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| MOTOR: HAMBURG, GERMANY INTERVIEW (Note: translation is choppy) |
| The Dresden Dolls
A bicycle route into the Weimar Republic There is the small paths offside the Mainstreams, on which the really large things develop. Where Visionaere pull through their thing, not be clean-talked cannot and by things are inspired, which hold the A&Rs of the large disk companies in the sleeplessness and for them ulcers and Bypaesse miss. If everyone of us its private Top Ten before eyes holds itself it will determine: Most those, which stand on our landings, went Querfeldein. Dresden Dolls their homeland is too second from Boston, and Querfeldein is! Amanda Palmer plays an electrical piano, sings and writes all Songs with the Dolls. It is the illegitimate hybrid of Jerry Lee Lewis, tori Amos and Tom WAITS, the result of a Sex never taken place & tablet combination vent of the three key Virtuosen. Brian Viglione plays schlagzeug. Its youth was heavy, made of metal and carried Achtzigerjahre Spandexhosen and head cloths. In this unusual mini occupation develops music, which so eccentric and energy-loaded is that the skirt floats of the Nu-Metal clone factory just as ridiculously to miss their Songs with 500-Koepfiger orchestra company the content and - because experienced and easily - exactly the same blood empty occurs like the last hundred attempts of volume, which the pieces did not have already before. Dresden Dolls orient themselves at classical-American Songwriting and Underground skirt. Nevertheless they stand in the middle with all four legs in a Brecht scenario, like a Indie Rockband in the costume sample of the three-groschen opera. Amanda pasted over the Markenlogo of its e-e-Pianos. Where in former times "Kurzweil" stood stands now for Kurt because. And actually exactly there, with this reminiscence at one of the largest German composers of the Weimar Republic, the musical universe Dresden Dolls begins. And during most Americans think, in Europe still travel one with kutschen and Adolf Hitler would be still chancellor of Germany (a country of that they notion do not have where it lie!) seem Dresden Dolls unity in geography to have had. Too early a tidy interview and Amanda and a Brian are allegedly weakened from a bicycle route to potsdam for. The weakness phase takes exactly 41 seconds, then the beautiful Amanda sets its first energy free. She explains the unusual and intensive connection between it, Germany and the local culture. Amanda: "I speak even completely properly German. The reason for it is nearly embarrassing. With 15 I was into a boy from Berlin fall in love. Its father was GI, its nut/mother German and was called noble-trusts. He came me visits. By him I angewoehnt myself my whole German rituals - for example my kind of cooking coffee -. It was half a typical, torn GI child, Americans of half Germans. IT rank-led me to all the music, which I hear today. It played me power station and gray area, in addition, as bad things as Andreas Dorau. It brought me to new buildings and Klaus Nomi. All things, which would be met never me in the life! It infected me with its love for German music. When we made late conclusion and I went to the university, I had for self destruction reasons and around my life on somewhat to focus, German studies. Later even in here, in Bavaria. Where in Bavaria? Amanda: In Regensburg. Brian: You seem to all hippen places of Germany to have been! Amanda: But hello! To Regensburg I studied still in Bonn, but in Cologne used. In Suelz! How do you travel? A double or two single rooms? Amanda: Times so - times so. But I know, what you want to know! We do not have inevitably Sex with one another, if we lie with one another in a bed! Brian: We are more than only one liebespaar, best friends or volume. We are only emotional close to more as Bruederchen and Schwesterchen and more than us. We are soul relatives. Amanda: If you need a comparison, which includes Sex with, I would say, we am an old couple, like that around the 70. We attract ourselves physically, have however not necessarily Sex. The love sits more deeply! Brian, it does not give a photo of you, there sits you as dte ever at your Drums, behind you to two poster, one of Megadeth and one from Guns ' n Roses. From where there does your soul relationship come to Amanda? Brian: Which one does not see, both the poster is beside it. One of my large Idol, the jazz Drummer Elvin Jones and a concert poster of a The Cure Coverabend my volume at that time. Thus, which we have there? The Cure, two of skirt volume and a jazz Drummer. Theatrali, jazzophonische skirt energy. That am I! That is what I make! Amanda: Brian represents the maskuline, aggressive side of the music, I rather the feminine. Brian was a Landei, it skirt and Grunge experienced. That passed completely me. I heard that the Beatles "Stg. Pepper's" album parallel with Duran Duran. I like Songs. You really Kurt because heard? All rock singers going into pension to have sometime Kurt because covern, but me nobody can nevertheless tell that possibly who knows more than five pieces of it! Amanda: I already! My music teachers to Highschool said, which style, in which I remind mean songs write, it of German types named Kurt because. At that time I was 16, procured to me CD and found he was right. Because does not have my kind Songs to write affected, but since are two things gathered. I like the early music, which he together with break made. The later Brodway stuff custom I not. That was then the usual Schmalz. Sometimes your music of Germans sounds permitted as it to German musicians is to be sounded German. Amanda: I was actually already asked whether I am Nazi. Two journalists wanted to know. That is nevertheless absurd! I studied years ago for a while in Germany. At that time all said in the states: Why Germany? Why not Italy or France? Somewhere where is it beautiful? Those have also completely strange conceptions of how it looks here. The whole is totally Bizarr! Brian: The time of the Weimar Republic was, also in America, just as the Sixties, the high point of cultural liberty and artistic expression strength of this century. That is accurately the opposite of Nazi! We do not want to travel by the time. Creativity goes from at that time around the fever and. It concerns to have itself "expressions" and therefore to turn the own Spiritualitaet and singularness outward. It concerns jazz. The twenties and thirties were sexy, full class and cultural departure tendency. The music had so a low-romantic schlichtheit. Beyond that it was also a time of the departure of the painting and large, political and philosophical ideas. This spirit should be further-carried. You play schlagzeug, guitar and concomitantly bass. Such people are normally also able to write Songs what you do not do however. Are you suppressed by Amanda? Brian: Around God will, no! That is something that I estimate at the work with Amanda on most: that it encourages me permanently to develop further and spread me too. Task of a Drummers is it to strengthen the impression and the strength of the music and to create it a firm basis. I see myself more in the role of the supporter than in that to the front sow. I have the feeling, which songs sounds like which with the piece letter in addition always, which gave it already times. That become unfortunately not loose I! You bescheisst yourself nevertheless. You ARE nevertheless a front sow! You are only too secondly on the stage, next to each other, not one behind the other! Brian: You are right! I now want I do not get less attention than naturally also. But I do not have to write and texts. That is not my kind of communicating me already not at all beside someone, which controls so unusually greatly! My words are the Drums. Is it to be made the goal with the plate as much for money that you can afford on route a correct wing? Amanda: That cannot be done unfortunately! It is physically simply not possible for us to work with an acoustic piano or a wing. Brian must be able to see me and my hands during the whole concert, and I again the public. No matter, as one on the stage turns and turns, goes only with a e-e-Piano. Brian: The goal is it thus to make as much for money that we can pay a technician for it, the best e-Pianosound of the world to develop. Amanda: Or an acoustic piano without this porch with the cover! (sound laughter.) With music sense to donate to transport and the e-e-Piano technology bring energy in front, that are messages, for which it is worth itself to have early risen. To be able to be interpreted from Americans German history cramp-free - a wohltat. Only in twice in the year comes along music, which does not inspire one, but proper faith donates. I drink the CD the last volume, which moved such large in me under protest of the waitress mean coffee coldly out and give Amanda and Brian. I pass myself on the plate like a virus that hopefully festbeisst. I continue to give the plate above all to them, because I do not need her straight. I am infected straight of something different one. |