#early rammstein

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Schneider on how Paul and Flake joined Rammstein

From the book 'Feeling B - Mix mir einen Drink - Punk im Osten' (page 373/374)

"Wir überlegten, wen wir noch dazunehmen könnten. Wir waren vier und es lief schon einigermaßen. Einige wollten natürlich nicht mit Paul arbeiten, ich zum Beispiel. Denn ich hatte schon die letzten fünf, sechs Jahre mit Paul gespielt, und Paul ist ein anstrengender Typ. Ich erklärte: Ich mache unter der Bedingung mit, dass Paul nicht mitmacht. Ich war bei denen ja ausgestiegen. Da waren wir zu einem 'Feeling B'-Konzert in Ilmenau, da hatte ich einen Riesen-Wut auf die. Alles war da chaotisch organisiert. Aljoscha war alles egal, der wollte einfach nur ein bisschen rumfahren, aber ich war noch jung und wollte noch etwas. Wir spielten dort ein extrem schlechtes Konzert, ich hab ihnen gesagt, ich mache nicht mehr mit, sie sollen sich einen anderen suchen. Ich habe meine Trommeln abgebaut und ins Auto gepackt. Eigentlich wollte ich die alle nicht mehr sehen. Aber sie waren mir auch ans Herz gewachsen, und dann wollten die anderen Jungs, Till und Scholle, sie dabeihaben und haben an ihnen rumgezerrt. Flake wollte partout nicht, er wollte 'Feeling B' zu neuem Leben erwecken. Er hält gern an Altem fest und will nichts Neues. Wir mussten ihn richtig überreden, denn wir wollten sein Instrument dabeihaben. Er war einfach der beste Mann dafür und nicht so wie andere Keyboarder."

"We thought about who we could add. There were four of us and it was already going pretty well. Of course, some didn't want to work with Paul, for example me. Because I had played with Paul for the last five or six years, and Paul is an exhausting type. I stated: I will join on the condition that Paul doesn't join. After all, I had quit them. We went to a 'Feeling B' concert in Ilmenau, and I was really angry with them. Everything was organized chaotically. Aljoscha didn't care, he just wanted to drive around a bit, but I was still young and wanted something else. We played an extremely bad concert there, I told them I wasn't going to take part anymore, they should get someone else. I dismantled my drums and put them in the car. Actually, I didn't want to see any of them anymore. But I had also grown fond of them, and then the other guys, Till and Scholle, wanted to include them and pulled at them. Flake absolutely didn't want to, he wanted to bring 'Feeling B' back to life. He likes to hold on to the old and doesn't want anything new. We really had to persuade him because we wanted to have his instrument with us. He was just the best man for it and not like other keyboard players. "

more quotes from Rammstein books

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Young, weird and intoxicated Paul. Special GIFs for @tevovovo . Enjoy it!

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Look at all the pretty!

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Young Till = cold shower time.

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Flake and Paul on Till

‘‘He was one of those silent village people Flake tells of his first impression of the stern German who wrote poetry and could lift a car single-handedly" He was big, tall and did everything alone.‘’

‘’And although they broke bread together. as Flake observes, at first their union was one of convenience. Lindemann was impressed with the music that Flake and the company brought from Berlin, while Till in return gave them access to something really important: Transport.‘‘

"Till has always been the soul of the party," says Landers, "the stereo was always playing, and when we went to see other bands’ shows, we piled into his car en masse Sometimes there were as many as ten people.’’

2002 interview with Kerrang.

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Till and Flake on hard times.

With Apologies to the vegetarians, vegans and sensitive of stomach amongst us. 

Also if anyone's wondering Nutria or coypu is a large semi-aquatic rodent.

Till :Ordinary broiler chickens - I stole them from a  poultry farm. They were not afraid of people, their instinct for self-preservation disappeared a hundred million years ago, they could be picked up like stones. Which is what we did. And I also managed to steal mink and nutria from a fur farm quite easily. They had such little bones. Mmm, delicious! If fried, gnawing on them was a real pleasure!

Interviewer.:Fried Nutria?

Till: We simply didn’t have any money. Once I hit a roe deer in the car. But since no one had a refrigerator, we pinned half of the carcass on the door, and the other was thrown to the floor and gradually cut off pieces off it and into the frying pan.

Flake : Do you remember how we stole ducks in the village? We knew that they were fed corn flour, so the gizzards were cooked with corn, it worked very well.

Till. It's true, yes! When Rammstein began, we lived, as in prehistoric times. Next to our house was a railway line.. At dawn we went out to collect corpses of animals left from the night train: the train always kills two or three animals, it is only necessary to find them. These we also ate . Well, not only them, of course. We also caught fish in a trap.  It’s much easier to concentrate on music when you are not worrying about where to find money for dinner.

From a 2004 Russian interview.