Vienna Portraits: Reini

I met Reini in 1992 in New York. I was introduced to him by a mutual Vienna friend by the name of the Wisenheimer. The Wisenheimer was and is a very good friend of mine who was a charming and  known troublemaker in New York. A mysterious character that would disappear for a long time and then reappear when you least expected it. Reini was quite different from the Wisenheimer and we became good friends. We have been in contact ever since. Reini grew up in the green forests of Austria and wandered to Vienna at the age 15. He liked the gray Vienna compared to the green forests and made it his home.

Reini then discovered the thing called school. He went to school for five years and learned about rock and roll, left-wing politics, jazz, blues, more rock and roll and he got anarchy injected into his veins. He left school and jumped straight into the world of rock and roll playing guitar in the famous Viennese punk band " Scheisskadetten" with the infamous Knopfler brothers in the early '80s.He realized that he needed to eat and make money so he became a taxi driver for ten long years. He went on to play bass in an even more famous band in Vienna called "Die Coyoten Von Bagdad".

He went through a life change, something about getting older and changed from the world of rock and roll to the world of desk top publishing and started his company called blacksheep productions but he couldn't sit still for too long. He escaped to Trinidad and Tobago and developed a passion for the culture and music of Trinidad and Tobago. As a result he became a DJ called  "DJ Blacksheep" and has been on a mission to expose as many people as possible to the rhythms and sounds of Trinidad and Tobago music. He has been a DJ for five years on the Viennese radio station "Orange 94.0". He still has lots of passion, develops musical instrument iphone applications and he still has anarchy in his veins.