Rammstein's Richard Kruspe - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?

hi it's vince richard from ramstein on demigrate and you guys watching loudwire couldn't tag ich bin graham how long it took you to learn that oh yeah that's that's about like seventh grade that is a little or thank you that's all that's all i got but hey guys thank you for having me here and thank you so much for coming all right cool uh so yeah this is wikipedia fact or fiction so basically um we just went to your wikipedia page rahm stein uh emigrate all that stuff um put together a bunch of things and uh you can tell me what's fact what's fiction and you can elaborate in future okay uh you were born richard zven uh crisper in wittenberg east germany wrong already first of all first of all i was born on the name sven crisper which had changed to richard because i don't believe that everyone in the world should if they're enter 20 should have a chance to change their name because i don't like the idea that parents give you a name and you're never able to change that so that's why i changed my name secondly the city is wrong called vitinberger with an e in the end not bitten back okay i think it's a different city oh really okay all right at the age of 16 you bought your first guitar and czechoslovakia you would originally plan to sell it but once you return to east germany you met a girl at a campground and she asked you to play it and you didn't really know how to play it too well you're just kind of jamming and that kind of got you interested in playing the guitar and as a result you began playing every day and night for the next two years that's right that's right yeah and i wasn't drinking so i had a lot of time and uh money left because all my friends they were like talking and drinking so i was kind of bored and i was walking around and saw this music shop and in east germany couldn't buy any uh instruments oh that's really hard to get instruments there so i felt like okay i could buy an acoustic guitar and like make some money on you know because i was quite on myself with the age of 14. so i to take care of also business as well so my young age so and then i went back to the camp where we were at our tent and there was this girl asking me you know because she saw me with the guitar to play something for her but i couldn't and i told her i can't and i make myself clear i put the guitar and i was like strumming on the guitar yeah and somehow on her face made the impression to me that she liked what she was hearing even though i couldn't play so i think that was a key moment for me to start to make music which is not so true because in when i grew up east germany was all about sport yeah so um my music teacher actually called my parents once and asked me because she thought that i was kind of had something going but um my parents said no and i became a wrestler so that's why i didn't okay so until i found my guitar with the girl that you know made me play guitar and then i played really for for almost two years and i went to um to a conservatorium in in uh shivering in east germany and i remember that all those guys there they could really play well you know they could play all those songs and i couldn't for some reason so i just like really bad i must say the only thing i could play was a song by ufo called doctor doctor of course and so i went in with my guitars and just jammed along and somehow they liked me and that's why i got into the conservatorium which i learned for four years jazz guitar uh for an additional two years in your early twenties uh wikipedia says you lived in an apartment in east berlin with a drum kit and a guitar and you made music by yourself because you didn't know anyone else in the area you describe it as a lonely time but you used it very well to explore music yeah true okay yeah berlin in general west or east was kind of a really kind of it was a great city where a lot of things happened it was very very difficult to get in there it was kind of very snobby in a way you know especially the first years i knew i had to go away from submarine you know because there weren't that many musicians to play around so i had to do the next step so i left and i squatted an apartment okay and basically the only thing i had was this drum kit and my guitar and that's what i did a long time just play around and you know came up with things i was really lonely but then again you know to to make music you always be lonely i guess well it's obviously a very good subject for some great music out there uh on october 10th 1989 uh before the fall of the berlin wall yes you found yourself in the middle of a political demonstration accidentally and it says that you were hit on the head and arrested just for being there and you were thrown in jail for six days that's right i wasn't like that's true okay yeah i was i was actually at this time there was a new party drawing called the noise form and there was a lot of demonstration going on and i was trying to visit a friend and i came out of the subway station where i got all of a sudden around the circle from police and took me on a truck or some police car and drove me away and there was a six days of like interrogation you know we had to stay on the wall for hours and he wouldn't move they would hit you and obviously you know they wouldn't believe me because the story did i told him you know their thought that it was true so i never actually planned to leave the country so i never had a plan right now to escape but after that i felt like somebody was strangling me i felt like i couldn't breathe anymore so i decided to escape from east to west yes your first band ever was called orgasm death gimmick that's right that's a really really good man i know that you actually it's their explanation where when you get strangled that you get before you reach death you get an outcast ah the erotic wow okay well there's the meaning awesome uh since forming in 1994 ramstein have had no lineup changes yeah that's true that's so rare that's absolutely so rare well there's a lot of talking a lot of therapies yeah by it's just you know one of those things that i think what i tried to explain early before and interviewed it you gotta listen to your own rhythm of the band and i think a lot of people do chose differently which you know it's their choice everyone is free and every kind of choose what they want to but if you don't follow your own rhythm then you will be burned out at some point in your life and then you do mistakes and make back bad decision and we always to agree all the time to listen to each individual individual in the band and even think like if someone says like i can't do it anymore you know to really pay respect and you know honor that and say okay let's let's wait you know it was it's not an easy thing to do but uh it brought us to 20 years of not changing any members so it's quite quite good rahm stein and the self-titled song were both named after the ramstein ramstein airshow disaster yes 70 people were killed following a mid-air plane collision uh but then you guys have also said that the name was inspired by uh the giant doorstep type devices found on old gates called ramstein with an e at the end well it has a double meaning okay you know ramstein has a double meaning it wasn't inspired by that but the meaning of ramstein is also something he used to have in old old buildings you know to protect the house so and the other thing is that ramstein this city is spelled with one m so we got spelled with two amps okay so that's the difference so both just kind of together it just kind of worked that way yes cool uh it says in wikipedia that romstein's first major boost in popularity outside germany came when trent rezner chose two ramstein songs for the david lynch film lost highway i don't think that he chose the one i think that there okay what happened was that um when the record company came first and asked us about doing a video we didn't really had any idea about videos in general so we said yeah let's do a video and so they were asking us about the director and sir i love movie movies that's you know and so we said let's david lynch yeah really who better to make exactly videos but then the record company said well you know he doesn't really do videos you know so he's doing movies right now well i said like let's give it a try let's see what comes out of that so the story goes that they were sent in the package and he was in the middle of los highway and he was listening to uh to the cd and actually got inspired by using the music and let everyone on the set actually performing through the music so that's why oh how cool is that well yeah well it's awesome um it says that uh when you married a south african actress carol bernstein and karen karen that's my fault actually sorry about that uh in 1999 it says you actually composed the music for your own wedding that's right really oh it's beautiful only the wedding though how do you go about composing a music for your wedding what kind of inspiration did you take for that the song was really sad somehow so i kind of like foresaw certain things oh geez it was but it was really touching too uh for the mudder album uh it says that you wrapped a thread of your own hair onto the g string of the guitar saying that uh it gave the guitar a certain sound that you enjoyed is that just complete now what i did was actually i i every time i was playing a riff i was trying to beat up my heart okay another other watch where you can actually uh uh uh read to heart or upbeat sure so what i did was trying to reach the heartbeat exactly for the b to play exactly with the same heartbeat to the riffs oh wow a little insane when it comes to that but i do certain things like that yeah but nothing with uh tying a hair around us it's not a hair no it's not right here there in this kind of distortion sound so sonically impossible you started emigrate in 2005 but the idea for the band came after uh came to you after ramstein's mutter era well it came out of a frustration where i felt that i was doing too much you know as i tried to explain before ramsan is really kind of a democracy environment where everyone believes he can do everything which is good and bad at the same time so by me doing a lot of riding i guess the other guys felt they had to do the same thing so there was a certain kind of persian ban i think that when i not only started emigrate also left berlin to new york immigrated from from germany to america that i felt kind of relieved last one for you all right may 6 2014 emigrate's main website was displaying its usual content but started displaying a simple message in plain on a plain white background saying it works in black writing that's great yeah i don't know that but no it's i like it it sounds good though yeah really definitely it works apparently it worked fair enough good all right well thank you so much for calling thank you i really appreciate it all right emma 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Keywords: Richard Zven Kruspe (Composer), Rammstein (Musical Group), Emigrate (Musical Group), Loudwire, Wikipedia (Information Source), Wikipedia Fact or Fiction, Interview

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Length: 12min 42sec (762 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 05 2014

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[u/Yazman]

This was a great video, thanks for posting it! The interviewer seems like a cool guy and I like his style.

Also, I like interviews with Richard. He's always so outgoing and comfortable being interviewed. It's a big contrast with Till who always seems shy and uncomfortable in interviews.