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The Year 1986
Trip to Helgoland
That January, after Trini's switch from drums to management, the band bumped into Woelli - a real stroke of good fortune, because now the band had another musician beside Kuddel who had more than just a vague notion of how to play his instrument.
Camping in Wackersdorf
Thus it was that in May everybody went into action to record the third Hosen album. "To stay on top andmake it to the final, you've got to reduce the tempo of the game and keep possession of the ball" was Trini's metaphorical game plan. Afterwards, the band were faced with the sober realisation that this tactic had produced a decent enough result, but that album sounded altogether a tad too polished and smooth for their liking. The following promotional tour presented them with the opportunity to prove that there was life in the old dog yet. "As long as Johnny Thunders draws breath, I'll remain a punk. As long as there's something to drink, we'll party on!" as the song "Wort zum Sonntag" ("Sunday sermon") so eloquently puts it. In order to add emphasis to their exhortation to mass propagation in "Hofgarten", the band threw condoms into the crowds before each gig on the tour. It didn't appear to have the desired effect though, at any rate not so as anybody in the band noticed! One of the more exotic venues of the tour was the concert on the North Sea island of Helgoland. Although the concert had been prohibited by a court order, without further ado the Hosen transformed the event into a football match, much to the bemusement of the spectating custodians of the law assembled in their hundreds. Another highlight of the year was the anti-nuclear festival at the reprocessing plant at Burglengenfeld: The Toten Hosen, the entire German Rock premier league and a one hundred thousand strong crowd, thronging to the strains of "Ficken, Bumsen, Blasen!" (Fucking, shagging, blowing!"). |
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