As a musician he already has a formative influence - now there is also an autobiographical novel by Moosburger Mäx Huber.
We read it.
Moosburg
- The novel itself is actually like the journey the Moosburg author undertook to the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York: dream-wandering and always with those shadows on the wall that are both familiar and strange at the same time.
The musician Mäx Huber has presented a novel with his autobiographical work “Drum Rolls to Mäxico”, which tells of success and failure, but above all of the search for one's own heartbeat.
Music lovers know Mäx Huber - and have been for a long time.
Because he shaped and continues to shape the music scene in the surrounding area and beyond.
However, he was never someone who caved in to the mainstream, but was actually always on the lookout for the perfect sound for the time that he wanted to depict and set to music.
He's never made it easy for himself, as you can see when reading his debut - here is a driven person in the best sense of the word, someone who likes to turn and doesn't allow himself to be bent, even if success was on the doorstep.
With his novel, Huber now provides the liner notes for projects, bands and life on tour, so to speak, and thus also shows: Success is always subjective and some roads are rocky.
Huber casts a spell over the readers
At the same time, the novel “Drum Roll to Mäxico” also works very well as a narrative - or in other words: Huber can not only play the drums, but also write.
Pretty good actually.
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Huber does not get frayed or lost in his life flashback, but understands the literary mechanisms very well in order to cast a spell on the reader.
So he describes his journey between village and metropolis, between drum lessons and support act for Alice Cooper light-footed and also proves in the subtext that he takes his musician calling seriously, but less of life's stumbling blocks.
At the same time, and one has to give Mäx Huber credit for that, he leaves nothing out and also formulates the crashes relentlessly - especially towards himself.
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The autobiographical novel tells of success, failure and a search.
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Because there is one thing the musician has certainly never been: one of those sunny boys who can take everything into their laps.
Rather, his flashbacks are reminiscent of a dark Nick Cave cosmos, surrounded by the lost, staggering and stumbling.
That he can also write lyrics about it is shown by many Lampert pieces such as “I get out”, in which it says: “A black bird as a pause musician - let me out, it's over!” Without a doubt, someone bowed boldly Ludwig Hirsch, while other so-called dialect bands, which unfortunately became far more successful than Lampert, hire themselves out as beer tent bands.
A secret just keeps getting bigger
What you would wish for when reading the story would be a playlist of all the songs that Huber was involved in - including as a violinist with Baby You Know or as a co-founder of No Siesta.
The book also leads to the fact that the mystery of the lost and never published recordings of the formation Chief Joseph becomes even bigger and joins the early mystery of Dylan's basement tapes.
Regardless of this, the reader would like more literary stuff from Mäx Huber, because he combines the big with the small in Achternbusch fashion and thus lets Bavaria shimmer in a completely different, sometimes better light.
Richard Lorenz
Good to know
If you want to buy “Drum Rolls to Mäxico”, you can order the book at shop.tredition.com, ISBN 978-3-347-42754-9, the well-known online shops or from the author himself at the email
address maex.lampert@gmx .de
- for twelve euros.