25 Jahre von Die Krupps

Gestern im "Planet Music" mit Christian und Curt und 20 Jahre später 25 Jahre von Die Krupps gehört (und gesehen). Wahres Geld (fair) und wahre Musik (viel). Auf die Stahlrohre haben sie nicht gedroschen, mein Rücken war aber trotzdem ganz entspannt hinterher.

Die Krupps also brought nice supporting acts. UNDERGOD from Basel, which I won't write too much about because Christian will soon (this sunday I hear) be writing more, and more competently about them. Only so much: they rocked nicely. Patrik Aellig provided the occasionally necessary proof that your good bassman's pickhand is a lot more important than his chordhand and Maja "Liquid" Schwarz allthough playing a pretty mean

guitar was so kind as to personally sell us their new CD KILLOVE.

LLUTHER is a group of gifted and rather uninhibited Neun Zoll Nägel impersonators, which was alright with me, cause I like the NINs a lot and this was free of charge. They can play really well with drummer Ger Farrell and his marginal kit especially hard, fast and tricky. Before they accompanied the Krupps on their jubilee tour, they supported KMFDM in Dublin. Was ok, not necessary to say more about them until the day - which might come - they do something of their own.

Alltogether a very fine evening we had. Bought t-shirts too. And danced.

And Now For Something Completely Different:

Brian quoted Alan H. Guth some time ago: The reader may well be surprised that scientists dare to study processes that took place so early in the history of the universe. On the basis of present observations, in a universe that is some 10 to 20 billion years old, cosmologists are claiming that they can extrapolate backward in time to learn the conditions one second after the beginning! If cosmologists are so smart, you might ask, why can they predict the weather? The answer, I would argue, is not that cosmologists are so smart, but that the earlier universe is much simpler than the weather! --Alan H. Guth, on Condensation of the Primordial Soup

That's like chessplaying and cherrypicking. You really have to ask yourself in earnest what is the easy and what is the tuff stuff. I'll tell you one thing: Becoming a chancellor in Austria these last 20 years is one of the easier things. Jörg nearly did it. In 7/7 hindsight I'd say: wrong party, my boy. The hard thing to do is do anything and then good stuff once you are the chancellor.