OFF: Test, übrigens ist leider Klaus Dinger tot :(

[mike coleman]

I just got a private message about Klaus myself (thank you mysterion x), and
I can confirm that the rather rarish UK pressing of the NEU Lp surely does
have Dave's scrawl, and not only that, pretty boldly stated at that!!!
my friend Wilfried surely has this, and I myself will get it in the future
(again),,,anyway, he's on holiday but when he returns I can get a scan if
needed
further, not having read the newer books on Hawkwind, but looking at Dave
Brock's now proper portfolio on Wikipedia, I was surprised to see Pink Floyd
strangely absent from the HW influence(s), but found Moody Blues, Steve
Miller (from my own backyard I might add), and NEU-
but was wondering how NEU could have been,,,,do they mean NEU influenced an
already existing Hawkwind???
avoid the USA Billingsgate pressings of NEU at all cost, they suck
I used to have a NEU 45 of all things, but Brian Perera wanted it and I let
it go (sob)
lastly, Opa-Loka is a Simon King track (my VERY favorite Hawkwind
song)(along with Space Travellers), and was influenced by his time in
Florida- the name was inspired by either a street of an international
airport, TTBOMK



On 4/5/08, Keith Henderson <khenders64 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Bernhard...Dein Test ist angeblich bestanden, oder?
>
> OK...two days ago, I read in the Schwaebische Zeitung
> that Neu! and La Düsseldorf (co)founder Klaus Dinger
> had died on March 21 of heart failure.  Of course, he
> and Michael Rother (the other principle member of
> Neu!) played for a year or so with Kraftwerk (on drums
> and guitar, respectively), before splintering off on
> their own.  Presumably (?), this decision on their
> part left Ralf and Florian with the idea that we
> should just forget all these other instruments and
> just play synthesizers, four people in one row across
> the stage, rather than find a new guitarist and
> drummer.
>
> But not only was the first Neu! album a truly
> brilliant piece of work that seemingly invented
> several differents subgenres of electronic-oriented
> music, incl. ambient and industrial.  But it also IIRC
> has a strong Hawkwind connection as I think the UK
> vinyl version included liner notes that were written
> by none other than Dave Brock.  I've never seen a copy
> of this record...is there anyplace online that has a
> scan of it, or at least shows what the text says?  I'd
> like to read it now.
>
> Also, it has been argued that the HW song Opa-Loka was
> a kind of tribute to 'motorik' music (that was
> probably no better represented than that by Neu! -
> despite the fame of Kraftwerk and Can being larger).
> And Simon King (he wrote it, didn't he?) and Klaus
> Dinger (and Jaki Liebezeit, the best of all motorik
> drummers IMHO) were both of the same ilk.  Blanga is
> really just a different form of motorik music, ie the
> same sorts of beats and rhythms.  Only the electronics
> are used completely differently and blanga is a lot
> more thundery with heavy guitars and bass.
>
> K Dinger's younger brother Thomas (who played with him
> in La Düsseldorf at least) already died a few years
> ago, so the Dingers haven't been lucky in life.  Klaus
> was supposedly, uh, "difficult" but I never met him or
> even saw him on stage, so who am I to judge the
> character of someone I've never met face to face.  We
> won't speak ill of the dead here...especially since he
> was a critical factor in creating some of my favorite
> all-time music.  I'm not sure why the announcement of
> his death only got out to the larger public roughly
> two weeks late...the article I read didn't say
> anything about that.
>
> Anyway...Klaus Dinger (1946-2008) RIP.
>
> So many krautrock heroes are leaving this planet too
> soon.  :(
>
> Grakkl
>
>
>
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