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By Thomas Morawitzky
On Saturday, The Toten Hosen inspired 65,000 visitors to Cannstatter Wasen with pathos, ridicule and rock'n'roll . It was the group's first concert after the mandatory break, which they had to insert after the sudden collapse of singer Campino. And he did not spare himself once again.
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Photo: Lichtgut / Oliver Willikonsky
Stuttgart – Campino sprints through the stage: "We're from Dusseldorf!" Cree does. "We are the guys from Opel Gang!" The Toten Hosen is gone, the guitars are attacking, the first song of the evening is still like this: "The Opel Gang". He comes from his first album; The most successful German punk band released it in 1983.
Fans of the Toten Hosen had all the reasons to worry until then: Campino suffered a hearing loss weeks ago; the big festivals, the concerts were canceled, a few days before the appearance of Stuttgart, the singer reported healthy. "It's our first show for over five weeks," he cries Saturday night on the Wasen stage. "I'm happy to be back with you today." The joy will be shown to him in the two hours and a half that follows: Campino sweeps the scene, he jumps, he leans far into the sea of revelers, takes the big stage again and again: a 56 years old, for each port performance, who never protects himself.
Campino spits, spits and sings blessed hymns
But this is not the only health of the Campinos, the dead Party trousers on the Wasen threat – around Stuttgart the mbades of water d & # 39; Autumn, a weekend, in the middle of the hot summer. On the Wasen, it stays dry – and pants, involuntarily absent for weeks, rage, a real stroke of luck for their audience. The screens around the stage shine in the colors of the album "mood of nature", but the energy center is deeper: Campino, Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf on electric guitars, Andreas Meurer on the electric bbad , vom Ritchie behind the drums the very first minute, constantly moving.
A famous group here who needs the audience who loves their fans. Campino completely irritates her voice, makes her roar, bow, crack, guttural, wild; he spits and spits and sings blessed hymns. The third piece of the evening is already "mood of nature", title of the last album of pants of 2017 – and the Cannstatter Wasen falls in the chorus with the Toten Hosen. Then there are the songs that make live the atmosphere – "Never say", "Everything home", the "love song" that Toten Hosen found inspiring in the street battles in Berlin.
For Stuttgart, there are only good words
Campino does not want to talk about politics, but much later, of course, he will, make himself strong for the Berlin club "Sea -Watch ":" I am horrified about the criminalization of people trying to save people in the Mediterranean, "he says, and the Toten Hosen are playing their song" Europa ", published six years ago on" Ballast der Republik "
" Bonnie and Clyde "dedicates Campino to his sister Judith Frege, who has long danced for the Stuttgart Ballet, and for Stuttgart," this city in which we know the culture to appreciate, "he says. Even more than good words, completely without irony, he praises his colleagues like Helene Fischer, Lenny Kravitz and the Fantastic Four, who occupy other halls and squares in Stuttgart the same. He dedicates a song to a fan who has just died tragically, and in the front row of the stage, he sees two who seem more alive than all. Lisa and Christian came from Biberach to see the Toten Hosen – "Look how those two smile at each other!", Says Campino and sings for her "Alles aus Liebe".
Alternating Pathos, Mocking and Rock'n'roll
When "Getting Up", the singer lies on his back, the camera shows him in coarse black and white, showing the crowd dancing in front of the stage. "Disco" is a 2008 piece – in the video, the Toten Hosen is wearing a fine thread. By December 2017, as they were playing in the sold-out Schleyerhalle, the Toten Hosen brought a small set of strings on stage for a few pieces, a curious move that could quite possibly fail at Cannstatter Wasen, in front of 65,000 spectators – but theirs Fans also wear this irony, celebrate with them the elegiac moments, the songs in which they reflect with courage and bravery the time that pbades. "Here is Alex" and "I wish you something", of course, the atmosphere rises the highest: the concert is an alternation of pathos, ridicule and rock'n'roll; roll. Iggy Pops "The Pbadenger" is missing this time – Campino embraces him like the devil, a long night has risen
Finally "You will never walk alone"
With "Sincerely, goodbye" it seems the end of the long feast. But the pants return to their colorful scene for a last reminder: "A last song, a last dance … everything goes as it should be" – then the recovery of a song AC / DC, then "Days Like This ", several months in the charts in 2012. Once again, Campino's voice roars through the lines, biting the guitars, beating the drums, beating the mood swings of mood . "And again and again / these are the same songs / that look like / that time is stopping" – that's the name of the song of pants "Altes Fieber".
The Toten Hosen play their repertoire at the Cannstatter Wasen, pound all the highlights of their long career, play many songs from "Ballast der Republik" and "Faun der Natur", the hit albums of the youngest years: a concert, typical of the group, which has existed for 36 years and which guarantees the biggest party. Campino sends fans home with the hymn of all football stadiums: "You'll Never Walk Alone". They do not walk alone, and it is only in the last minutes of the long show that the rain begins to fall, as if the energy of the Dead Pants had finished the sky by then.
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