Entertainment For Lively Minds
Destined Never To See?
It is the early '80s. My 16 or 17 year old self has decided to go and see Klaus Schulze at the Hacienda in Manchester. Having paid my money, I enter this almost deserted venue (unaware at the time of its cultural significance) and wait...and wait...and wait. After three or four hours of no activity, I discover that he is not due on stage until around midnight. Unfortunately, the last train to Buxton departs at eleven and I dejectedly troop off with nary a glimpse of my hero.
Over the next quarter of a century, I manage to miss all fleeting visits to these shores by Herr Schulze for one reason or another; but then, in 2008, a concert in Paris is announced. I book the flights and a hotel room - just yards from the venue - and count down the days. Alas, less than a week before the date, a message arrives from the French ticket agency; "Klaus Schulze gig cancelled"; a serious illness to blame.
He's now recovered and has successfully gigged since; and soon he's playing some more European dates. It would be difficult, but still feasible, to get to one of these; but can I trust the old git? Or am I destined never to see him live?
Advice from the Massive appreciated.
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Irrlicht.
I once heard a Klaus Schultze tune in my local record shop. It was great. The album was a German import. I saved up the money to buy the album, for I was then young and skint. When I had the requisite £4.99 I returned and some other sod had already got it.
Years passed and my finances improved a bit and I found Irrlicht, sans cover, in the same shop, going cheap. I snapped it up.
But it wasn't Irrlicht I'd originally heard. And Irrlicht is shite.
To compound things, I got confused and purchased it again on CD a few years later.
Enter Napster.
Trancefer. It was sodding Trancefer.
Anyway.
Renk. Follow your muse. I'm sure Klaus will be just as pleased to see you as you will be to se him.
Go For It!
Follow your dream my friend, I'm sure you'll be rewarded.
it's
not rock and roll or cool to come on late
stick to your schedule and come on time
there are some of us who have to get the last train/bus back
Schulze time?
I think Klaus Schulze has a different sense of time to us ordinary mortals. The nice thing about one of his CD's is that you can stick it on the player and then nip out to the shops, safe in the knowledge that by the time you get back, you won't have missed any significant developments in the music. He's someone I feel I ought to like, but the stuff I've heard (Irrlicht, Timewind, X) leaves me a little cold. Be interested to hear other peoples' recommendations though.
*sigh* some gorgeous kit in that video clip :-(
An ARP2600; a version 1 Odessey; a VCS3, a Multimoog and the obvious socking great Moog modular.
The video is a bit too blurred to be sure but I think there's a Polymoog Keyboard in front of him and a Rhodes Stage 88 underneath it all.
*sigh*