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

[Mik]

I've got a copy of the album and would be more than happy to scan daves 
notes from the back cover
Mik


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From: "Keith Henderson" <khenders64 at YAHOO.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 6:34 PM
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Subject: Re: OFF: Test, übrigens ist leider Klaus Dinger tot :(

> 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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