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U2 fan trying to gather all ZooTV Trabant band for the birthday.
They stole They illuminated the darkness, they do not have it, but could not actually drive under their own power, but they are among the best known in the world of Trabant cars and art, and this fall a U2 fan hopes to collect all other machinery East Germany Duroplast who served for the ZooTV devices group concert tour.
I'm a fan of U2, and for years I tried to find a way to combine my two hobbies, said Tim Cunningham, who also owns a Ford AI model that, thanks to the collection of license plates related to U2, but there was another way to merge my car and good music and it comes in the form of East German Trabant.
Cheap car built in socialist Germany East may seem a strange choice for a group of Dublin, but group members associated with partly car as a political and artistic statement, in part because of their environment after traveling to Berlin in October 1990 as West and East Germany united, to begin recording their album Achtung baby.
The group noticed that people lead their Eastern Trabant across the border until they shit and they give up on the side of the road, knowing better options were ahead, Cunningham said.
Built 1958-1991 by Zwickau Sachsenring Trabant was its motivation from an engine 18 hp, two-cylinder two-wheel drive long before, it gradually changed during its production cycle, during which about three million cars were produced even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Trabant has become more a symbol than a mode of transport, which is largely the failures of communism.
Credit integration Trabant in the aesthetics of the album was claimed by longtime band photographer, Anton Corbijn It was a fun thing a visual element, but it also advocated the Eastern fall Corbijn said in an interview later, then he added a photo of a Trabant in the photomontages coverage of the album Achtung baby and included a pair of painted-up Trabant in the video he directed for the song one.
Peter Williams, Director ZooTV set for the concert tour that followed, the promotion Achtung Baby has decided to incorporate Trabant more wildly painted in the tour, most of suspended lighting fixtures and with thousands of mirrors stuck to him like a DJ Every booth had them removed drivetrains and glass replaced with aluminum panels According to an article Autoweek 1992 many Trabant received Kermit nicknames for green, Snowy white, Fisher King to the painted invoke the film of the same name, Weekly World News for one painted with NewsType, junior one with a baby painted Keith Haring, and Liberace for flicker-ball a Catherine Owens, who painted some of the Trabant said that they are now, somehow, the lucky charm for the tower.
Overall, according to Cunningham, the group bought as much as 18 for the tour and for various promotion of the album Some of these cars were re-was proposing throughout the tour and repainted and others have been discarded when they disintegrate like the Trabant are prone to do, he said.
But some still survive four, including Liberace hang in the atrium of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland; each one is in Dublin and Berlin Hard Rock Cafes; the pair of resident music video cars are currently in the United States and Luxembourg; Junior and was last seen in Texas, said Cunningham.
Oh, and there is a Cunningham bought it five years ago Used for 47 performances of the American leg of the ZooTV tour, he was then given at the end of the tour by an MTV contest Cunningham said he expects to have his Trabant to September 24 celebration of the 40th anniversary of the group to be held in rock Roll Hall of Fame Another will be held in Dublin, then it s trying to locate any remaining ZooTV Trabant for a meeting in this celebration.
Anyone with a Trabant ZooTV who wants to participate, let us know and we'll pass word to Cunningham.
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