Since your job is a drag, I'm sending you a really smoking Kraftwerk concert from 1971, when it consisted in part of the people who would go on to become known as "NEU!".
Their style became known as the Prog Rock genre "Krautrock," but you can hear stuff in the music that has shades of protopunk, too. Like Prog with a 'Tude ("Progtitude," perhaps?).
Sadly, Klaus Dinger passed away earlier this year. In fact, I wrote a couple threads on SG about it. I thought about doing a news story submission on it, but didn't. In fact, I think the last news story I submitted that got published on SG was when Artie Shaw died in 2004.
Anyway, check your email!
And, as always, let me know if the links I send work.
Here's some comments about the show I'm presenting to you for you to peruse while you await the downloads:
Kraftwerk, Gondel Kino, Bremen, Germany, June 25, 1971
Broadcast on Bremen Radio in 1971 and labeled "K4" [SEIDR 026]
There isn't any extra information about this unofficial release either in the liner notes or on the webernet thing - however, as you listen it becomes obvious that this is indeed a recording of the rather short-lived lineup of Kraftwerk that includes Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger in its ranks! That's right - NEU! as part of Kraftwerk!!!
It's basically a whole CD of extended "side-long" jams in the style of the first Kraftwerk albums performed in front of a small but enthusiastic audience and broadcast on Bremen Radio in 1971. The members of NEU! really take a forward role here, with Rother's guitar driving things for most of the time and sounding quite rocking, with glimpses of his future soaring melodic sound in the extended jam passages. The guitar and drums are backed up by synth and I believe organ bass, with notable exceptions of flute taking the forefront on the great version of Ruckzack (from the first Kraftwerk LP) and . . . is it distorted electric violin on K4?
What do YOU think?
Maybe just Rother taking a violin bow to his guitar strings! Proto-Kraftwerk and proto-NEU! It's exciting stuff, and on top of that the sound quality is excellent - a professional radio recording.
How has this recording not become better known over the past 35 years since it was made?! I don't know. It appears to be a newly released CDR edition with good-quality (but privately printed) packaging. Maybe it has stayed in the Radio Bremen archives until now?
I was sceptical about the authenticity of it being a first generation recording from the radio station's Masters but my first listen convinced me . . .
. . . and hearing someone in the crowd shout "Michael!" in the last second of the recording is the icing on the cake.
This isn't the motorik, some might even say monotonous, electronic sound of Kraftwerk. Early Kraftwerk were more experimental with sounds and effects - not quite dance music.
I have listened to a substantial amount of Kraftwerk & NEU! and this is by FAR my most favouritest of them all. Maybe even more than favouritest. Like favouritest squared, or even cubed.
I don't know if you've read much of my journal or if you're aware at all of what I do, but I'm on a sort of hiatus from live performances, except an upcoming benefit I'm doing with a dual purpose - one is that any money that comes my way at the show (like the contents of my tip jar) will go to buying useful stuff for the troops in Afghanistan & Iraq & such and the other is that it's a grand opening of friends' new business and they're taking a loss on the benefit as well, so if me and anyone else I get to perform increases awareness of they're new place, then it can increase their business later and so their good deeds get rewarded so EVERYBODY benefits.
Oh, my original point was that I, whether with a band or not, do a lot of segueing from one song into the next and some of these musical juxtapositions become a regular part of my repertoire while others are more spontaneous and such.
Also, I love to acousticize great electric jams, and simplify complex pieces (such as RUSH stuff), so you may have just inspired me to rearrange more RUSH songs, perhaps even working out a whole short set of it. I've done that with the Dead Kennedys, The Ramones, The Clash, Yes, and some others, so . . .
Sounds to me like it would be good for you and for others for you to use your knowledge of music and your ability to hear and mentally arrange song selections, perhaps either as a disc jockey (which, btw, I had great fun doing back in 1982-3) or even in production, assisting in album or concert track/set listing. Perhaps you'd find you have a knack for synching lighting as well.
Just a thought. You seem to have a passion for music and a knack for more than just listening to it. In lieu of singing or playing an instrument you really should try your hand in it somehow.Not only might you satisfy something within you, but you might contribute to others' enjoyment of music as well.
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Their style became known as the Prog Rock genre "Krautrock," but you can hear stuff in the music that has shades of protopunk, too. Like Prog with a 'Tude ("Progtitude," perhaps?).
Sadly, Klaus Dinger passed away earlier this year.
Anyway, check your email!
And, as always, let me know if the links I send work.
Here's some comments about the show I'm presenting to you for you to peruse while you await the downloads:
Broadcast on Bremen Radio in 1971 and labeled "K4" [SEIDR 026]
There isn't any extra information about this unofficial release either in the liner notes or on the webernet thing - however, as you listen it becomes obvious that this is indeed a recording of the rather short-lived lineup of Kraftwerk that includes Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger in its ranks! That's right - NEU! as part of Kraftwerk!!!
It's basically a whole CD of extended "side-long" jams in the style of the first Kraftwerk albums performed in front of a small but enthusiastic audience and broadcast on Bremen Radio in 1971. The members of NEU! really take a forward role here, with Rother's guitar driving things for most of the time and sounding quite rocking, with glimpses of his future soaring melodic sound in the extended jam passages. The guitar and drums are backed up by synth and I believe organ bass, with notable exceptions of flute taking the forefront on the great version of Ruckzack (from the first Kraftwerk LP) and . . . is it distorted electric violin on K4?
What do YOU think?
Maybe just Rother taking a violin bow to his guitar strings! Proto-Kraftwerk and proto-NEU! It's exciting stuff, and on top of that the sound quality is excellent - a professional radio recording.
How has this recording not become better known over the past 35 years since it was made?! I don't know. It appears to be a newly released CDR edition with good-quality (but privately printed) packaging. Maybe it has stayed in the Radio Bremen archives until now?
I was sceptical about the authenticity of it being a first generation recording from the radio station's Masters but my first listen convinced me . . .
. . . and hearing someone in the crowd shout "Michael!" in the last second of the recording is the icing on the cake.
This isn't the motorik, some might even say monotonous, electronic sound of Kraftwerk. Early Kraftwerk were more experimental with sounds and effects - not quite dance music.
I have listened to a substantial amount of Kraftwerk & NEU! and this is by FAR my most favouritest of them all. Maybe even more than favouritest. Like favouritest squared, or even cubed.