Bis zum bitteren Ende – Die Toten Hosen Live!
Occupation
- Vocals: Campino
- Electric Guitar: Andreas von Holst
- Michael Breitkopf
- Wolfgang Rohde
- Jacob Keusen
Studios
- Dieter Dierks Studio Mobile
To the bitter end of the first live album by the punk rock band Die Toten Hosen. It was during various concerts of the tour added during the year 1987 with the title A colorful evening for a black republic, produced by Jon Caffery and published at the end of the year 1987 on the label Virgin Records. It reached the top 23 of the German album charts and was, until the mid 1990s, the album that has the second highest sales of a German band.
Cover design
The front cover, decorated in orange and black, designed by the Trousers Cover AG and LMP shows the inscription Die Toten Hosen and the album title against a background of yellow laughing skulls. The accompanying booklet contains newspaper clippings, concert photos and lyrics. On the back of children's pictures of the band members can be seen. The first edition of the vinyl edition was included with a template of the band logo eagle bone.
Formation
With a concert on 29 March 1987 in Wartburg in Wiesbaden concert tour began under the slogan A colorful evening for a black republic under the leadership of Jäki Eldorado. She led over Hamburg, Baden -Baden, Bonn, Cologne, the Bruchhausen Festival in Bruchhausen- Vilsen to Münster.
On 14 and 15 June 1987, the band played two shows in Munich, which were partly absorbed by Bayerischer Rundfunk for broadcast Live from the Alabama. They played in Baindt, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Hoexter, Osnabrück, Haltern am See, the rock in the Sports Park Festival and the Plattlin Festival in Göttingen, in Mannheim and a second time in Bonn.
After the event at the Roskilde Festival on July 3, 1987 in Denmark, drummer Wolfgang Rohde broke a collarbone. By the end of the tour took him Keusen Jacob, who in 1985 played temporarily for the band. The concert tour went on to Haltern, Oberhausen, Wuppertal, Dusseldorf and Deggendorf. On 5 September 1987, the band played at the Tempodrom in Berlin, on September 19 in Garching and at the peace festival on 15 September at the Olof Palme Peace Festival in Pilsen, where the band, after a boisterous celebration along with who had traveled from the GDR fans, was forced by the police to leave the country immediately. The tour ended with a Christmas concert on December 23, 1987 at Tor 3, Dusseldorf.
During the concert tour, the group X hour from Dusseldorf and London band blubbery Hell Bellies denied the preliminary program. Partly were also The Golden Lemons as guests on the stage.
The concerts were recorded by the mobile recording studio Dieter Dierks, the mixing and final mastering of the album until the bitter end was done by Jon Caffery in the studio Preußenton in Berlin.
Sequence, announcements and title list
The title of the album goes back to the same song, which was published in 1983 for the first time on the debut album Opel-Gang. An a cappella version of the song appeared on the album and the album Ladies choice from the year 1986. Live the band plays this simple drinking song, mostly in the encore after the call and response principle with the audience.
The arrangement of the songs on the album is based on the order of the set list, as it was played on most concerts of the tour. From the greeting at the beginning of the album, spoken by tour guides Jäki Eldorado: "Dear Punk Rocker, the wait was worth it. Are you all doing? Do you like some lemonade? Is Purple Schulz the greatest for you? You guys are on the completely wrong concert. This is punk rock. These are Die Toten Hosen from Dusseldorf! " It flows seamlessly into rock ' n ' roll, an interpretation of the song by Gary Glitter.
With Police on my Back, originally performed by The Equals another English-language cover version on the album is available. For Disco in Moscow, the lyrics of the song by The Vibrators Campino was transferred to the German language. Army of losers, love song and had been previously released as B- sides. The song Jürgen Engler party of the debut single We were ready in the roses give ' a party changed, with the hosts the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen is meant under Die Toten Hosen album Never Mind The Hosen - Here's Die Roten Rosen in year had published in 1987. Happy Metal Part I, Friday the 13th, Happy Metal Part ' II, Drunk on duty and Happy Metal Part III as a medley together.
Many songs are announced Campino, for example, the word for Sunday: " It is time that Saturday evenings throughout the priests and pastors finally cut off times and let a few sensible people speak the Word to Sunday: Lemmy of Motorhead for example, or of course Johnny Thunders. That 's ours " or the title Black Forest Hospital, which includes a mocking swipe at Dieter Bohlen and Thomas Anders of Modern Talking :" The next one is from a hospital where the patient wear the white coat, and it is called the Black Forest Clinic ".
New edition 2007
End of 2007, among other things, the album was reissued to the bitter end, all the pieces remastered and designed a completely new booklet. The CD also contains the recordings of a concert that gave the band in 1992 in Edinburgh and was broadcast live on the radio.
Additional titles
Review and Awards
To the bitter end entered the German charts on 4 January 1988, stayed there for 20 weeks, and reached the high doping No. 23 The Austrian charts entered it on 15 February 1988, remained there four weeks and reached as the highest rank 17 The album was for more than 500,000 copies awarded a platinum record in Germany.
Hollow Skai considered in his book Die Toten Hosen from the year 2007, the album as the " most vibrant live album of a German band," long live " above all of the good atmosphere " and present " Campino first time as a charismatic entertainer. " The reviewer of Rheinische Post is of the opinion that the album showed " what constitutes the early Pants". During the " Punk Rock Fireworks " experience to " a band that is everything ." " Authentic " it would not work.