Peter Baltes (born 4 April 1958) is a German musician, best known as former bassist of
heavy metal band
Accept and as current bassist of
U.D.O.
Career
He started out in the
Solingen
Solingen (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of ...
prog rock band Pythagoras in the 1970s but is best known as the former bassist of the heavy metal group
Accept, having played bass guitar on their first 15 albums. He joined them in 1976 after
Dieter Rubach left the band and also made minor contributions as a lead vocalist with Accept on their early albums and on the album ''
Predator
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'' of 1996.
After 42 years as a member, Baltes announced his departure from Accept in November 2018; the band later replaced him with former
Uli Jon Roth
Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth; 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also founder of the Sky Ac ...
sideman
Martin Motnik. In 2023, Baltes joined
U.D.O. and
Dirkschneider alongside his former Accept band mate,
Udo Dirkschneider.
Outside of Accept, Baltes has sung background vocals on the
Scorpions
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' ''
Savage Amusement'' album and has played bass on
John Norum
John Terry Norum (born 23 February 1964) is a Norwegian-born Swedish guitarist and one of the founders of the rock band Europe. Concurrent to his role with Europe, he also maintains a career as a solo artist.
Biography
As an infant, Norum moved ...
's albums ''
Face the Truth'', ''
Worlds Away'', and more.
Baltes played bass on all but two tracks on
Dokken
Dokken is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. It split up in 1989 and reformed four years later. The band has had several hit singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, such as " Alone Again", " In My Dreams", and ...
's debut album, ''
Breaking The Chains'', after regular bassist
Juan Croucier
Juan Croucier (born August 22, 1959) is a Cuban-born American musician. He is best known as the bassist for the hard rock/glam metal band Ratt.
Career
Croucier attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California, and played in various ba ...
"missed the deadline to get to Germany" for recording. Baltes reportedly recorded all the parts in one night.
Baltes later performed bass and background vocals on
Don Dokken
Donald Maynard Dokken (born June 29, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and founder of glam metal band Dokken. He is known for his vibrato-laden, melodic vocal style which has made him an influential figure in American ...
's solo effort ''
Up from the Ashes''.
References
External links
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Accept website
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Living people
1958 births
People from Solingen
Converts to Protestantism from atheism or agnosticism
German Christians
German male musicians
German heavy metal musicians
German heavy metal bass guitarists
German male bass guitarists
Accept (band) members
Dokken members