Böhse Onkelz Reaction - So sind wir (Böhse für's Leben 2015 - First Time Hearing - Requested

[@DennisTheRacer]

As a matter of fact, that was the biggest mobile stage in Europe and 120k people attended (concert was at Hockenheimring, which is a racetrack) . It was amazing, and the band is which a lot of us were born with, and they played a whole weekend. 2015 was their comeback

[@legendedie1]

Best German Band! Thx for your great reaction...👍

[@castegear]

this lyrics is so good... Onkelz are amazing

[@mariomelms7902]

I saw them live once almost 30 years ago. Still one of my most favourite concerts ever!

[@l.waldberg6803]

Thanks. Please more boehse onkelz reactions. Onkelz forever!

[@Snipy55]

Beautiful reactiin, glad some americans may get to know them. They are a national treasure of germany, while not popular in the media

[@DonZissla]

Its not a Stadion, its a Racetrack 🤙

[@Tobosaku77]

lyrics are crucial with this band!!

[@martinwallroth6208]

OMG thank you so much for this great reaction. Especially for this great German band. As a German I appreciate your video very much. Hope you react to more German bands like freiwild. It's so nice to see that people from the US (I think) enjoy this German music ❤

[@martinwallroth6208]

You habe my subscription 😊👍

[@elricofmelnibone8256]

Onkelz are no Rock or Metal, they are just the Onkelz, Onkelz are a way of life. If you are feeling blue and sad, no better medicine than listening to their songs.

[@besch1974]

Amen 🙌🏻

[@haraldalbrecht6133]

Haargenauso ❤🤘🤘🤘 einmal Onkelz immer Onkelz 💪👍🤘❤

[@michaelborn351]

Onkelz für immer 🤘

[@shanseron2664]

Böhse Onkelz!! Best Band ever!!

[@infokriegerodin]

🥰😍👍👍 the words of weidner at the end, about religion, are related to the next song "church", is highly recommended. also songs like, "the nice man" (der nette mann).... they are words of truth

[@theevilthatmendo100]

Onkelz haben richtig Power

[@TheStufe]

This was tbe biggest stage for one Band ! It was the "Hockenheimring" , a Formula1 racingtrack.. 110 000 People per Day ( 4 Days total. ) 👌🏼👍🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼👊🏼

[@ErwinStechapfel]

They were and are sometimes still considered a right-wing band. When I first heard Onkelz (90s), I didn't know anything about the very early albums. We were a group of different people: hippies/alternatives, some (myself included) also listened to techno at the time, one was more of a punk rocker and nobody who could be said to be in a right wing position. On the contrary. Most of us were closer to the left, if at all interested in politics, and for us this music was a part of a counter-concept to "normal bourgeoisie". We drank, smoked weed listened to a lot of different music and had a great time. No one even thought that the Onkelz might be right-wing. I think "Kneipenterroristen" was the earliest album we heard. However, many years later I saw an old TV recording in which Kevin and Stephan? (not sure) had a discussion with other young people about their music and how it was understood by some/or many at the time. I saw young angry guys who were shaped by their environment and their (albeit quite recent) past. They were at a crossroads at the time and took the right path. That's how I see it. Does that mean they (the media and the left wings) have to demonize them for the rest of their life? I don't think so. Everyone has a right to change!

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

Yeah. I'm personally far left, but I basically grew up hearing the Onkelz, although I don't really listen their music anymore. They definitely made some very cringe and outright extreme right songs when they were young, but I think they did their best to distance themselves from that and Weidner for example founded multiple projects to fight against hate and they generally don't have any problems to piss their remaining extreme right audience off by insulting them and telling them to burn their CDs and what not. But I also don't think there is much of a "demonization" by "the media and the left wings(?)" anymore, it's more that most people don't care that much about them and are just like "Oh I heard they are kinda rightwing and idiots, so I don't want to have anything to do with them". I think the actual reaction is mostly "Oh you listen to the Onkelz, you must be a real failures" because a lot of the Onkelz songs are just "everyone hates me, so I hate them back" and "look how not mainstream and special I am". And to be fair, a lot of Onkelz fans are (in my experience) kinda fucked up in their heads.

[@ErwinStechapfel]

@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Yes, maybe you are right. I listen to them maybe once a year reminiscing about old times and then a few songs. Honestly, I don't really know whether the stigmatization is still the same today. I was just going back to the best of my knowledge. But if I still read articles on Rammstein that want to put the band in this corner or at least describe them as highly controversial, then I could imagine the other one too. But as I said, I'm not up to date with the Onkelz. On the whole I agree with you. For example, I didn't know that Weidner was so active there, thanks for the information!

[@Nautika82]

everyone who says the onkelz are controversial is like a woke american, feeling above facts kind of people

[@keepkcool]

One Live-DVD has English subtitles for the songs but I forgot which it was

[@ffzjgfggjjkuz6517]

live in Berlin Abschiedstour

[@Andreas82.]

Hey Rob you know that the onkelz like your channel? They mentioned you on there official Homepage because they liked your reaction about them.

[@allesanders1809]

It is not a stadium. It is the gran prix course of the hockenheimring in germany.

[@dst2191]

Please more Onkelz! 🙏🏻

[@Ragnarlothbrock55]

gret i love it

[@Sascha_Germany]

Legends of my youth. They were controversial very early in their career.

[@andystone6777]

what you guys out there might like to know that none, not a fucking single one of their song ever had been played on radio

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

Best time was when their song "No amnesty for MTV" (a song about the corrupt music industry) hit the top 10 in germany and MTV was forced to broadcast it :P

[@andystone6777]

@@thomasnieswandt8805 da haben die doch sicher im dünnen Strahl gekotzt 🤣🤣🤣

[@bummelbee...5814]

Thats us thats our life...whats better to be a ONKEL to be in German...Was kann es schöneres geben als ein ein ONKEL zu sein

[@tien4605]

This is not a Stadium, this is the Former Formula 1 Race track Hockenheimring, 200k a Day

[@IvanBW02]

Two weeks, 4 days, every time 200k. It was awesome!

[@axelotredbanner2165]

Every Onkelz Tour is sold out

[@jomoderschlomo4897]

Technically theyre a mix of Punk and Hard Rock. But to us theyre just "Die Onkelz"

[@burrak2621]

digga ich dachte kurz gandalf himself

[@sebastianvolkmann8677]

🤣🤣

[@Sascha_Germany]

They sing ...böhse onkels immer wieder... If u wanna know how to pronounce it

[@traderjoes8725]

@Robk Reacts The band was controversial because it was popular in the 90' extreme right skinheads scene. Especially the front singer was off track. They reunion 2014. The fan base is remarkably strong even today. Even if the riffs are simple, people in Germany can identify well with some of the lyric. That is why this large mass of people comes together there. Germanic people can identify with something.

[@konsolenpunkenglish7745]

… 80s … (not 90s). They were part of that scene, but only two unreleased demos have unambiguously lyrics about that stuff. They „left“ that scene around 86/87 and were basically „hated“ since then by the „lefts“ (they claim they never changed) and the „rights“ (they claim they betrayed them). Since the reunion they are also „hated“ by some old fans because they said they would never reunite 😅😂.

[@keepkcool]

Also the singer was a drug addict for many years and after the breakup of the band he had a massive car accident driving too fast under drugs. Two people in the other car are injured for their lives

[@jae10.08]

das ist aber nicht der Grund, wieso die Band kontrovers ist. Aber der Wind in Deutschland dreht sich endlich. Den linken geht der Saft aus. @@keepkcool

[@Vagabound]

They made some songs which can sound like there very right winged (the german bad word with "N" at the beginning and an "azi" at the end). Truth is they were young and angry and did put this in they´re songs. But as it is a lyric of a song can easily be misunderstood and if the media go with it you are marked very fast. That´s the very short version of what happens to make them controversial. The funny (or maybe the sad) thing about that is that these songs we are talking about are from 1982 - 1985 when they were in they´re early 20th. But that´s still the reason why people who dislike them are saying that they are N.a.z.i.s which is complete bullshit. They only make songs about things they like or dislike in a very straight forward right in the face way. One of those controversial songs is called "Türken raus" which means "Turks go home" or "F*** off turks". What seems to be agressive against foreigners in general will shine in a different light when you know that they made this song after they were beat up by a turkish youth gang on they´re way to the "studio" (was more a garage then a studio in those days). They came there and were still pissed because what happened and wrote this song what only meant those turks who beat them up. They also said a couple of times that they were "young and foolish" and mad mistakes and that mistakes are there to learn from it so that they would this song not write again or had written it if they were older when it happened. Btw that and some other early songs were not played again by the band since many many about 30 or more years. But media like to have some bad guys to point at and so in the media they have still that "controversial" image. But as you can see in the crowd there are most families, and young people like you and me (ok you and me are more older people lol ) who want to have some fun at the concerts and if there are really some N.a.z.i.s in between then they don´t show up and say "here I am". You can´t pick your audience one by one so maybe there are still some right winged fools but to prove that the band has nothing to do with them and also don´t sympatisize with those people: Some years ago they interrupted a concert in Leipzig when some fashists show up and yelled those n.a.z.i phrases that I don´t want to repeat here. Not sure if it was only paused or if they end the concert at that point but it doesn´t matter because it should be evidence enough to see that they´re nothing but a rock band with a nasty image. Also they use this image to make songs about it how the "world" vs the Onkelz works. So in some way this bad/controversial image is a "win win" situation for the media and for the band as well. Media has something to talk about and the band has something to sing about. But everybody who listen to they´re songs since the mid nineties can clearly see that there is not much of controversial stuff... at least nothing from the far right corner.

[@familieshan6933]

The press put them to the far right wing when they were teens... and never stoped that.. But they never looked closer to that band, even when they said that this is not right...! Over 40 Years now this is going on... This is the biggest band near Ramstein in Germany! Just enjoy the music and try to understand the text...

[@AltmuehlDrone]

they are controverial because their very first songs were made from a non-oi-skinhead-side-of-view (right wing) like "deutschland den deutschen" (germany for the germans) and "ausländer raus" ("foreigns leave!") but they broke away from that, even using it as a theme for their songs (additional to the heroin addiction of their singer)... they arent right wing anymore if youd ask me but they arent good about communicating about it.

[@prodbysen]

You should add that they dissociated themselves from the right wing in the mid 80s before their first studio album even came out And since then, they sung about they don't give a f about nazis and sponsored social projects for example also some that help people who became victims of right wing violence And said in concerts that they stand against racism

[@burrak2621]

the elder man should try to shut up if it goes to evalutate another bands tho

[@Keupi1974]

So sad for you, not to understand the lyrics.