Ralf Oehmichen

I love music since my earliest days and started to collect my own records at the age of 5. I was 7 years old when my dad took me to a STATUS QUO gig in Dusseldorf and after 5 seconds into their show I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

But I was already 13 when I got my first guitar and it took years of practice before I joined my first "serious" band "BIG JIM" that got signed to "WEA" at the same time. This band was renamed "SWEEP" in 94 and two years later Mark Schulman (PINK) recorded a few songs with them playing the drums and also producing the tracks.

WHOS THAT GIRL? started in early 98 as an acoustic duo and with the experience of hundreds of live shows all across Europe they became one of the hottest live act from Germany.

They supported British Rock legends STATUS QUO on 74 of their shows; more than any other band and had the privilege to play such famous venues as Wembley Arena, Hallenstadion Zurich or Grugahalle Essen.

WTG? also supported Acts like Adam Green, Tommy Emmanuel, Albert Lee, The Hooters and many more.

Their debut CD "LITTLE GOODIES" was released in 2002, the second album "AGAIN" in 04.

The prolific DE-PHAZZ is a jazzy, club-oriented downtempo project centered on Germany's Pit Baumgartner, a sample-minded producer who surrounded himself with a shifting cast of guest musicians and vocalists. Detunized Gravity (1997), Godsdog (1999), Death by Chocolate (2001), Daily Lama (2002) and Natural Fake (2005) explored various terrains of 21st century lounge music, with innumerable references to the jazz and soul of the past. Baumgartner was also no stranger to outside work; he remixed Ella Fitzgerald's "Wait 'til You See Him" for the first Verve Remixed compilation.

The "Natural Fake Tour 05/06" saw me playing 62 shows in 16 countries.

You can hear my playing on the latest DE-PHAZZ album Days Of Twang the tour we did to promote the album took me to some great places all over the world again in 07/08.

Apart from that you can hear me on numerous albums. I played on LANCE KELTNERS (ex-Rod Stewart) "Last of the cowboy vampires" album alongside Eric Johnson and David Grissom. I played 2 European tours with Lance in 2000 and 2001. The latter also featured Mark Younger Smith (ex Billy Idol) on guitar.

Or you can hear my playing on the debut album of the Mannheim based "Popforscher" project, Stef Boens debut album "Für jetzt und für alle Zeit" to name but a few.



In 2008 I also played some shows at the Frankfurt Music Show with T.M. Stevens and a bunch of other great musicians. Included were jams with the fantastic Greg Koch and Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake). In 2009 I crossed paths with STATUS QUO again when I appeared on a couple of gigs with WOODEDZ which is John Edwards(Quos Bass player) side project. Great noisy fun that wasAt the moment I am recording with Katja Werker.I hope to see as many of you as possible somewhere down the road. LOVE Ralf xx