Jutta wrote:Chris wrote:Jutta wrote:Today I found a funny interview on this page:
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/03/22/863338.html
Chris tells something about a novel he is planning to write. It´s about a guitar (Stratocaster) that takes a long trip of 50 years. Once it joins a Beatles-band and then a blues-band in Woodstock and so on... This sounds a bit strange to me. But we will see.
Unfortunately the interview is only in German. Maybe I can help with the translation (at least parts of it), if it´s desired.
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Thank you Jutta for posting this interesting interview with Chris Rea from "Die Welt." I didn't know that after a concert in the Polish capital Chris took a ride in a car from Warsaw to Berlin! It's only about 500 kilometers, but indeed, previously it was much quicker (to travel by car in Poland.) Just on Good Friday, as I drove from Munich back to Warsaw, I got stocked near Dresden in a traffic all the way to the Polish border and the crossing point at Ludwigsdorf/Jedrzejowice! Just imagine: the express road (the Autobahn) packed with cars for some 100 kilometers! Chris Rea helped me overcome the stress as I played cassettes with both, his new and old hits.
Best regards to you,
Chris
Hello Chris,
what have you done in Munich?
I also have a lot of travelling, since I work in Nuremberg and I´m glad to have my cassettes too. I don´t know if it´s the same in other countries. But whenever you turn the radio on in Germany, it´s always the same shit who comes out ... I really can´t bear it anymore.
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Hi Jutta,
I don't mind writing abut my vacation, but it's Chris Rea's forum and not a bulleting board....
Well, I was passing through Munich (sort of, because we stayed there for a week), on our way to Ischia in the Bay of Naples.
No problem on Ischia: everyone speaks German on the island, all right, including: chambermaids, waiters, receptionists, store owners, policemen, ferry deck hands. It didn't help when I was trying to persuade some of them that I'm not another "Tedesco" (a German.)
I've checked local record stores, in Porto (d' Ischia), Forio and Ischia Ponte as well as one big in Naples ("Feltrinelli" multimedia store) and discovered that they had plenty of Chris' music available.
In Munich, the "old, good WOM" closed down some two (2) years ago, (you still have one in Nuremberg, though!), so I went to the "Saturn" on the Neuhauserstr., and to the "Mueller Drug Store" in the Tal, to see if they carry the "Blue Guitars" box, and in fact they had one each.
A friendly salesperson told me that "this is the best of all Chris' albums so far" and I believed him .
I asked for the promised concert DVD as well as the 'live' double CD and the answer was: "we're all waiting for it."
Take care,
Chris