by Nico WirtzProbably Germany's "biggest small band" during the second half of the 1990s, Selig had all the ingredients for true lasting stardom: a singer gifted with a truly unique voice, a bona fide guitar player, the tunes to give weight to all those good looks, and a highly energetic live set. With a strict dress code warped from the 1970s, Jan Plewka, Christian Neander, Malte Neumann, Leo Schmidthals, and Stefan Eggers were a welcome contrast to the omnipresent grunge look, ensuring levels of press coverage that other bands (and not a few German politicians at the time) would have died for. Three years into the game, however, the magic had faded quickly and the band called it quits only weeks after its third album saw the light of day.\r Meeting in a bar in Hamburg's infamous Reeperbahn in 1992, singer Plewka and guitarist Neander generated the chemistry that would lead to both Selig's immense public appeal and ultimately the ban...