Did you know?

[Art in Heaven]

I just checked to see if I could find a torrent to download Vicky the Viking and I did find two sources but they are both in Spanish.
It's not fair I telz ya,I telz ya it's not!

[Art in Heaven]

I remember they showed Vicky the Viking here in the very early 80's and I remember watching it with my neice and nephew who I was brining up at the time. The weird thing is, when I was in Germany last december I was in a Reva supermarket and I came across a Vicky the Viking lucky bag, (a lucky bag is a collection of sweets and little toys/activities all in one small bag I can't remember the proper name but here we always call them lucky bags), and I meant to buy a couple as a momento for the aformentioned neice and nephew but I continued round the store and forget. You are spot on though Maya, the village was called Flake. Boy that takes me back!

I did recognise the song, but I know a better version

[Maya]

The following are part of the LIFAD quiz of last february:

- Did you know Sven Helbig had the idea for the song cycle “Mein Herz brennt”, and the premiere was on 20th November 2003 in Kulturpalast Dresden?

More details: http://www.dw.de/german-band-rammste...s-up/a-1037892
You can find the videos in Torsten Rasch channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bockelson?feature=watch

- Did you know the name Flake originated from the cartoon series “Wickie und die starken Männer” / “Vicky the Viking“?. Vicky lives in a small Viking town, called Flake, with his parents.

- Did you know Gottfried Helnwein made the cover photos for the Sehnsucht CD. The surgical instruments where property of (Ernst) Ferdinand Sauerbruch, he is considered the most important surgeon in the first half of 20th century.


And you must guess the last, I'm sure it's not difficult.
Is this song familiar for you?

[Waidmann]

Where do you find such information?

Oh, in several places... Testemonies by people who meet or co-operated with the band, some of the lesser known interviews (there are rare sites that give you access to those interviews) and the book Bis das Herz brennt, the unoffical Rammstein biography .

[rammsteingirl527]

Where do you find such information?

[Waidmann]

Okay, I'll give some more, just to get things going:

- Did you know in the early days the band toured in Till's old van? It was an old thing, but big enough for Till to drive them around with their gear.

- Did you know Schneider's father earns even more money with music than his son? He's namely a well-known conductor constantly on the road with great orchestras.

- The pre-production of the Mutter-album took place at Heiligendamm. When entering the city, you see a sign "Heiligendamm, da wo das Land das Meer berührt." Needles to say that sign was inspiration for a line in the song Nebel.

[Maya]

I love this thread. I'll think about some stuff to add here.

[Waidmann]

This is a thread with facts / stories about Rammstein that many people don't know.

I'll start off with a few:

- Did you know the band originally had an entire other idea for the clip of Sonne? The first idea was to shoot a clip about the band being allied forces in a plane, about to drop an A-Bomb on Hiroshima. In the video the band would be in the plane waiting for the right moment, eventually turning into a fight where some band members refuse to drop the bomb while the others just want to do their duty...

- Did you know the album version of Ein Lied was just a demo to base the actual song on? They made this acoustic version so they could make an electric song with keeboards and drums. However they liked the demo already and didn't manage to improve it in any way, so they just took the acoustic demo.

- Did you know Coldplay singer Chris Martin is a very big fan of the song Amerika? He thought it's so well-written, he even integrated fragments of the song in some Coldplay concerts of 2005/2006.