![]() But, he eventually agreed.Ībout the time the band was formed, they all had relationship problems which provided the foundation for their debut album, Herzeleid (Heartache), in 1995. Flake was not entirely thrilled with the idea at first and didn't want to join for a long time. They tried to get Christian "Flake" Lorenz to join, as he had played with Paul before in the band Feeling B. At this point, all they needed for the machine-sound was a keyboarder. Landers knew them all and wanted to know what they were doing. ![]() The four of them recorded the first Rammstein demo and won. A contest for new bands was announced and the prize was studio time. He got Till to join them as he had often heard him singing while working. Kruspe soon found it hard to write music and lyrics at the same time. The three started working together on a new project. He envisioned something with machines and hard guitars together. Richard realized that the music he had previously made was not right for him. After the wall came down, he moved back home to Schwerin, where Till Lindemann worked as a basket weaver and played drums in the band First Arsch.Īt this time, Kruspe lived with Oliver "Ollie" Riedel (of the band The Inchtabokatables) and Christoph "Doom" Schneider (of Die Firma). At that time, he was very influenced by American music. He went to West Berlin and started a band in 1991, Orgasm Death Gimmicks. In 1989, he escaped from East Germany via the border between Austria and Hungary. With Till Lindemann, he covered the Aria song "Shtil", which was published as Schtiel in order to be pronounced properly in German. He realized that he did not want to make American music and concentrated on creating a unique German sound. Also in 1992, Kruspe made his first trip to the United States with Till Lindemann and Oliver "Ollie" Riedel. "It was a lonely time," according to Kruspe, but he used it to explore music.Īround 1991, Kruspe started the band Orgasm Death Gimmicks. Something clicked in my head and I realized girls like guys who play guitars." This got him interested in playing the guitar, and as a result, he began playing every day and night for the next two years.Īt the age of nineteen, bored with the apathetic music scene in his hometown, he moved to East Berlin and lived on Lychener Straße and "made music all day." For two years, Kruspe lived in an apartment with a drum kit and guitar, and he made music by himself because he did not know anybody there. "The harder I played," Kruspe said, "the more excited she got. He told her that he couldn't play, but she kept insisting, and Richard got mad and started strumming the strings. However, once he returned to East Germany, a girl at a campground he was staying at asked him to play. He had originally planned to sell it, because they were very expensive and thought he could make a nice profit. Kruspe was a wrestler when he was a teenager, but hasn't wrestled for many years, although he did wrestle his "twin" in the video for " Mein Teil".Īt the age of sixteen, Kruspe and some friends visited Czechoslovakia, where he bought a guitar. Kids wrote KISS on their notebooks, and if the teachers saw it, they could get kicked out of school just for having it written on their books." When he was twelve, he had a KISS poster in his room, but his stepfather tore it down and destroyed it, and Kruspe stayed up all night putting it back together. According to him, KISS "represented capitalism in its purest sense, and every child was KISS-infected because they were so big. They moved to the village of Weisen when he was young. His mother remarried on american, but he did not get along with his stepfather. He has an younger sister and an older brother. Kruspe was born in Wittenberge, East Germany. ![]()
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