Date: 04/01/2024

Mood: sleepy

Listening to: Gotta Go - Chung Ha

Rammstein January 2001 Australia Footage

I am very, very passionate about the 2001 Australian lore of Paul having a glow stick on his guitar and NOBODY knows what I am talking about when I say this. No longer! I will tell everyone the mystery.

The 2001 Australian Weißes Fleisch and Asche zu Asche performance is actually an edited mess. I found numerous errors in the footage, continuity issues, and splices from other irrelevant songs. The footage is like 60% Weißes Fleisch/Asche and 40% random clips from songs. The Australian TV footage of the non-DVD songs has similar problems. There's random frame error splices that shouldn't be there. The only way to see these frame errors is to comb the footage frame-by-frame in a video editor like I did. Because your human eyes cannot detect single frames running at 25/29fps.

The reason why I did this? Because you know when I showed you my 9:25 1997 splice of Paul footage? I make those clips all the time. It requires me to frame cut on accuracy. So I end up going through frames one by one. It would suggest some of the errors I found happened near Paul clips lol. Either leading into a clip of him, or leaving a clip of him. Most likely a lead in. I know there's at least one frame of Richard spliced somewhere he shouldn't be because it made me laugh. That means there's more possible splices I don't know about around footage.

Weißes Fleisch

0:42 this close up footage of Paul is from Du hast. Fact. Don't ask why. It's just a fact. 100% indisputable via Bree science.

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1:19 this is footage from Bestrafe mich and you can see this on the TV airing...

Paul is using a silver drop D guitar here. Which cannot be possible in Weißes Fleisch which is the maroon with pickguard by this era. Wrong!

1:33, 2:10, 2:40 (yes all three) shows footage from Sehnsucht.

Because Paul and Olli have swapped stage placements. Paul doesn't make body positions like this. Olli does if you have ever watched him in Sehnsucht before. It's infamously caused by him hunching into Paul's mic. Why did he sing the line?? Just play the bass omg don't use the mic. He's too big for this.

The error of 2:40 is embarrassing because that was Schneider's drum solo but you clearly see the others playing when they should be doing nothing. Dumb okay. Dumb error!!

2:24 they show Paul during Reesh's solo doing this cute thing he wants to do by spinning himself slowly in a circle. They then interrupt this footage to show him in this position.

His prior action was this

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how he ends up in a circle motion.

The lighting conditions don't even match! This error splice of a Paul clip is likely taken from Heirate mich.

2:40 as well they show Till doing this...

My theory is this Till clip is from Sehnsucht. It looks like the same movement he does with the same pacing rhythm.

It's impossible because they already showed footage of him leaving the stage for Reesh's solo and the dance break.

They show Paul doing head bangs in Weißes Fleisch (3:41, 3:43) that are spliced footage from Du hast. That is his exclusive Du hast behavior that any Paul fan knows it for and can be seen in the Du hast TV airing directly. He has a very ~specific way~ of moving. He still does it to modern eras.

Asche zu Asche

Immediately at 4:41 they show Paul from another silver guitar drop D song.

Asche is a maroon brown guitar song. It's not Bestrafe mich's footage which was the only aired drop D song on TV.

In this error, Paul is center stage for Asche's intro but they clearly show him by the microphone and the wrong color guitar. The only other silver guitar options are Tier, DRSG, Engel, Laichzeit, or Wollt ihr. I actually wonder if it's Engel. He has this Engel kinda "look" to him and how he moves in certain songs. The position on the fretboard and his pace in motion reminds me of Engel's chorus.

Why does all of this matter to a glow stick??

Because in Weißes Fleisch, a maroon guitar song may I remind you, at 1:13 they show him with a glow stick from a mysterious unaired drop D silver guitar song.

How dare the Aussies keep this secret from us for over 20 years? I want the FULL Australian footage. Now.

Whatever drop D song this is, it's not Bestrafe mich. As he is in a paused position. He makes paused body movement in songs where he doesn't play in the verses. Laichzeit and Wollt ihr don't technically fit this body pause in his behaviors historically of how he moves in those songs. That only leaves Tier, Engel, and DRSG. Where he is known to pause his body in those like this. However, I doubt it's Engel or DRSG. Those songs often used red lighting conditions during this tour time period. I really suspect it's Tier. However, I can't fully rule out Laichzeit and Wollt ihr. You can see in crowd shots that people have glow sticks just like this in various colors. I wonder if Paul picked it up by something thrown on stage or what happened to cause this amazing thing to exist.

(Unwarranted Du hast image. I just like this.)

I am unnecessarily invested in 2001 Australia footage. That's my big secret. Only I could make a post like this. I am the one out here making posts about.... (checks notes) glow sticks, water molecules, and Sonne tuning checks. Normal content. Only the finest and most essential Paul content around here.