'Splain me my Kraftwerk opinion so I can decide whether to see them in June!

I'm going up with two friends to the LA show, and Dan Regan is also planning on attending that one...anyone else?

Oh, and my GOD was the sound system ever good.

"Mein baby does not mess around..."

Atleast they aren't rip-off rappers, like P. Dippy. If not for stealing hits from Led Zeppelin and The Police, Pee Dipshit wouldn't have a career. Loser. When did TALKING become a skill? Even Shakespeare was talking in rhyme CENTURIES AGO. It's not that impressive or difficult, unless you find it a challenge (which i'm sure most rappers do).

Anyway, that pre-recorded music was pre-recorded BY MUSICIANS in an actual STUDIO with (get this) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Even on playback, Kraftwerk rules many, if not all.

KRAFTWERK ANNOUNCE SPRING 2005 TOUR AND FIRST EVER-LIVE RECORDING!

NEW YORK, NY -- Astralwerks is thrilled to announce the release of
Kraftwerk's first-ever official live recording, entitled Minimum
Maximum, on June 7th, as well as a series of live dates.

Kraftwerk is considered one of the most influential bands in pop
history. In a career spanning more than 35 years, the German electro
pioneers have been endlessly saluted and mimicked by each new generation
of innovators. In the 1970s, the post-punk futurists professed their
devotion. In the 1980s & 90s, the leading lights of Chicago house along
with Detroit and Euro-techno paid homage. Possibly the most sampled band
on the planet, their music continues to inspire.

Over the last decade, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and
Henning Schmitz have toured the world, and in 2003, as rare and splendid
as a returning comet in the night sky, Kraftwerk released Tour De France
Soundtracks. Now in 2005, having already electrified the band's global
army of disciples and following an unforgettable appearance at Coachella
2004, Kraftwerk are returning to perform a short series of shows in DC,
New York, Detroit, Chicago and LA, their first since 1998. Astralwerks
will release a 2-CD live set entitled Minimum-Maximum on June 7th
containing 22 tracks recorded throughout Europe, Japan and the US during
the band's 2004 world tour. Recorded and mixed with Kraftwerk's
legendary precision, Minimum-Maximum features all of the band's classic
compositions alongside their most recent 2004 Billboard Club chart hit
"Aerodynamik".

Yeah, Yeah. I gots my tix. It'll be great. Maybe not as absofuckinglutely amazing as the last time, but, great is great

I think what was so amazing was the atmosphere of everybody being extremely __GIDDY__ to actually get to see kraftwerk. Most people had written it off, it was just something that you would never actually see. The audience was just completely geeked to be at the show. If was like the combined energy of 2000 six-year-olds locked in a room together waiting to open presents on Christmas morning.

I remember the crowd chanting for 10 minutes before they went on and the crowd chanting for ten minutes after they went off. Boing Boom Tsachk Ping Boing Boom Tsachk Ping...

The other thing was that every person I knew in electronic music that lived within 400 miles of Detroit showed up for that gig. I mean it was like a 10 year High School reunion, EVERYBODY was there. People I knew from Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, and Toronto. That and for about 35 minutes after the gig everybody in Detroit Techno was hanging outside under the marquee. If a bomb went off that night you would have stopped Detroit music dead in it's tracks. Every producer and DJ in Detroit was there.