Smith, songwriter and lead singer of The Adverts, which continues to the present day. Tote-Hosen-Frontmann Campino hat bereits die doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft. Lead singer Alexander Kaschte changes the final lyric to "Hey! That summer the band travelled to Italy to report on the FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations. 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. 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.. Their spring tour in 1989 included a sell-out performance at the huge Westfalenhallen in Dortmund. 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. In 1994 the band was on the road for almost the entire year in Germany and neighbouring countries. Mit vielen neuen unveröffentlichten Fotos. ‚Hasta La Muerte‘, das haben wir uns in unsere Haut geritzt, Songtext „Wie viele Jahre (Hasta La Muerte)“. 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. 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 Sound of Liverpool, Rocco del Schlacko, Open Flair und Taubertal. An international version of the best-of album was released in 1994 called Love, Peace & Money. 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. 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. 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. They can be seen as pioneers of "Volxmusic",[26] which combines elements of German folk music with jazz, hip-hop or rock. Nur andersrum. 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. Viele Jahre und unzählige Konzerte später, überall auf der Welt von Argentinien bis Zweibrücken, sind die Toten Hosen bereit für weitere Abenteuer. Faith No More have covered the Toten Hosen song Hofgarten in live shows. 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. Their first album was recorded in a studio rented by the hour. The show aired every Sunday from 7 to 8 pm for a year. The album contains rock versions of German 1960s pop songs. [33] From 2001 to 2003, they sponsored the club after it had experienced major financial difficulties. The band released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for a Hallelujah), a video documentary of their lives. … Furthermore, they performed at the Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Festival, the Berlin Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne. [18] At the end of the year the band founded their own record label JKP. 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. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover of the song on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed. I am Alex!) Guitarist Walter November left the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems. Klassische Handhobel haben eine feste Schneide, die im Hobelkörper fixiert ist. In 1986, they recorded their third album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). At the end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the player Anthony Baffoe . In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock, the biggest open air festival in Europe. 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. It is also used to paraphrase impotence or lack of sexual activity, cf. „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! All members except one are German, though Campino's mother, Jenny, was English. as a wry joke. [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. (Hey! In 1984, the band played a session on the BBC's John Peel Show. 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. [29] In 1992, the band participated in a demonstration against xenophobia in Bonn. 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"). In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming for the band into their management, where he worked until 1992. They were chosen by the jury as the best band of the event. Gerüchte gibt es viele, hier stehen die Tatsachen. The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Hawaii. He joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli sustained injuries in a car crash. „Die Hosen können mich immer fragen, wenn ihnen irgendwann mal das Geld ausgehen sollte“ Interview. The single Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher (Sascha... an upstanding German) was released for Christmas 1992 as a vehement condemnation of right-wing radicalism. '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band (European version). Wie viele Jahre kann das so weitergehen? 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. [34][35], Die Toten Hosen have reserved space for 17 people at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof cemetery, where they wish to be buried after death. [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. 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). Their 1000th concert was on 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended by over 60,000 fans. [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. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop, who became the band's manager when Wölli joined. They turned down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to write a song for their European election campaign in 1994. The director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's unadventurous staging, but Campino was cheered by the audience. The match took place in the stadium at the Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf. 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. Mai 1985, taz, Ausgabe 11–30/Juni 1990 u. [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]. From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a public discussion forum but this was terminated without explanation. Rohde’s first concert was also the band’s first concert in front of a very large audience. 2–8/Juli 1990, "Bundesliga - Bitterböse Glückwünsche an Hoeneß", "68.793 Euro Steuergeld für die Toten Hosen", "Krebs: Ehemaliger Hosen-Drummer Wolfgang 'Wölli' Rohde ist tot", "Düsseldorf – Tag des Friedhofs 2002 – Südfriedhof", 125 Jahre die Toten Hosen: Auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück, La hermandad – en el principio fue el ruido, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Die_Toten_Hosen&oldid=995838334, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles needing additional references from March 2020, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 December 2020, at 04:14. A special edition includes a bonus CD with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. In Spring 1985, the band toured France for the Goethe Institute[9] and in Autumn they travelled to Hungary and Poland. In 1993, the album Kauf MICH! Adopting aliases Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen have played small club shows together in the past. Meldung. and Reich und sexy. The band was criticised for accepting 68,000 € of German government funding towards this tour. 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. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as the band's drummer before Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took over in January 1986. Wie viele Jahre, wieviel Zeit, die für uns übrig ist? In the same year the band released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf). The song grossed half a million Deutsche Mark.[16]. Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 at the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. The album also marked the beginning of the band's collaboration with T.V. [15] was released and reached number one in the German charts. 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. 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. 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. [36], 1988 to 1995: Recognition and early success, 1996 to 2020: JKP – the beginnings with their own label. The first album under their own label was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released in 1996. On the cover the members of the band are naked, portraying pretentious millionaires from the music industry surrounded by nude women. In July 1983, the band signed to EMI, who financed a video for Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder, directed by Wolfgang Büld. [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.