I finally remembered that i wanted to ask you something for a very long time:
Is it richard who does the back up vocal in deutschland?
And are there any other songs where you can hear that it is him in the background? (Apart from doing it together with paul like in mann gegen mann for example) Sometimes I think that he does the backup in giftig as well.
I don't listen to emigrate so i don't really recognize his voice all the time
Yes, for Deutschland we have confirmation that Richard does backing vocals, together with Meral Al-Mer, this is from the Untitled leaflet:
I think usually on songs the backing vocals are Till's, like when i was looking stuff up for this ask, i came across this talk (Amsterdam 2017) by Jacob Hellner, producer of several Rammstein albums, about the recording proces and a.o. how he tracks the vocals
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It's quite long, but in the info you can find the timestamps where he addresses certain topics 🌺
i don't have an example with both Paul and Richad doing backing, but i love when they do so live, with Paul's voice usually being the lower and Richard's the somewhat higher vocals 🌺
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I know many people don't really like Richard's vocals, i think including himself (that's why he has many guest vocalists on Emigrate), but i think he's getting better over the years, i think my favorite is "I'm still alive", and think he sounds especially good in the, for him, higher registers 🥰
My mind went to so many different ways when thinking about this one.
I like when Till goes nuts, like his screams in Puppe or B*****.
I like when his voice is soft like in Diamant.
I love when his voice is powerful yet kind, like in Klavier or Nebel.
But then I decided to go completely different way. Not with Till.
But with Richard's vocals in Deutschland. I think his voice perfectly complete whole song and it is great soft contrast to Till's deep raw voice. And I love it even more when Richard is singing it live.
During one of our paid gigs at the Wilson Hall, I remember a drunken Teddy Boy at the front of the stage became fixated on the group, haranguing us and eventually managing to engage Paul in conversation. This was a learning curve for Paul: don't engage in conversation with the audience if you can at all avoid it, especially if they were Teds. Especially big, mean, drunken Teds. Paul was shaking his head in the direction of the Ted saying "No, no," but the more Paul shook his head the more determined the Ted was to get Paul to do what he wanted. Eventually he climbed on the stage, all the time demanding that we perform 'Long Tall Sally', which Paul was refusing to do. As a group at this stage we hadn't planned to do this number because we hadn't rehearsed it. Paul certainly knew it well enough; it was one of his 'party pieces' from before joining us. Paul knowing it was not the same as having rehearsed it as a group.
Anyway, this Ted was having none of it. He refused point blank to leave the stage. With one hand tied behind his back, he could have made mincemeat of the lot of us if we'd tried to make him do so. Tempers would not hold much longer. His temper, I mean. Realising this, Paul relented and agreed to sing the song provided the Ted left the stage, which to all our relief - especially Paul's - he did. Needless to say, the moment the guy left the stage, Paul launched himself into 'Long Tall Sally' and I remember he really gave it some wellie. Fortunately for us, this satisfied our customer to the point he didn't come back with another request.
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