Rockpalast!

[Trane]

I'd kinda like to see the Grobschnitt one, as I understand they were another band that liked to put on "a show", as it were, with pyro and all that. I imagine they did all that for their Rockpalast.

Anyone ever see the Nugent one? I'm curious to see that one.

Yeah, the Grobschnitt Palast show is really cool, but from what i gather, unfortunately it wasn't a full length and full pyrotechnics and full theatrical show (though this demands confirmation, cos I wouldn't know for sure, since i've never seen them)

As for Nugent, I'd rather not know. Most likely guttermouth would've made some unpleasant remarks between songs

[Splicer]

I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not as I don't know who owns the rights to these broadcasts and I never pay attention to who is uploading them to Youtube. Have I inadvertently opened the proverbial can of worms with this thread? I always assumed that if something infringes on copyrights it gets taken down quickly from Youtube. Am I being naïve here?

Yes, I would say that I'm mocking. I'm all for copyright, but only if there is use of the material. I am not in favor of people holding onto copyright and then warehousing the material with no intention of publication.

[Rarebird]

I've recorded several Rockpalast concerts and burned them on DVD. There were also concerts in a series Rocklife.
A-ha Rockpalast 2001
Allman's Honeytribe, Devon Classic Rocknacht - 10. Juni 2007, Palladium Köln
Apocalyptica Area 4 - Rockpalast 2008
Armatrading, Joan Live 1980 Rockpalast
Armatrading, Joan Rockpalast 2007
Bap Loreley 1982
Bap Tote Brücke
Bap Rockpalast 2001 Tote Brücke
Bap Rockpalast 2006 Dreimahl zehn Jahre
Bap Rockpalast 2006 Dreimahl zehn Jahre
Birth Control Rockpalast - 2004
Bowie, David Loreley Open Air 1996 (Rockpalast 2007)
Brings Live 1992 Rocklife
Brings Rockpalast 1997
Brings Rockpalast Popcom
Bröselmachine Rockpalast 2005
Brooker, Gary Live 1983 Rockpalast
Bullfrog Live Rockpalast 1978
Cale, John Rockpalast 1983
Chapin, Harry Rockpalast 1977
City Live
Clark, Anne Rockpalast
Cockburn, Bruce Rocklife 1990
Colosseum Rockpalast 2003
Cornwell, Hugh Rockpalast 2007
Depeche Mode Rockpalast 2006
Derringer Band, Rick Rockpalast 2007
De Wolff Crossroads 2010 Rockpalast
Die Braut Haut Ins Auge FrauenRockFest '95 Rocklife
Dimmu Borgir Wacken Open Air 2007 (Rockpalast)
Doro Live 2004 Rockpalast
Doro Rockpalast 2009
Edguy Rockpalast 2004
Editors Rockpalast 2010
Epica Rockpalast 2007
Epitaph Rockpalast 2004
Etheridge, Melissa Rocklife 1993
Evanescence Rockpalast 2004
Faithfull, Marianne Rockpalast 2005 - Leverkussener Jazztage
Feliciano, José Leverkussener Jazztage 2005 - Jazzline
Folds, Ben Rockpalast 2008
Freischlader, Hendrik & Band Crossroads Festival 2010
Golden Earring Rockpalast 2007
Gov't Mule 10. Juni 2007, Palladium Köln - Classic Rocknacht
Grobschnitt Live Rockpalast 1978
Grönemeyer, Herbert Rockpalast 1984
Haindling Rockpalast 1996
Hart, Beth Rockpalast 2006 - Crossroads
Hart, Beth Rockpalast 2011 - Crossroads
Heaven & Hell Rockpalast 2009
Hodgson, Roger Rockpalast 2008
Hoelderlin 2005 Rockpalast
In Extremo Rockpalast 2004 - Rock am Ring
Irish Coffee Rockpalast 2005
Iron Maiden Rockpalast 2005
Jane Rockpalast 2004
Karat Rockpalast 1996
Karthago Rockpalast 2004
Katrina and the Waves Rocklife 1991
Katzenjammer Rockpalast 2010 - Kulturkirche Köln
Kin Ping Meh Rockpalast 2005
Kraan Rockpalast 2002
Kraan Rockpalast 2005
Kunze, Heinz Rudolf Das Original 2004 Rockpalast
Level 42 27. Leverkusener Jazztage - 4. November 2006 - Rockpalast 2007
Lucifer's Friend Live Rockpalast 1978
Lucilectric FrauenRockFest '95 Rocklife
Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Live Rockpalast 2000
Nannini, Gianna Live 1995 Rocklife
Nektar Rockpalast 2010
New Model Army Rockpalast
Niedecken, Wolfgang + Die WDR Big Band Köln 1
Niedecken, Wolfgang + Die WDR Big Band Köln 2
Paatos Bootleg Festival 2004 (Rockpalast)
Pell, Axel Rudi Rockpalast 2009
Police, The Rockpalast 1980
Porcupine Tree Rockpalast 2005
Prinzen, Die Rockpalast 1996
Procol Harum Live Rockpalast 1976
Puhdys Rockpalast 1996
Rage & Lingua Mortis Orchestra Rockpalast 2010
Rainbirds FrauenRockFest '95 Rocklife
Rainbow Live 1995 Rockpalast
Reichel, Achim Rocklife 1994 - Das Konzert zum 50-sten Geburtstag
RPWL Rockpalast
Rufus Zuphall Rockpalast 2005
Rumpf, Inga & Friends Rockpalast 2006 - Crossroads
Script, The Pinkpop Festival 2009 Rockpalast
Sounds, The Pinkpop Festival 2010 Rockpalast
Spirit Rockpalast
Spock's Beard Live 2000 Rockpalast
Stern Combo Meißen Rockpalast 1996
Stranglers, The Rockpalast 1983
Twelve Drummers Drumming Rocklife 1990
Utopia, Todd Rundgren & Live Rockpalast
Van Der Graaf Generator Rockpalast 2005 Leverkussener Jazztage
Vanilla Fudge Rockpalast 2004
Volbeat Wacken Open Air 2007 (Rockpalast)
Volbeat Rockpalast: Pinkpop Festival 2009
Wallenstein Live Rockpalast 1978
Waterboys Haldern Pop Festival 2007 - Rockpalast
Who, The Rockpalast
Winter Band, Edgar Rockpalast 2007
Winter, Johnny Rockpalast 1979
Winter Band, Johnny Rockpalast 2007
Wir Sind Helden Rockpalast 2007
Within Temptation Rockpalast - Rock am Ring 2005 / Noorderslag 2004
Wovenhand Rockpalast 2010 Ottersum
Young, Neil Rock am Ring 2002
Zawinul & WDR Big Band, Joe Jazzline 2005

[Joe F.]

Yeah, the Grobschnitt Palast show is really cool, but from what i gather, unfortunately it wasn't a full length and full pyrotechnics and full theatrical show (though this demands confirmation, cos I wouldn't know for sure, since i've never seen them)

I have a burn of the Grobschnitt show. It has a long version of Solar Musik, the Deutsch version of one of the Jumbo tracks and a track from Merry-Go-Round.

Solar Musik has theatrics and pyro, though.

I'd agree that I doubt that it's a full concert.




I have a Rory Gallagher DVD box set with a number of Rockpalast shows on it as well. Some great stuff on that one!

[Lopez]

I have the Rockpalast DVD of Randy California. Sublime.

[Rarebird]

I have a burn of the Grobschnitt show. It has a long version of Solar Musik, the Deutsch version of one of the Jumbo tracks and a track from Merry-Go-Round.

Solar Musik has theatrics and pyro, though.

I'd agree that I doubt that it's a full concert.





I have a Rory Gallagher DVD box set with a number of Rockpalast shows on it as well. Some great stuff on that one!

It is more or less a full concert, but not as extended as the concerts they did on their own. The Rockpalast festivals had several groups playing, so the length of the concerts was reduced and Grobschnitt also had to cut back a lot on theatrics.

[Paulrus]

I have a Saga festival appearance on VHS from the Behaviour tour ('85). The YT description just says "Rock am Ring", but I'm wondering if this wasn't also a Rockpalast show.

[Vic2012]

I have a Rockpalast, Thin Lizzy concert on DVD. I like it more than the Live & Dangerous DVD.

[Rarebird]

I have a Saga festival appearance on VHS from the Behaviour tour ('85). The YT description just says "Rock am Ring", but I'm wondering if this wasn't also a Rockpalast show.

Not according to the Rockpalast Archiv site
http://www.rockpalastarchiv.de/welcomee.html

[Dave (in MA)]

The YT of McGuinn's Thunderbyrd show seems to display evidence of mucho Bolivian marching powder consumption.

[iguana]

no, that’s “rock pop in concert”, the competing format on 2nd german TV (ZDF). “rockpalast” was produced for WDR/ARD.

i have done a lot of (professional) work on the release of archival TV footage and i have lobbied for the RPiC vaults to be raided properly. sadly there are quite a few legal issues and the only one i do recall having been released is JETHRO TULL’s “jack in the green” DVD.

here's another gem … RAMMS+EIN when they were little. in daylight and with only minimal pyromania. a year later they were larger than life and headlined the same festival with proper production and no holds barred (also televised for “rockpalast”):

[GuitarGeek]

Another one good was Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, circa Couldn't Stand The Weather. They're playing an outdoor festival, but it was recorded for Rockpalast. Great, great performance. Amazing that a guy who was bombed as SRV reputedly was during that era could still play like that.

[Jerjo]

Another one good was Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, circa Couldn't Stand The Weather. They're playing an outdoor festival, but it was recorded for Rockpalast. Great, great performance. Amazing that a guy who was bombed as SRV reputedly was during that era could still play like that.

His demons weren't really evident in his work until the spotty Soul to Soul album and the disaster of a live album that followed that.

[popeyebonaparte]

Religiously use to watch this when I was stationed in Germany. The Jon Anderson show has stayed in my memory!!!!

WHAT??? A Jon Anderson show on Rockpalast??? What year? 1980 or 1982? (I presume it must be one of those as he didn't play live solo other years until much later). Is there a way to get this?

[JJ88]

David Bowie did one in the late 1970s.

The European TV channels not only had the foresight to film all these artists live, but also- crucially- to keep it!

I believe that British TV needs a similarly open-ended live broadcast programme like this, focussing on just one artist.

[Paulrus]

WHAT??? A Jon Anderson show on Rockpalast??? What year? 1980 or 1982? (I presume it must be one of those as he didn't play live solo other years until much later). Is there a way to get this?

It's from the Song of Seven tour (1980), and not available commercially that I've ever seen. It was in the VHS trading circles for ages and is now up on YT (broken into individual songs). My VHS copy is about 10 generations downstream from the best stuff on YT so that's the best way to enjoy it.

Here's "Song of Seven" from that show. Amazing because it was not included in any of the boots I ever saw so it's a nice find. Not the best live performance (tuning issues abound and the mix is odd). But still -- essential for Jon fans.

RIP Morris Pert and Chris Rainbow.

[GuitarGeek]

His demons weren't really evident in his work until the spotty Soul to Soul album and the disaster of a live album that followed that.

I actually rather liked Soul To Soul. I wish that ride out solo on Life Without You was a little longer, but what else do you expect on a studio record, especially one from that era? Of course it fades out too soon. But the rest of the album I thought was pretty good.

The live album I never got, because they never put out a CD version that had Life Without You on it (it was on the original release of the album, but when they put the CD out, they left that one track off).

[TheH]

In their heyday the long Rockpalast nights where blockbuster events in Germany.

They where broadcasted also live on Radio too, so you crancked up your stereos wile watching the TV (lots of envolved).

Band like ZZ Top or Mother's Finest who where hardly known in Germany before, caused a lot of vinyl dealers a nervous breakdown because
their stores where invaded by people asking for Albums of those bands that they didn't have in stock after these shows.

[TheH]

Of cause the Grobschnitt Show is not representative of one of their "real" concerts which lastet easily up to 3 hours.
(i was lucky to see one of their final shows).

I also love the show with Steve Hillage and Rainbow ('77) still with Dio.

[GuitarGeek]

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I also love the show with Steve Hillage

The only thing about that one is he plays a Les Paul for almost all of the show, only switching over to his Strat after breaking a string during It's All Too Much (which wasn't even part of the original broadcast).

[ItalProgRules]

Can. "Paperhouse." Beat Club, 1971.

One of my Krautrock youtube favorites. That version kicks the album version's ass. You can even almost understand what Damo was singing.

[zutul]

https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...03&fr2=piv-web

[dgtlman]

I have a Saga festival appearance on VHS from the Behaviour tour ('85). The YT description just says "Rock am Ring", but I'm wondering if this wasn't also a Rockpalast show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_am...d_Rock_im_Park

[popeyebonaparte]

It's from the Song of Seven tour (1980), and not available commercially that I've ever seen. It was in the VHS trading circles for ages and is now up on YT (broken into individual songs). My VHS copy is about 10 generations downstream from the best stuff on YT so that's the best way to enjoy it.

Here's "Song of Seven" from that show. Amazing because it was not included in any of the boots I ever saw so it's a nice find. Not the best live performance (tuning issues abound and the mix is odd). But still -- essential for Jon fans.

RIP Morris Pert and Chris Rainbow.

I'd still love to see a complete version and maybe make a complete matrix of video sources. At least knowing the original setlist would be a help. I'd rather have bad analog quality without digital artifacts than a good analog copy with digital artifacts. Ah well, if anyone has a full copy I'd be greatly interested into getting a copy!