“I Like it Loud!” Gustav from Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel drummer Gustav (17) rarely opens up in interviews – (he) rather let’s his band mates do the talking. Now he’s making an exception for BRAVO – and very openly talks about his life

Gustav’s role models are heavy bands like Metallica, Motörhead and System Of A Down

Band picture: Tom (16), Bill (16), Gustav (17) and Georg (19) during their legendary appearance at Amsterdam’s rock club Paradiso in the beginning of June
Gustav with headphones picture: Heavy, loud sounds are blaring from his headphones most of the times
Gustav with fans picture: Gustav and his fans: they love him because he’s so natural and down-to-earth

“I was the funny one with the big gob!”
“I’ve only really been in love twice.” “I’ve started to drum underneath our dining table.”

By Gustav
The earliest memory in my life is from a fall! I’ve been riding a tricycle and a wheel suddenly broke off in a bend. I fell over and cried because the tricycle was totally broken. All of this happened in Magdeburg where I grew up – in a single-family house with a little garden. I’ve got one sister – she’s older. She only lives 500 metres away from us. We often talk on the phone. Sometimes I drop by at her place in the afternoon. Then we’ll drink tea and chat for a bit. She’s also been given me flirting advice before. Once I really liked a girl that was always standing at the bus stop with me in the mornings. My sister then told me what would be the best way for me to get to know her. However, it didn’t work out. I just didn’t have the guts to talk to her. Currently I also don’t have a girlfriend. Just because there’s no time for it. I’ve only really been in love twice anyway. Unfortunately one of them already had a boyfriend – and even though I had been together with the other one, it was only a long-distance relationship. She lived 13 kilometres away from me. You couldn’t just drive there without a car. So we broke it off eventually. With girls I pay a lot of attention to the eyes and the face.

However, the hair colour absolutely doesn’t matter to me. I was always the funny one with the big gob in school. Now I’m a bit quieter but sometimes I turn it up on the tour bus. I’ve already been playing drums back then (in school). My musical career started underneath our dining table – during the evening meal. Back then my father was listening to t a lot of Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and Led Zeppelin. He filled the whole house with their sounds. And so I started to drum along. My father immediately registered me when a music school opened in our neighbourhood then. Of course there were also times when I couldn’t be bothered with practising anymore. However, nowadays I’m glad I went through with it because playing live really is the coolest thing for me. And I can also be funny on stage: once I knocked over the stool right in the middle of a concert and had to continue playing the song while standing up. That really was a laugh for the fans…

and the cover

Thank you to THUKST for the translation!

Mad love to read a Gustav Interview!

You can purchase this song for 99 cents on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Karma-Album-Version/dp/B001QUTBZ8

Warning. Fan screaming. Bill would start singing from behind stage and run out. Very effective crowd teaser.

Picspam! Woot!

You can see all the photos in our photobucket here…
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb101/tokiohotelamerica/2006/06_june/04_hessentagsarena/

And you can download them here.
http://www.mediafire.com/?weti3gi3aaowcg4

More here.

Frei im Freien fall

Intro to Thema #1

This Youtube user has several snippets from the concert.
http://www.youtube.com/user/giajill15

Here are some pics, more are in our photobucket.

Photobucket. Some are HQ, some are not.

Photobucket of more photos

Translation with thanks to an amazing fan, Artax from Germany.
Every day countless mothers preach to their little ones that fresh air and healthy food are good for them. And now, TH come along and say: “Humbug. We only eat fast food” and, quote: “Untouched nature is totally disgusting.” Natasha W. and Tanja J. met the boys yesterday at a concert in Vienna and asked them how we are to understand that.

No more hiding: Totally unabashed, Bill & Co treat themselves to a glass of champagne in public. Twice gold and twice platin for over a hundred thousand sold CDs in Austria – apparently, that had to be celebrated. After the huge run-in with the youth welfare office four months ago, the boys had been really cautious with drinking alcohol in public. No matter. Bill & Co had something to celebrate, and right away provided something new to talk about. Listen at this:

Bill: We’re all “Drinnis” [drin = inside], i.e. we sit inside all day and eat only fast food and totally unhealthy and don’t like this fresh “Draußi” [draußen = outside] stuff, all this salad and this arugula.

Just great, will all those mothers be thinking now, who just had worked hard to teach their teenies about healthy food and stuff – or for example, that a tree isn’t standing in the woods merely for decoration. And then idol Bill comes along, and has more to say:

Bill: Untouched nature, for example. That is disgusting. Where it’s all, like, overgrown… we hate that.

One has to, and can only, explain it with a late surge of puberty. At least, the boys celebrated the 19th birthday of bassist Georg totally low-key – because at some point, you’re too old for certain things, right?

Bill: When we were still young, we… well, there we really went at it… But we’re always totally disciplined when we’re on tour. There’s not much partying going on…
Tom: We’re generally very disciplined! ;)
Bill: …because we always have to have a lot of power for the concerts.

Well, and that’s probably why exercise aside of the stage is totally taboo.

Bill: We hate to go for a walk. We always drive from A to B by car, taxi or whatever, we walk almost never.

Oh, well, you mums and dads out there: Let’s be optimistic. What Tokio Hotel are going through right now – it’s probably just one of these phases – and surely, that’ll pass quickly.

I love the images of the guys floating from Rette Mich video though! Click to embiggen the images.

It’s 24 inches x 36 inches (2 feet tall by 3 feet wide)

This was in Switzerland on the TV Show “Benissimo”, March 18, 2006. To newer fans, it is generally the rule that when bands perform on TV in Europe, they use playback, so … just so you know. It’s different there.

Bill has such a lanky walk… the twins had not even grown yet. Heehee