Can on German TV 1971

Krautrock legends Can on German TV 1971, fooling around, playing foosball, jamming, talking about politics. Taken from a 1999 Can documentary, which you can order at Spoon records: http://order.spoonrecords.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=27300

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Music

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• Can
• Krautrock
• Avant-garde

[brotherbuttcrack]

I thought I would fluidly dive into other krautrock. But nothing else can compare to the awesomeness of can

[theboyskipper]

"Television is immensely interested in political opinions of beat musicians,because they cannot talk. TV is not at all interrested in the political opinion of people who want socialism and a more human society, since they can spell it out."

A very smart answer.

[yippybuns]

@slimturnpike

There is no krautrock sound - krautrock was just a name given to the music being made by alternative/underground German bands then. There is a huge variance in the sounds that various krautrock bands made - the common thread is that this was all experimental music coming from Germany in the early 70s. Faust had a tune on Faust IV titled 'Krautrock'. which was a nod to the term being used by the (mainly UK) media to describe this music at that time - '74 if I remember correctly.

[baxterbather]

@slimturnpike This is 1971. The Organization (later Kraftwerk) were a rock band with a flute mic'd into a Synthi A. Groups like that were using Synths in a more experimental, but musical, manner than sort of the avant-garde like Amon Duul, Ash Ra, Faust and all that. Can were first in experimental synth-textured music (see: 1968 TV performance of "Mother Sky") that moved bodies and minds. They were very a-German and even a-terrestrial, it was about what's inside your head, what's in your mind.

[1533Montaigne]

@slimturnpike

it´s just the opposite. there are lots of groups who are called kraut, but have nothing in common with this style.

two handful groups wrere real krauts and can is one of them.

[kieranification]

Gerd Muller scored a ht trick on the table football

[everyoneisondope]

5:08 Great contribution to the interview, buddy!

[slimturnpike]

everyone keeps calling Can krautrock, but other than the fact they were germans playing in the same era, they seem to have little in common with other bands stamped with the genre.