BROTHERS4BROTHERS AND THE BACKGROUND TO THE SONG STEEL HORSE
The Brüder4Brothers album is now available!
What an amazing project, we have been working on this international project for over 2 years. Orange County Choppers and Free.Wild have already been working on. The video for the song Brotherhood has already been online for 2 months and now comes the long-awaited Brothers4Brothers Album Brotherhood, where you can find a lot of spirit from crazy bikers and musicians.
You can find out how the project came about here read up on.
THE SONG STEEL HORSE AND ITS STORY
Track no. 8 on the BROTHERHOOD Album is called Steel Horse and was written by me. The lyrics are based on a story that has been with me for many years and when I was suddenly told that we needed lyrics, it was clear to me what my song would be about. First of all, Alex is one of the singers and an American, he adapted the English part of the song in translation together with me in the USA.
FRIENDSHIP, FREEDOM, HARLEY RIDING
But that doesn't really matter now. Because it's about what's in the song and that's a lot of memories of my best friend, the love of motorcycling, freedom and, best of all, just riding free like an eagle after the sun. I hope you like the song and feel the goosebumps at the end of the story.
How it all began!
When we were 15 years old, we got into a fight over a girl and didn't even know each other beforehand. It happened at a fish plantation party where things were about to escalate. Until we realized that we were both two of four Malaguti moped riders in our small town, from then on the girl was forgotten and an eternal friendship developed.
We experienced a lot together, worked on the mopeds together, then the first motorcycles followed, we both rode XT600s for many years. Then came the time in the MC and our tours got bigger, we went to motorcycle meetings together and shared the tent, no one went home without the other, or even set off at all, as it used to be with a real male friendship.
Our first big tours were to Norway
We have often been to central Norway because the country has always fascinated us. We often went up north with other members of the club and went camping in the countryside.
We bonded over this and nature; we watched the sea eagles together on the lakes when they swooped out of the sun to hunt ducks. We went canoeing and did all sorts of things. We were particularly taken with these large, imposing sea eagles, which always gave us a feeling of boundless freedom.
Our biggest plan was always to drive to the North Cape with our XTs, we really had the tour fully planned out, everything we wanted to do was recorded on the map. This included the Trollstiegen, the Geiranger Fjord, the Atlantic Road and the North Cape as our destination.
At the time, he was a submarine builder at the HDW shipyard in Kiel, his father had already practiced this profession. It was clear that all the metal we had on our bikes in the form of brackets etc. was made of the best submarine steel.
Time is running and is not waiting for us!
I was self-employed from an early age and so time slowly became scarce, always working and it never coincided with the vacation that we could take off for 3 weeks. Family, or simply no time, there's always something! But we always held on to our dream, in the meantime we had other motorcycles, he had a Trude out of conviction and I had a Harley, also out of conviction. Regardless, for us it was always about riding motorcycles together, and it doesn't matter what everyone rides, it's a kind of freedom that is lived.
Then in 2012 it happened, my buddy Lars suddenly fell over before his spinning at the shipyard and was dead, fell over and was gone. It was a shock for everyone, family, friends, everyone was devastated. Much too young to die, not even 50.
You can imagine what was going on in my head, from then on I always said:
„Don't put your dreams on the back burner!“
Volker Wolf
Now it was clear that at some point, at least one of us had to go to the North Cape and take the other with us in our thoughts. In 2017, the time had come, I was in my friend Hermann's ear and at some point he also found it quite exciting, even if he wasn't particularly interested in the rain and cold, because there's actually nothing up there. Suddenly his brother Ernst wanted to join us, so there were three of us and after 5 months of planning, we set off.
And we did the tours, although I went on my bucket list tour alone because we didn't have that much time and Hermann wanted to go to the Lofoten Islands, then we split up in Trondheim and I went back again because we were suddenly past my route and that wasn't my plan. Then I was at the Trollstiegen in the middle of the night, the Geiranger Fjord and I drove the Atalantic Road five times before heading north again to meet up with my buddies in Tromsö. From Tromsö onwards, we drove brilliantly again, so I definitely had my important stages behind me and now the big goal was ahead of us, the Nordkapp
And that was really indescribable, when the Arctic Ocean appeared in front of me and we drove the last few kilometers along the sea towards the North Cape, I started to tingle, an unspeakable moment.
It was indescribable and then it happened, a big old sea eagle appeared right above me at an unusually close distance, it moved over me and accompanied me for a few kilometers at my height above the sea. It's hard to describe, it's so impressive when a sea eagle glides majestically over you and flies 20 meters next to you. Hermann and Ernst didn't even know what was going on with me, they had no idea, for them it was an old bird flying with gaps in its feathers.
I was even able to take a few photos, then I was completely exhausted, we reached our destination and camped near the North Cape, then we went back home via Finland and for a long time I couldn't believe what had happened to me there.
I dedicate this song to my friend who died in 2012 Friend Lars Dibbern, I hope you like it and think of this story when you hear it or miss a good friend yourself!
BROTHERHOOD
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