https://3songsbonn.com/2026/04/16/in-memoriam-fliege/
Thanks for this report about dear Fliege on 3SongsBonn, John!
"Fliege" was quite a remarkable entity, and a truly remarkable "connoisseur of folk and blues music",
a man of great charisma and with a recollection second to none.
He loved live music as much as I and many others do!
In his later life, he worked as a taxi driver in Cologne and must have been one of life's most wonderful chauffeurs for unsuspecting guests. Although he lived in Cologne, he often made the summer journey to Folk Club Bonn on the first Friday of the month on his little "Mofa" and, miraculously, found his way home in the dark. Always a dedicated man on a dedicated musical mission.
I remember when, as MC of the evening, I asked him in March 2014 what the band was called, which John Hurd rightly described as "Mathew Robb and his band". Fliege replied, without missing a beat, "The Dodge City Blues Band", and that was how they played on that particular evening.
https://3songsbonn.com/2014/03/08/of-rivers-and-rhythms-bonn-folk-club/
One could not even begin to imagine making up such audacious, immaculate spontaneity!
"Fliege" will be dearly missed as a great personality. and a multi-instrumentalist, and a great Blues harp player, who also blew a mean kazoo!
During the COVID lockdowns, "Fliege" could always share the simple joys of life, even if the folk club had to meet outside in 2020 and be amplified, breaking its own one surviving fundamental rule, yet conforming to the restrictive rules of the day, for meeting with other human beings in close proximity, with a live musical backdrop.
If I remember correctly, I said to Hermann Josef on the night,
"We've experienced worse times, even though I cannot remember when, and yet we have still survived!"
"One has to be a little bit woke to be able to share a joke"
"Sometimes dead men may still have dreams!"
R.I.P. dear Fliege
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