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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed, but interesting for Kraftwerk fans, 1 May 2001
By A Customer
I had some idea of what to expect of this book, having read some reviews of it before buying it. It does contain quite a lot of interesting material about Kraftwerk, especially about various gigs/tours that they did, and their social life in Dusseldorf in the earlier days. You do get the impression that Flur was always somewhat distanced from Hutter and Schneider, and his main contribution later on appears to be around building various pieces of equipment for the studio. However, the total lack of information about the recording process could be as the result of the injunction taken against him, where he says there are some things that he's not allowed to write about. He also goes on at great length about his current project, Yamo. With a good editor, the book could have been reduced by a third, and have been better for it. If you're going to buy one KW book, Pascal Bussy's is a better overview, but all fans should probably own this too.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating summary of a human and musical life., 17 April 2001
By A Customer
my name is Zusannah Winebergh, and I am a fan of Kraftwerk and Wolfgang Flürs book 'I Was A Robot'. I found it very interesting how Wolfgang described his adveture of life and music - AND girls. This is a happy making biography of a human person, and thanks god not a book about synthesizer analysis....Wolfgangs charming and highly amusing love affairs which I - as a woman - liked very much too, I must confess. If men generally could only be that kind of man, wouw! The book is a clear description of the social differences in a band and resulting of this their inability for a together future. We learn a lot about Ralf and Florian, especially about their behaviour with their mates, their good educations from their family homes, about their lust of luxury and elegance and how they proceeded with music making and recording. And this is not only to be read between the lines! We also learn - especially in the last chapter - about the craddle of their sound and how others, like Christa Fast for instance, saw the pair in their musical beginning with her husband, Conny Plank.(very amusing her comparison to Andy Warhol) Read this book, I only can recommend it, and you will not put it out of your hands until you've finished it. Wolfgang is a nature talent and you also can learn from him - and his new music, Yamo, which is wonderful, I promise! This is something which will give you new happyness for life...
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Big advertisement for Yamo and lots of resentment..., 22 May 2001
By A Customer
I have to agree with a previous reviewer, this book might be a third shorter and it would be the same; Saddly Herr Flür tries every literary style, making this a confussing and sometimes boring mixture of biography, novel (his dreams narrations are fully disposable from the rest of the book) and even poetry... You can notice since the first pages that among Kraftwerk always existed class grudging, Wolfgang being a middle class hippie, simply never was able to stand his colleagues (Hutter and Schneider) wealthy and flashy status and coldness towards their employees (yes Wolfgang fans, it might be sad, but actually he was an employee), so this help you understand as you keep reading why he keeps such ill feelings against them that became greater because of legal action on their part against this book; If something is enjoyable about the book, are the touring experiences that Flür writes about... well almost all of them, but his persistent "buy Yamo cd" attitude that you can find in almost every page, spoils the whole effect, on the other hand, he keeps blaming and accusing something that made him everything that he is now, so it's difficult to be sympathetic with his view of life... well, he even dares to say that Yamo's "Time pie" is much more better than Kraftwerk's "The mix" album... something's wrong here pal, Yamo might be an interesting concept, but even in music there are still ranks... Anyway if you're a fan of Kraftwerk you will enjoy parts of the book, but not too many saddly.
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