[KRAFTWERK] concert in Madrid, as I saw it (and listen)

[circuit slave]

That's really too bad. Gosh. You know, after what happened there, I was 
thinking this stop might be good, you know.   What a bummer.


>From: "Der Automat" <automat at offcampus.net>
>Reply-To: kraftwerk at activerecord.com
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>Subject: [KRAFTWERK] concert in Madrid, as I saw it (and listen)
>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:29:32 +0200
>
>The sound of the Kraftwerk's concert in Madrid last night was almost awful,
>dreadful in certain parts. I myself cannot explain why they played in that
>place. Why they consented to play in such a venue, a coarse, horrendous
>pseudo-macro-discotheque (which was really crowded). Especially
>Aerodynamik's sound was very distorted, some parts of the lyrics couldn't 
>be
>heard. What a shame!
>
>Lyrics appearing on the screen during The Man Machine were in German,
>actually it was Die Mensch Maschine and it was even sung in German. And in
>the intro the "aus Deutschland" part was left out as in the concerts in
>Germany. The rest was the same setlist as in non-German speaking places.
>In the first tracks Huetter was trying not to put his hand shielding his
>mouth.
>At the very end Ralf took out a piece of paper and reading it he said
>"Buenas noches. Auf Wiedersehen".
>During 'Prologue' screen showed equalizer graphics in blue and white.
>Florian didn't move (except in The Robots ;-) during the whole concert and
>sang in Autobahn.
>Music Non Stop rendition was pretty short. Screen showed "boing bumm 
>tschak"
>instead of "boing boom tschak"
>Background colour of the graphics during Pocketcalculator changed from 
>white
>to yellow.
>There were too many mobile phones with camera among the audience, and also
>some photo and video cameras. There were also two "official/authorized"
>video cameras, one from a local TV channel (Telemadrid, which also
>broadcasts via satellite) and the other from Kling Klang, I guess.
>What I don't understand is some people's attitude, why they chatter away 
>all
>the concert long?, don't they like to hear the music? That drove me up the
>wall!
>A note about this tour. Have you notice Kraftwerk's members' faces are 
>quite
>illuminated? I saw them in Paris in 2002 and they weren't as much.
>By the way, it's ironic that they were criticized for not being playing 
>live
>(in a traditional way) and the most cheering song be The Robots; four 
>robots
>performing the programmed and previously recorded music.
>I bought Der Katalog (EUR 15) and an Aerodynamik T-shirt (EUR 25). There 
>was
>no item of the Catalogue promo box.
>
>DER AUTOMAT
>

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