Prepare for Extreme Fangirl Squee! (Rammstein Flavored)
Tonight I saw Rammstein in concert for the first time, and, most likely, for the last time. I doubt they will come back to the Bay Area any time soon, and I feel supremely blessed I was able to see them in Oakland.
Rammstein is an old band with a large repertoire of songs to choose from. Most of the stuff they played tonight was from their latest album "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da," along with some old fan favorites. ("Mein Teil" and "Amerika" were sadly lacking.)
Highlights:
Each member of the band burned holes through a thin wall to enter the stage.
They used their fire-breathing apparatuses during "Feur Freui." We're talking giant tongues of flame leaping from the band members faces, people!
During "Ich Tut Dir Weh", keyboardist and band's favored whipping boy, Flake, was put into an old rusty-looking bathtub. The lead singer, Till Lindemann, was then levitated high above the tub on a giant metal piston-like mechanism. He was almost as high as the stage lights before he took a big metal bucket and "poured" sparks & fireworks into the tub in a flaming stream, brilliant and blinding. I could feel the heat on my face, way across the auditorium. Then Flake emerged from the tub in a glittering disco suit, having been "cleansed!"
At the beginning of "Weiner Blut," a spotlight shown on Till, who operated an old fashioned gramophone while narrating the beginning of the song (a dark tale of child abuse and murder, natch!) and then the stage lit up to reveal dozens of baby dolls hanging by their necks behind the band.
During "Pussy" (of course), Till had a giant dong-shaped cannon that shot out white confetti. It was a lot of white confetti!
At one point during the encore, the keyboardist was placed into a rubber raft and passed around the audience. Brave soul!
The set of the stage was awesome, metallic and industrial-looking pipes with over-hanging lanterns that shone a shifting pattern of red & white lights. And there was RED FIRE at some points.
The keyboardist cut an amazingly hilarious jig-like dance while the bad set up for another song.
They set the keyboardist ON FIRE, he ran around the stage for quite a while BURNING before they put him out. I mean, WOW O.O
For the song "Engel," Till donned flaming angel wings, which I sadly couldn't see very well.
Till rocked his trademark "smeared in motor oil & wearing dirty sort-of lederhosen" look like a champ.
I had so much fun tonight I can still hardly believe it was real . . . but I'm wearing the T-shirt to prove it!
TL/DR: :D :D Rammstein! :D :D
Rammstein is an old band with a large repertoire of songs to choose from. Most of the stuff they played tonight was from their latest album "Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da," along with some old fan favorites. ("Mein Teil" and "Amerika" were sadly lacking.)
Highlights:
Each member of the band burned holes through a thin wall to enter the stage.
They used their fire-breathing apparatuses during "Feur Freui." We're talking giant tongues of flame leaping from the band members faces, people!
During "Ich Tut Dir Weh", keyboardist and band's favored whipping boy, Flake, was put into an old rusty-looking bathtub. The lead singer, Till Lindemann, was then levitated high above the tub on a giant metal piston-like mechanism. He was almost as high as the stage lights before he took a big metal bucket and "poured" sparks & fireworks into the tub in a flaming stream, brilliant and blinding. I could feel the heat on my face, way across the auditorium. Then Flake emerged from the tub in a glittering disco suit, having been "cleansed!"
At the beginning of "Weiner Blut," a spotlight shown on Till, who operated an old fashioned gramophone while narrating the beginning of the song (a dark tale of child abuse and murder, natch!) and then the stage lit up to reveal dozens of baby dolls hanging by their necks behind the band.
During "Pussy" (of course), Till had a giant dong-shaped cannon that shot out white confetti. It was a lot of white confetti!
At one point during the encore, the keyboardist was placed into a rubber raft and passed around the audience. Brave soul!
The set of the stage was awesome, metallic and industrial-looking pipes with over-hanging lanterns that shone a shifting pattern of red & white lights. And there was RED FIRE at some points.
The keyboardist cut an amazingly hilarious jig-like dance while the bad set up for another song.
They set the keyboardist ON FIRE, he ran around the stage for quite a while BURNING before they put him out. I mean, WOW O.O
For the song "Engel," Till donned flaming angel wings, which I sadly couldn't see very well.
Till rocked his trademark "smeared in motor oil & wearing dirty sort-of lederhosen" look like a champ.
I had so much fun tonight I can still hardly believe it was real . . . but I'm wearing the T-shirt to prove it!
TL/DR: :D :D Rammstein! :D :D