[sdiy] Freak at Home

[Rude 66]

aqctually it's not sad, it's just the final logical stage for what they were
about all along. isn't that why they took those robots on stage from the
early 80's?

i saw them in 1990, when they still had most of the original gear on stage.
though i remember seeing several of those distinctive red waldorf knobs on
some gear. i almost got to play on one of their pocket calculators they
handed to the crowd.

it seems for them and many others, instruments are only a means to an end.
look at tangerine dream re-recording their old stuff on new gear.. maybe
they don't hear the difference in sound, maybe it just doesn't interest
them.

r./ (also a longtime fan, but probably not as long as some of you guys..;-)






> Later on in the email thread someone mentioned how the new Kraftwerk Stage
> show was just laptops and nothing new.  Sadly, I have to agree.  There are
> 3 different "biographies" of Kraftwerk out now and one thing you pick up
from
> all of them is the intense drive to mechanize everything, right down to
the
> end goal of Robots touring so the band didnt have to go on stage.
>
> Sad for a group ( well, two people ) that has pushed so many frontiers and
> influenced so many people.
>
> --
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  - Tom Arnold -       When I was small, I was in love,                  -
>  - Sysabend   -       In love with everything.                          -
>  - CareTaker  -       And now there's only you...                       -
>  --------------         -- Thomas Dolby, "Cloudburst At Shingle Street" -
>