Creepy and weird
Was worked, says Ambros, “In a flash”, there were three days of shooting and three days for the cut. Ambros: “You can see how we hold a rehearsal, I explain to the audience how it works, and there is also a bit of a home story.”
You can hear the well-known songs. Ambros: “But they sound very different from what you know from concerts or records. They developed differently because there are only three of us playing. “
Ambros finds the current situation “creepy and strange”: “All concerts were canceled, I was motionless for a month. For me it is cruel – every day I thought we would play here and there today. ”He felt“ rendered useless ”and for him that was also“ a monetary matter ”. Ambros: “I’m not gnawing on the hunger cloth, but without the butter, the bread is a dry batch.”
The well-known recalcitrant singer comments the current security measures with growl.
“Is it an exaggeration? In terms of art, definitely. I don’t think that virus is as rampant as it was communicated. 100,000 dead, please go. It cannot be that the cultural scene is doomed to inaction forever. Nobody deserves a shilling. They took away our livelihood. Now we sit there and look stupid. “
Playing outdoors is not an option for him, given the rules. “We could play for 750 people – but I don’t need open air there. It’s not profitable.”
No fear
The 68-year-old himself belongs to the “risk group”. Did that to him virus Scared? The answer is more classic Ambros: “Anxiety? At no time. But when you get it, it’s bled. Des des one absolutely not ham. Lungs and heart are damaged and all other offal. “
Ambros started to write new songs during the break. “But these are very bad things, everything is so destructive, I don’t know if I’ll ever get it out.”
birthday
In two years Ambros 70. “And everyone is realizing that I have to finish a new album by my birthday.” What stops him? Ambros: “Well, then I’ll release an album – and then I’ll get it again from the critics. My work is ruined with a stroke of the pen. I never need that. “
Even if you wouldn’t believe it: none conflict shy Ambros does not have thick skin (and that makes him likeable).
A fan had collected articles about him between 1983 and 1993 and pasted them into a booklet. He had looked at this booklet and found out how public perception of his person had changed completely during these ten years
Everything ok?
Ambros: “1983 was in the Rennbahn-Express,Ambros is the greatest. And then suddenly everything is ok. I thought there was nothing! ”The negative reviews hit him, he admits. “Because there were absurd injustices. I was made responsible for every nonsense in the development of the so-called Austropop event. “
Enjoy today Ambros Respect again, and he deserves it, he says: “The work I leave behind is not nothing. With or without a final album. I’m really not sure if I can get another one out. And to give someone the opportunity to write, these are just the fantasies of an old man who doesn’t know what’s going on in the world. Because I am not. “
1981 Ambros along with Manfred diving and Joesi Prokopetz launched the Austropop musical “Augustin”, which tells bizarre stories from the plague period. Wouldn’t a performance of this piece fit in perfectly with the times? Ambros: “That could be considered! But we would have to do that, for example United Theaters Vienna have as a partner. “
But at least: His concert on television begins with a great piece from “Augustin”, “Question of Time”.
“Damois around the söwe time / there was no ned as late as now / i waa ned, why / but damois was an hour ned so nice.
Fria woa damois, unity is only a matter of time. “
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