Not Rock On

I just found a nice blog, that features a nice 80s roundup year by year and also lots of interesting music from South Africa and all over the world with very nice and personal offerings. Any major dude with half a heart He seems to be missing comments (where do I know that from?), so people rush over there and leave your marks, he seems to be a really nice guy!

This is a concert recording I have very fond memories of. I had to go to Hamburg for a medical examination after my motorcycle accident. I found some nice records that day, the Glaxo Babies , Dexy's, The Cure and Depeche Mode. To top this there was a concert by ABC in town that night. Unfortunately I didn't have a ticket. Nevertheless I went there, although it was sold out. I actually found someone who had been let down by his date and gave me a ticket and even for free! There were even some "celebrities" there: I saw Diedrich Diederichsen and Kid P., how much further can you get for a kid from the villages, THOSE were heroes in the 80s : People that had problems asking Tina for a date, but mocking about the german voice of Jerry Lewis (it was Georg Thomalla if you might want to ask. There must be this famous soundbite where Kid P. (Andreas Banaski) asks for George SSomalla (or did he just listen to this being asked?) Anyway : Kid P. war immer grosszügig! (Sei...

As I promised yesterday here is a (or rather the other) famous band from Düsseldorf, Kraftwerk can take it. This is ZK. A punk band with little experience on their instruments, but the will to perform. They really started the sub-genre of Fun-Punk, later completely and fantastically occupied by Die Ärzte! They only released two singles and two LPs and here you get the Lps, unfortunately I don't own the singles. ZK - Eddie's Salon 1981 ZK - Leichen pflastern ihren Weg 1982 There is relatively little info on the web, which astonished me. You find something here . You can buy a collection here . And you can find the third single by Die Toten Hosen, the band that grew from ZK on 7 inch Punk . You have to search on the site, cause somehow the direct link doesn't want to duplicate. Probably it may not be online anymore and I did not make copy... I remember, the church where hey shot the video for Bommerlunder had to be re-consecrated after the shooting, featurin...

Since I started that online tracking device last year in June now more than 100,000 people have visited my blog, a few thousand did before. That feels nice, combined with the number of downloads, many hundreds for some files. I don't want to become complaining like in my last post (NOBODY felt inclined to add to my costs), but some aid would be nice. To celebrate the 100,000th visitor I wanted to post something special: The KLF aka The JAMs aka The Justified Ancients of MuMu I bought 1987 by The JAMs on July 7th 1988 in a record shop in Braunschweig, Gabi's Plattenkiste. I came there often and digged down in the crates. This wasn't even there, it was already sorted out and in a box on the floor, together with the 12" All you need is love, ready to be shipped back to the company. I could talk the clerk to selling me the records anyway, although officially she had to send the records back to the company. Unfortunately Bill Drummond and Jim Cauty had decided to ...