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Gomah

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Topic: Solar Music Live - Selected shots
Posted: October 10 2005 at 15:56

horza

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 16:01

thanks ... ehm .. who is the guy with the lighthouse on his head ??

never heard of the band but they look fun, are they any good??

Originally posted by darkshade:

Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.

Gomah

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 16:52

Solar Music Live is one of the best live albums ever IMHO. Grobschnitt is very good, i like them. Check their profile on this site. Also check this site if you can read German; I can't: http://www.stephan-schelle.de/grobschnitt/

erik neuteboom View Drop Down

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:36

Great shots, I presume they are taken from that marvellous Rockpalast concert, broadcasted on the German tv in 1978?

BaldJean

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 19:24

horza wrote:

thanks ... ehm .. who is the guy with the lighthouse on his head ??

never heard of the band but they look fun, are they any good??

the guy with the "lighthouse" on top issues a warning to the audience (in German, but I will try and translate): "we don't want to fail to put your attention to the fact that the artificial fog which you have been breathing for the last few minutes constitutes a highly toxic substance which can lead to unconciousness and even death within a few minutes. we thank you for the trust you have in us and wish you a nice day". this message is then reiterated backwards on the live album

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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta

Gomah

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 19:50

erik neuteboom wrote:

Great shots, I presume they are taken from that marvellous Rockpalast concert, broadcasted on the German tv in 1978?

Actually it is a little bit confusing. The shots I took are from Solar Music Live, 1978. Interestingly they are very simillar to shots shown in this page that are from Rockpalast concert: http://www.rockpalastarchiv.de/concert/grobs.html (I didn't knew about this site when I posted the pictures). So one can safely assume that they are the same. However the track list of the Rockpalast concert is:

01 Vater Schmidt's Wandertag (11'25'')
02 Come On People (13'39'')
03 Solar Music (54'32'')

So I think what is released as the live album is only the third track. In Stephan Schelle's Grboschnitt web site, it says that the origin of the concert below is not well known.

http://www.stephan-schelle.de/grobschnitt/images/videos/sola r_video.htm

Solar Music Live