"I give you my affection and I give you my time Trying to get a connection on the telephone line You're so close but far away I call you up all night and day"
@EW Music I'm sorry, but so far not convincing. The fact that the melody starts with D doesn't make it D phrigyan. Regardless of being a jazz musician (again, you don't know who I am).
Bartos was really good at coming up with melodies and often added some extra polish to song sketches, I don't think Kraftwerk could've been as enjoyable without his input. His solo stuff however is no match for anything created during the classic Kraftwerk era. Songs like TV and Life still have great melodies but the production and mixing is awful and ruins the songs.
Karl is useless without Ralf. Ralf is not useless without Karl, however. Karl made a big mistake by not waiting it out for the band to pick up steam again. He claimed he wanted out due to lack of activity, then he goes on to release a rather embarrassing album and very little after, and since has lived off the Kraftwerk name.
@@Arctic_Falconis is such a needlessly meanspirited comment. Kraftwerk is clearly missing creative input without Karl - whether or not you like his solo work, Karl has produced plenty of new content without his former band. I think it’s clear who is missing who - quite literally demonstrated in this video without a vocal line.
Ich finde die Gruppe noch so Gut, wenn Musik Spaß mag zu Spielen, warum denn nicht weiter Spielen soll. Sehr Guter Musik und Rafl schau noch gut aus mit seiner Sexy Stimme
I wish I had someone to go WITH to SD and LA. It's too late to plan a trip now. Tickets are probably sold out. Anyway, this video shows really good close-ups of their consoles. [Which you can't see from the audience, so, NYEH.] I can almost see the notes Ralf is playing- bouncing between D# & D, then G# & G.... *SPAZM* .... *WHEEEE*whirrklick*BLIP* I'll be up all night practicing this song; how to do the 'effects', etc. Or maybe I should just take a cold shower.
Yes San Diego show was DEFINITELY sold out last night LOL. However, they didn't perform this track last night :*( and I was WAITING for it, but they DID do The Model and Autobahn! I am sure the set list is up by now. I'm crossing my fingers they perform this tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl. Have a good one!
Kraftwerk loving friends/fans?? Very few to NONE on my end which I why I usually go ALONE! LMAO! I did this for San Diego, and I will be going tonight alone (hint hint you get the absolute BEST tickets this way! example: for tonight I actually was able to get a garden box section!,) Oh come on now Modesto (I am familiar with that area) is only a 5 hours exactly drive to LA , hell I even drive all the way up for shows at the Arco arena by myself, depending on who is playing of course. Just wanted to say hello and comment back to you, It is 1 30 and I have to start getting ready for tonight's show traffic is going to be a bitch. *I was going to be going to the football game today as well but figured THAT would be cutting it too close* so Kraftwerk WINS! Have a good one!
Ironically, KRAFTWERK had played around with various names [after Organisation] like "KRAFTWERK DYNAMO" and some reference to football. So- it would be nice to have time for BOTH, eh? :] I'm originally from EUREKA [HUMBOLDT] which is even more isolated. [At least here we have AMTRAK which is WAY nicer than GREYHOUND.]
Can't wait until September!!!!!!!!!!!!!! San Diego here I come got my ticket today! (even though I just got notified of the Hollywood Bowl show today, ok guess I will be going to that one as well, especially since it's the end of the tour with that performance, it should be amazing)
That's great! Hope you have a good time! I know I AM going to. LOL. You going to San Diego (wait until you see the place it's amazing!) or The Hollywood Bowl?? I decided to go to both wahoo! Figured what the hell, it may be a long time (or never again) when they return here.
+Moondra3 we're staying with my brother in SD (Poway) , but he managed to get us tickets for the Hollywood Bowl concert. My son wanted to go cos he remembers me playing Computer World on loop in the car when he was younger!
That's cool I imagine SD sold out fast! Poway lovely little town, I am in LA but go to SD a lot especially for concerts (the price difference is unreal!) Take some advice, wear comfy shoes!!!! Hollywood Bowl is very nice, but the parking sucks and there will be a lot of walking up hills to get to the bowl. I only go to the bowl for special occasions, such as this performance! but last time I went there (Depeche Mode) it was so unorganized I couldn't believe it, told myself "no more bowl for me" (guess I broke that rule ha ha) Ok have a good one. :)
Karl Bartos only sang The Telephone Call/Der Telefon Anruf as a Kraftwerk member. Both Tour de France versions (1983 and 2003) were sung by Ralf. That's the reason why Ralf never sings this song; maybe, a little respect to Bartos.
They are actually doing quite a bit of work, and what they are doing is exactly the same as what they did 40 years ago live, but mostly with touchscreens. One of the "impersonators" has been in the band for almost 40 years now, and the other for over 30 years. It's only Florian's replacement who is newer.
With all due respect but this is a downright sad reflection of what Kraftwerk once were (were!), including the song that still reigns supreme on "Electric Café" while here it is basically raped to the cheap levels of a "Lambada". Especially appalling is the total omission of the actual vocals (come on Ralf, at least you could have tried singing it) - overall, a lazy excuse of a "live version", Hütter's "music workers" toying about with samples, demonstrating the hi-tech gear. The latter definitely is something Kraftwerk always wanted and dreamed of previously - the sheer audio-visual minimalism that would have looked amazingly cool on stage in the year 1986, but today it totally degrades their legacy and genius now duly reproduced from the sampled bits, for geeks to cheer on without ever getting the feeling they've been cheated (as Lydon once said).
The only reason this song is done without vocals is because Karl Bartos wrote it. Ralf Hütter doesn't even want to acknowledge that Bartos existed, let alone sing his lyrics. It's a shame really because it makes this song entirely pointless. The whole falling out that happened between Ralf+Florian and Karl and Wolfgang is a silly circus and regrettable. Florian was less serious about the whole affair from what I read, he held no grudges against either of them in later years.
lol, what nonsense. Since the late 70s, live Kraftwerk has been about the visual aspect, and very heavily relied on sample playbacks; except back then it was done with cassettes via Florian.
@@Fuchsfein Actually, he omitted the vocals out of respect. This is basically "House Phone", the track that follows "The Telephone Call". Karl and Ralf are still on good terms and never had a falling out -- Karl simply left and they drifted apart. It's Wolfgang who is on bad terms with Ralf (and Florian when he was alive, for obvious reasons if you've read his gross book).
@@Arctic_Falcon Dirk Matten of Synthesizerstudio Bonn is a reliable source on Kraftwerk insider stories, he's been a close friend of Florian & Ralf since the early 70s. Florian even sent him a postcard during their '75 US tour with a little comet melody drawing on it. And according to Matten Karl Bartos did not "leave" KW in 1990, he was fired. Karl had the boldness to ask Ralf to make him 2nd in charge and throw Florian out of the band. Ralf was pissed of course and they fired Karl after that happened. It was Emil Schult who talked Karl into asking Ralf. That's why Florian later said, "if Emil walks in the front door, I'm leaving through the back door". Earlier, in 1983 Karl already got the band into trouble when he used the Paul Hindemith motif in the song Tour de France without telling Florian & Ralf where he took it from. The band got sued over this and R+F had to pay a considerable amount of money to the Hindemith estate. Matten says he normally does not give out private KW info but he wants to set some things right for people who always defend Karl as the good guy who did nothing wrong. Karl's book paints a much nicer picture of course, he left those little details out of his biography.
@@Arctic_Falcon Wolfgang actually visited Florian shortly before he passed away, so it's nice to know they held no grudge in the end. I think the same goes for Karl too. Matten talked about Wolfgang as well. He said Wolfgang could not hold his rhythm as a drummer. They had to do endless retakes of Trans Europe Express in the studio because Wolfgang always went out of rhythm. Later Florian suggested "we need to synchronize the rhythm" and they got the Triggersumme to make pre-set drum patterns like they used in Radioactivity on the 1981 Computer World tour. They did not let Wolfgang do anything music related in the 1981 concerts, he was faking flipping switches on the Triggersumme to make it look like he was doing stuff. The only thing Wolfgang really played was manual drums during Autobahn. And basically they told Wolfgang in 1987 "we don't need you anymore" "we no longer need a manual drummer." That's why Wolfgang was angry and wrote his spiteful book.
They are not playing live, never have. I've been to many of their shows, and they've gone from various props on stage, from big machines, to laptop computers, to minimal stands, to now this keys/pads setup... the sound is consistent, it's all pre recorded, little alterations made but nothing major.... but who cares, they are awesome, and their shows are magical.
It’s kind of hilarious that people think they’re actually playing live, but I guess most people don’t understand how this type of equipment works. At most they’re applying simple effects here and there besides for the guy who played the little section on the keys, which even then appears as though he may be just playing along for show. (Not saying he doesn’t know how to play the song, but to sound better live he’s probably doing the equivalent of lip syncing but with a keyboard in this case) Mostly just pressing buttons to look busy. Literally.
Exceller8 Idk them by name lol. Don’t care for their music enough to get into them like that lol. Not taking anything away from who they are and the impact they had on electronic music or music in general for that matter, because obviously they are legends in their own right.
![Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call (Full 12-Inch EP) [1987]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y-Fcx4SGKqo/mqdefault.jpg)
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No Text - well this one was sung by Bartos... haha
"I give you my affection and I give you my time
Trying to get a connection on the telephone line
You're so close but far away
I call you up all night and day"
It's a beautiful love song. Where were the vocals?
The Imaginary Gallery it's because Karl sang this song.
@@theimaginarygallery5935It's originally sung by Carl Bartos, so Ralf can't sing it in the same technique or as beautiful as Carl
I’m happy they left out the lyrics. Karl’s voice is irreplaceable. Still love the song regardless
Daft punk? I think these guys started it!!?
unfortunate there is a sad lack of Karl Bartos, even if most people are non the wiser i do miss him
Karl Bartos' vocals are magical on the original
why Ralf doesn't sing here?((
Because this song sing Karl Bartos in original album version
I swear the part that comes in at 1:58 is one of the most powerfully moving melodies I’ve ever heard.
I completely agree.
its in the phrygian mode, im 90% sure. the flat 2 gives it away
@EW Music would you please elaborate on this?
@EW Music Oh come on, it's just g minor. Don't look for difficulties where there are none.
@EW Music I'm sorry, but so far not convincing. The fact that the melody starts with D doesn't make it D phrigyan. Regardless of being a jazz musician (again, you don't know who I am).
Sounds like the fathers of the electronic music
Karl bartos 4 life
The coolest elderly men can be whilst standing still
This song was finale to the greatest dance music era ever.
Without Karl singing the lyrics it's only a torso ....
Exactly but it's a great torso
you're right, its a pretty good torso, but probably because bartos wrote it.
Bartos was really good at coming up with melodies and often added some extra polish to song sketches, I don't think Kraftwerk could've been as enjoyable without his input.
His solo stuff however is no match for anything created during the classic Kraftwerk era.
Songs like TV and Life still have great melodies but the production and mixing is awful and ruins the songs.
Karl is useless without Ralf. Ralf is not useless without Karl, however. Karl made a big mistake by not waiting it out for the band to pick up steam again. He claimed he wanted out due to lack of activity, then he goes on to release a rather embarrassing album and very little after, and since has lived off the Kraftwerk name.
@@Arctic_Falconis is such a needlessly meanspirited comment. Kraftwerk is clearly missing creative input without Karl - whether or not you like his solo work, Karl has produced plenty of new content without his former band. I think it’s clear who is missing who - quite literally demonstrated in this video without a vocal line.
This is basically House Phone. Which comes after The Telephone Call on Techno Pop
My daughter is extremely obsessed with kraftwerk!! She is 13 years old now and has been listening to kraftwerk since she was 1 and a half!❤
well that is parenting done right....
Viele Geräusche. Ich habe sie in Australien gesehen. Es ist ganz einfach. Ruhe in Frieden, Florian...🇵🇭🇦🇺 🇩🇪😍🔈🔉🔊
Is there an existing recorded video of a live performance where Karl sang this that I can find somewhere online?
Not with Kraftwerk but he does sing it here ruclips.net/video/0gmgocqkdU0/видео.html#t=25m23s
@@WillyBilliams Thanks!
Still the absolute genius, love from London Town, RIP FLORIAN.
Hutter seems old and stoned
but he is stiil feeling music
his muscles dance
02:03 - Delay :)
+BrKlingKlang LOL Hey! I just subbed to your channel a few minutes ago. :)
+Moondra3 thank you! welcome :D
Also nothing beats the original Analog keyboards, vs the new Digital, does not sound the same.
Ich finde die Gruppe noch so Gut, wenn Musik Spaß mag zu Spielen, warum denn nicht weiter Spielen soll. Sehr Guter Musik und Rafl schau noch gut aus mit seiner Sexy Stimme
Even they are not playing live, still awesome, minute 1:13, tells me its not live, look at the keyboard!
Haaa
It's because he isn't playing the head melody live, only the backing melody
@@SchwabbieKlausForPresident Live should be live, nothing on the background, that's my point
@@iroczo6627 Kraftwerk have been using playback samples live for over 40 years now.
@@iroczo6627 You clearly don't know how playing electronic music live works LOL
*AWESOME!!!*
I wish I had someone to go WITH to SD and LA. It's too late to plan a trip now. Tickets are probably sold out. Anyway, this video shows really good close-ups of their consoles. [Which you can't see from the audience, so, NYEH.] I can almost see the notes Ralf is playing- bouncing between D# & D, then G# & G.... *SPAZM* .... *WHEEEE*whirrklick*BLIP* I'll be up all night practicing this song; how to do the 'effects', etc. Or maybe I should just take a cold shower.
Yes San Diego show was DEFINITELY sold out last night LOL. However, they didn't perform this track last night :*( and I was WAITING for it, but they DID do The Model and Autobahn! I am sure the set list is up by now. I'm crossing my fingers they perform this tomorrow night at the Hollywood Bowl.
Have a good one!
All you lucky people enjoy the Konzert. [Why are there no other KW fans in Modesto for me to travel with??]
Kraftwerk loving friends/fans?? Very few to NONE on my end which I why I usually go ALONE! LMAO! I did this for San Diego, and I will be going tonight alone (hint hint you get the absolute BEST tickets this way! example: for tonight I actually was able to get a garden box section!,) Oh come on now Modesto (I am familiar with that area) is only a 5 hours exactly drive to LA , hell I even drive all the way up for shows at the Arco arena by myself, depending on who is playing of course.
Just wanted to say hello and comment back to you, It is 1 30 and I have to start getting ready for tonight's show traffic is going to be a bitch. *I was going to be going to the football game today as well but figured THAT would be cutting it too close* so Kraftwerk WINS!
Have a good one!
Ironically, KRAFTWERK had played around with various names [after Organisation] like "KRAFTWERK DYNAMO" and some reference to football. So- it would be nice to have time for BOTH, eh? :]
I'm originally from EUREKA [HUMBOLDT] which is even more isolated. [At least here we have AMTRAK which is WAY nicer than GREYHOUND.]
Essa é uma das minhas prediletas do álbum 🤗🙏👍 já cliquei no joinha 🤗👍🙏
Fantastisch
Dail again
Vanished 1991
Vivo vivo
Ptt
No ptt
Fa vanished sam sam
Ralf esta a un sandwich de reventar
i fall 2 my knees b 4 them.
SEEMS LIKE KNOWONE WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE REINS AND SING THIS AWESOME SONG............THERE BEST IMHO
KRAFTWERK istnieje. ELEKTROWNIA istnieje . Mówię Wam . Dariusz Morawski.
When the phone rings
Woooowwwww. Hack that phone bro!
RING! RING!
Where is the singing
@@mikeBlogic Karl Bartos did the vocals on this track,so Ralf has decided not to sing them.
Can't wait until September!!!!!!!!!!!!!! San Diego here I come got my ticket today! (even though I just got notified of the Hollywood Bowl show today, ok guess I will be going to that one as well, especially since it's the end of the tour with that performance, it should be amazing)
Me and my 19 year old son are going there too! Coming over from the UK and cannot wait. First time we'll have seen kraftwerk
That's great! Hope you have a good time! I know I AM going to. LOL. You going to San Diego (wait until you see the place it's amazing!) or The Hollywood Bowl?? I decided to go to both wahoo! Figured what the hell, it may be a long time (or never again) when they return here.
+Moondra3 we're staying with my brother in SD (Poway) , but he managed to get us tickets for the Hollywood Bowl concert. My son wanted to go cos he remembers me playing Computer World on loop in the car when he was younger!
That's cool I imagine SD sold out fast! Poway lovely little town, I am in LA but go to SD a lot especially for concerts (the price difference is unreal!)
Take some advice, wear comfy shoes!!!! Hollywood Bowl is very nice, but the parking sucks and there will be a lot of walking up hills to get to the bowl. I only go to the bowl for special occasions, such as this performance! but last time I went there (Depeche Mode) it was so unorganized I couldn't believe it, told myself "no more bowl for me" (guess I broke that rule ha ha)
Ok have a good one. :)
+Moondra3 Thanks for the advice.
The Specials are in SD whilst were there too, so gonna be a great holiday!
Ok how about something radical: Let Henning or Fritz sing this song 😎 On the second thought, Fritz is too busy. How about Falk? 😉
リズムマシンのリアルタイム監視、制御が。
さすがだなと思いますた。
アンタが田は感じれ短かな？
hahahahihihi
00:01 The Telephone Call 2:44 House Phone
Máster of synpsound epic
Yahhhh yahhhh it's like a remix of the telephone call and house phone with no singing. I believe Karl did the singing for this one and tour de france.
Karl Bartos only sang The Telephone Call/Der Telefon Anruf as a Kraftwerk member. Both Tour de France versions (1983 and 2003) were sung by Ralf. That's the reason why Ralf never sings this song; maybe, a little respect to Bartos.
Cristián Petersen so why is there a 1990's version sang by karl? Maybe he co wrote the lyrics.
If you have the source of that audio or video clip, I would be amazed.
MrChromed Karl sung his own version called Tour de France 98
WELL DAT WAS DIFFERENT
VERGÜENZA de FALSOS Kraftwerk, con sólo un miembro original.
Igual tienen edad para ponerse un traje no?
Охуенно! Респект и уважуха!
Shut up don't swear
Funny , but it seems at least three of these four "Kraftwerk" impersonators are standing there pretending to be busy......
They are actually doing quite a bit of work, and what they are doing is exactly the same as what they did 40 years ago live, but mostly with touchscreens. One of the "impersonators" has been in the band for almost 40 years now, and the other for over 30 years. It's only Florian's replacement who is newer.
With all due respect but this is a downright sad reflection of what Kraftwerk once were (were!), including the song that still reigns supreme on "Electric Café" while here it is basically raped to the cheap levels of a "Lambada". Especially appalling is the total omission of the actual vocals (come on Ralf, at least you could have tried singing it) - overall, a lazy excuse of a "live version", Hütter's "music workers" toying about with samples, demonstrating the hi-tech gear. The latter definitely is something Kraftwerk always wanted and dreamed of previously - the sheer audio-visual minimalism that would have looked amazingly cool on stage in the year 1986, but today it totally degrades their legacy and genius now duly reproduced from the sampled bits, for geeks to cheer on without ever getting the feeling they've been cheated (as Lydon once said).
The only reason this song is done without vocals is because Karl Bartos wrote it.
Ralf Hütter doesn't even want to acknowledge that Bartos existed, let alone sing his lyrics.
It's a shame really because it makes this song entirely pointless.
The whole falling out that happened between Ralf+Florian and Karl and Wolfgang is a silly circus and regrettable.
Florian was less serious about the whole affair from what I read, he held no grudges against either of them in later years.
lol, what nonsense. Since the late 70s, live Kraftwerk has been about the visual aspect, and very heavily relied on sample playbacks; except back then it was done with cassettes via Florian.
@@Fuchsfein Actually, he omitted the vocals out of respect. This is basically "House Phone", the track that follows "The Telephone Call". Karl and Ralf are still on good terms and never had a falling out -- Karl simply left and they drifted apart. It's Wolfgang who is on bad terms with Ralf (and Florian when he was alive, for obvious reasons if you've read his gross book).
@@Arctic_Falcon Dirk Matten of Synthesizerstudio Bonn is a reliable source on Kraftwerk insider stories, he's been a close friend of Florian & Ralf since the early 70s. Florian even sent him a postcard during their '75 US tour with a little comet melody drawing on it.
And according to Matten Karl Bartos did not "leave" KW in 1990, he was fired. Karl had the boldness to ask Ralf to make him 2nd in charge and throw Florian out of the band.
Ralf was pissed of course and they fired Karl after that happened.
It was Emil Schult who talked Karl into asking Ralf. That's why Florian later said, "if Emil walks in the front door, I'm leaving through the back door".
Earlier, in 1983 Karl already got the band into trouble when he used the Paul Hindemith motif in the song Tour de France without telling Florian & Ralf where he took it from. The band got sued over this and R+F had to pay a considerable amount of money to the Hindemith estate.
Matten says he normally does not give out private KW info but he wants to set some things right for people who always defend Karl as the good guy who did nothing wrong.
Karl's book paints a much nicer picture of course, he left those little details out of his biography.
@@Arctic_Falcon Wolfgang actually visited Florian shortly before he passed away, so it's nice to know they held no grudge in the end. I think the same goes for Karl too.
Matten talked about Wolfgang as well. He said Wolfgang could not hold his rhythm as a drummer.
They had to do endless retakes of Trans Europe Express in the studio because Wolfgang always went out of rhythm.
Later Florian suggested "we need to synchronize the rhythm" and they got the Triggersumme to make pre-set drum patterns like they used in Radioactivity on the 1981 Computer World tour.
They did not let Wolfgang do anything music related in the 1981 concerts, he was faking flipping switches on the Triggersumme to make it look like he was doing stuff. The only thing Wolfgang really played was manual drums during Autobahn.
And basically they told Wolfgang in 1987 "we don't need you anymore" "we no longer need a manual drummer."
That's why Wolfgang was angry and wrote his spiteful book.
They are not playing live, never have. I've been to many of their shows, and they've gone from various props on stage, from big machines, to laptop computers, to minimal stands, to now this keys/pads setup... the sound is consistent, it's all pre recorded, little alterations made but nothing major.... but who cares, they are awesome, and their shows are magical.
That's not through,they work on the sounds by a concert
Dr Thats such BS
It’s kind of hilarious that people think they’re actually playing live, but I guess most people don’t understand how this type of equipment works. At most they’re applying simple effects here and there besides for the guy who played the little section on the keys, which even then appears as though he may be just playing along for show. (Not saying he doesn’t know how to play the song, but to sound better live he’s probably doing the equivalent of lip syncing but with a keyboard in this case) Mostly just pressing buttons to look busy. Literally.
Exceller8 Idk them by name lol. Don’t care for their music enough to get into them like that lol. Not taking anything away from who they are and the impact they had on electronic music or music in general for that matter, because obviously they are legends in their own right.
There's a compilation of footage of them screwing up on stage, and you can hear the mistakes, meaning that they do play live to some extent