Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - The Tribe

I was nominated by @katharsisdrill to participate in this challenge, where you have to write seven consecutively posts about songs from your high-school/college years, that somehow were important for you.

After yesterday's music challenge post, I had a discussion with @roused about why I didn't become a music-video editor and producer. I told him, that I couldn't afford my own editing suite at first and when I could, I had spent so many years in the industry, that I rather needed some detachment from doing videos.

My first Music-Video (2018 re-edit)

But at least I was able to buy my first video camera (with the support of my friends in the late 80s) and so I learned to be creative with the limited resources, I had at hand. After I had to move out of my first flat in Dortmund, I found a room in a flat sharing community in the much nicer western part of the city. And while I had the video camera, I made my first music-video by recording it without any editing.

Today I decided to do a re-editing of the thing and share it with you. It pretty much gives you an impression of my life and emotional state during that time and I certainly used the same music, as in the original video. Enjoy!

_{Music: Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - The Tribe
Camera, editing and leading actor: @shortcut}

Edit: At first there were some problems viewing it at dLive, so I also uploaded it to youtube.

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Caspar Brötzmann

Caspar Brötzmann is an electric guitar player borne in Wuppertal, which is the neighboring city of where I grew up. His father, Peter Brötzmann, is a free jazz saxophone player, who also worked as a painter and was involved with the Fluxus movement.

While Brötzmann typically performs with the power trio lineup of Caspar Brötzmann Massaker (his early band), with guitar, bass guitar and drums, he only uses rock and roll and heavy metal music as a basis for his music. Brötzmann's technique has been praised: "...his attack on the instrument — explosive, obstreperous, large scale, textural, timbral — asserts the material facts of string-pickup-amplifier more bluntly than anyone else currently involved in rock".

Source

The Tribe

After I saw Caspar Brötzmann Massaker performing live, I instantly bought their record The Tribe and heard it quite a lot, because the powerful music reflected my feelings and helped to come over it at the same time. Here is a live performance of the whole song from 2011:

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - The Tribe (Berlin Live 2011)

Thanks for reading!

@shortcut

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The #musicwaybackchallenge rules:

• Choose one song from your high-school/college years.
• Write a few words about who made you listen to this song for the first time, what this song means to you (was it a breakup song? you blasted it at 100% on your audio system when you were partying with your friends?) whatever you want.
• Write your text while listening to the song. As soon as the song ends, wrap up what you where writing and submit it.
• Do this for 7 days in a row if you get nominated
• Mention one person who should do this on each day.
• Tag it with #musicwaybackchallenge and include these rules at the bottom of your post