Gerhard Egger (born 14 October 1949 in Gosau, Upper Austria), is an Austrian songwriter, composer, author and Alpenrockpioneer. He is also known as the "Mostrocker". CV Folk musician (since 1953) From 1956 Gerhard Egger attended the primary school in Gosau and from 1960 the secondary school in Bad Goisern. In the school band he performed for the first time with the later rock singer Wilfried Scheutz Scheutz. 1964 he left his village to attend the grammar school in Oberschützen in southern Burgenland, Austria, which had its focus on music. For the first time the autodidact had piano and organ lessons. He was fascinated by the song writing qualities of the Beatles and soon started to teach himself to play the guitar. He also began to write songs in English. Songwriter (since 1964) 1969 he moved to Linz, attended the teacher training college and won the Interpretenwettbewerb des Innviertel Grand Prix with his own songs. 1971, as singer, guitarist and songwriter of the group Art Boys Collection he reached number 3 in the Discparade of the radio station Ö3. (Due to a change in the counting system, the months May till December 1971 are missing in the statistics of the Austrian Charts). After that he toured with the Milestones, Worried Men Skiffle Group, Waterloo & Robinson or Marika Lichter. For the 1972 released ABC-Album Stoned Wall Egger mixed different unusual styles in his songs. After a radio boycott this production was only moderately successful. Egger left the group, finished his studies, began teaching as a primary school teacher in Stadl-Paura and backpacked through Europe as a musician for two summers. Pedagogue (since 1971) He got married in 1974 and became the spokesperson of the "Aktionsgruppe Volksschullehrer" that paved the way for the legal equality of primary and secondary school teachers. 1975 he changed his Anglo-American style mix into Austrian dialect and added elements of folk music. Without much expectation for success for this kind of Alpine music, he toured through Austria and Bavaria with the Coverband "Broadway" as a part-time keyboarder and singer. Producer (since 1980) Together with other musicians he founded the Tonstudio Ringstraße in Wels in 1980. Later the composer Hanneliese Kreissl-Wurth joined them. Apart from producing he also wrote songs for Waterloo & Robinson, Waterloo solo and Wilfried Scheutz some of which were produced by Christian Kolonovits or Klaus Prünster. Mostrocker (since 1985) Together with the guitarist Gery