[sdiy] Freak at Home

[Michael Zacherl]

Rick Jansen wrote:

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> And isn't Radio Aktivitaet a fun album, full
> of little experiments.

Admittedly I love it *) - I still have it on vinyl 
since when it's released.

*) I'm not saying that just not to get fired ;-)

> I went to Paris last September, Kraftwerk played live. I was aghast
> to see they scrapped the big Kling-Klang studio on stage. Now it's
> just 4 guys and 4 laptops. I'm afraid musically there was nothing new
> (to my ears), many tracks sounded *exactly* like on previous performances.
> It looked like a canned performance mostly. What a difference with their
> great concerts in the early 80's, when they really did werk on stage.
> Worse even, the guys on stage did not seem to enjoy themselves. 

Funny enough this "canned performance" thing was 
part of their image in their early beginnings too 
- they've been accused of being uncreative, 
unspontaneous, stiff (robots are stiff, aren't 
they?) etc. you name it.
I've got to dig into my old mags to find one of 
this articles. I think, that would be real fun to 
read nowadays ;-)
       Michael.