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- From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell)
- Subject: Re: KRAFTWERK performed at Woodstock ??!
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- Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:52:51 GMT
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- In article <BzonMt.6Lw@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> warrenc@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Cherie Warren) writes:
- >lupo@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Lutz Bauer) writes:
- >
- >>Kraftwerk performed at Woodstock ??
- >
- >>I've seen a film about Woodstock some years ago. I think
- >>they showed an interview with Kraftwerk in it.
- >>I am not totally sure, but I believe that Florian S.
- >>was telling some stuff about their music concept, etc.
- >>But I can not remember exactly.
- >>Well, the time is O.K. (Woodstock's been at 15th-17th
- >>August '69). And they used to be kind of Hippies those days.
- >
- >>Does anybody know something ? Anybody been there ?
- >>Has anybody film/audio material about the Kraftwerk
- >>performance ?
- >
- >No, they didn't perform at Woodstock. They were barely in their
- >beginnings as a performing outfit, and Woodstock was not a place for
- >unknowns just starting out with experimental music - well-established
- >performers were the rule, like Joan Baez, Crosby Stills & Nash, Jimi
- >Hendrix, Moutain, Canned Heat, the Who, and Jefferson Airplane.
- >
- >In 1969, the pop/rock music industry was overwhelmingly dominated by
- >American and English acts. Kraftwerk didn't even 'break through' until
- >six years later with _Autobahn_.
-
- In fact, they didn't even exist then. At the time of Woodstock, however,
- Ralf and Florian were active as a duo act called "Organization", which was
- more of an avant-jazz sort of affair. According to some material I've seen
- on Kraftwerk, Organization was pretty much a flop. They did release one, and
- possibly two albums before being dropped by their label. But Organization came
- now √here near Woodstock, and to my knowledge was hardly known at all during
- that period of time.
-
- D.A.C. Crowell
- Computer Music Project/School of Music
- University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- (dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
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