Title: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 09, 2017, 11:25:26 PM
Post by: realgrimm on May 09, 2017, 11:25:26 PM
Title: Re: OUGA CHAKA.
Post by: Bricktop on May 09, 2017, 11:44:17 PM
Post by: Bricktop on May 09, 2017, 11:44:17 PM
THAT'S where "music" videos go.
Title: Re: OUGA CHAKA.
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:06:23 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:06:23 AM
Title: Re: David Hasellholf is huge in germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:08:26 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:08:26 AM
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:14:09 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:14:09 AM
How did David Hasselhoff become popular in Germany?Quote
To the average American teenager the world of Bay Watch and Knight Rider is what it is - a hyper-glamorized, simplified, version of reality. German kids, though much better educated in the happenings of other countries, "learned" America from Colt Seavers (Lee Majors, "Unknown Stuntman/Fall Guy"), Michael Knight, and similar. And, throughout the 80s, America was idolized in Germany. The land of the free, truckers, wide open plains, happening cities, that stuff.
Hasselhoff became synonymous with those things.
He stood at the Wall, singing badly, yes, but his image and his song became tightly interlinked with those days, something no American can even remotely begin to fathom. You had to be there. You had to be watching the wall fall, watching the Trabbies cross into the West. You had to be around when East and West Germans became Germans. You had to be glued to the TV or spending time at Checkpoint Bravo and Delta, celebrating, hugging, feeling something that can simply not be described.
No matter how bad the music, no matter how badly written the speeches (Helmut Kohl's speech was abysmal because it was slapped together in a matter of an hour), this time will be forever enshrined in Germany's collective memory and whomever was there, deserved or not, will be too. It's not that "Looking for Freedom" is a great song. But to this day if you play Walk Like An Egyptian by the Bangles I remember my first "getting to second base" evening and that makes the song special. And if you play Looking for Freedom I remember the Berlin Wall in 1989 and this:
The song was actually written by a German composer. Before Hasselhoff's version became popular there was a German version called "Auf der Strasse nach Sueden" which played into the German fondness for everything Mediterranean and most any German kid grew up singing it in the car on family vacation drives to Italy or Spain.Quote
That all aside, here comes the rant.
"Are y'all still listening to Hasselhoff" is one of the most asked questions when I mention that I am part-German. And, yes, Germans do. Unlike Americans, I guess, whose crappy music changes on a weekly basis. Call me maybe, you know when the Jonas Brothers or Justin Bieber, Baby oh Baby, get together for a session with Mrs. Black on Friday.
Seriously, as a country whose popular music has reached THAT low a point, asking me about Hasselhoff is a little bit like the Arctic calling Dallas too cold because it snowed three days last year.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:17:29 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:17:29 AM
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:18:46 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:18:46 AM
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:20:57 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:20:57 AM
@ the Berlin WALL 1989
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 12:23:22 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 12:23:22 AM
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:25:45 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:25:45 AM
What David H. up to these days?Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 12:28:37 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 12:28:37 AM
What David H. up to these days?Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
That's an old video.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:30:50 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 12:30:50 AM
Title: Re: OUGA CHAKA.
Post by: Bricktop on May 10, 2017, 01:22:24 AM
Post by: Bricktop on May 10, 2017, 01:22:24 AM
this one is TOP SHELF needed to be displayed, I assure you TOP GUN I'll play by the rulesQuote from: "realgrimm"
Just another BF style bullshit thread.
Title: Re: OUGA CHAKA.
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 01:25:43 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 01:25:43 AM
this one is TOP SHELF needed to be displayed, I assure you TOP GUN I'll play by the rulesQuote from: "realgrimm"
Just another BF style bullshit thread.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 02:38:07 AM
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 02:38:07 AM
Could never figure out their obsession with The Hoff. Comical, actually!
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 02:40:15 AM
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 02:40:15 AM
What David H. up to these days?Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
Getting drunk and acting in B-grade movies.
He was kicked out of the local Casino here a couple years back for being drunk and disorderly, as he was in town for some movie shoot.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 02:44:14 AM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 02:44:14 AM
I went to Germany as a child, just months before the wall came down. I still remember how popular he was there... Knight Rider re-runs always aired on TV, and it was only there that I realized he was a "musician" rather than just being Michael Knight.Quote from: "Angry White Male"
Could never figure out their obsession with The Hoff. Comical, actually!
I agree wholeheartedly it's funny what media mogul decide to bleed onto the masses .. counter culture also.. but the Hoff was and still is quite a force to be reckoned with
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 03:05:22 AM
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 03:05:22 AM
What I even loved better, was the guy that launched the firecracker at him from below, which would have exploded in his face had he not moved at the last second. Kudos to a tremendously accurate aim!
Maybe if that firecracker had tossed The Hoff of the man-lift, history would have been different... The wall would remain, and the Iron Curtain would still exist.
Damn you, Hoff!
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 05:21:56 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 05:21:56 AM
Its now an ad for Carl Burger...lol... I prefer the footage of him degrading his daughter over the phone...HAHAHA...GERMANY IS FUCKEDQuote from: "realgrimm"
That was Alec Baldwin wasn't it?
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 11:43:49 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 11:43:49 AM
Its now an ad for Carl Burger...lol... I prefer the footage of him degrading his daughter over the phone...HAHAHA...GERMANY IS FUCKEDQuote from: "realgrimm"
That was Alec Baldwin wasn't it?
I remember hearing that despicable audio.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 03:17:25 PM
Post by: realgrimm on May 10, 2017, 03:17:25 PM
Its now an ad for Carl Burger...lol... I prefer the footage of him degrading his daughter over the phone...HAHAHA...GERMANY IS FUCKEDQuote from: "realgrimm"
That was Alec Baldwin wasn't it?
Oh yeah.. I get those 2 stuffed shirts mixed up all the time
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 09:09:19 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 09:09:19 PM
David has a drinking problem, but Alec Baldwin has no excuse.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 09:57:39 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 09:57:39 PM
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 10:02:14 PM
Post by: Angry White Male on May 10, 2017, 10:02:14 PM
Alec Baldwin is an asshole.Quote from: "seoulbro"
I've heard that too.
I think Hasselhoff is a genuinely decent guy, that likes to drink, often to excess. I think he knows his acting career is kind of a joke now, but embraces and rolls with it. In fact, I think he knows
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 10:08:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on May 10, 2017, 10:08:28 PM
Alec Baldwin is an asshole.Quote from: "seoulbro"
I've heard that too.
I think Hasselhoff is a genuinely decent guy, that likes to drink, often to excess. I think he knows his acting career is kind of a joke now, but embraces and rolls with it. In fact, I think he knowshe'sa joke, and is cool with that! Well, he always has Germany if he gets totally shunned in America...
Alec Baldwin is just plain rude and thinks everyone is beneath him. He had an incident on a flight too.
Title: Re: avid Hasselhoff is HUGE in Germany
Post by: Anonymous on May 13, 2017, 01:06:38 AM
Post by: Anonymous on May 13, 2017, 01:06:38 AM
Its now an ad for Carl Burger...lol... I prefer the footage of him degrading his daughter over the phone...HAHAHA...GERMANY IS FUCKEDQuote from: "realgrimm"
That was Alec Baldwin wasn't it?
Oh yeah.. I get those 2 stuffed shirts mixed up all the time
I remember when both of these incidents happened.