Is it Helloween? YEAAA!!!

"I always had moments when I was lying in the grass, looking at the sky, when I was maybe four or five years old when I would come up with melodies. It was troubling, disturbing because I had no means of recording it, keeping it. I’d have to save it in my memory. Naturally, you can imagine, you forget what it is you’ve been humming once you’ve been humming it for six months. That bothered me. I thought, “I need ways of somehow expressing what I’m doing here.” But, even after that, the problem was finding the right instrument. My parents tried to give me saxophone, xylophone, piano, but nothing took. But I decided to become a guitarist when I saw a guy play around a campfire. He sang terribly but he attracted all the girls. I thought, “First of all, I’m pretty sure I can sing a lot better than that guy. I’d also be able to play guitar a lot better than him and I could attract the girls and I’d have a way to convey my melodies.” That’s what started it."

"You can convey various things. Whatever you want. You can try happiness, you can try sadness, you can try arrogance, you can try joviality, many things. If you have the right means to do it. Some people can do it well and some people can’t. It really depends on how gifted they are."

Career timeline:

date	event
august 7th, 1962	Michael Weikath was born in Hamburg (Germany)
1969	Michael went to school
1971	Michael became interested in music
1974	the future musician got his first album (Beatles)
1974	Weikath began to study acoustic guitar
1975	attended his first rock concert
1976	bought his first electric guitar and distortion box
end of 70s	began rehearsals with his friends
1977	attended his second rock concert (Aerosmith)
1978	Michael started playing in his first bands (Powerfool, SAS and others)
1982	Michael graduated from the school and served heavy social duty instead of military service
1983	he met Kai Hansen and invited him to play in Powerfool
1983	just in a few weeks both Hansen and Weikath left Powerfool
1983	together with Weikath Kai Hansen resurrects his band, Iron Fist, with the following line-up: Hansen, Weikath, Markus Grosskopf (also played with Weikath in Blast Furnace band), Ingo Schwichtenberg
1983	Iron Fist was renamed to Helloween
1984	see Helloween timeline
1991	Michael recorded a guitar solo for Let Love Conquer The World, German Rock Project, done for charity