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FRIENDSHIP FIRST - AGAINST RACISM Kate Cassidy - mikeburn and friends - the story (by Gabriel Herbst) Mike Burn landed in the rehearsal room of the underground band Secret Society in 1985 and plugged his Rockman into the mixing desk with a small adapter. After the first session, he was the new guitarist. Mikes' playing at that time was already deemed exceptional! Jimmy Jones, a fantastic American singer with whom we toured extensively, was telephoning around one day and without saying a word, he flew home to the empire. Harry Hopeless, an endowed local singer and guitarist, became our lead singer. We still sought an additional guitarist and/or singer. Contingently through Harry's addiction, we split up at the end of 1986. Mike and I worked on new material at the time integrating the use of computers. Soon we got support from Jaro Forejt on drums, the local matador out of Eschborn (Mike and Jaro already knew each other for more than an eternity). We also enlisted the well-respected Secret Society bassist Werner Wenzlitschke. In this phase, we were very creative and into jazzrock, but the life has its characteristic rules. In 1988 JOP was formed (Just Our Pieces) with Kevin Austin on vocals and keyboards.
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