DAG and I had the fortune of having our city in Alaska selected for both the "Love at First Sting" tour in 1984, and then the "World Wide Live" tour of 1985. I think that some of the Scorps 1985 release "World Wide Live" was recorded in Anchorage. As I recall the scorps picked their best/wildest/rockingist towns from the LAFS tour for WWL. We got to see the Scorps two Summers in a row, at the time when there was nothing cooler than the Scorps!! (I mean come on, Love at First Sting was incredible.) The thing I remember about the LAFS concert was one of our local drunk teenagers (NOT DAG ; he was in the loo ) got on stage to dance with Klause and discovered that it's DISCOURAGED to 1) be on stage and 2) put your arms around Klause while he is performing. Large employees threw him down off the stage and broke his arm in a couple places. He was driving a brand new street rod Camaro by the 2nd half of that following school year.

Klause, Rudy, Matthias, Herman and the BASSIST.... poor guy, does anyone else remember everyone else but him?

The man was best friends with Klaus Kinski. Compared to life with Kinski, taking the occasional bullet is nothing. Some of the stories Herzog told about Kinski in his film "My Best Fiend" put the random, anonymous pot-shot in perspective. Kinski'a rage was legendary. One time he locked himself in a bathroom, and managed, bare-handed, to reduce everything in there to rubble. Toilet, sink and bathtub smashed to pieces no larger than gravel.

Tags changed from "training, german, hilarious" to "stapler, fahrer, klaus,forklift, safety" by gold star member plastiquemonkey.

Klaus ruined david bowie's 'the man who sold the world' on SNL. Too much of a character.

Bonus fun with this clip; count how many times he blinks!

(ooh, and i'm pretty sure that words in the title don't need to also be in the tags, as they'll both be searched...)

Who names an album To-Rye-Ay?! They have the same vibe as the guy from, Sparks, or that one hit wonder from a couple years back, with the neo-glam geek singing falsetto like Klaus Nomi, on the space ship..momentary musical embolism.

Can this go onthe geek channel??
*geek

Every German I ever met was great-- I'm thinking specifically of my friend Klaus. Intelligent, funny, a little self-deprecating in a good way. I realize I'm generalizing, but really, I've had several friends who were German and they were all really nice guys.

somehow reminds me of "Staplerfahrer Klaus"