"the trip", like all the other songs from our album "first",recorded 1971 by Conny Plank for PILZ-records (now available as CD on ohrwaschl-records), was our "real krautrock"-song.
never it was the same song twice; we totally improvised it each time we played it. only structured thing was the guitar melody-theme from Harald Thoma and me singing along with it.(find out, when you hear it live 1991 )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3VN_I5gSg
unfortunately Harald Thoma doesn´t appear in this video, because he was about to get draughted by the army and our manager replaced him with the red-haired Jürgen Schneider. Short time after that we fired the manager and brought back Harald Thoma to the band.
The sound you hear is the original line-up:
Andreas Cornelius - drums; Joachim Schiff - bass; Harald Thoma - guitar,vocals; Rainer Wahlmann - vox, harp
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1971, beside the LP "first" dies irae recorded at the same day also two songs for the PILZ-records Sampler "Heavy Christmas"; "silent night" was recorded in one take live;
before recording "shepherd´s song" Conny Plank took a long break to mix a Kraftwerk-concert in the Hamburg Markthalle. When he returned he brought a lot of friends with him and up in smoke we went
- that night we really forgot to record the 6 minutes jazzy part of the song; the only thing left is a real strange final chorus, that everybody in the studio at that time( about 3 a.m) who joined in spontaneously
the next morning we departed for our hometown. all I remember is:
It´s been a fucking great real jazzy number, ...that we forgot to record...
video 2012 by handmade videos
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experimental video by the last rockband before the border green wave, germany, produced 2000 by videocompany conceptv, the video is part of the multimedia- benefit cd Neijnkerrje, do simma… ,LEICO-records 8630, audio on cd the inner garden by green wave, LEICO-records 8548, 2000
You can order our new (double)cd “ …we used to cut the green grass…/…the war is over…” at green-wave48@web.de or as mp3 at amazon, iTunes, Napster, etc.
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experimental video by the last rockband before the border green wave, germany, produced 2011 by Tino Francus as part of his bachelorwork in mediainformatics; song from
the double-cd “ …we used to cut the green grass…/…the war is over…”(2009), which, as well as the cd “the inner garden” (2000), belongs to the trilogy –concept-story “…green bdays on a planet blue…”.
This song is dedicated to the memory of Vivian Stanshall and Mario Schäfer
you can order the cds at green-wave48@web.de or as mp3 at amazon, iTunes, Napster, etc.
you find the story at http://www.green-wave48.blogspot.com/
you can hear all of the songs at www.imradio.com/greenwave
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