Review in Winter 2012 to an album from 1992

... Reinhard Mey's music has been with me for over 30 years. Can you still remember some of the songs of this album from 1992 ?: ​​1) You are a giant, Max! - 2) I love you - 3) limit - 4) Peter - 5) The dignity of the pig is inviolable! - 6) dark rum - 7) The label - 8) PTA meeting - 9) in October '91 - 10) 50! What, now? - 11) The Sauwetter song - 12) I love the end of the season - 13) I Love You (Piano Version)

..... On the subject of "senseless violence" Reinhard Mey sings in his song "October '91":

An unusual touch of holiday is on the city, no traffic jams, no noise, the rails of the tramway shine dull in the morning sun. Another late summer idyll!
The shops are closed, all the flags hanging still.
Since twenty-four Jahr'n Mehmet is in the foundry; for twenty-four Jahr'n he comes by here every day. Today he has no hurry. He can seh'n the ceremony in Vorübergeh'n in TV shop in the window:
Three dozen specialized, the President, by a monitor wall and is about justice and freedom - to everyone in this country.

More than half of his life he has worked here. Two daughters and a son have grown up in the area. His colleagues like him, quietly and conscientiously. Three rooms and a Ford Escort, yes, Mehmet has done it. With overtime, sometimes a visit to Turkey. A Angetrunk'ner touches him, a little jostling. And slurred the man turns around, beer dünstend and sweaty. And Mehmet does not see the blade that flashes up behind him, and for no reason, like a madman, the stranger stabs him. And the TV picture is dark and he falls like a stone.
And the people on the street? All she's geseh'n, all 'the unbescholt'nen citizens who steh'n around him in a semicircle. No one has stood by him, no, it comes to mind to help him, to comfort him, no one kneels down to him. And in Fernseh'n sing the verse of the unity and the ambulance comes after an eternity. And clean the pavement, where he still just stood. And actually today was for all but a good day - But the day is not good for the four-clock news
There are still only pain and sorrow, and mine is to Zumrut Heul'n '... "

.... Senseless violence in public, even in 1991!

.... In the song "You are a giant, Max" he sings in a song in 1991 for his son - the son who has fallen more than 15 years later in 2010's coma.

............ The newspaper "Die Welt" wrote about his tour following: ...... "Reinhard Mey's tour:

It could be like any other on tour. Then he would pack up his guitar and draw new melodies as jugglers around the country. He would the friendly faces who receive it every three years in their places, recite from his life. Would tell of the small everyday pleasures. And from the molehill, we procrastinate our lives ahead of us.

But this time everything is different. A dark shadow accompanies Reinhard Mey on its current tour. Almost two years ago son Max fell unconscious at his home. Reason: a protracted pneumonia. Since then, he is in a vegetative state. Preserved only by a brainstorm his girlfriend from death.

Mey spent many days on his son's bed

A break in the life of singer-songwriter, who in the 25th studio album Mairegen "has manifested. It is peaceful, quiet, serious failed than its predecessors. With the dragon's blood" was dedicated to the singer-songwriter Mey his son a piece.

In it, he sings of the heavy stroke of fate that so suddenly befell his family: A blink only a moment, a sign has remained, and the determination to back zulieben you into the world "Reinhard Mey spent countless days and nights on his son's bed. played songs for him, told stories.
Every concert is a meditation course

Finally went to his writing room, to warp back to the normality. True to the motto, work is the best medicine. The result is a strong, a soulful, a melancholy chapter in the life of chansoniers. With every song, with every verse, so Mey, he wrote in his autobiography.
You can hear that, you can feel it. Especially live. Each concert is not just recital, but reading, story time and meditation course in one. Not that the singer from the Brothers Grimm would recite or rehearse upon yogic sun salutations (rather he quotes Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings ").

Songs about underdogs, politicians and life
Each lecture cathartic effect on the visitors. We learn what is good, true and beautiful. One feels the world gears interlocked ", as the Mey in his song I am" is called, which is about nothing less than the meaning of life.

Reinhard Mey has the rare ability to tell stories. Stories that must show points of contact for each listener. Such as when he (Blessed are the crazy ones, "Bunter Hund") of Außenseiterum mendacious politicians (Be vigilant ") or about the small, but not unimportant issues of life sings (men at the hardware store," Ficus benjamina ").
The private blow is visible

Since laughed and chuckled aloud. But even cried. Namely, when Mey with dignity and greatness dragon blood "sings and for each the burden of private fate shock is evident. On stage sweeps Reinhard Mey still at the highest level over the strings. ...." (Die Welt, from 22 -Oct. 2011)

..... Standing ovations for Reinhard Mey in Lingen (Osnabruecker Zeitung)

Lingen: Three years paused Reinhard Mey, but now it no longer is, it can not do without. Give me music "was also the first song of him on Saturday night at the Theater an der Wilhelmshöhe. It should be 120 entertaining, inspiring, humorous and often thought-provoking minutes with one of the largest German songwriters of all time

In one of the last songs in the program on its Mairegen tour he called then vehemently music police ", which is to intervene if there is again somewhere bad, annoying, superficial music. Between these two titles was Reinhard Mey nearly two hours exactly .. contrary before it Mostly Songs recent, poetic and political, Lovely and dissolute After eleven years, the singer-songwriter-legend reappeared in the sold out theater at the Wilhelmshöhe on conclusion of the evening. In his songs the music police does not intervene you are after. still of the highest quality and inspire to be the people.
Reinhard Mey has to get out on stage. He wants to go back on tour. This performance should be a kind of dress rehearsal for his upcoming tour, which is titled Mairegen ". But first, the native Berliner recalled his last guest appearance in the city. I feel now exactly the same as eleven years ago just before the encores . " And later, he promised the listeners are, they do not need it again eleven years waiting for him.
There were spontaneous applause from the audience. This was, as I said, a little old (autumn thunderstorm over rooftops "from 1972, for example) and a lot of new purposed as the thoughtful sad title song of his latest CD Mairegen", which he dedicated to his seriously ill son Max.
Also I am "is more profound, but indicates already that he has not lost his sense of humor in spite of fate blow, and especially that it is life-affirming and heart and soul a family man.
Nothing is in vain
In the song it says: Sometimes I wonder about the meaning of life, the whole bustle is not in vain "Of course not, it is his own answer, because for each there is a good reason to be in the world, for example. he had nasal spray in children Nose dropper, consolation sticker or with-the-dentist-goers and more.
Humor in perfection shows Reinhard Mey then in the song Men at the hardware store, "where it comes to the male craft engines and cable ties and angle attachment plate. In the end, it converts the text of his big hits over the clouds" then off to the hardware store has the freedom well be limitless, all the nails, all the screws - they say - you just have to firmly believe in it, and then would what seems small and wobbly, huge and breaks ".

Then the troubadour is still in song form the recognition: Blessed are the crazy ones "with the commitment I am also a". Serious he is then again Consider the poem "by Hans-Dieter Hüsch. ..." (Osnabrücker Zeitung on 19 September 2011)

As Reinhard Mey finally got minutes long, thunderous applause, who went in standing ovations, the now 68-year-old must have emotionally hovering above the clouds ", although he did not play the song that night.