Kraftwerk - TV DOCU 2001 part 3/3 ( in english )

[awesomebrendan19]

I HAIT CRAFTWORK@@@@

[cdpetee]

This was fascinating, thank you for sharing!

[bolz3r]

lol @ africa bambaataa

[MrKraftwerk1]

THUMBS UP if you were pissed when karl, when Wolfgang and then Florian left Kraftwerk!! Soon Kraftwerk will all be robots.

[Liz66bee]

Thanks for posting, really interesting:-)

[gitano045]

........Kraftwerk are still together (at leat for performances)..they played last year (2009) in Mexico City.

[showroommeryll]

ahah

[KNAAC]

I can't believe it! Why are Kraftwerk not friends? It's too bad. It's pretty sad. Kraftwerk is one of my favorite bands :)

[RocStarr913]

Its like with any other band or group & why they break up, they feel they can't contribute when they are creatively constrained by more dominant personalities in the group. Hutter & Schneider were the dominant forces of the group & it's tough when you are merely become an instrument of mainly someone else's vision and you can't really contribute. I think Flur & Bartos left at the right time because Kraftwerk hardly records anymore & their new music is so dominated by studiocraft that its sterile

[KybernetikKollektiv]

Nagelbrett, thank you very much for sharing this.

[dakamp1]

i love kraftwerk  but karl is a bit closed minded about the rap thing he should be honored and its true kraftwerks music inspired 80's rap and the pop stuff we hear today

[Nagelbrett]

yeah, but you shouldn`t overrate his reaction.

in 1992 Karl has done a remix of Planet Rock for Afrika Bambaataa (Don`t stop Planet Rock EP)

So he can`t be thaaaaat angry!.

[mpresev]

@dakamp1 I think he's being funny sarcastic about. it..

[Jefferdaughter]

@dakamp1 - How would you feel if someone took your work - with giving you credit or payment?

[vardocrux]

I sad that Florian doesn't even say hello to Wolfgang, but I think it was in part due the description that Flür made of him in his book (and specifically the embarrasing homoerotic photos that Flür published, were was later retired of the English versions of the book). Now Kraftwerk is just the work of single man.

[expellerpress8]

homoerotic? These guys are straight.

[lsfofficial]

What's that song starting at 4:00?

[Nagelbrett]

It`s "The Telephone Call" or "Der Telefonanruf" which is on the album "Electric Cafe"

[djbethell]

Wolfgang talks at the end how romantic sounding Radioactivitat is and the idiot programme-makers play Autobahn in the background, As Karl would say "The bloody bastards!" And I have to agree.

[benjyboba]

They played a big part in the world of Musik, more than most would believe.

[EthanThePerson]

Tragic.

[Motorskallen]

Why tragic?

[EthanThePerson]

Well because now they all seem to dislike each other.

And if florian can't even say hi to an old friend, theres a prime example.

[Funkmasterozone]

"Bloody Bastards" Yesssssssssssssss!!!!

Bambaataa thinks he is THE Inovator of Electro...

In every interview he says >I created the first Electro Track"....

Thanks Wolfgang to say this to the public... this is what Bamm need to come back to Earth!!!!

[SirHawkeyeWho]

Love when Karl says "They ripped my beat off, the bloody bastards."

[TrainmasterCurt]

Kraftwerk definitely influenced Vince Clarke and the early Depeche Mode, so i guess Kraftwerk was actually the first all-electronic band

[Motorskallen]

You got that right! I mean, listen to bands like The Beatles and The Essentials, typical 60s bands. Compare them to Kraftwerk. I mean, Kraftwerk was waaay before their time!

[Discfiend69]

I think that theres a strange poltergeist inside the walls of Kling Klang studio.

Anyone who enters is not the same when they leave.A weird cryptic place.

"The Kling Klang is not werking"

[davidp0]

That train layout is amazing! Back to the topic; I first heard Kraftwerk while in college (I was a sheltered child :p). I liked them then, and I still do. The only album I have is "Computer World," and I played the heck out of it. We had "Man Machine at the radio station at school, and I played "The Model" as much as I could.

[EUROPHOBIC]

I'll think you'll find it was growing boredom between releases- nothing proper since 1986 when "Electric Cafe" came out just "The Mix" remix project in 1991; then nothing until 2003 when "Tour de France Soundtracks" came out-this inactivity led to two members quitting (or being sacked depending on who's story you listen to) and now Florian quit as late as November 2008-sad demise for my favourite band.

[SwedxSimon]

I love how while most groups are torn apart because of drugs, it happened to Kraftwerk because of a growing interest in cycling.

[xwsftassell]

A-HAHAHAHA,

[voguifly]

0.15

[russallert]

Ralf is now claiming that Karl and Wolfgang were essentially miming onstage because the drum tracks were all pre-programmed. Florian is no longer touring with Kraftwerk, and the band that is touring now is essentially the "Ralf Hütter Band", if you like. Very unfortunate the way this band has ended up. But it's great to see the environment of Düsseldorf in this documentary and how it obviously influenced the band's music.

[soepil]

He´s claiming that, yeah, although you can hear any bootleg of the 1981 tour and clearly the percussion on "Autobahn" is played live, speading up and down, It seems that Kraftwerk is no longer refering to their real history, but to their "design", but then again, we all know that.

Great documentary, anyway, thank you.

[grazy617]

'they ripped my beat off....bloody bastards'

Haha

[manmachine87]

that is a sweet ass Kraftwerk train set at the end, i want one of those!

[AFOSvideos]

what is that song at 4:02

[Nagelbrett]

That song is "The Telephone Call" or "Der Telefonanruf" from the album "Electric Cafe"

[AFOSvideos]

Yeah, i ended up figureing that out about 2 minutes later lol. But thanks for the album name

[showroommeryll]

why does florian ignore wolfgang???

could someone explain me the conflict?

i've read several books but it is unclear at all...

[soepil]

Wolfgang said in an interview that R & F felt betrayed by his book and that there are "huge social differences" between them. Up until the release of Wolfgang's album "Time Pie", Ralf and Wolfgang were apparently still talking and meeting for coffee from time to time. But today Ralf is dismissive of "Flür" : "He was one of the drummers we used for studio and live purposes". And: "He's an idiot". Sad it should end this way.

[RitchieBrinckmore]

It's Kraftwerk.

[russallert]

R & F tried to take Wolfgang to court over several silly things, although they were especially annoyed at Wolfgang's claim of having invented the first drumboard himself. In the English edition of his book, Wolfgang wrote that he'd been sent documents showing that R & F had taken out a US patent on the drumboard in '77; Wolfgang says he built it for their first TV gig in '73. They also apparently took ideas from producer Conny Plank and refused to credit him as co-producer of Autobahn.

[kraftwerkgal80]

He KNOWS Wolfgang is wayyyyyyyyy better looking than him. He aged better too!

[soepil]

That was great. Very emotional, too. I was sad to hear that Florian wouldn't even say hello. And now I wish Wolfgang and Karl could stand on their own artistic legs and not dwell on their past with Kraftwerk. Wolfgang have done better than Karl, IMHO, with the "Time Pie" album. But I think Karl is up to something ? Anybody knows ?

[lagowski]

Great programme - thank you.

[damsel2007]

I wish Ralf and Florian would make peace with Karl and Wolfgang. I would like the classic line up to get back together.

[FLORENT2222]

I can't imagine pop music  without them

[donpepperoni0]

Great documentary, thanks for this. Shame Florian crossed the street, that's low. Did they patch things up afterwards? When I saw them in '05 there was 4 of them on stage and I just assumed it was Karl and Wolf up there with Ralf and Florian.

[LukeHarrison]

Nah, the other two you saw up there with Ralf and Florian were Henning Schmitz and Fritz Hilpert, Karl and Wolfgang's replacements.

[donpepperoni0]

The mystery is solved! I rate that gig as the best I've seen, amazing!

[01lazer]

LOL Karl (aka "Little Kalle")! "They ripped my beat off...bloody bastards!"

Strange how he ended up doing a remix of Planet Rock in the end...

Aww come on Florian! Not even a "Guten Tag"? Yeah I know that book said some pretty nasty things, but still...poor Wolfi!

[Nagelbrett]

I was laughing about this "Little Kalle" thing too :o) I think Karl got a bit angry as he looked on the lable of "Planet Rock" where his name is missing. But I guess now they have realized that The Zulu Nation has really pushed the Kraftwerk records in the late seventies / early eighties.

[suchajollification]

Thank you for sharing this documentary. I'd been wanting to see it for quite a while now so you've made me very happy! :o)

[Nagelbrett]

no prob :)