02.02.10 Bielefeld
I’m under pressure here. People are asking for my blog. Three times today someone or ather has asked me why it doesn’t appear every day, or why it hasn’t appeared yet today. My answer is that if I can’t think of anything to write I don’t expect people to read my thoughtless thoughts. There’s enough crap like that on the internet already.
So that’s it for today except for this: Sven and Jakob use a total of five guitars during the show. Each guitar has six strings giving a total of thirty strings, and ech string is tuned three or four time during the show, giving a total of between ninety and one hundred and twenty tuning operations (TUNOPS) every evening, and that’s not counting all the TUNOPS during the afternoon and the soundcheck. ( I made up the word TUNOPS, it doesn’t really exist). All this tuning and other guitar care is done by a young well dressed man called Uli Rummel. Uli is great, and you can see him on stage every night taking care of business. Now I’m in trouble because I can’t mention Uli and not mention the other twenty three people involved in the show. Between now and the end of the tour I’ll try to namecheck everyone involved.
I have been told by a well informed person that I am involved in a blogging war with a Mr S.R. who is blogging everyday on the TAZ website. Apparently he is winning the blogwar, or so he (sorry, I mean the well informed person) tells me. I will try to find out what a blogwar is. Is it something to do with Facebook?
I will ask the webmaster to switch on Comments.
Am 2. Februar 2010 um 20:01 Uhr
You’re even cooler than the other person! You win!
Am 2. Februar 2010 um 22:07 Uhr
Aaaah, endlich Kommentare! bzw. are we supposed to write in english now? Concerning the Blogwar: As far as I remember, Mr. S.R. came up with the idea of a ‘Fightclub’, which is a more precise term and likewise a quite heady proposal. The well informed person may be the one that put all those wonderful words in all those wonderful songs that have been the soundtrack of our lives for more than 20 years now. But in this case he is fighting a losing battle from the first day on.
Only a few more days to go – I will really miss ‘Rosbif with Kraut’.
Am 2. Februar 2010 um 23:37 Uhr
Na, da kommt doch wieder Freude auf, wenn man das liest. Oder, auf gut Lubke-Englisch (wissen einige der hier anwesenden Damen und Herren denn überhaupt noch, wer das war?!): there comes joy up.
Fightclub erinnert mich an was, was wenig mit den Herren Regener und Young zu tun hat. Film? Fanzine? Firlefanz?
ANYhow, Mr Young, you’re writing some good stuff here, and your fans appreciate it. Schreiben Se [sic] weiter so!!!