Fantastic show and yes, the rumors are true, Florian was not there. His replacement is a young man named Stefan Pfaff and he did a fine job. he did seem to be beside himself -stunned/amazed that he was on stage performing as a member of Kraftwerk must have been his dream come true last night he kept looking around the club and he had an actual smile on his face at times so you know he was having a good time
when the door slam came for Autobahn and the crowd threw up a big cheer he looked back at the sound/video techs on the side of the stage and then looked around at us in the audience with a big grin on his face - Ralph looked over at Stefan as if to confirm "see, what did I tell you?" the expression on Stefan's face was priceless and so easy to read as "you're right! they *do* know the song by the car door slam!" prop wise - no blinking LED ties they had the robots, they did the Tron suits there were some new videos or alterations to videos they also were doing lots of live remixing of songs (adding new elements to them) sound was great as we were on the floor about 10 to 15 feet from the stage in front of Ralph (left side) everything I can recall playlist (but not in order): they started with Man Machine Expo 2000 (UR version still) Numbers/Computer World Aerodynamik The Model Neon Lights Showroom Dummies (Ralph sung it in French - nice touch) Computer Love (when was the last time they played this live?!) Tour De France (both new versions and original) Radioactivity Elektro Kardiogramm Vitamin Autobahn Trans Europe Express The Robots (with one that resembles the new guy sort of) Boing Boom Tschak/Music Non Stop (which they ended with of course) all in all it was a great show lots of people there seeing Kraftwerk for the first time since I don't think Kraftwerk have ever been to Minneapolis (at least not in the past 25-30 years) I think there was some technical difficulties with one of their laptop stations - on some songs some elements seemed a bit delayed but just by a hair either that or they really aren't robots and it was human error awesome show, not many people were dancing (lots of classic rock old dudes around - and it is Minnesota so it takes extra energy to get people to move here) but our group (which included list lurker Drew) was dancing away and having a load of fun my wife actually got to see the show this time (unlike in Chicago) because we were on the floor and her view wasn't obstructed by any tall people MEK
