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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 6, 2020 14:45:33 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 6, 2020 14:52:33 GMT
Fuck.
RIP Florian
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 15:21:18 GMT
RIP
This interview made me laugh
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Post by Sneelock on May 6, 2020 15:28:09 GMT
I remember radio commercials for Kraftwerk 2 on one of my LA FM rock stations. it nailed me. I never did own it but I got "Ralf and Florian" and "Autobahn" so those radio commercials count for something.
something inside me prepared me for his passing when he left Kraftwerk. I'm sad, of course. I was almost equally sad that there was no more Ralf & Florian. that stuff has given me a LOT of pleasure over the years. just as importantly, it strengthened my muscle for listening to something simply because I like it. very few people I've lived around have "gotten" Kraftwerk. "yeah, but it's not really MUSIC, is it?" well, shit. of course it is.
R.I.P. Florian. thanks for the wonderful music.
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Post by Charlie O. on May 6, 2020 15:33:01 GMT
This hurts, and I'm not even that big a fan.
R.I.P.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 6, 2020 15:41:14 GMT
RIP This interview made me laugh - are you preparing a new album? - yep That's about the most "German" thing ever. God bless him.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2020 15:47:34 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 6, 2020 15:59:27 GMT
The guy looked like my dentist and probably thousands of other people thought the same.
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Post by rayge on May 6, 2020 20:30:58 GMT
The guy looked like my dentist and probably thousands of other people thought the same. Popular guy, your dentist, then?
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 6, 2020 20:58:50 GMT
The guy looked like my dentist and probably thousands of other people thought the same. Popular guy, your dentist, then? Very. But Maltese, not German.
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Post by tory on May 7, 2020 10:34:48 GMT
He was 73 and had lived a full life in a truly remarkable band, so it's sad but he achieved a lot.
What I did love about Florian was that he achieved being a truly enigmatic and brilliant musician without, I suspect, it ever having much impact on his ability to live a normal life. It was Kraftwerk's ability to maximise mystery that appealed and continues to appeal to me, particularly in a time where people can, for example, write volumes on bands about every single day of their existence.
Pascal Bussy, who wrote one of the first books on Kraftwerk, asked to interview Florian and he said "why? There is nothing to say - it is all in the music". And that sort of summed up a great deal - he realised that it would be dull and potentially uninteresting, or at the very most superficial. He wasn't interested in having his ego massaged or whatever. The fact was that Kraftwerk did let their music do the talking and had no need to tell people about it.
Of course, Ralf has interviewed extensively but has always kept to the same answers - like a robot.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2020 16:38:43 GMT
I can still remember my mam's face when she saw my copy of Man Machine. She thought they were gay.
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Post by Sneelock on May 7, 2020 19:26:42 GMT
you mean, they weren't?
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