Amon Düül II

This is maybe my favourite krautrock band, and one of my favourite bands ever. Their first 4 or 5 albums are masterpieces and their hard-acid-folk-rock, full of dark and mysterious exotic/esoteric atmospheres, is something unique.
The first video is part of their appearance at the Beat Club on October 1970, it is a wild live version of a song from the memorable double LP Yeti...a real monster album! Another clip from that appearance can be downloaded here.
Amon Düül II have returned in the last years, we can see them also on this video from a concert at the German Rockpalast festival (on that occasion it became the Krautrockpalast) on December 2004. The line-up is the same as in the Beat Club performance, only the keyboard player Kalle Hausmann is missing, but they are joined by the singer Renate Knaup-Krötenschwanz, who for some reasons was absent on that day of 1970, and an additional percussionist, Jan Kahlert. They have lost some of the energy they had when they were younger, but they are still great musicians, able to mesmerize with mind-blowing performances, as proved by this version of Kanaan, the first song on their first album Phallus Dei. Back to the beginning...

Added on august 03: For more great downloadable Amon Duul II's video stuff look here.

Amon Düül II - Eye-Shaking King (1970)
Amon Düül II - Kanaan (2004)

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Mirco