RAMMSTEIN Guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe Discusses 'Pussy' Video

RAMMSTEIN guitarist Richard Kruspe spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about the hardcore-pornography-based clip for the band's new single, "Pussy", which can be viewed at this location. (WARNING: The video contains nudity and sex scenes and is not suitable for minors.)

"Originally we were going to do a song like 'Mein Teil', a core-sounding song," says Kruspe. "But we were bored of doing the same thing again and again and I said, 'Let's do 'Pussy'. If we were to make a video for it, it could be really interesting.'

"We [approached] our favorite director, Jonas Åkerlund [who has previously worked with METALLICA, SATYRICON, MADONNA and THE PRODIGY], and there was a 50/50 chance [that he would do it]. He could love it or hate it. Three hours later, we got an e-mail from him saying, 'I've listened to the track, let's make a revolution — let's make a porn!' and I don't forget the reaction of the band. They had a big smile on their faces and they said, 'Yes!'

Kruspe continues, "After doing the video, which was obviously quite interesting, we thought, 'You can't play the video on video stations or MTV.' We just found another way to make it accessible to other people.

"At the moment, we've had 6.5 million people watching the video in one week. What I'm saying is that there's always different ways.

"I remember how horrible it was in the first part of our career to be dependent on MTV and all of those station. You have to bend over so many times to get played, I just hate that fucking fact. I just like the fact that there's always another way if you wish for it and you go for it. It just shows that there is always another way and it satisfies my mind and that we can do things exactly the way we think we should do it.

"It wasn't a conscious thing, we just wanted to try something else. We shot a porn video, [so] what's the best place [where] we can host it? On a porn site!"

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"Pussy" is the first single from RAMMSTEIN's new album, "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da", which is due in the U.S. on October 20 via Vagrant Records (October 16 in Germany). The CD artwork can be viewed below. The band's first new album in four years contains 11 songs which were once again mixed and mastered by Jacob Hellner in Stockholm, Sweden. Pre-production for the new release was done at Castle Beerenstedt in eastern Germany's Halle/Saale while the bulk of the recording was done in late 2008 at Northern California's Sonoma Mountain Studio.

"Liebe Ist Für Alle Da" track listing:

01. Rammlied
02. Ich Tu Dir Weh
03. Waidmann's Heil
04. Haifisch
05. B******
06. Fruehling In Paris
07. Weiner Blut
08. Pussy
09. Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
10. Mehr
11. Roter Sand

The "Pussy" single was released on September 18. It was made available a two-song digipack, also featuring the track "Rammlied" as the B-side.

RAMMSTEIN is:

Till Lindemann - Vocals
Paul Landers - Guitar
Richard Z. Kruspe - Guitar
Oliver Riedel - Bass
Christoph Schneider - Drums
Flake Lorenz - Keyboards

RICHARD Z. KRUSPE

Looking for an Angel is a book dedicated to Richard Z Kruspe
was my first book because he is my big muse

Pussy

1er single "Pussy"

"Así que tomame ahora, oh, ¿no ves que no puedo tener sexo en Alemania ..."

Después de cuatro años de estudio de la abstinencia, el primer sencillo del nuevo álbum sale 18 de septiembre! PUSSY! Llevado por una ola gigantesca de la testosterona, Rammstein desenvaina su espada y presenta lo que hace del hombre un animal. Así que enciendan sus motores. Con el acelerador a fondo en la autopista de los clichés de Alemania, donde se rinde homenaje a la mano-a-mano batalla entre los sexos con palabras como Bratwurst, Blitzkrieg, y Mercedes-Benz ... a destinos en el extranjero, Heidi pasado con su hamburguesas y lejos de la frauleinwunder alemán. Allí, se esconde el placer como un abismo ....

El único que aparece como una pista de 2 digipack y también en línea con la canción "Rammlied" como B-Side en todas las tiendas. Para los EE.UU. "Pussy" es lanzado exclusivamente a través de iTunes - la edición especial del Reino Unido de vinilo (7 "y 12") se pueden comprar en Whatrecords.
Y esperamos con interés un nuevo video de Jonas Åkerlund!
El nuevo álbum aparecerá en octubre, pero más sobre esto pronto.

LIFAD

QUE EL AMOR LLEGUE A TODOS

LIFAD “Liebe Ist Fur Alles Da” (El amor es para todos) es la nueva campaña mundial para que el mensaje de amor llegue a todos los rincones del planeta.
Necesitamos que Argentina se sume con fuerza a esta iniciativa global y para eso tenemos stickers con el logo de LIFAD para que peguen por toda la ciudad. Los que quieran participar, pueden pasar a retirar un sobre con 10 stickers por Freire 932 o Juramento 1775 y mandar fotos que nos muestren donde los pegaron. Las tres propuestas más originales y visibles serán recompensadas con remeras y discos de la organización LIFAD.
Tenés tiempo hasta el 13 de octubre.

www.rammstein-la.com.ar

my work on www.bubok.com

Looking for an Angel

por Lady_dark

Autor: Paula Cecilia Dozetos
Categoría: Poesía
Subcategoría: Contemporánea
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Sinopsis

Yes, I chase a ghost, I dazzle an angel and every night I lie to me same and I follow it around unknown paths, I do not know well where I go, but only hope to wake up next to him.

Otros libros del autor

who is????

Richard Zven Kruspe (born June 24, 1967) is a German musician and the lead guitarist of the German rock band Rammstein. He also used to be named "Bernstein", after his South African ex-wife Caron Bernstein. They were together for five years until separating in 2004, filed for divorce, which was finalized in 2006, after which his name reverted to Kruspe again.

Early life

He has two older sisters and an older brother. His parents divorced when he was young. His mother remarried, but he did not get along with his stepfather. As a child, Kruspe was a fan of Kiss. According to him, KISS "represented capitalism in its purest sense, and every child was KISS-infected because they were so big. Kids wrote KISS on their notebooks, and if the teachers saw it, they could get kicked out of school just for having it written on their books." When he was twelve, he had a KISS poster in his room, but his stepfather tore it down and destroyed it, and Kruspe stayed up all night putting it back together.

Musical career

First guitar

At the age of sixteen, Kruspe and some friends visited Czechoslovakia, where he bought a guitar. He had originally planned to sell it, because they were very expensive and thought he could make a nice profit. However, once he returned to East Germany a girl at a campground he was staying at asked him to play. He told her that he couldn't play, but she kept insisting, and Richard got mad and started strumming the strings. "The harder I played," Kruspe said, "the more excited she got. Something clicked in my head and I realized girls like guys who play guitars." This got him interested in playing the guitar, and as a result, he began playing every day and night for the next two years.

At the age of nineteen, bored with the apathetic music scene locally, he moved to Berlin and lived on Lychener Straße and "made music all day." For two years, Kruspe lived in an apartment with a drum kit and guitar, and he made music by himself because he did not know anybody there. "It was a lonely time" according to Kruspe, but he used it to explore music.

Orgasm Death Gimmick

Around 1991, Kruspe started the band Orgasm Death Gimmick. Also in 1992, Kruspe made a trip Back to the United States with Till Lindemann and Oliver "Ollie" Riedel. He realized that he did not want to make American music and concentrated on creating a unique German sound. With Till Lindemann, he covered the Aria song "Shtil", which was published as Schtiel in order to be pronounced properly in German.

Rammstein

Main article: Rammstein

In 1989, Richard escaped from East Germany via the border between Austria and Hungary. He went to West Berlin and started a band in 1991, Orgasm Death Gimmicks. At that time, he was very influenced by American music. After the wall came down, he moved back home to Schwerin, where Till Lindemann worked as a basket weaver and played drums in the band First Arsch.

At this time, Kruspe lived with Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (of the band The Inchtabokatables) and Christoph "Doom" Schneider (of Die Firma). Richard realized that the music he had previously made was not right for him. He envisioned something with machines and hard guitars together. The three started working together on a new project.

Kruspe soon found it hard to write music and lyrics at the same time. He got Till to join them as he had often heard him singing while working. A contest for new bands was announced and the prize was studio time. The four of them recorded the first Rammstein demo and won. Paul H. Landers knew them all and wanted to know what they were doing. After listening, he agreed to join. At this point, all they needed for the machine-sound was a keyboarder. They tried to get Christian "Flake" Lorenz to join, as he had played with Paul before in the band Feeling B. Flake was not entirely thrilled with the idea at first and didn't want to join for a long time. But, he eventually agreed.

About the time the band was formed, they all had relationship problems which provided the foundation for their debut album, Herzeleid (Heartbreak), in 1995. Since then, they have reached gold and platinum status for their music and have become Germany's number one music export.

Emigrate

Main article: Emigrate

Kruspe began work on a solo project after Rosenrot, called Emigrate. The band was significant because it was the first time in his career that he took the role of lead vocalist, and also because all the lyrics were in English (in the self-titled CD's liner notes, Kruspe credits his former wife Caron Bernstein as a co-writer). Emigrate's self-titled release was mildly successful to the target audience in America. There were three singles: "New York City" and "My World" (which was featured in the film Resident Evil) and "Temptation". Both "New York City" and "My World" had music videos, but "Temptation" did not.

Though Kruspe did a handful of interviews and appearances for the band, he never performed live. He left the project to return to the studio with Rammstein.

Equipment

The dates show when Richard used his equipment (and studio dates) during his Rammstein Tours, in exception to the ESP Emigrate Eclipse.

Guitars ^[1]

Richard's main instruments for touring are ESP guitars, but has used different guitars in the past.

• ESP Custom Rammstein Eclipse (Modeled after the RZK-1) (2009) (Seen in the music video for Pussy.)
• ESP RZK-1 Richard Kruspe Signature Electric Guitar (Titanium) (2005)
• ESP KH-2 Kirk Hammett Signature Electric Guitar (Black) (1997 - 2000)
• ESP KH-2 Kirk Hammett Signature Electric Guitar With KH-4 pick guard customization (Black with Pearl Pickguard [also a model with a mirror pickguard]) (2001 - 2005)
• ESP EC-1000 Electric Guitar (See-thru Black Cherry) (2001 - 2005)
• ESP Custom Emigrate Eclipse Electric Guitar (2007)
• ESP Eclipse CTM1 Electric Guitar (Vintage Black) (2005 - 2005)
• ESP Custom Maverick Guitar (Silver with Pearl Pickguard) (2002 - 2005)
• ESP 901 (Red Sunburst and Tobacco Sunbust) (1995 - 1998 [Cherry Sunburst]) (1997 [Tobacco Sunburst])
• ESP AW-500 Kozi Signature Electric Guitar [1] (2002)
• Fender Stratocaster (Tobacco Sunburst) (1996)
• Takamine EF341SC Acoustic Guitar (2004 - 2005)

Amplifiers/Effects ^[1][2]

• Rath-Amp Amplifiers (1995 - 1999{?})
• Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Heads (With Voodoo Amps mods) (2000{?} - 2009)
• Marshall And Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Cabinets. Can be seen using a wall of Mesa Boogie 4x12 Cabinets on the music video for Pussy.
• Digitech Whammy(?) (Can be heard in the tracks Stein Um Stein and Zerstören.)
• Roland JC-120 Combo (? - 2008) (Used in the studio.)

Personal life

On 10 October 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was riding through the subway. When he came above ground, he found himself in the middle of a political demonstration. He was hit on the head and arrested just for being there, and thrown in jail for six days. Once out of jail, he decided to leave East Germany. In those days, one couldn't just leave East Germany, so he entered West Germany through Czechoslovakia. When the wall came down, he moved back east.

Kruspe married South African (American) actress Caron Bernstein in 1999. The ceremony was Jewish and Kruspe composed the music for it. He took on the name Richard Kruspe-Bernstein during their marriage. They separated in 2004. His name is now back to its original "Kruspe" as the divorce was finalized.

He speaks English and sings in English for Emigrate.

Khira Li Lindemann

Born on February 28, 1991, Khira Li Lindemann-Kruspe is the daughter of Rammstein's Richard Z. Kruspe. She has the last name of "Lindemann" because her mother was previously married to Rammstein lead singer Till Lindemann. Khira's mother kept the last name "Lindemann" when she divorced Till and later, she and Rammstein guitarist Richard Kruspe got together and had Khira but never married and later split. This, gave Khira the last name of "Lindemann". Sometime in 2001 he moved from Berlin to New York where he resided to live closer to his now ex-wife Caron.

In 1998, Khira Li appeared in Rammstein's "Tier" performance in Live Aus Berlin. In 1998, she sung the backing vocals for "Spieluhr" on Rammstein's 2001 album Mutter. Merlin Besson

Merlin Besson

Born on December 10, 1992, Merlin Besson is the son of Richard Z. Kruspe. Different surnames suggests that he and Khira Li Lindemann are half-siblings. Both he and Khira Li Lindemann are believed to reside in Berlin, Germany.