Rainer Ptacek

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1951-06-07

Active to

1997-11-12

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,383

Total plays

23,616

Rainer Ptacek, or Rainer, or Rainer and Das Combo. A blues slideguitar virtuoso! of American (Czech) origin. He did mostly his own compositions, and he has been widely covered. See the Tribute Album "The Inner Flame" of 1997, where artists like Emmylou Harris, Vic Chesnutt and Robert Plant featured. Rainer often played with Giants Sand's Howe Gelb and with Calexico. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rainer+Ptacek">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Rainer Ptacek

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces

   · 1997 · cited 24,705x

2. Overview of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standard

   · 2012 · cited 7,488x

3. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,794x

4. Preoperative versus Postoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer

   · 2004 · cited 5,095x

5. Redox‐Based Resistive Switching Memories – Nanoionic Mechanisms, Prospects, and Challenges

   · 2009 · cited 4,803x

via Crossref · CC0

Music

Official website

Link to the official site · 1,571 chars · not written by Vinony