Chad Smith is unquestionably the superstars of rock ‘n’ roll. As a drummer of frantic successful Red Hot Chili Peppers is likely therefore to surprise him by almost three decades on the biggest stages of the world any more. Except maybe: Till Lindemann. The times he had wondered what it did with all the fire to himself, and it received three replies. First, if it were the fire of the Spirit. Second, around the fire of the heart. And thirdly: “just fire”.
But can you really believe that? Pop rises the surface notorious for content. Fire here is never just fire, but part of a comprehensive show of the real socialist socialized Ex-punks were dressed like disciples of demagogues. In the Arte documentary Rammstein in America the director Hannes Rossacher therefore outlines not only the way of a new German band with old German gesture to urdeutscher language into the USA. The film shows something bigger: a lean meat become synthesis of the incompatible, the growing together because it belongs together.
mate Smith knows about to sing a song. Iggy Pop, incidentally, also, also Marilyn Manson, Steven Tyler, Gene Simmons, Moby, Slipknot and how the fine emissaries of pop culture so hot that gather in front of Ross Aher camera. Between childlike amazement and admiration adult celebrate 90 sounding minutes a phenomenon which seems inexplicable and yet so obvious.
Burning military base
It all starts in 1993, coincidentally the same time touring the United States than six liberated zone children one year before Rammstein’s founding. The film shows the grainy archive pictures of those days. As freedom test the Land of the Free planned visit to pilgrimage came to the land of the infidels, who wanted to be converted, but knew nothing about it. In Rammstein, Iggy Pop explains euphoric as a boy discovering the chocolate drawer, put not only the aggressive ram plus stone hardness, but a US military base, which opened in 1988 in flames. “Our sore point,” says the Berlin-exile from David Bowie Kreuzberger days.
The New German Hardness of Mecklenburg met in the nineties at the American nu metal, which endowed with baseball caps and shorts. After the first appearance in New York before 15 guests it went fast with the away win. The reasons run the world’s most successful pop stars from Germany in this film while relaxing chatting on black sofas. That they are now graying veterans, is hardly noticeable, so militaristic dress them up even as heads of families.
Pornographic show elements
Where there yes three reasons were: fire (head), fire (heart) and fire (fire). Coupled with the Wagnerian überfrachtetem thrill of sex, violence and Nazi kitsch inferno that Rammstein was particularly live “so extreme, so real” that her future agent will have known early on: “America will eat that!” In strict chronological order, the film makes clear what has this appetite west of the Atlantic produces satisfied and rekindled.
From the soundtrack to David Lynch’s Lost Highway on the struggle of the pyromaniac with local fire safety regulations and a public appeal process for pornographic show elements up to the US tour with natives genre gods as KoЯn it went constantly uphill – to Rammstein after the attacks of 11 September 2001 doubts about the land of their dreams came the now almost as unfree felt like his own youth behind the Iron Curtain. The band left their second home and did not return for ten years.
But not only in the US cooled the wire between audience and band noticeably. Even Germany committee was with the band, which was on the one hand an icon artificial commerce, on the other hand right machinations never above suspicion: Two years before the video appeared to Depeche Mode Cover Stripped , which took advantage of Leni Riefenstahl’s master race pictures. After the third plate Mother also their sound seemed to wear off, which also includes in-band atmosphere suffered. The fire burned – especially on stage – on, but it warmed much less. Until the explicit porn to single Pussy 2009 the excitation regulator turned to stop and Rammstein again returned to the realm of pop a year later.
Brittle heroes
The gig at Madison Square Garden, which was sold out in 20 minutes, is the dramatic clip of Ross Aher film, Hollywood could not better scripts: Rise and Fall, doubts and insight, catharsis and resurrection of fragile hero. Despite their success, the director does not simply piles up the band members only to monuments. In between, he supported her on the size of game balls of attention industry: six provocative Firestarter for the amusement of an austere, permanently excited, horny consumerist society. As Rammstein says Scott Ian from Anthrax Metal legend and smiles as the beginning of Chad Smith, is America stelle halt Germany before: “A well-oiled machine.”
“Rammstein in America” runs on Saturday, 24 October, at 21.45 clock on Arte.
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