Josef (Ioji/Joschi) Kappl is the Bass player of the Romanian Rock Band Phoenix. He was born on the 16th of January 1950, in Petrila. He graduated The Conservatory of Music in Timisoara. He also played violin and flute with Phoenix (see Transsylvania Phoenix). Map of Romania showing Timisoara Timişoara listen (Hungarian: Temesvár, German: Temeschwar or Temeschburg, Serbian: Temišvar, Turkish: Tamışvar) is a city in western Romania, in the Banat region, Timiş county, population 329,554 in 2000. ... Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes. ...
Phoenix was born again the same year, with Covaci, JosefKappl, Mircea Baniciu, Günther Reininger, Costin Petrescu (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed "Ţăndărică") and Valeriu Sepi.
In 1981, Covaci co-opted Neumann and Kappl under the name Transsylvania Phoenix (since a band named Phoenix already existed) and released an LP named Transsylvania, containing mostly old Phoenix songs translated into English to target the Western audience.
Josef (Joschi) Kappl - Bass guitar, vocals, violin, flute, composer.
Phoenix was born again the same year, with Covaci, JosefKappl, Mircea Baniciu, Günther Reininger, Costin Petrescu (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed "and#354;and#259;ndand#259;ricand#259;") and Valeriu Sepi.
After two grandious concerts in Constanand#355;a and Tulcea, Covaci surprisingly left the country again, this time with all the band members (except Baniciu) hidden inside their Marshall speakers - a huge undertaking, since in Communist Romania it was extremely difficult to obtain approval to travel abroad, and illegal border crossing carried the death penalty.
Kappl and a few others (who?) formed a new band, Madhouse and released a not very successful album named From East...
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