{"id":46,"date":"2012-09-13T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:04:43","slug":"taurus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/taurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Taurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-750x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-279x372.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-390x520.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-64x85.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Support-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Guitar player <strong>Guido Bungenstock<\/strong>\u00a0from Hamburg\/Germany offers a wide-ranged virtuosic style of rock, blues &amp; fusion and reaches a special international fan base spilling over the borders out of Germany. Guido Bungenstock&#8217;s powerful rock sound and his melodic guitar solos together with versatile technique make him to an unique player with some unmistakably\u00a0influences\u00a0of <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>, <strong>Jeff Beck<\/strong>, <strong>Joe Satrian<\/strong>i and <strong>Michael Landau<\/strong>.<br \/>\nHeard as a session player on numerous rock and pop productions and live musician for international artists like <b>David Garfield<\/b> (Steve Lukather, George Benson, Los Lobotomys), <strong>Jack Thammarat<\/strong>, <strong>Vinai Trinateepakdee<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Onita Boone<\/strong>, <strong>Terri Green<\/strong>, <strong>Kosho<\/strong> (S\u00f6hne Mannheims), <strong>Rick Latham<\/strong> (Edgar Winter), <strong>Uli Kusch<\/strong> (Helloween, Masterplan), <b>Fanfields<\/b> (Toto Tribute),\u00a0<strong>Benny Greb<\/strong>, <strong>Otto Waalkes<\/strong>, <strong>Frank Briggs<\/strong>, <strong>Sylvan<\/strong> and many more.\u00a0He shared festival stages with <strong>Uli Jon Roth<\/strong>, <strong>Randy Hansen<\/strong>, <strong>Marcus Deml<\/strong>, <strong>Asia<\/strong>, <strong>Jethro Tull<\/strong>, <strong>Fish<\/strong>, <strong>Blind Ego<\/strong> etc.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Grammy winner <a title=\"Toto\" href=\"https:\/\/totoofficial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toto<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Steve Lukather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevelukather.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Lukather<\/a>, Blues Fusion God <strong>Ray Gomez<\/strong> and <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> emulator <a title=\"Randy Hansen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randyhansen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Randy Hansen<\/a>\u00a0give Guido&#8217;s performances and playing high accolades.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being Hamburg&#8217;s session player, he teaches online guitar lessons via Zoom\u00ae. As a workshop lecturer, he operates through out Germany with his <strong>Modern Rock Guitar<\/strong> concept. He also worked as a Guitar Instructor and created over 130 videos for one of the biggest Guitar Online Platform <a title=\"Guitarmasterclass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarmasterclass.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guitarmasterclass.net<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(document).ready(function($) {jQuery( \".wolf-testimonials\" ).flexslider({\n\t\t\tslideshow : true,\n\t\t\tanimation : \"slide\",\n\t\t\tsmoothHeight: true,\n\t\t\tdirectionNav: false\n\t\t});});<\/script><div class=\"wolf-testimonials flexslider\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li><div><blockquote>I meant every word, you&#8217;re awesome!<cite>Steve Lukather<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Excellent, your playing is flawless!<cite>Ray Gomez<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>I like your lead sound, bro! Nice tone!<cite>Vinai Trinateepakdee<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Your song is great! I like it.<cite>Jack Thammarat<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Sweet feel and great work! Pump is awesome&#8230;I love that tune<cite>Scott Sanford<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Cool tracks, great tone!<cite>Kevin Dukes<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>I also feel the same of you, mate. Great performance!<cite>Randy Hansen<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Dig your tunes and video, great job!<cite>Muris Varajic<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>You sound a lot like Luke. Some familiar licks in there.<cite>Chris Kent<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Your tone sounds great! Your skill of tone control is great.<cite>Jun Spinner Kudo<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>I really like your work.<cite>Ivan Mihaljevic<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Solch fantastische Gitarrenk\u00e4nge h\u00f6rt man wirklich nicht sehr oft!<cite>Raimund Burke<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>The pump yeah!<cite>Wolfgang Br\u00fcndlinger<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Deine tracks klingen. wie auch erwartet super!<cite>J. K. Kleutgens<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Nice guitar&#8230;great feeling too!<cite>Dominik Hardy<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Respekt, sehr sehr geil!<cite>Oliver Schr\u00f6der<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><li><div><blockquote>Enjoy this moment.<cite>Laurie Monk<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"wolf_shortcode_clear\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/soundcloud%253Aplaylists%253A2151807362&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Guido Bungenstock\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/guidorist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guido Bungenstock<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Guido Bungenstock | Taurus 2025\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/guidorist\/sets\/guido-bungenstock-taurus-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guido Bungenstock | Taurus 2025<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0NrPV00FiH0LIjUire6yJG?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/157059255&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1329 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-300x82.png\" alt=\"Taurus Logo 3D-2\" width=\"504\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-600x165.png 600w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-64x18.png 64w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-750x206.png 750w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-745x204.png 745w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-390x107.png 390w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-570x156.png 570w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motto of <strong>Guido Bungenstock<\/strong>&#8216;s Rock band <strong>Taurus<\/strong> 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 different countries and transforms every concert into an energetic stage event, not only for enthusiastic guitar music lovers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Mikel Allen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikel-allen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikel Allen<\/a> (Bass, Vocals)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC8525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Mikel Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC8525.jpg\" alt=\"DSC07911\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWorked as \u00a0a session player for <strong>Orange Blue<\/strong>, <strong>Grover Washington Jr.<\/strong>, <strong>Robbie Neville<\/strong>, <strong>Inga Rumph<\/strong>, <strong>Ian Cussick<\/strong> and many soul projects. Whenever a tight bass groove or a soulful voice is needed, Mikel is the \u201ethe first call\u201c in North Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=636977228\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=636977228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Brauer<\/a> (Keys)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC8492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Art\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC8492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe studied jazz piano in Moscow and Cologne and played for various musical productions such as <strong>Cats<\/strong>, <strong>Sister Act<\/strong>, <strong>Tarzan<\/strong>. Tour musician for <strong>Tom Beck<\/strong>, <strong>RTL Live Band<\/strong>, <strong>Terri Green<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Zsuzsa Magyar<\/strong> e.g. A pianist and keyboardist for all types of music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heinz Lichius\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-372x372.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-410x410.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius-390x390.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Heinz-Lichius.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Heinz Lichius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scottdelicious1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heinz Lichius<\/a> (Drums)<br \/>\nThe very busy drummer is playing with international artists like <strong>NDR Bigband<\/strong>, <strong>HR Bigband<\/strong>, <strong>Ulita Knaus<\/strong>, <strong>Jonas Schoen<\/strong>, <strong>J\u00fcrgen Attig<\/strong>, <strong>Jo Gallardo<\/strong>, <strong>Jon Hammond<\/strong>, <strong>Roland Cabezas<\/strong>, <strong>Side By Side<\/strong>, <strong>Ulla Meinecke<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Orange Blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guitar player Guido Bungenstock\u00a0from Hamburg\/Germany offers a wide-ranged virtuosic style of rock, blues &amp; fusion and reaches a special international fan base spilling over the borders out of Germany. 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