Florian Schnitzel–
Schneider.
–died today; the great Jesse Jarnow hips us all to this pristine SBD of their 5/7/75 show at the P.N.E. Garden Auditorium in Vancouver, BC. Kraftwerk’s music is both relaxing and unsettling, like taking a nap on a couch made of human skin. Kraftwerk’s music also won, at least in terms of influence. Every deejay sounds like this nowadays. Zeppelin was much bigger in ’75 than Der Werk, but only one band sounds like Zeppelin now and we all make fun of them for it. You could release this on Spotify under the name DJ Klaus von Bulow and no one would know it was 45 years old. It is au courant, or however you say au courant in German.
Questions do arise, though. Look at this bullshit:
How fucking popular were Kraftwerk in North America? Was Kraftwerk really drawing as many kids as the Dead? (And, yes, I know the Dead technically wasn’t drawing anyone in 1975; don’t be pedantic.) They’re playing the same venues, so they must have drawn around the same amount of fans. How many Kraftwerk fans could there have possibly been in Nebraska in 1975? Was their midwestern popularity, somehow, fallout from Watergate? Why hasn’t Werner Herzog done a documentary about Kraftwerk like Scorsese did about Dylan? Ooh, or Can. I DEMAND WERNER HERZOG MAKE A CAN MOVIE.
Stop yelling into the void.
I’d rather yell at the servants, but I ate them.
As is your right.
As is my right.
Mine own two-ish cents . . . RIP Florian.
https://jericsmith.com/2020/05/06/the-voice-of-energy-florian-schneider-esleben-1947-2020/
Oh, PS . . . while I’d kill to have Herzog do the Can flick too, until he heeds your void rage, there’s always this:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2671330/
Super duper good. I had the DVD release with some bonus goodies too, and they were also super duper good. Guessing it must be on the interwebs somewhere . . .