Between love and anger

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Between love and anger is a song by the Klaus Renft Combo that was released on record in 1972. The song was composed by Peter "Caesar" glasses . The text is from Gerulf Pannach .

history

The Klaus Renft combo (later also: Renft) was won by Pannach as a copywriter at the end of the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the cultural policy was East Germany after the appointment of Erich Honecker to SED - Secretary comparatively tolerant. During this time, Pannach wrote several texts critical of authority. The title was produced by Amiga . It appeared in 1972 as the B-side of a single and as the second track on the fourth hi-record . The piece is not included on the first long-playing record of the Klaus Renft Combo, which was released in 1973. Pannach & Kunert played the song around 1977 after they left the GDR with guitar and piano accompaniment. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the song appeared on numerous compilations and live albums by the Klaus Renft Combo.

description

At the time of recording, the Klaus Renft combo consisted of Peter Gläser (vocals, guitar), Klaus Renft (bass), Thomas Schoppe (vocals, guitar), Pjotr ​​Kschentz (guitar, flute , saxophone), Christian Kunert (keyboard), Gerulf Pannach and Jochen Hohl (drums). The singer was Thomas Schoppe, who still sings the title at concerts today.

Between love and anger lasts 4 minutes and 35 seconds in the original version. The rock song is composed in a minor key. Each four uniform lines are followed by a guitar riff with flute accompaniment. After the second riff, the chorus is sung significantly higher and more intense. Another stanza is followed by a longer solo of electric guitar and organ , another time the chorus, another stanza as at the beginning and a short flute solo . The conclusion is formed by two repeated stanzas and the short coda .

The high vocal part in the chorus was inspired by Whole Lotta Love from Led Zeppelin .

The text refers to the theory and practice of a revolution or socialism . The (local) rulers are almost blatantly accused of only talking about revolution but not practicing it. The spirit of the Paris Commune of 1871 is portrayed as exemplary.

"Tomorrow is revolution in today, there is no bed and no throne for the ass of satisfied people."

- Gerulf Pannach: Between love and anger.

Expenses (selection)

single

  • 1972: Caesar's Blues / Between Love and Anger ( Amiga )

Albums

Others

In 2009 the exhibition “Of love and anger. Being young in the dictatorship ”conceived as a traveling exhibition. The first presentation of the exhibition took place in the Thuringian state parliament in Erfurt. Since then, it has been on view in various German cities and had 150,000 visitors (as of September 2013). Christian Kunert appeared at the 2013 exhibition in Nordhausen .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renft album Das Erbe, same version
  2. ↑ Interview with Thomas Schoppe at deutsche-mugge.de , accessed on March 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Between love and anger - legends never die. In: renft.de. March 19, 2004, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ site of love and Zorn.de , accessed on September 30, 2013
  5. ^ Event information ( memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 30, 2013