The rainbow and the weasel.
If someone had told me that someday I would be able to put them together in one sentence, let alone see them on the same day, I probably would have told them - weaker.
I spotted this animal, a mammal from the marten family, on top of a building opposite the hotel where I was staying in Frankfurt, closing the window before going to bed.
The furry bun landed first on one part covered by the tarp, briefly observing the surroundings, then quickly ran away and reappeared at the skylight - also briefly.
And the rainbow awaited me a few hours earlier just after the subway train appeared on the surface.
She jumped into the foreground in a sky dotted with gray clouds from which the rain had finally stopped pouring.
A beautiful and colorful prelude to the concert I went to, and about which I still have impressions.
- Through the bridges and skyscrapers of Frankfurt am Main
- Train Diary: Bavarian Sausages, Vikings and Major Tom
- Fan offensive of the Slovenians, the quiet Portuguese waited for a chance from the counter on the streets of Frankfurt
- Marina Abramović did the impossible: The audience at Glastonbury was silent for seven minutes
Germany is one of the most popular European destinations for world bands, including Balkan performers, when it comes to tours and live performances.
Thus, lovers of guitar music, as well as any other music, are offered a wide selection of concerts in a day, week and month, which I missed this time in Frankfurt.
See also the BBC reporter's assessment of German specialties:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9ACcDsBrTe/
That's why I decided to give a chance to something that is instrumental, not textual, closest to my musical sensibility, even though I assumed that Sodom and Gomorrah were probably waiting for me.
And I wasn't wrong.
I went to a concert by an American, to say the least, controversial band Steel Panther, which inherits a glam metal sound modeled after the greats of this genre - Van Halen, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and others.
They walk a fine line, not at all washed-up parodies, irony and comedy, so, among other things, they overemphasized the glam style of clothing, but also the way of life.
So, long, matted hair, make-up, torn T-shirts, tight pants and other pieces of kitsch clothing, but also fornication, debauchery and psychoactive substances.
The band is also known for offensive lyrics, wrapped in crude humor, as well as vulgar jokes they make on stage.
Here and there, a few good tricks and fasons, modeled on Hollywood comedies from the 1980s and 1990s, slip through, but less often.
The concert was held in the iconic Frankfurt club Bačkap (Batschkapp), completely filled with fans of the American band who, it seems to me, were satisfied with both the concert and the stand-up comedy between songs.
Unlike me.
Such an approach and expression, in another interpretation, would perhaps be my cup of tea, but this way they are certainly not, not to mention attitudes and values that are completely at odds with us.
The band members say the cancellation culture has eluded them, although TC Elektronik of Denmark, which specializes in audio equipment, pulled an offensively named guitar effect from its website after a female musician complained.
They also believe that people who come to their performances "know what to expect", including "profane, politically incorrect humor".
All of that was there last night, along with some other unusual moments.
In the end, about twenty women climbed the stage during the performance of their biggest hit Party Like Tomorrow Is The End Of The World for which a video with explicit content was recorded.
At the end of the performance, some fans immediately headed for the exit door, while others stayed to look for the picks that the guitarist and bassist had thrown into the audience.
The metro station is packed with metalheads waiting for transport to the city and home, and among them I am with a question addressed to myself - was this objectively the craziest or worst concert I've attended in my life?
Frankfurt is the hometown of several world-famous musicians, groups and performers.
One of them is Hans Zimmer, one of the most famous composers of film music, multiple award-winners, including four Grammy Awards and two Oscars, for cartoons Lion King, 30 years ago, and the 2021 film Dina.
He most often combines electronics with traditional orchestral arrangements, and his opus also includes music from the films Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Inception and Interstellar.
And if you grew up in the nineties and were fans of foreign dance music, you must have heard the song "Mr. Vain" group Culture Beat or, one of the biggest hits of this genre - "Rhythm Is a Dancer" composition of Snap.
Well, both groups are from the city on the Main.
A famous American rapper was born in the American military base in Frankfurt J Cole, since his father was a military veteran.
There is also the term Frankfurt Sound (Sound of Frankfurt) which refers to the various forms of electronic music created on its soil during the eighties and nineties.
This is where the band comes from tankard, which with groups Kreator, Destruction i Sodom forms the big four of the German thrash metal scene.
They have existed for more than 40 years and are big fans of the Eintracht Football Club from Frankfurt, to whom they dedicated several songs, the most famous of which Schwarz-Weiß Wie Schnee (Black and white as snow).
Metal has to win, one would say.
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