All band members are self-taught musicians. From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a public discussion forum but this was terminated without explanation. On November 27, 2020, the single "You're No Good" dropped online. The song grossed half a million Deutsche Mark.[16]. „Die Hosen können mich immer fragen, wenn ihnen irgendwann mal das Geld ausgehen sollte“, 15 Jahre „Nur zu Besuch: Die Toten Hosen unplugged im Wiener Burgtheater“, „Ich stolpere immer von einer Geschichte in die nächste.“ (Teil 2), Learning English Lesson 3: MERSEY BEAT! After the filming the congregation called for the church to be reconsecrated. In 1986, they recorded their third album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). The right-wing Republikaner party failed in its attempt to have the song banned for defamation and thereby unintentionally contributed to the success of the single. The show aired every Sunday from 7 to 8 pm for a year. [30], In 2002, the band attracted publicity by posing undressed for posters of the animal rights group PETA under the slogan Lieber nackt als im Pelz (Better naked than in fur). version 2 with fine-tunes chord variations may follow. In 1988, the band released their commercial breakthrough, the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little bit of horrorshow). 1978, im Alter von 16 Jahren, gründete er die Gruppe Zentralkomitee Stadtmitte, kurz ZK, die stark von der Punk-Szene im „Ratinger Hof“ beeinflusst war. The original back cover featured the skeleton of a dog sitting in front of a gramophone, a caricature of the His Master's Voice artwork used by EMI. MC Frontalot, in collaboration with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR on the track Rappers We Crush, rhymes "What did I do to deserve this?/What was my crime?/Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time?". In Spring 1985, the band toured France for the Goethe Institute[9] and in Autumn they travelled to Hungary and Poland. In the same year the band released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf). [25] The band kept to simple guitar chords and lyrics, in garage style. Klassische Handhobel haben eine feste Schneide, die im Hobelkörper fixiert ist. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Never Mind the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Faith No More, "30 years of punk history: Die Toten Hosen", Bericht aus dem Musik Express 8. Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with numerous other musicians (like Bad Religion, AC/DC, U2, Rolling Stones); they are also one of the few German punk bands popular outside Germany, with a large following in South America, Australia and Eastern Europe. It is also used to paraphrase impotence or lack of sexual activity, cf. The Damenwahl tour was sponsored by the northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst the crowd. In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming for the band into their management, where he worked until 1992. Mai 1985, taz, Ausgabe 11–30/Juni 1990 u. Along with Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, BAP, the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival in July 1986 to protest the construction of the nearby Nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock am Ring festival. [19] The single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten little master huntsmen or rather: ten little Jägermeisters) went to number one of the German-speaking singles charts. (Hey! Die Ärzte Darum sind die Spaßpunker so gefragt 15.11.2019. German rock group Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a more gothic sound. The current members of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti (Michael Breitkopf). [36], 1988 to 1995: Recognition and early success, 1996 to 2020: JKP – the beginnings with their own label. Their 1000th concert was on 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended by over 60,000 fans. A special edition includes a bonus CD with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. The single Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher (Sascha... an upstanding German) was released for Christmas 1992 as a vehement condemnation of right-wing radicalism. At their first concert at the Bremer Schlachthof over Easter 1982, the compère mistakenly introduced them as Die Toten Hasen (The Dead Hares). In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen released their first live album Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End). [17] In the same year, the band released Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their first best-of album. In 1990 the Toten Hosen were invited to attend the New Music Seminar in New York[12] and performed as support for The Rolling Stones in Cologne. A few songs have elements that are lifted from jazz (e.g. In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest open air festival in Europe. The match took place in the stadium at the Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf. Die Toten Hosen (literally "The Dead Trousers", figuratively "dead boring" referring to "erectile dysfunction") is a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was an honorary member of the band until his death in 2016. Faith No More bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on the cover of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Faith No More. Jetzt zog Schlagzeuger Vom Ritchie nach. In 1991 the Toten Hosen released their album Learning English Lesson One, a tribute to the band's musical influences, consisting mainly of cover versions of English punk rock classics. Furthermore, they performed at the Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Festival, the Berlin Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne. The focus of the band's music has gradually shifted from funny and nonsensical to serious. Their first album was recorded in a studio rented by the hour. That summer the band travelled to Italy to report on the FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations. The band is reputed to have played for free at private birthday parties or similar events in their early years, so long as the host provided them with unlimited beer and covered all damage caused by the band. On 26 April 2016 it was announced that former drummer Wolfgang Rohde had died of cancer.[24]. The band openly support political and social organizations in their music, interviews and by donations, but are not affiliated with any political party. (Buy ME!) Die Toten Hosen left EMI and signed to Virgin Records. Willkommen in unserer Welt. Tote-Hosen-Frontmann Campino hat bereits die doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft. In July 1983, the band signed to EMI, who financed a video for Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder, directed by Wolfgang Büld. [13] For this purpose they recorded a rock cover version of the classic Azzurro by Adriano Celentano, accompanied by a video satirising the behaviour of German football fans when abroad. Legal action by EMI prompted the album cover to be changed to the skeleton of an eagle, which, along with the Jolly Roger, became a band logo. The title explained the front cover of the LP, which carried a picture of the band members dressed as pirates aboard a ship. Ab Freitag erstmals das komplette Konzert im Streaming, als Download und am Samstagabend der ganze Film live auf dem DTH-YouTube-Kanal, 16.8.19 Konzertdoku von Bastian Bochinski. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. [29] In 1992, the band participated in a demonstration against xenophobia in Bonn. They turned down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to write a song for their European election campaign in 1994. In 1993, the album Kauf MICH! Several songs were recorded in Rio de Janeiro with Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs. The first album under their own label was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released in 1996. Von „1/2stark“ bis „Zwei Mädchen aus Germany“ – das komplette Archiv aller Songs, die wir seit 1982 veröffentlich haben. as a wry joke. Its founder members were Campino and Andreas von Holst, both from local punk band ZK, with Andreas Meurer, Michael Breitkopf, Trini Trimpop and Walter November. In September 1988, Die Toten Hosen performed at the Lituanika Festival in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. 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Egal, ob Rock am Ring, Club-Gig oder Wohnzimmer-Konzert – was Campino, Kuddel, Andi, Breiti und Vom antreibt, ist es nach wie vor, live zu spielen. Vier Jahre später, als Punk auf dem absteigenden Ast war, rief er antizyklisch die Toten Hosen … [Intro] D G D Ich wart seit Wochen, auf diesen Tag G und tanz vor Freude, über den Asphalt Bm Als wär's ein Rythmus, als gäb's ein Lied G Das mich immer weiter, durch die Straßen zieht C G D Komm dir … He joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli sustained injuries in a car crash. The current members of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti … Simplified chords for "Tage wie diese" by Die Toten Hosen. In the summer of 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed as the supporting act for U2 on their Zoo TV tour in Germany, with audiences of over 50,000 people at each concert. On occasion they have played songs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. shows footage of these concerts. [11] The album included Hier kommt Alex (Here comes Alex) was later re-recorded in an unplugged version in 2005 incorporating the opening piano phrase of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The video to the song Kauf MICH! They can be seen as pioneers of "Volxmusic",[26] which combines elements of German folk music with jazz, hip-hop or rock. Der Tote-Hosen-Schlagzeuger Vom Ritchie besitzt nun auch die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit. Other influences on the music of Die Toten Hosen include hardcore punk, punk blues, heavy metal, thrash metal, and hard rock. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as the band's drummer before Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took over in January 1986. In 2010, the band played several dates in Central Asia and became the first foreign rock band to perform in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan since 1991. In early 2018, Members of Die Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Australian band The Living End's eighth studio album Wunderbar, which was recorded in Germany. The band was criticised for accepting 68,000 € of German government funding towards this tour. [6] One of the two A sides of the third single was the drinking song Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder (ice-cold Bommerlunder schnapps), which received considerable radio airplay and increased their fan base. At the end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the player Anthony Baffoe . [7], At the end of 1983, they released Hip Hop Bommi Bop, a hip-hop version of Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder featuring New York rapper Fab Five Freddy.[8]. Meldung. The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Hawaii. In summer 1995, the band staged an ice hockey game called Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), playing in a team alongside professional players from Düsseldorfer EG against a team composed of Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys and Finnish national ice hockey players. The death of Dutch girl Rieke Lax at the concert prompted the band to release the song "Alles ist eins" (Everything is one) in her memory. In some of their songs Die Toten Hosen experiment with strings or wind instruments. Mit vielen neuen unveröffentlichten Fotos. The same year, they covered the song while headlining Germany's biggest rock festival Rock am Ring. Artist Andreas Gursky produced Tote Hosen, a blown up photograph of the crowd from a Die Toten Hosen concert, depicting youths excitedly cheering for the band, many wearing the red Hosen shirt. Die Toten Hosen Promi-Bild des Tages 19.11.2019. [10] In 1987, the band celebrated its first chart success with the record Never Mind the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen (Never mind the Trousers – Here’s the Red Roses) using the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses). Adopting aliases Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen have played small club shows together in the past. At the beginning of their musical career most of them were still at school. Its songs express opinions on consumerism, advertisement and right-wing extremism. When a goal is scored at the club's ground, the Esprit Arena, the chorus of the band's song "Strom" is played. On the cover the members of the band are naked, portraying pretentious millionaires from the music industry surrounded by nude women. [34][35], Die Toten Hosen have reserved space for 17 people at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish to be buried after death. The album contains rock versions of German 1960s pop songs. [21] The song was also released as a downloadable track on the American version of Rock Band on 27 May 2008. The band released their first album titled Opel-Gang in early 1983 on their own label Totenkopf (skull). German public television refused to screen the video for several years for fear of offending churchgoers. Each track featured at least one member of the original band that had recorded it. All members except one are German, though Campino's mother, Jenny, was English. [33] From 2001 to 2003, they sponsored the club after it had experienced major financial difficulties. Lead singer Alexander Kaschte changes the final lyric to "Hey! and Reich und sexy. For the most part, The Toten Hosen have not departed substantially from their original style of music, choosing power chords,[27] straightforward lyrics, simple melodies and anthem-like choruses over long instrumental solos. Der traditionelle Bandkalender für 2021 ist da! The band's 1992 Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen (People, Animals, Sensations) tour included concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, France and a their first ever dates in Argentina. Zu jedem Partyfass gibt’s ab sofort den offiziellen Session-Sticker 2021. Smith, songwriter and lead singer of The Adverts, which continues to the present day. [31] in 2005 they funded 'On the Run', a compilation album to raise funds for immigrants' rights organisation Pro Asyl, and contributed the song Meine Stadt (my town).[32]. An extended tour followed under the slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover of the song on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed. The album referenced the Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick's film of the same name and was largely written for Bernd Schadewald’s theatre adaption of A Clockwork Orange. Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 at the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. They performed together with Herbert Grönemeyer, Nina Hagen and others for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. ‚Hasta La Muerte‘, das haben wir uns in unsere Haut geritzt, Songtext „Wie viele Jahre (Hasta La Muerte)“. Campino was twice hospitalised after concerts in Byron Bay and Geelong in Australia. Ein halbes Leben sind wir schon unterwegs The drummer Vom comes from England. Wie viele Jahre, wieviel Zeit, die für uns übrig ist? In November they gave four concerts in the US and in Canada as support act for Green Day. In 2002, the band signed an advertising contract with the Diebels Brewery, and donated the proceeds to the club's "Nachwuchs" (youth side), who wear the band's skull emblem on their shirts. [23] On 2 October 2010, the band played in Amman, Jordan, their first concert in the Middle East. The name and cover art of the record are a parody of the LP Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols from 1977. … Nur andersrum. In 2012 Die Toten Hosen even covered Die Ärzte's Schrei nach Liebe on the bonus disc for their album Ballast der Republik. Warum werde ich nicht satt), reggae (Zehn kleine Jägermeister) or Yugoslavian gypsy music (Das Mädchen aus Rottweil). The band released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for a Hallelujah), a video documentary of their lives. Die Band spielt Rockmusik mit überwiegend deutschen Texten und Elementen aus dem Punkrock.Neben der Berliner Musikgruppe Die Ärzte ist … abzurichten. [3] According to Andrea Berzen, Campino preferred the former because it implied that their concerts might not be sold out, but there might be "tote Hose" on the nights.[4]. 125 Jahre Die Toten Hosen Auf Dem Kreuzzug Ins Glück (Album) 11 versionen : Totenkopf, Virgin: TOT 11, 353 841-226: Germany: 1990: Diese Version verkaufen: 11 versionen : 212 310, tot 31: Die Toten Hosen: Learning English, Lesson One … Guitarist Walter November left the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems. They were chosen by the jury as the best band of the event. The band's members are passionate fans of their local football team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. An international version of the best-of album was released in 1994 called Love, Peace & Money. „Die Hosen können mich immer fragen, wenn ihnen irgendwann mal das Geld ausgehen sollte“ Interview. The album also marked the beginning of the band's collaboration with T.V. In 1984, the band played a session on the BBC's John Peel Show. The proceeds of this song were donated to an anti-racist charity campaign in Düsseldorf. It depicts a chaotic wedding ceremony in a small Bavarian church, with Kurt Raab playing an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride. Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge (Under False Colours), was released in 1984. Dafür hat der 56 … [22] Die Toten Hosen also have a special edition of SingStar for PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively to the band, featuring 24 tracks and videos from over the decades, which was released in 2007. In 1994 the band was on the road for almost the entire year in Germany and neighbouring countries. In 1995 they supported Greenpeace, IPPNW, Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for a nuclear test ban), the BUND (German Friends of the Earth chapter) and they were featured on the track Tout Pour Sauver L’Amour (Everything to save love) on the Stop Chirac compilation album. Over the course of the band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their loyalty to their home town in various ways. [5] The debut single Wir sind bereit (We are ready) was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang, the next year. Wie viele Jahre kann das so weitergehen? The songs from the band's first LP were mostly about having fun, but by the end of the 1980s they were focusing more on political and social issues such as racism. The Sound of Liverpool, Rocco del Schlacko, Open Flair und Taubertal. Campino mentioned that the band lost significant CD sales in the southern Germany since the release of the song.[20]. Die Toten Hosen (literally "The Dead Trousers", figuratively "dead boring" referring to "erectile dysfunction") is a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf History. The director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's unadventurous staging, but Campino was cheered by the audience. The band released a football-themed song named "Bayern" in 2000 in which they proclaim that they would not join Bayern Munich under any circumstances. Die Toten Hosen are supporters of the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf. Gerüchte gibt es viele, hier stehen die Tatsachen. Die Toten Hosen were mainly influenced by punk bands from the 1970s, to whom they frequently pay tribute in recorded work and live performances. Die Toten Hosen (Pseudonym: Die Roten Rosen) ist der Name einer Musikgruppe aus Düsseldorf, die sich aus der deutschen Punkbewegung entwickelt hat und 1982 gegründet wurde.. According to their friend and one time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose the name Die toten Hosen – which literally translates as "the dead trousers" but connotes the German idiom "hier ist tote Hose" or "hier herrscht tote Hose" meaning "there is nothing going on here", "it’s boring here"[2] – over Die Pariser. In 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, silk stockings and high heels and took part in the Düsseldorf Mardi Gras parade with their own float under the slogan "We bury good taste". [15] The Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were a supporting act at the Ramones farewell concert in the River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires in front of 75,000 people. [28], In 1991, their track Fünf vor Zwölf (it is high time) was published on the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and in 2006 they supported the band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't stand Nazis) campaign. Heino successfully obtained a court order to cease and desist. '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band (European version). Ich bin Alex!" Its songs deal with faith and religion. was released and reached number one in the German charts. The double album Kreuzzug ins Glück (Crusade to happiness) was released in 1990 and sold over 150,000 copies in its first week.[14]. In August 2006, Campino starred as Mack the Knife in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast, a short distance from the theatre where the play premiered in 1928. Ziel ist, die Oberfläche zu glätten bzw. EMI were displeased with the band's high travel costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling artist Heino at a Toten Hosen concert. In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast der Republik. Faith No More have covered the Toten Hosen song Hofgarten in live shows. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became the band's manager when Wölli joined. [18] At the end of the year the band founded their own record label JKP. For a period, Die Toten Hosen had three albums in the German charts at the same time. The album went platinum, their third record to do so, after Kauf MICH! Starting in April 1995, the Toten Hosen got their own radio program on Fritz radio in Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats of dance music"). Rohde’s first concert was also the band’s first concert in front of a very large audience. Viele Jahre und unzählige Konzerte später, überall auf der Welt von Argentinien bis Zweibrücken, sind die Toten Hosen bereit für weitere Abenteuer. It charted in the German and Austrian Top 30. I am Alex!) Der Hobel ist ein Werkzeug zur spanenden Bearbeitung von Holz.Die Oberfläche des Holzes wird bearbeitet, indem mit dem Hobeleisen oder -messer Späne vom Material abgetragen werden. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Some of the band's songs have been described as "Schunkelpunk", a fusion of German schlager music and punk, exemplified by Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder, numerous cover versions of German schlager songs and tracks like Azzurro. For half a year the band played on stage at the Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg theatre in Bonn, alongside Ralf Richter, the play's lead actor.