Der Führer · Rock Opera (1977) (2496 Vinyl Rip) torrent

Lothar Siems & Walter Quintus – Der Führer · Rock Opera (1977)
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Vinyl LP | EMI Electrola 188-32508/09 | Musical | Germany

It's not easy to sort out my thoughts on this production. My parents have grown up in the 3rd
Reich and have talked about their experiences on some occasions. And now I hold a 35-years-old
record in my hands, that deals with their and my history, and has been censored, indexed, hidden
for 35 years and still is, and the musical could never be staged. It tells me that nothing has
changed since 1933, also today our leaders are pied pipers who don't want us to use our own
brains, if they are called Merkel, Obama, Putin or Bin Laden.
This is not a glorification of the rise and fall of the Third Reich in Germany in the 30s and
40s, but it's not a product of the peace movement or any other moral institution either. This
musical gives an overview of the historical events as good as possible in 80 Minutes, and
whatever your political stand is, the judgement is on you.
The musicians were some geniuses way ahead of their time from the Hamburg Krautrock scene.
The music is based on Krautrock, but lends some ideas from Evita, Rocky Horror Picture Show and
other productions of that period.
If your downloading these recordings be aware that this time it's not the music industry
watching you, but your pied piper's secret service. And if you comment this post, you're welcome,
but please keep in mind, that your comments tell as much about you as about the topic :-)


There's an extensive review on RateYourMusic written by RDTEN1:
This is easily one of the strangest albums in my collection and it's one I was hesitant to list
for fear someone might mistake me as some sort of right wing nutcase. I'm not ... in fact as a
member of the French resistance my mother was actually arrested by the Gestapo, dumped in a jail
and only avoided being deported to a concentration camp when the US Army overran the prison she
was being held in ... hum ... never thought that story would come up in a record review.
So what do I know about 1977's "Der Führer (Rock Opera)"? German musicians Lothar Siems and
Walter Quintus were apparently the brains behind the double album set. Siems and Quintus' musical
partnership stretched back to the mid-1960s including stints in The Chamberlains, The Quintus
Quartet, and a pair of early-1970s albums fronting the medieval/progressive influenced band
Parzival. Parzival recorded a pair of albums before calling it quits in 1973. With that
background it sure would be interesting to know how the pair (with an assist from Gisela
Siems in the lyrics department), went from recording misdeal influenced tunes to this bizarre
concept piece. Self-produced, the album featured a strange Anglo-German cast including Ian
Cussick, Peter French, and Neil Landon. A 28 tracks, double album set, the plotline was pretty
straightforward – tracing the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler. Condensing twelve years (1933–1945)
into about an hour was itself a pretty impressive feat, but if you believe the hype, the
recording sessions were surrounded by lots of weirdness including master tapes picking up
strange sounds. Anyhow, billed as a rock opera, the collection was clearly written with an ear
to some sort of stage production. The songs themselves offered up a mixture of pop and rock
pieces (some of them quite good), but much of the set exhibited a distinctive theater feel.
In reviewing the album it was also hard to draw a clear distinction between the music and the
story plotline – 'Magic Man' was a perfect case in point. Musically the song was amazingly catchy
sounding like something 10CC might have written, but the lyric's about Hitler's early magnetism
on the German psychic made for a real mismatch. Great song, disturbing lyrics ... A good analogy
was The Police song 'Every Breath You Take'. The track was a major hit when I was in college and
I had friends who simply adored the song, not realizing the lyrics detailed the thoughts of a
crazed stalker. Try to remember that when you're humming 'Magic Man' or 'What a Man!'.
Please read the complete review, track by track, on RateYourMusic.


Tracks
01. Ouvertüre · The pact 08:02
02. Führer wanted 02:06
03. Listen to me 01:22
04. Here I am 02:10
05. Magic man 02:49
06. Look here 02:04
07. Interview 02:59
08. Beware of him 02:45
09. He can't be bad 01:08
10. King of the world 03:36
11. What a man 02:51
12. III. Reich theme 00:42
13. Burning of the books 01:24
14. Brown clouds 03:33
15. Dying day 04:01
16. Berlin, Berlin 03:21
17. I'm alive 04:40
18. Every morning 03:03
19. Stalingrad 06:22
20. Tingel Tangel 02:20
21. Stalingrad is lost 00:43
22. We shall win 03:28
23. Total war 03:02
24. The looking glass 03:04
25. Nightmare 04:07
26. Wake up 02:02
27. Führerbunker 01:09
28. Pied piper 02:18
Total time: 80:58

Musicians
Lothar Siems: composition, production (ex Parzival)
Walter Quintus: composition, production (ex Parzival, sound engineer of CMP records)
Gisela Siems: lyrics
Neil Landon: vocals as Adolf Hitler (ex Fat Mattress, Achim Reichel, Flower Pot Men)
Peter French: vocals as Joseph Goebbels (ex Cactus, Atomic Rooster, Leaf Hound, Randy Pie)
Marti Webb: vocals as Eva Braun (London musical actress)
Ian Cussick: vocals as Warning Man, Soldier, Jew (ex Randy Pie, Lake, Duesenberg)
Ingeborg Thomson: vocals as Revue Girl
Karl Allaut: guitars (ex Gebrüder Engel, Udo Lindenberg)
Benny Bendorf: bass (ex Wonderland Band, James Last)
Jean Jacques Kravetz: keyboards (ex City Preachers, Frumpy, Atlantis, Inga Rumpf, Randy Pie,
Udo Lindenberg)
Adrian Askew: keyboards (ex Achim Reichel, Lucifers Friend, Atlantis, Inga Rumpf)
Bob Lanese: trumpets (ex Achim Reichel, Lucifers Friend, James Last, Peter Herbolzheimer)
Herb Geller: flutes, saxophone (ex Chat Baker, George Gruntz, Clifford Brown)
Okko Bekker: percussion (ex Liliental, Asmus Tietchens)
Berte Engels: drums
Phil Baumgarden, George Hayworth, Lyvia Yim, Iris Moore, Audrey Motaung Williams, Adrian Askew,
the Kodalis Chor: Choir
... and others
Recorded February – August 1977 at Rüssl Studios Hamburg