The reunited band Die Kreuzen is the subject of a special Tap Milwaukee Rock Doc two-part series. Part one chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of the band.
God I miss this band so fkng much. Saw them often back in the day at local MKE clubs. Saw Keith often at Atomic Records when he worked there, and enjoyed a city bus ride w him once. Danny lived a floor above me in our apartment. Such great guys. Their music always plays on on my stereo, and I always suggest their music in posts online. Their energy will never be duplicated. Cheers guys. 🤘❤🖤❤
Oh wow.... am I out of the loop or what!? If you said Die Kreuzen to me, I would say " Cows and Beer " 1983? I think?...(been a while) .Holy shit does time fly. The "newer" sound they have IMO sounds really cool too! Good for them to keep pushing forward with their music !
@4:17.. Should have done the same thing cuz that first EP and LP RULE SO HARD! Sounds like a cross between Peni and Void. So. Fukn. Good. There’s a reason people still listen to them... other stuff?..not so much.
Bands that reach a point where they could make it and fall apart is tragic. Very common in the 80s and early 90s. Now if you can't sell a million records major labels won't sign you.
Without die kreuzen and Butch Vig there would be no Nirvana Nevermind. Ahead of their time. Even Butch saw that the Seattle sound took this to produce Nirvana's Nevermind. Green River/Mudhoney took this sound.... Look at the 1982 live Kreuzen and they were just like the 84-85 SEATTLE..... Look up the Fartz out of Seattle 1982, Duff was in that band!
People talk about how the band missed out on success. I can tell you about LOTS of great bands who never got to put out records or tour. Personally I consider these guys a success. Only so many musicians get to make an actual living doing this. They might have signed to a major label, put out one more album and then got shown the door anyways.
I saw you guys back in 1984, still one of the best shows I've seen. Think Primus but faster..........and Dan screaming in your face and you screaming back....... cool minor chords....
I agree I think they were ahead of their time,kinda like Sonic Youth, but I don't know if their new stuff could compare 2 their old stuff, but who knows, maybe.....
I'm sry, if i missed something but: What is Brian Egeness doing? Beside film scores. Is there a semi secret band with him? Has he played in another band since he left? Unbelieveble unique git style. Took me 15 years to come back to this band. I love these boomerang experients. And anybody knows what its about the nonexistent album Internal (1993) (promo-only)?
I know what he is doing right now he has a family a daughter and a son cats and a gerbil i know this because my friend is isabel egeness his daughter :p
In 1992 I went to Germany for a month. I met this German punk kid Tobi who was really nice and we talked about different American and German punk bands. I told him about Die Kreuzen and he was like, "What?" and I was all, "Dude, it's German for The Crossing, right?" He said, "No. Kreuzen is the form of the verb meaning 'to cross.' The correct form for 'The Crossing' is Kreuzung - Die Kreuzung is the way they should have spelled it - Kreuzen is a verb and Kreuzung is a noun. What they are saying is 'The To Cross' and that just doesn't make sense." Way too late by 1992 though.
@@danmalone7649 That's a typical Google mistranslation. Another German here; 'Die Kreuzen' does usually just sound wrong to German ears, but you can make it work if you're okay with the meanings 'to interbreed those', or 'those are cruising [the seas]'. ;-) To cruise, to interbreed, to cross, all of these verbs are possible translations of 'kreuzen'. 'That cross', on the other hand, would be 'das Kreuz' while 'the crosses' would translate to 'die Kreuze'. I'm a longtime fan of the band, and I've seen them play live at Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1980s. I've always read the name as a misspelled German 'The Crosses', but I actually never bothered. I just found it funny that they were often announced as something that sounded like 'die cruisin' '. Dan Kubinski absolutely nails the pronunciation, by the way.
