Klaus Heuser

Klaus "Major“ Heuser (born 27 January 1957 in Leverkusen-) is a German musician, composer and producer. He found international fame as the lead guitarist of the Cologne rock band BAP.

His musical influences are the Rolling Stones, especially Keith Richards, Rory Gallagher, as well as Eric Clapton, the Dutch band Golden Earring and Gary Moore.

Career

Heuser gained major popularity as the guitarist of the rock band BAP, of which he was a member from 1980 to 1999. He was mainly responsible for BAP's musical style and wrote music to many hit songs including [Damn long time ago], [Woman, I'm glad], [Best regards], Crystal night , [Everything's alright] and [Nothing as before].

In parallel to his BAP efforts, Heuser in 1981 also teamed up with (from ), Didi Maaz and Rich Schwab (both from ) to form (as Klaus Steine) and record a cover version of Heintje's (1968) in the style of the Neue Deutsche Welle. However, neither Maahn nor Heuser were interested in continuing this project, so that the band later became the support band of Purple Schulz.

When BAP paused for a while in the late 1980s, Heuser spent some time in Los Angeles, USA, where he lived in Roger Taylor's (from Queen) house for some while. This is also when he learnt to produce music. Once back in Germany, among other production activities, Heuser produced the three Brings albums (1991), (1992) and (1997), as well as Martin Schenkel's album My own way (2000).