Kraftwerk: and then there was one! :lol:

Just seen this...

2008 also saw the band back on tour in the USA leading up to their previously announced show at the Coachella Festival in April. Florian Schneider is not included in the lineup of the 2008 US tour. The lineup consist of Ralf Hutter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert and Stefan Pfaffe.

I've also read that he's not touring because he strongly opposes the Bush administration. Dunno how true it is though - haven't read anything official

On March 13, 2008, it was announced that Kraftwerk will play three shows in US cities Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Denver prior to the date at Coachella.[27] More dates have yet to be added. Florian Schneider is not included in the lineup of the 2008 US tour as he strongly apposes the George Bush administration. The lineup consist of Ralf Hutter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert, and an unknown fourth member who appears to be in his late twenties.

The release of The Catalogue box set is still awaiting confirmation, in addition to any new studio material.

The group will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in 2010.

And SAM well done for cut/pasting FASTER than I!

i hope thats all it is and nothing more permanent

If the only original member touring would now be Ralf, the I guess it's just a one-manned Kraftwerk.

Here's a review from the minneapolis show from a guy i know and who was there...

Fantastic show and yes, the rumors are true, Florian was not there. His replacement is a young man named Stefan Pfaff and he did a fine job. he did seem to be beside himself -stunned/amazed that he was on stage performing as a member of Kraftwerk must have been his dream come true last night he kept looking around the club and he had an actual smile on his face at times so you know he was having a good time

when the door slam came for Autobahn and the crowd threw up a big cheer he looked back at the sound/video techs on the side of the stage and then looked around at us in the audience with a big grin on his face - Ralph looked over at Stefan as if to confirm "see, what did I tell you?" the expression on Stefan's face was priceless and so easy to read as "you're right! they *do* know the song by the car door slam!"

prop wise - no blinking LED ties they had the robots, they did the Tron suits there were some new videos or alterations to videos they also were doing lots of live remixing of songs (adding new elements to them) sound was great as we were on the floor about 10 to 15 feet from the stage in front of Ralph (left side)

everything I can recall playlist (but not in order): they started with Man Machine Expo 2000 (UR version still) Numbers/Computer World Aerodynamik The Model Neon Lights Showroom Dummies (Ralph sung it in French - nice touch) Computer Love (when was the last time they played this live?!) Tour De France (both new versions and original) Radioactivity Elektro Kardiogramm Vitamin Autobahn Trans Europe Express The Robots (with one that resembles the new guy sort of) Boing Boom Tschak/Music Non Stop (which they ended with of course)

all in all it was a great show lots of people there seeing Kraftwerk for the first time since I don't think Kraftwerk have ever been to Minneapolis (at least not in the past 25-30 years) I think there was some technical difficulties with one of their laptop stations - on some songs some elements seemed a bit delayed but just by a hair either that or they really aren't robots and it was human error

Is it just me or does anybody else think Kraftwerk are so-o-o-o-o-o-o 1981?

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Sam the Stokie wrote:

I've also read that he's not touring because he strongly opposes the Bush administration.

Sooooo, he's going to punish the fans because he doesn't like Dubya...

that's fucking brilliant...

well bush didn't vote himself in

oh wait, hang on...