Introduce me to Krautrock

AND, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders probably have more stuff in their closets that they have forgotten. Remember that one of the first AD2 films was done by Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders came up via theater and film with many of the folks that are now known as "krautrock" ... and he likely has CAN in his closets and probably other bands ... how else do you think most beginning film makers can do something ... when there is such a vibrant scene happening? Film the band that lives next door ... and such!

The part that is weird for me, is how the story goes that Florian Fricke had a whole bunch of tapes in the closet with all kinds of music, and that Werner would grab one, and take it home, and show up next week and say ... I got a film with your music in it!

You and I would do that, I'm sure!

This day and age, specially in America, the social media is making a big ... really big ... thing about the use of any word in the dictionary. It doesn't matter what it is.

Language, per history, changes and the meanings of many things change and become something else ... I'm not sure that everyone in Germany thinks badly of this and that, since even AD2 made fun of "krautrock", and a few political figures as well ... and it's not "La Krautoma" is not making fun of it all even more ... but in the end, it's the art and the music that matters, and us concentrating on one word that has nothing to do with the real thing ... is a sad reflection on our appreciation of an art form.

I'm from the days of Burroughs, Handke, Suzuki and many others ... you throw the letters and the words up in the air, and they fall ... differently and their usage changes. Thus, us sticking to one meaning and locking a word into it, is like suggesting/saying ... that in a few years, half the Merrian-Webster Dictionary will have about one half of its content as words that are no longer used ... in the end, we're just being silly, and think that we are insulting this and that, when in reality, we're just being opinionated.

In the words of Mississipi Charles Bevel, the best singer I have ever heard in my life, he said a few things in between his songs that were ... power to the highest degree ... "yes, I'm black, and I'm free. No one tells me what to play, and no record company can tell me which note to sing, and how I want to sing it." ... "I'm really not black ... I'm a human just like you" ... "I'm not a victim of anything. I'm free and I'm me."

I say ... applaud the greatness in folks and their art ... it doesn't matter to me if you call me this or that ... I'm not that at all ... I'm me, not your idea of me!