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Volker Kriegel & Mild Maniac Orchestra

Band, DE
Jazz

The Mild Maniac Orchestra was a German jazz-rock band founded in the 1970s around guitar player Volker Kriegel. It existed until the beginning of the 1980s. The band was named after Kriegel's record "Mild Maniac" from 1974. Another founding member was keyboard player Rainer Brüninghaus, although he does not appear on the published recordings.From 1975 on Kriegel appeared with his band as Mild Maniac Orchestra. Between 1976 and 1980 he published four records under the name Volker Kriegel & Mild Maniac Orchestra. Concurrently as well as from 1980 on he published under his own name.

Members

	Volker Kriegel g 1943-2003 DE
	Uli Beckerhoff tr, fh *1947 DE
	Nippy Noya perc *1946 ID
	Evert Fraterman dr
	Hans Behrendt dr, voc *1955 DE
	Hans Peter Ströer b DE
	Thomas Bettermann key *1956 DE