Guitar player Guido Bungenstock from Hamburg/Germany offers a wide-ranged virtuosic style of rock, blues & fusion and reaches a special international fan base spilling over the borders out of Germany. Guido Bungenstock’s powerful rock sound and his melodic guitar solos together with versatile technique make him to an unique player with some unmistakably influences of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani and Michael Landau.
Heard as a session player on numerous rock and pop productions and live musician for international artists like David Garfield (Steve Lukather, George Benson, Los Lobotomys), Jack Thammarat, Vinai Trinateepakdee, Onita Boone, Terri Green, Kosho (Söhne Mannheims), Rick Latham (Edgar Winter), Uli Kusch (Helloween, Masterplan), Fanfields (Toto Tribute), Benny Greb, Otto Waalkes, Frank Briggs, Sylvan and many more. He shared festival stages with Uli Jon Roth, Randy Hansen, Marcus Deml, Asia, Jethro Tull, Fish, Blind Ego etc.
Multiple Grammy winner Toto‘s Steve Lukather, Blues Fusion God Ray Gomez and Jimi Hendrix emulator Randy Hansen give Guido’s performances and playing high accolades.
Aside from being Hamburg’s session player, he teaches online guitar lessons via Zoom®. As a workshop lecturer, he operates through out Germany with his Modern Rock Guitar concept. He also worked as a Guitar Instructor and created over 130 videos for one of the biggest Guitar Online Platform Guitarmasterclass.net .
The motto of Guido Bungenstock‘s Rock band Taurus is: An uncompromising blend of melodic powerful rock songs and versatile virtuosity combined with lots of room for live improvisation. He is assisted by top musicians from three countries (USA, Russia and Deutschland) and transforms every concert into an energetic stage event, not only for enthusiastic guitar music lovers.
Mikel Allen (Bass, Vocals)
Worked as a session player for Orange Blue, Grover Washington Jr., Robbie Neville, Inga Rumph, Ian Cussick and many soul projects. Whenever a tight bass groove or a soulful voice is needed, Mikel is the „the first call“ in North Germany.
Art Brauer (Keys)
He studied jazz piano in Moscow and Cologne and played for various musical productions such as Cats, Sister Act, Tarzan. Tour musician for Tom Beck, RTL Live Band, Terri Green, Zsuzsa Magyar e.g. A pianist and keyboardist for all types of music.
Heinz Lichius (Drums)
The very busy drummer is playing with international artists like NDR Bigband, HR Bigband, Ulita Knaus, Jonas Schoen, Jürgen Attig, Jo Gallardo, Jon Hammond, Roland Cabezas, Side By Side, Ulla Meinecke and Orange Blue.