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Read this back in '96. Don't care very much for The Wire. It's just as bad as Rolling Stone if you ask me. I like the way Renate denies tht she was ever a hippie.

Bonnek wrote:

Just posted this an Amon Duul thread but it's such a fine read.You might put Yeti or Tanz on while reading, it's a boggling 7 pages long Smile

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/60/?pageno=1

The information about the Utopia album in this article is incorrect. Utopia was the result of a split; there had been fights and threats with guns and knives within the band, and so while one half set off to record "Wolf City" the other went to record the Utopia album. They did, however, use the same studio, and so it came to pass that they made peace again, and all musicians played on both albums. And one track ("Deutsch Nepal") was loved so much by both factions that they both wanted to have it on their album.
This story and a lot more about Amon Düül and Amon Düül 2 can be found in "Tanz der Lemminge", a biography of the Düüls written by journalist Ingeborg Schober; she and her boyfriend Rüdiger Nüchtern were close friends of Amon Düül 2, and Nüchtern shot a movie of the band playing "Phallus Dei". I highy recommendthe book.

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What about some good ol´ Krautrock Headbanger

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

^Hey there Wrinkler! Glad to hear you like that album - one of those early kraut gems that keeps on giving. Had it for a couple of years now, and even though I like its two younger siblings even more( Yeti and Tanz), this really helped blaze the trail for the whole scene.

Let´s keep this thread going! Krautrock is one of my faves alongside RPI and electronic at the moment Sax man

Edited by Guldbamsen - July 05 2011 at 13:10

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

Can goes jazz!

Bonnek wrote:

Just posted this an Amon Duul thread but it's such a fine read.You might put Yeti or Tanz on while reading, it's a boggling 7 pages long Smile

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/60/?pageno=1

And what a massive -- absolutely massive -- bunch of information and explanation of the time and place. When you combine this with Edgar Froese saying that it was people finding out who they were, a group that had no past, no family and no parents ... it all combined nicely ... and it wasn't chaos ... it's only chaos for those formulistic commercial folks.

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Been listening to AMON DUUL II's Tanzer Der Lemminge today.How good is this ! Love that Marilyn Munroe suite but the whole of this double album is incredible, these guys really offer up some variety on this one and it's all so good.

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Mellotron Storm wrote:

Been listening to AMON DUUL II's Tanzer Der Lemminge today.How good is this ! Love that Marilyn Munroe suite but the whole of this double album is incredible, these guys really offer up some variety on this one and it's all so good.

I should put that on tonight! Absolute brilliance.

You two are on to something. I´ve deliberately listened to Carnival in Babylon, Vive le Trance and Wolf City the past week, trying not to play my favorite album all of the time. Anyway - enough about celibacy! Tanz!

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

^Well, it´s my fave ADll album together with Yeti. Can´t really choose between those, although Tanz has been playing a lot lately...

About TD, I certainly believe they, alongside many other fantastic artists at the time like, Crimson, Floyd and from their own home-turf Can and Popol Vuh, - crossed into many "genres", inter-webbing some very interesting sounds. I think TD´s first two, like Kraftwerk´s first two (three if you include Tone Float) are pure Krautrock. Scorpion´s first from 1972 is also very close to that "spirit" - especially the long track on it.

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

ALL HAIL FAUST!

Seriously, no band in the kraut field fills me with such joy as Faust. Although, I must say I have been exploring The Duul II lately and enjoying them much more than I have in the past, especially Yeti, which I must say is more or less brilliant.

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