Frank Diez is the only German guitarist, who has
accompanied Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry and Little
Richard. His passion is the Blues, and with the
Blues Diez became an internationally renowned
Gitarist. He began working with Peter Maffay in
1974 and can be heard on every Maffay recording
since that time. In 1977 he joined the Peter
Maffay Band as a permanent member.
His guitar playing has shaped not only such bands
"Ihre Kinder", "Atlantis", "Randy Pie",
"Snowball" and Eric Burdon's "Fire Department",
but also Klaus Kinski's and Giorgio Moroder's
"Station" from "Blues Brother" Frank Diez.
While working on a production in 1986 with
Konstantin Wecker, Diez met a protegé of Wecker's
the exceptionally talented bassist Colin
Hodgkinson. Eight long years Hodgkinson had
played music with Alexis Korner. He was also a
music partner with Mick Jagger and Jan Hammer.
Now, Diez and Hodgkinson took-up an experimental
project, they became the "Electric Blues Duo".
With no additional background musicians, only
their two voices and guitars, they made four CDs
and played over 1000 concerts in Europe and
abroad. In the following years Diez produced
numerous blues records. In April 2000 he
published his first solo album „Stranded On
Fantasy Island"