This article is about the German punk rock band. WIZO is also an acronym for the Women's International Zionist Organization.
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WIZO (pronounced "Vee-tsoh") is a Punk Rock band from Sindelfingen, Germany. The band was formed in 1985. Their messages run from political to humorous, but they are strongly against Nazism, Fascism, Racism, and "all of that dreck." They dissolved in March 2005.
Axel Kurth on Guitar Jörn Genserowski on Bass Herr Guhl on drums
Jochen Bix founded the band "Wieso" (meaning "why?") with friends in Sindelfingen, a town in the vicinity of Stuttgart. In 1986 they altered their name to "WIZO" and got their first gig in 1987. In 1988 WIZO released their first demo tape, "Keiner ist Kleiner" ("Nobody's smaller"). In 1990, they released another demo, "Gute Freunde" ("Good Friends"). Jochen only sang a few songs, including the Judas Priest cover, "Breaking the Law." He then left and Axel Kurth became the front man.
Later that year, they founded their own label, Hulk Räckorz and released the "Klebstoff" ("Glue") EP, their first vinyl record.
In 1991, "Für'n Arsch" (familiar for "To No Avail") was released.
In 1992, their first CD, "Bleib Tapfer" ("Stay Brave") was released. The song "Kein Gerede" ("No Gossips" or "No Rumours") was censored by the government for containing "terroristic messages" and several hundred copies were confiscated. In response, they re-released the CD "Bleib Tapfer/für'n Arsch" after recording an instrumental " karaoke" version of the song, blacking out the lyrics in the liner notes, and labeling it as "Child Safe" out of spite.
They then released the single "Roy Black ist tot" ("Roy Black Is Dead") as a dubious tribute to the German pop-star Roy Black on the one year anniversary of his death. The tribute in question was a punk cover of a children's song with the lyrics altered to a German version of "Roy Black is dead, Roy Black is dead." It was named the worst CD of the year by the Bild-Zeitung, a major German yellow-press newspaper.
