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Rammstein Interview - ‘If you didn’t pay your rent you could sometimes end up in prison’ 1997 Paul H. Landers
“it was virtually forbidden to make amateur music and not to work at the same time”
- Paul H. Landers
Rammstein was, and still are, one of the most unique bands of the time so their rapid success came as a surprise to all, especially considering how controversial they had become in terms of their lyrics and artistic expression. Rammstein was born at a time when Germany was undergoing a political revolution with the fall of the Berlin wall. “If you didn’t pay your rent, you could sometimes end up in prison” explains Rammstein Guitarist, Paul H Landers. Landers says it was almost impossible to create a career as a musician during a time where it was essentially illegal to not work.
Work was everything in the GDR, as Christian "Flake" Lorenz explains: “I went to rehearsals right after work, slept for a bit and went straight back to work”. Landers explains what it was like to be a musician in the late 80s: “The ‘Officially recognised’ musicians in the GDR were all educated people. Those of us involved in the amateur scene had to have a ‘proper’ job at the same time and it was virtually forbidden to make amateur music and not to work at the same time, you had to have an alibi job.”
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Richard Kruspe
German rock musician
Musical artist
Richard Kruspe (born Sven Kruspe; 24 June 1967) is a German musician. He is best known as one of the founders and the lead guitarist of the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well as the frontman of the industrial metal band Emigrate. Kruspe has released eight studio albums with Rammstein and four albums with Emigrate.
Early life
Sven Kruspe was born in Wittenberge, then part of East Germany. He later changed his first name to Richard, believing that anyone should be able to change their name if they want to. Kruspe has a younger sister and an older brother. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother remarried. The family moved from the village of Weisen to Schwerin when Kruspe was young. He did not get along with his stepfather, who would be physically abusive, and Kruspe often ran away from home in his early teens. During his youth, Kruspe was a wrestler for seven years.
In a 2014 interview with Metal Hammer, Kruspe commented on life in East Germany, stating: "The thing about East Germany is that it was great to grow up there until you were 12. You were presented with the illusion of a very healthy society, which worked unless you asked questions – and you don't ask questions until you're 12."
At age 16, Kruspe and some friends visited Czechoslovakia, where he bought a guitar, originally planning to sell it. He then met a girl who saw him with the guitar and insisted he play something. When Kruspe hit random notes in frustration, the girl commented that it sounded "beautiful" and the moment would inspire him to learn how to play guitar. Kruspe later studied jazz guitar at the conservatorium in Schwerin for four years.
Career
In the late 1980s, Kruspe moved to East Ber Christoph “Doom” Schneider, drummer of the infamous Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, was born May 11, 1966, in Berlin, East Germany. His musical interests began in school, where he played the trumpet, but his true calling struck at age fourteen, when his brother gave him a drum made of aluminum cans. In his teen years, Schneider served with the East German Army and held a telecommunications job until he finally decided to pursue his musical ambitions at a university. Despite the fact that his father was a faculty member, Schneider failed to gain entrance to the school on two separate occasions. His father disapproved of Schneider’s drumming aspirations—preferring the trumpet—and, more importantly, insisted that his son succeed or fail at the university by his own merit rather than getting ahead by familial connections (a fact for which Schneider is now very grateful). Through the late ’80s and early ’90s, Schneider hopped from gig to gig, joining groups such as Die Firma and the influential East-German punk band Feeling B. Then, in 1994, Schneider, along with guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe and bassist Ollie Riedel, formed an early version of Rammstein. With the addition of vocalist Till Lindemann, the group won a contest in Berlin that earned them the opportunity to record a professional, four-song demo. Following the demo, guitarist Paul H. Landers and keyboardist Christian “Flake” Lorenz—Schneider’s former bandmates in Feeling B—solidified Rammstein’s lineup. Advertisement Since that time, Rammstein has stormed the globe numerous times with an unparalleled live show complete with garish costumes, pantomimes, and a seemingly endless amount of fireworks. In particular, Schneider and his bandmates pride themselves on incorporating the percussive elements of pyrotechnics into their sound rather than just as flashy effects during concerts. Whether he’s melding drums and explosi Last updated 10.09.05 Our favorite German industrial rockers Rammstein will release their new album «Reise, Reise» («Trip, trip») on September 20th, 2004 (via Universal). The basic style of Rammstein has of course stayed the same. But it is heavier in a way, it's more rockish than the earlier albums and the sound is a bit more natural. It's more organic and dynamic. It's not so perfect, so controlled anymore. Rammstein have worked more as a live band and they haven't used computers that much. Making the new album was hard, since band didn't have any song ready waiting on the shelf. To make them took over half a year. On the upcoming disc there will be a lot phrases on various languages (English, French and Russian) and the finishing of them took a long time. New Rammstein's single «Mein Teil» was released on July 26th in Germany. «Mein Teil» («My Part») replete with the sextet's trademark brand of chugging beats and venomously-delivered vocals, centres around the actions of Armin Miewes, the 42-year-old German computer analyst who was charged earlier this year with cannibalising Bernd-Juergen Brandes, a man he met over the internet. The song title refers to the couple's attempt to fry and eat Brandes' severed penis. As always, Rammstein did excellent video, which features vocalist Till Lindemann receiving oral sex from angel, which he then devours. Other stand-out images include Kruspe-Bernstein locked in mortal combat with his double, and drummer Christoph Schneider dressed as woman leading his leashed bandmates through the streets of Berlin. New tour starts in November, and it will go over Christmas until the end of January or even February. At the moment Rammstein are working hard on creating a scenography and a new show, and it will hopefully be extremely amazing
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