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Flake's podcast - Rhythmic Finesse

podcast 2022-07-12! published 2022-07-13

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FLAKE. Des Tastenfickers Podcast.

Flake ist der „Tastenficker“ von Rammstein und Autor von Bestellern. Seine Kenntnis ungewöhnlicher Musiktitel ist grenzenlos; seine Themen u

This time Flake's topic is 'Rhythmic Finesse', which i think can also be interpreted as 'unusual rhythms'. Flake mentions he usually doesn't care for songs with the standard 4/4 pop rhythm very much, they go right through him, they don't 'stick' and therefore he doesn't remember them. But a song that has a different rhythm, that has a few hooks and edges, those songs are the ones he finds interesting.

And as it turns out, he doesn't have to go far to find examples: Fellow Berlin band 'Die Ärzte' are featured with 'Gib Gas lieber Michael Schumacher' right at the start, and 'Monsterparty' at 1h34. Flake considers them one of those bands who are musically better than they usually play.

Some smaller rambles, like at 0h09 on hearing 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones for the first time (he plays a different version for the theme of this podcast) and innocent guy Flake didn't understand what that word meant, so he looked it up in the dictionary, still didn't understand. Then he read a book about a Count duelling with a Knight who said during the duel "I demand satisfaction.." and Flake still didn't understand what it meant. Still doesn't for that matter 😊

At 0h44 he plays Led Zeppelin with Kashmir. Flake and his friends liked this song so much that they created a band with that name, their singer was Swami Dama Adjara, who was one of the few East-Germans who got a new name from Bhagwan (his german name was Micha, that was easier to remember for Flake).

But back to the topic, there is a band who tried many rhythmic variations, and Flake knows this band very well: Feeling B (most of the variations were created by accident by the way🌺), so there's much to enjoy for Feeling B fans:

We have a 5/4 rhythm in 'Die Pest' (1h06) which was created when singer Aljoscha got the idea to do a medieval theme. They got in touch with a medieval-music band from Rostock, and they were the ones who taught Feeling B about the different rhythms. Feeling B's drummer refused to play it, and so the band took Christoph Schneider back (that's what Flake calls him, he doesn't mention that that happens to be the Rammstein drummer now 😊). He had already left the band, because he had been fighting with the band, especially with the singer (Flake admits that it would have been difficult not to, with all the alcohol, and conflicting characters..Flake mentions it's not easy to stay together with a band..."but that's not what this show is about", so we don't get juicy anecdotes 😊). Anyway, he did manage to play a 5/4 rhythm, and that was the start for Feeling B to play more intricate songs. The song features Steve Binetti on leadguitar.

Then 7/8 rhythm (at 1h15) on 'Mystisches Mysterium", songtitle thought up by Aljoscha, because nobody could think of a fitting name (this happens often with bands that Flake plays in 😊)

And then at 1:18 we get a 11/8 rhythm from Die Magdalene Keibel Combo, which is a spin-off band from Feeling B that Flake and Paul Landers created, because Aljoscha was putting ever fewer effort in lyrics, and Flake and Paul didn't like that.

Rammstein isn't played in this podcast, nor mentioned, apart from a sidenote at 0h40 which i still thought was worth mentioning: when Flake announces the band 'The Streets' he adds "I don't call them Mike Skinner and the Streets, because it annoys me when people say 'Till Lindemann and his guys'". 😄

Rammstein is a real 6-man band 😊...but we knew that, didn't we 🍀

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