A Quote by Florian Schneider

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

Florian Schneider

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Am Band Ideas Me Our Vehicle

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Florian Schneider
German - Musician
April 7, 1947 - April 21, 2020

As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf Hütter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly Weiß). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.

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