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Flake's podcast - Animals
Published 2020-11-05, but likely already podcast before that time, another one i'm almost 99.9% sure i did a post or something about once, but it's lost in the mists of Tumblr
All songs about animals, in many shapes and forms.
As we all know (0h11), Flake is a cat-person, has had many cats in his life, and at the time has a cat that not only likes to be petted, but also pets you back (don't know if it's the cat in this photo, but this is definitely one of Flake's cats...)
Dogs though (0h17)...not so much... Why? Because they poop, they bark (loud!), they smell and they bite (Flake has been bitten twice by a dog, so he knows).
A couple short band anecdotes in this podcast, (at 0h50) after "This is not a love song" by PIL (which is a long song, musicians freewheeling away), Flake is reminded of his early bandlife when he was young, and at rehearsals sometimes one or the other got so excited playing they just didn't want to quit. The others would suggest getting some food, or a drink, but eventually got their instruments again and just played along. Playing music just for the fun of it ❤️
And at 1h32, playing a song by 'Ugly Kid Joe', Flake mentions Feeling B met that US band when they went on a trip to the USA in 1993, the 5 of them (4 man band and soundman), but all the motels they slept in only had rooms for 4 people. So they would go to check in in the motel with 4, and later the 5th guy would sneak in the room and share a bed with one of the others (fanfic potential right? 😊). Together in the motelroom, they'd watch MTV, when MTV still played music (yes, *that* long ago 🌺).
For fans of GDR music, Flake also plays two songs of bands he knew in the 80's, at 1h12 AB Geige with a song about a mosquito ('Mücke' in german), and at 1h24 'Käfer auf’m Blatt' (Beetle on a leaf) by Chicorée, this band was (like Feeling B and Die Firma) also in the documentary 'Flüstern und SCHREIEN', but in the proces of taping that film, the band dissolved.
The most poignant song of the day (and also the reason why i'm almost sure i did a post earlier 😊) is at 0h51 'Komm großer schwarzer Vogel' by Ludwig Hirsch, a delicate sounding song, but with a rather morbid and uncomfortable text. An Austrian radiostation once banned this song being played after 22 o'clock in the evening, out of fear listeners would become suicidal by it. Maybe even more poignant is that Ludwig Hirsch himself, indeed ended up killing himself 😥
To not bring you down by that heavy bit, i'll finish with a story about Flake as a kid:
Flake first song by himself (1h12) was also about an animal, by the way: a mosquito. When he was a kid, his family had a sort of allotment garden (don't know if it's the right word), a little outside of Berlin, where they would go on friday after school, and on sunday they'd return to Berlin. Big city boy Flake would only have to set foot in the garden, and a whole swarm of mosquitos would target him and gave him huge mosquito bumps. Itched like crazy, but also inspired a song, so can't have been all bad 😊.
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