| BREAKDOWN ''we keep on rocking'' |
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| HISTORY Breakdown was and is a pure hard rock band influenced by the 70's (Jimmy Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZTop, Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper etc.) They were formed in Athens (Greece) in the summer of 1977 and they were orginally: Vocals, guitar : Greg Fergadiotis Guitar : Kostas Stellakis Bass : Giorgos Archontakis Drums, vocals: Takis Makris |
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| From 1977 to 1982 they played at many different venues and the most frequent club they performed in was the Rock Club Tiffanys in Plaka,Athens.Other places were Ledra and Skylab.They also performed in many concerts that took place in several cinemas through out Athens.(During this period many cinemas held music concerts) Breakdown played popular covers of the 70's and they also composed their own songs. |
| The bass player Giorgos Archontakis (now playing with Motivo4)left the group early and in his place Yiannis Nikolakakis joined the band performing with Breakdown for about a year.Another bass player joined Breakdown after Yiannis moved on to other pastures and that was Kostas Petas. |
| In 1982 in the Kittaro Club in a band competition,Breakdown performed as one of the best bands in the contest. |
| In 1985 they released their 1st record. |
| This first release incorporated several musicians (Manos Spyrou, G.Giarelis).They made many appearances to promote their new songs at different discotheques over Athens as part of the Record Company's contract with the group. Breakdown took part in a record collection with several Greek rock groups that was released at the beginning of 1986. |
| From 1986 to 1988 Breakdown had a new drummer Nikos Iliadis (Nicki Loud) they recorded a demo tape with new songs and performed as a trio in many clubs throughout Athens. |
| In the beginning of 1988 they decided to stop performing together for several reasons. Sadly their good friend and drummer Nicki Loud prematurely passed away in 1989. |
| BAND NEWS |
| Breakdown started meeting again in the year 2004 after 16 years and have decided to play again,'just for fun',as they enjoy playing rock music and like performing. So they "keep on rocking..." Breakdown today: Greg Fergadiotis --------Vocals,guitar Kostas Stellakis---------Backing vocals,guitar Kostas Petas------------Bass Takis Makris----------Drums |
| Their first goal is to record a CD with their old unreleased songs of 1977 to 1982.And then work on their new songs. |
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| Breakdown at Tifanys Rock club in 1979 |
| The background music is the intro of the song "I can't understand" recorded in 1985. copyrighted |
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| GIGS / SHOWS 7 Feb 2007 Wednesday Lazy club 22.00 Leoforos Pentelis 1 Vrilissia ( Attiki odos exodos 12 ) |
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