{"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":"2026-05-21T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:11:50","slug":"taurus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/taurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Guido Bungenstock &#038; 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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Taurus-Logo-3D-2-300x82.png\" alt=\"Taurus Logo 3D-2\" width=\"350\" height=\"96\" 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: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/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 and transforms every concert into an energetic stage event, not only for enthusiastic guitar music lovers.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jens-Wrede-64x43.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Jens Wrede (Bass)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As a studio and live musician, he has worked with among others <strong>AnNa R.<\/strong> (Gleis 8\/Rosenstolz), <strong>Stefan Gwildis<\/strong>, <strong>Ina M\u00fcller<\/strong>, <strong>Heinz Rudolf Kunze<\/strong>, <strong>Max Mutzke<\/strong>, and <strong>Helene Fischer<\/strong>. Furthermore, he has participated in numerous musical and theater productions, including Cabaret, <strong>Mamma Mia!<\/strong>, and <strong>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/strong>. Since 2014, he has also served as Musical Director at the Altonaer Theater, notably for <strong>Backbeat<\/strong>. In addition to his stage work, he composes and produces film scores for broadcasters such as Arte and ProSieben.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">Heinz Lichius (Drums)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius-64x43.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Heinz-Lichius.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A native of the Netherlands, he began taking drum lessons at the age of eleven. In 1990, he completed a degree in jazz studies at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg. In addition to his great passion for drumming, he is also an outstanding bassist. With his groove, this busy musician provided the rhythmic foundation for the following bands: <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> &amp; <strong>Orange Blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Thomnas-Jobmann-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Thomnas-Jobmann-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Thomnas-Jobmann-64x43.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.guidorist.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Thomnas-Jobmann.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Thomas Jobmann (Keys)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He completed his music studies in L\u00fcbeck, where he honed his musical skills while simultaneously developing a solid understanding of arrangement, performance, and music technology. For over 28 years, he served as a Product Specialist for Keyboards &amp; Synthesizers at Roland. During this time, he shared his extensive expertise through presentations, workshops, and at international music trade fairs. Concurrently, he performed with numerous Top 40 bands as well as in various musical theater productions, impressing audiences with his stylistic versatility, musical precision, and keen ear for modern sounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<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>&nbsp;<\/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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