Stimulators:

See also

The Stimulators (NYC band)

The Stimulators were a punk rock band from New York City, USA. Although they have a limited discography, they are notable for being consistently cited as an important transitional band between the late 70's New York City punk rock scene and New York hardcore, and for being the musical entry point for future Cro-Mag founder Harley Flanagan.

History

Denise Mercedes grew up in Manhattan and Queens NY, raised by a longshoreman father who played flute and piano. Teaching herself to play guitar, she became infatuated with punk rock after having seen the Damned play their first NYC show at CBGB. Densise attended the gig with a friend who worked for Stiff Records and has recalled of the event "literally the second they started to play, my life changed." She elaborated that punk rock made creativity and attitude more important than "being able to play like Jimi Hendrix"

Determining that her local punk rock scene was beginning to age and soften ("there was a pause" in the vitality of NYC's punk landscape, Mercedes remembers), and after a tryout as a guitarist for a side-project of the Damned's Rat Scabies didn't pan out, Mercedes set out to form her own band called the Stimulators, named after a piece of equipment used in acupuncture.

The Stimulators (German Band)

The Stimulators are a German band who do mostly their own material or completely remodel songs by other composers when they cover them. The six-piece band fuses Latin, Blues, Ska, Jazz, Reggae and Rock into a sound that is unique to the Stimulators.

About

The band was founded in 1998 when guitarist and bandleader Peter Schneider returned from a one-year stay in San Diego, California, where he had worked as guitarist for Ike Turner and carwash singer Ren Woods.

Right from the first album, the band had a distinctive sound and that record (Voodoo Swing) got famous in high-end audio circles around the world. Between 1999 and 2007 the group has released 6 CDs and two DVDs. In 2003 and 2004 the band toured with James Brown in Europe, which got them wider recognition.

Lineup

Peter Schneider, Lead Guitar, Bandleader Born in Munich, Germany, Peter moved to South America at age 18 to study music, living in Brazil and the USA before returnig to Munich at age 20. He played for Ike Turner, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Pia Zadora, Engelbert, Willy Michl, Hans Söllner and many others. He led his own band in the early 90s and has released a number of solo albums.