The song he plays is the most famous song by Bots and indeed they played in the eastern block, which was quite unusual for a dutch band. Oh, and if someone here happens to know Flake, I want to answer a question he has at 1h07 ? about the band 'Bots’, who are indeed a dutch band (but not from Amsterdam.originated in 'Noord-Brabant’)(yes, that matters ?), and Bots is not something like the english 'Boots’, translated to english it would probably be 'Bump’ (like a 'bumper car’ is a 'bots auto’ in dutch). That way they learned about many west bands they hadn’t known before.
But Flake thinks it doesn’t matter if they were paid or not, because more records being made meant more people listened to them, and that is what matters, that people like to listen to your music (i’m pretty sure there are plenty of artists who’d disagree with him on that ?)Īnd at 0h56 Flake mentions why it was a good thing that in the GDR the pubs closed at 11 (or 12) at night, because that made people say “so.what should we do now” and then they’d always end up in someone’s house (sometimes really big houses, because when someone left to go the the west (and therefore wouldn’t come back), the neighbours would often just tear down the wall between the houses and double the size of their own), and discover new music that that person was excited about. When Rammstein play Open-Air shows, it’s also raining lots of times, and when they sit in the dressing room or back stage or even on stage it’s dry for the band, but Flake feels for the poor fans who get soaking wet, but then he remembers how he felt at the Konstantin Wecker show and that he couldn’t care less about the rain or getting wet and cold, it didn’t matter because of the awesome concert ? (i guess he hopes the R+ fans will feel the same ?)Ī very ‘Flakeish’ thought at 0h21: recordcompany Amiga published the records for the GDR, also for the west artists, but they never really announced how many copies were made, probably because they didn’t want to pay royalties to the west artists (Flake thinks), so the artists probably didn’t get paid for those. made Flake think that they (Rammstein) thought they were a big deal playing one, and here the Puhdys had been playing two weeks.įlake was at a Konstantin Wecker show where it rained dreadfully, really streaming down. No specific mention of bandmates, some casual references to being on tour like at 1h08 when they were on tour in Russia and played in Moscow, Flake was wandering about backstage and stumbled upon an old poster of the (east german) band Puhdys who years before made not one show but several in a row. Flake’s reminisces about west bands that were very populair in the GDR (while listening to the stories it hit me again how strange it must be to have spend your early life in a country that doesn’t exist anymore…?).