In Rammstein's 2009 video for the song Pussy, Flake portrays an intersex person named Heeshie. In the video for Ich will, Flake is tied to a bomb that explodes at the end of the video. He is seen about to jump off the top of a burning building (trying and failing to land safely on a trampoline) in the video for Benzin. In the video for Keine Lust, Flake is seen in an electric wheelchair. Flake does a dance, dubbed the "Flake-dance", during Weißes Fleisch. When performing Mein Teil, Flake is "cooked" with a flamethrower of varying size by Till in a giant cauldron. Despite this, Flake has returned to "surfing" the dinghy for Rammstein's 2009 tour during the performance of Haifisch. Also, during a 2001 concert in Saint Petersburg, Flake was tipped out of the boat by the crowd and almost completely undressed. According to Flake, the change occurred because he was injured too often. Up until 2002, Flake would "surf" the audience in an inflatable rubber dinghy during performances of Seemann and Stripped. His role in Bück dich is not the only live act he is known for. After months of legal debate, they were eventually fined US$100. They were held and released the following day on US$25 bail. A statement from Sergeant Thomas Radula of the Worcester Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Flake onstage "using a phallic object that shot water over the crowd". On 5 June 1999 in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA) Lindemann and Flake Lorenz were arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior. These distinctive roles in the band's theatrical presentation have led to him becoming a very popular member of the group among fans.įlake is probably best known for his part in the controversial live performance of the song Bück dich, where he and vocalist Till Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo. This varies from playing the part of a scientific genius, aloof from the rest of the group, to playing a gimp role, to being left alone at the end of the Keine Lust video, and being bullied by the rest of the band, particularly Lindemann. In the band's performances and videos, Flake is often cast as the outsider of the group, possibly due to his relatively unusual presence as a keyboard player in a heavy metal group. Eventually, he agreed to join, and the group began work on their first album, Herzeleid. He was initially reluctant to join his five bandmates and had to be pestered into becoming a member of Rammstein, as he thought they would be too boring. Paul Landers formally joined the band, then finally Flake. In 1994, Till Lindemann, Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider entered and won the Berlin Senate Metro beat contest that allowed them to professionally record a four-track demo. Two jackets a month meant as much money as an average salaried worker. When they were not playing gigs, Landers and Flake would sell jackets made from cut-up bed sheets and dusters on the black market. He stayed with the band for about ten years.įlake squatted/lived in an apartment with Paul during their early years. In 1983, at age sixteen, he began to play in the band Feeling B with Paul Landers and Aljoscha Rompe, a Swiss living in East Berlin. He has a brother who is four years older. I still can't!" At the age of sixteen, he apprenticed as a toolmaker, an apparently short-lived career. "When I joined my first band", Flake has said, "I noticed that I couldn't play modern music. He stopped his lessons in order to play with his father's jazz records. His parents bought him a piano for one hundred East German marks for his 15th birthday.įlake became "addicted" to rock and roll as a boy. Flake "began by painting the keys on a window ledge" and "practiced one-half-year on the window ledge". Flake says he chose to play the piano because a childhood friend of his played from the age of three. Lorenz is known to be an educated pianist. Lorenz was brought up and still lives in the former Prenzlauer Berg area of Berlin (now a part of the borough of Pankow), where he still passes his old school building on the way to band rehearsals. He carries the title anyway, so now he is mostly called Doctor Lorenz. He actually wanted to become a doctor, but after feeling that this wouldn't work, he joined the band. He had no idea what that was supposed to mean but thought it was a cool name.įlake did not want to join Rammstein at first. A bully at his school called him "Flake", meant as an insult. Because he couldn't say some words without stuttering badly, he chose to say other words he could say fluently. Vicky is living with his parents in the Viking village Flake.ĭuring his reading tour, Flake said, that his nickname comes from his youth when he was stuttering. His nickname Flake comes from the TV show "Vicky the Viking".
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