05.03.2005., subota

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Zatvorite oči i pokušajte se opustiti tako da u trenutku slušanja melodija koje dolaze iz vaših zvučnika ne razmišljate o apsolutno ničemu i da vas ono što čujete vodi nekim svojim božanstvenim putevima na način da svake sekunde svaki zvuk, svaki ton, svaka boja dopire do vas sa svojim punim značenjem. Udahnite duboko i prepustite se jer bili mladi ili stari metal glazba koju stvaraju Dream Theater nije ona od koje treba zazirati i bacati je u nešto što slušaju buntovna mladež u razvoju i pronalaženju smisla svoje egzistencije i formiranju vlastitih životnih načela. Ova grupa ljudi zasigurno je jedna od onih grupa koja metalu uljepšava i uzdiže ime na način da od te vrste glazbe čini ono što se učiniti može sa znanjem i umijećem sviranja te sa osobnim artizmom i težnjom ka uzvišenju i obogaćenju svih mogućih vrijednosti istog. Dakle, koncentrirajte se na slobodu duha i ne osuđujte ništa dok ih ne poslušate, ali tek onda kad budete bez predrasuda i spremni i sposobni za pravovaljane zaključke jer Dream Theater zaslužuje takvo nešto s obzirom na ono što je dosada ponudio i što nudi, a to nije drkanje po akordima i improvizacijama da bi se dobio što kompliciraniji uradak prožet žestinom i grubošću, već naprotiv od toga stvaraju vrlo lijepu progresivnu metal operu sa vrlo kvalitetnim i izrazito staloženim vokalom koji samo zatvara ono što su stvorili gitarist, basist, klavijaturist i bubnjar i što svi zajedno stvaraju već dugi niz godina ne mijenjajući svoja uvjerenja i stavove, odnosno, temeljna usmjerenja u glazbi koja je sa svakim albumom inovativnost nad inovativnostima, umjetnost bez granica, bez okova i lanaca, zbog čega su im zahvalni svi obožavatelji jer ovi ljudi misle na njih na prvom mjestu, a to je danas ipak, morate priznati, rijetkost s obzirom da je velika većina bendova otišla u mainstream.

John Peter Petrucci svoje gitarističko obrazovanje započeo je u dvanaestoj godini što se itekako uspješno nastavilo u srednjoj školi. Odrastao je na Long Islandu zajedno sa Kevin Mooreom i John Ro Myungom koji se još u ranoj dobi svoga života preselio u New York iz Chicaga. Myung je počeo svirati violinu sa svojih pet godina, a sa petnaest posvetio se basu koji mu nije, kako je sam rekao, bilo teško naučiti, te od tad nije nikad više uzeo u ruke violinu. Poprilično samouki Petrucci naučio je jazz kompoziciju i harmoniju pohađavši Berklee School of Music u Bostonu zajedno s Myungom. Njih dvojica u rujnu 1986. godine odlučuju da u svoje slobodno vrijeme osnuju bend pri čemu im se pridružuje bubnjar Mike Stephen Portnoy koji je također pohađao Berklee. Pozvali su također i svog školskog prijatelja Kevin Moorea da im se pridruži za klavijaturama, te vokalista Chris Collinsa. Nedugo nakon toga prvi demo uratci bili su snimljeni pod nazivom 'Majesty Demos' koji su se u lokalnom okružju u roku od šest mjeseci prodali u tisuću kopija da bi čak i danas bili dostupni. Ionako neefektivan i vokalno slab Collins napušta bend, a nakon godinu dana traženja njegovo mjesto zauzima Charlie Dominici. Pred objavu prvog albuma bend se suočava sa prisilom promjena imena jer je već postojao bend koji se zove Majesty, te se na kraju uz sugestiju Portnoyjevog oca bend proziva Dream Theater po, danas nepostojećoj, kino dvorani u Kaliforniji. Prvi album ' When Dream and Day Unite' objavljen je napokon za malu diskografsku kuću Mechanic Records koja pak nažalost nije bila u financijskoj mogućnosti da im pruži potrebnu podršku glede promoviranja albuma i eventualne turneje, pa su dečki napustili izdavača, ali nakon toga su otpustili i vokalista Dominicija koji jednostavno nije odgovarao njihovim potrebama i željama. Nakon svih slomova bend je dugo tražio i izdavača i vokalista i onda napokon stvari polako dolaze na svoje 1991. godine.



Kevin James LaBrie iz Kanade, odnosno Ontaria, čije je prebivalište danas Toronto gdje živi sa svojom suprugom i dvoje djece bio je i ostao savršenstvo za ono što je bend trebao. LaBrie se sa glazbom, pjevanje i sviranje bubnjeva, počeo baviti još u petoj godini života. Nakon traženja odgovarajućeg benda kroz godine odrastanja LaBrie se pridružuje Dream Theateru, na čijoj je audiciji bio bolji od nešto više dvjestotinjak vokalista, tri godine nakon snimljenog albuma s grupom Winter Rose. Bend potpisuje ugovor za EastWest, tada ATCO Atlantic, te snima svoj drugi album 'Images and Words' koji tri godine kasnije postiže zlatnu nakladu. Napokon su stvari polako dolazile na svoje. Zanimanje za Dream Theater je sve više i više raslo kao i njihov položaj na sceni, usprkos tome što je vrijeme njihovog pravog proboja nastupilo u vrijeme sveopće grunge haračine, pa se i njihov prvijenac s lakoćom prodavao, ali to jednostavno nije bilo dovoljno obožavateljima željnih njihove glazbe, pa bend objavljuje 1993. godine live album 'Live at the Marquee' snimljen u Londonu, te live video zapis 'Live In Tokyo'. Bend se nakon turneje vraća u studio gdje snima svoj treći album 'Awake' koji biva objavljen u listopadu 1994. godine. Međutim prije same objave albuma Kevin Moore napušta bend nezadovoljan glazbenim pravcem kojim se grupa kreće što pak nije ono što je on želio.Na njegovo mjesto dolazi Derek Sherinian iako je bila težnja da to mjesto zauzme klavijaturist Jordan Rudess, ali on pak nije tad bio slobodan jer je pristupio jednom drugom bendu, Dixie Dregs, koji su tad odgovarali njegovim potrebama.

Nešto manje od godinu dana poslije Dream Theater daje još jednu epsku 'A Change of Season' poslasticu svojim obožavateljima da bi nedugo zatim nakon jedne vrlo kratke turnejice objavili i album 'Falling Into Infinity' koji je možda njihov najslabiji uradak do sada. Nakon pripadajuće turneje pripadajućem albumu Dream Theater, to jest, njegovi članovi uzimaju stanku i to stanku koja to ipak nije bila jer se ovdje ipak radi o glazbenim radoholičarima koji osim matičnog benda imaju i razne projekte sa strane što opet nije bio razlog da se ne objavi i dupli live album 'Once In A LiveTime' odnosno video zapis 'Five Years In A LiveTime'. Početkom 1999. godine dva su razloga za veselje bila: toliko priželjkivani Jordan Rudess postaje član Dream Theatera dok Sherinian naravno odlazi i formira bend Planet X; fenomenalni album 'Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory' kao nastavak na započetu priču 'Metropolis Part 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper' na albumu 'Images and Words' doživio je napokon svjetlo dana sa svojih dvanaest skladbi, odnosno, devet scena sve lijepo složenih u jedan blistavi koncept. Već slijedeće godine za vrijeme turneje objavljen je nakon nekoliko poteškoća prvi bendov DVD zapis 'Metropolis 2000'. Još godinu dana poslije biva objavljen i trostruki, treći po redu, live album 'Live Scenes From New York', koji sasvim slučajno izlazi tužnog i tragičnog 11. rujna i to sa tada ipak problematičnim kaverom koji se sastojao od Dream Theaterovog znaka "sakralno srce" iz ere albuma 'Images and Words' smještenog u "izgarajuću jabuku" sa panoramom New Yorka čiji je efekt itekako bio očit - World Trade Center u plamenu. Izdavač povlači sve kopije tog albuma, sa posljednjeg nastupa u Roseland Ballroomu u New Yorku, u znak razumijevanja i solidarnosti te isti objavljuje nešto kasnije s primjerenijim kaverom.



"Kroz karijeru smo bili veoma različiti s onim kamo idemo sa svakim snimljenim albumom. Mislim da je razlog tome taj što smo uvijek bili posebno eksperimentalni ne želeći da se ponavljamo sa svakim novim albumom. S obzirom na ono što radimo mišljenja sam da imamo luksuz biti bend kakav jesmo, bend od kojeg ljudi očekuju nešto drugačije svaki put kad snimamo. To nam daje slobodu da budemo eksperimentalni. Dosta nas ljudi gleda kao hard rock progresivni bend, čiji elementi definitivno i jesu prisutni, ali mi onda ubacimo i neke druge stvari kao što su klasične ili orkestralne teme i slično. Čini se da za nas ne postoje granice, što je vrlo jedinstvena situacija u kojoj se nalazimo jer nam to omogućuje da budemo kreativno slobodni," rekao je, ne tako davno u jednom intervju, danas tridesetdevetogodišnji LaBrie koji se okušao malo i u solo vodama objavivši album "Mullmuzzler: Keep It To Yourself" 1999. godine uz pomoć Matt Guilloryja (Dali's Dilemma), Mike Manginija, Mike Keneallyja i Bryan Bellera, te prošle godine "Mullmuzzler 2". Kao i svaki član James daje svoj određeni dio bendovoj značajnosti sa svojim iznimnim vokalnim mogućnostima koje ga svrstavaju među sam vrh vokalista današnjice. Tako je i sa Myungom koji osim što doslovce rastura u Dream Theateru i biva proglašen kao "najtiši" član zbog svog slabog medijskog izjašnjavanja on od 1998. godine ima i drugi bend Platypus s kojim je dosad objavio dva albuma "When Pus Comes To Shove" i "Ice Cycles", a u bendu se osim njega nalaze Sherinian, Ty Tabor iz King's X i Rod Morgenstein iz Dixie Dregs.

"Tko god da me je intervjuirao reći će vam da ja radije trošim svoje vrijeme na raspravljanju i promoviranju drugih glazbenika ili filmova nego o sebi ili Dream Theateru. Kako Dream Theater ili naša diskografska kuća i dalje želi me za svog glasnogovornika to je još iznad mojih shvaćanja," izjavio je na svom sajtu tridesetpetogodišnji zanesenjak Portnoy koji ima običaj da kad na primjer zavoli neki bend (kao što je jedan Radiohead) mora imati apsolutno sve što se tog benda tiče. Isto tako ima apsolutno sve i od Dream Theatera od postera i majica do video i audio zapisa koncerata. Devet, prije neobjavljenih, pjesama Portnoy je prije tri godine ponudio obožavateljima putem bendovog internacionalnog fan kluba. Portnoy osim Dream Theatera, u kojem i pjeva back vokale, iza sebe ima dva velika projekta: TransAtlantic u kojem je udružio snage sa Neal Morseom iz Spock's Beard, Pete Trewavasom iz Marilliona i Roine Stoltom iz The Flower Kings, te Liquid Tension Experiment u kojem se osim Portnoyja nalaze i Jordan Rudess, Tony Levin i John Petrucci koji osim rada u tom bendu, utjecajnom časopisu "Guitar World" i Dream Theateru ostavlja traga i u projektu Explorer's Club u kojem se osim njega nalaze i LaBrie i Sherinan, ali i još tonu drugih likova.
Usprkos svim kako usponima tako i padovima, raznim projektima i suradnjama, dečki su objavili i svoj šesti polu-konceptualni dvostruki album 'Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence' - od šest pjesama, odnosno pet pjesama na jednom disku i jednom četrdesetdvominutnom rock operom podijeljenu u osam dijelova na drugom disku - uz pomoć gotovo cijele ekipe iz ere 'Images and Words' albuma i uz produkcijsku palicu Portnoya i Petruccija, te i ovaj put oduševili svoje vjerne obožavatelje, ali i one druge koji su im bili ipak nešto manje skloniji. Ako dosad nije postalo jasno o kakvoj grupi umjetnika se ovdje radi onda oni koji nisu sposobni prepoznati kvalitetu neće je ni naći ni da se trude još milijun puta jer ono što članovi Dream Theatera jesu i ono što stvaraju, a stvarati prestati neće još dugo, nije ništa drugo doli jedne prave, velike, iskrene harmonije nabijene originalnošću, inspirativnošću, i dakako emocionalnim pristupima određenim dijelovima ljudske kulture i inog postojanja. Dream Theater ili volite ili mrzite, a ja ih volim baš kao i jedna Ana i pola kugle Zemaljske:))





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Indifference

I will light the match this mornin’, so I won’t be alone
Watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I’m free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in hell...
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah...

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I’ll keep takin’ punches until their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind hey,
I won’t change direction, and I won’t change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make...how much difference...

I’ll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference (2x)
How much difference does it make

Release

Father...ooh...oh...oh...
I see the world, feel the chill
Which way to go, windowsill
I see the world’s on a rocking horse of time
I see the verse in the rain
Ohh...ohh...ohh...ohh...

Oh, dear dad, can you see me now
I am myself, like you somehow
I’ll ride the wave where it takes me
I’ll hold the pain...
Release me...
Ohh...ohh...ohh...ohh...

Oh, dear dad, can you see me now
I am myself, like you somehow
I’ll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
I’ll open up...
Release me...
Release me (3x)
Ohh...ohh...

Immortality

Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can’t adhere...

A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on...
But there’s a trapdoor in the sun...immortality...

As privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...
A truant finds home...and I wish to hold on, too...
But saw the trapdoor in the sun...

Immortality...
I cannot stop the thought...I’m running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live... ohh...



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JOE SATRIANI



1. You saved my life
2. Starry night
3. What breaks a heart
4. Until we say goodbye
5. Crying
6. Thinking of you
7. Baroque
8. Sleep walk
9. Flying in a blue dream
10. Saying goodbye

RATM



1. Born of a broken man
2. Guerilla radio
3. Sleep now in the fire
4. Vietnow
5. Renegades of funk
6. Ashes in the fall
7. Maria
8. Bombtrack
9. Kick out he James
10. Maggie's farm

PANTERA



1. Hollow
2. Cemetary gates
3. Domination
4. Walk
5. Yesterday don't mean shit
6. I'm broken
7. Becoming
8. Revolution is my name
9. Planet caravan
10. Strength beyond strength

TOOL



1. You lied
2. Opiate
3. Jerk-off
4. Schism
5. Third eye
6. Sober
7. Parabola
8. Prison sex
9. Patient
10. Grudge

RHCP



1. Scar Tissue
2. I could have lied
3. Soul to squeeze
4. Tear jerker
5. Californication
6. Search & destroy
7. Higher ground
8. Knock me down
9. Under the bridge
10. Suck my kiss




Baader-Meinhof Gang

Depending on how one looks at it, the Baader-Meinhof Gang came into existence on 2 April 1968, when Andreas Baader and his girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, firebombed Frankfurt's Kaufhaus Schneider department store, or it came into being two years later when the famed left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof helped to break Baader out of prison custody in Berlin, on 14 May 1970. The name Baader-Meinhof Gang certainly didn't come into usage until, of course, after Meinhof helped Baader escape from custody and the German press was looking for a suitable moniker to attach to the group. The group never used the term to describe themselves (they called themselves the Red Army Faction). Liberals and moderates would never call them a "Gang" (bande), but were instead careful to refer to them as a "Group" (gruppe). Conservative Germans were equally careful to do the exact opposite. Neither group, however, was referring to the group as they themselves preferred to be named.
The second irony of the term "Baader-Meinhof" is that it implied a reality within the group that did not exist. Baader was unquestioningly the leader of the group, but his girlfriend Ensslin was more of a co-leader than Meinhof ever was. And Baader and Meinhof were certainly never lovers.
Depending on how one looks at it, The Baader-Meinhof Gang ceased to exist in May and June of 1972, when Baader, Meinhof, Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins (the five core members of the group) were captured, or it ceased to exist early in the morning of November 18, 1977, when Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe committed suicide in prison (Meinhof had committed suicide the previous year and Meins had died from a hunger strike in 1974). Their own name for their urban terrorist organization, the Red Army Faction, continued to be used by the successive generations of terrorists that continued the cause after the original leaders were captured.

Andreas Baader



Andreas Baader was one of the two namesakes of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. A juvenile delinquent, Baader was drawn towards the leftist student movement because of the excitement, and the potential for violence. He was convicted of the 1968 arson bombing of a Frankfurt department store, along with his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin. He escaped from police custody in May 1970 with the help of famous journalist Ulrike Meinhof, giving birth to the so-called "Baader-Meinhof Gang."
Baader spent the next two years on the run, robbing banks, and bombing buildings. He was captured, along with fellow gang members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins in a spectacular Frankfurt shootout on 1 June, 1972.
Baader spent the next four years in prison, being tried and convicted of many counts, including murder, in the longest and most expensive trial in German history.
Depending on whom you believe, Baader was either murdered or committed suicide in his prison cell early in the morning of 18 October, 1977, on "Death Night."

Ulrike Meinhof



Ulrike Meinhof's parents both died early, leaving Ulrike and her sister Weinke in the care of Renate Riemack, a friend of their mother's. Riemack was a devoted socialist, and a profound influence on Meinhof.
Meinhof married Klaus Rainer Röhl, publisher of the left-wing student newspaper, konkret. After a few years Meinhof became konkret's editor. Röhl and Meinhof have twin girls, Bettina and Regine, on 21 September, 1962.
Meinhof drifted away from Röhl, and towards the radical fringe of the student movement. She left her husband in the late sixties. On 14 May, 1970, she participated in the freeing of Andreas Baader, giving birth to the so-called "Baader-Meinhof Gang." Though partially named after her, Meinhof was not, as is often assumed, the co-leader of the gang (Baader, along with his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin, led the group, with Meinhof, Jan-Carl Raspe, and others comprising a second tier of leadership). She spent the next two years on the run, robbing banks and bombing buildings, before being captured on 15 June, 1972.
While in prison over the next four years, Meinhof grew increasingly depressed as the other gang members ostracize her. She hung herself in her cell on 9 May, 1976 (though some have questioned this official explanation and instead suspect that she was murdered by the state)

Gudrun Ensslin



Contrary to what many people think, Gudrun Ensslin, not Ulrike Meinhof, was the real female leader of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Gudrun was a politically active student in the 1960s. She participated in the seminal 2 June 1967 Berlin protest where a young pacifist named Benno Ohnesorg was killed. After the protest she went to the local SDS office and screamed hysterically: "This fascist state means to kill us all! Violence is the only way to answer violence!"
The next year Ensslin and her new boyfriend Andreas Baader attempted to burn down two Frankfurt am Main department stores. After serving a year in jail, Ensslin and Baader, and their two co-defendants Horst Söhnlein and Thorwald Proll were released temporarily pending an appeal. When the appeal failed, Ensslin, Baader and Proll escaped to France as fugitives. Later they agreed to become part of the lawyer Horst Mahler's new urban guerrilla group. Baader was arrested soon thereafter and Ensslin convinces her friend Ulrike Meinhof to be part of a plan to break him out of jail in May of 1970.
Ensslin was captured on 7 June 1972 in Hamburg. She was tried and convicted in the longest and most expensive trial in German history. Depending on whom you believe, she either hung herself or was murdered early in the morning of 18 October 1977 in her prison cell in Stammheim Prison (Death Night).

Jan-Carl Raspe



Young Jan-Carl Raspe, living in East Berlin, found himself on the west side of the Berlin Wall when the East Germans raised on the night of 12 August 1961. He decided to stay in the west, living with relatives. In 1967 he helped found Kommune II, an experimental Berlin commune that actually pre-dated the wild and raucous Kommune I, but was named later.
Raspe was with the Baader-Meinhof Gang from the day's of Andreas Baader's escape from police custody in 1970. He was captured along with Baader and Holger Meins by police in a bloody Frankfurt shootout 1 July 1972.Raspe was tried with Ulrike Meinhof, Baader, and Gudrun Ensslin in a trial held on the grounds of Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. After the longest trial in German history, Raspe was convicted along with Baader and Ensslin (Meinhof committed suicide in 1976) of murder and other counts, and sentenced to life. Depending on whom you believe, Raspe either committed suicide or was murdered in prison early in the morning of 18 October 1977, on "Death Night."

Astrid Proll



Astrid Proll was the younger sister of Thorwald Proll, who participated in the April 1968 bombing of two Frankfurt department stores with Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Horst Söhnlein. Astrid Proll joined Ensslin and Baader soon after they became fugitives from the law in 1970 (her brother Thorwald was soon dumped from the burgeoning gang soon thereafter).
Proll was arrested in May of 1971 but escaped and fled to England. She was found in England in 1977 and extradited. Once back in Germany, charges against her stemming from her original arrest were dropped when it was learned that the state had withheld evidence that would have cleared her.

Hans-Jürgen Bäcker



Undercover name: "Harp." Hans-Jürgen Bäcker was with the Baader-Meinhof Gang from its first days before Andreas Baader was rescued from police custody in May 1970. He trained in Jordan with the other original core members of the group shortly after Baader's escape.
After a tipster led to the arrest of Horst Mahler, Brigitte Asdonk, Irene Goergens, and Ingrid Schubert on 8 October 1970, members of the gang began to suspect Bäcker of being a traitor. He left the gang soon thereafter.
Bäcker was arrested on 2 February 1971. In 1974 he was tried and acquitted of participating in the raid that rescued Baader.

Holger Meins



Holger Meins joined the Baader-Meinhof Gang early in 1971. A leftist Berlin film student, he was tired of being hassled by the police for his political views and wanted to take some direct action. He was to become one of the primary members of the group. Meins was arrested on 1 June 1972 along with Jan-Carl Raspe and Andreas Baader in a bloody Frankfurt shootout.
In prison the gang would call periodic hunger strikes. There was evidence that some of the leaders, such as Baader, faked their hunger strikes. But Meins clearly did not fake his. He died on 11 November 1974 from a hungerstrike. Over six feet tall, Meins weighed less than 100 pounds at death.

Horst Mahler



In many ways Horst Mahler can be considered the founder of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. A brilliant socialist lawyer and architect, Mahler began to look for ways to turn his Marxist theory into praxis. His idea was to create a band of Urban Guerillas who would help foment a Marxist revolution. Among his first recruits in the spring of 1970: a couple of fugitive arsonists, Gudrun Ensslin and her boyfriend Andreas Baader.As brilliant as Mahler was, he was prone to fouling things up occasionally. Once, when Baader was in custody but the police did not know his identity yet, Mahler called up the police station as asked for information about a "Herr Baader" that they had arrested the previous night. Needless to say there was little question as to Baader's identity after that.
Mahler participated, and possibly organized, the Baader-Meinhof trip to the Jordan training camp. Mahler was arrested along with Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens in October of 1970. In prison Mahler set to work on a manifesto for the group. When it is released, the other members of the group disavow it, and essentially kicked Mahler out of the group that he founded. Mahler was ultimately convicted of several charges.
In 1975 the Berlin mayoral candidate Peter Lorenz was kidnappers. The terrorists demanded the releases of several of their imprisoned comrades, including Mahler. Their demands were accepted but Mahler refused to go.
Mahler was released from prison early in the 1980's. His politics have completely reversed since the 1960s and 1970s, and now Mahler practices extremely conservative politics. He currently operates his own web site: http:www.horst-mahler.de/

Thorwald Proll



A friend of Andreas Baader's from the Berlin club scene, Proll joined Baader, his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin, and another friend, Horst Söhnlein, in attempting to burn down two Frankfurt department stores in early May 1968. Technically therefore, Proll was not a member of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but a fellow conspirator in two arson attempts that pre-date the main activities of the group.
After the for defendants were captured, tried, convicted of arson, and served 14 months of a three year sentence, they were released pending an appeal for amnesty. After the appeal fails, Proll joined Ensslin and Baader in escaping to Paris. Proll's younger sister, Astrid, joined up the the fugitives. Baader and the others quickly decided that Thorwald is not sufficiently dedicated to their life on the run, and dump him in Switzerland. He would later turn himself in to police and end his career as an arsonist.


Ingrid Schubert



A young Berlin doctor, Ingrid Schubert participated in the freeing of Andreas Baader from the Dahlem Institute for Social Research in May of 1970. Schubert was arrested in October of that year with Horst Mahler, Irene Goergens, and Brigitte Asdonk. She was later given 13 years in prison for her participation the Baader breakout.
In 1976 she was transferred to Stammheim prison, supposedly to comfort Gudrun Ensslin after the suicide of Ulrike Meinhof. After the Stammheim suicides of Ensslin, Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe, Schubert was transferred to Munich's Stadelheim prison. Two weeks later, on 13 November 1977, Schubert committed suicide in prison.

Irene Goergens



Underground name: "Peggy." Irene Goergens was the illegitimate daughter of an American GI. She was a follower of Ulrike Meinhof, having met her while Meinhof was researching youth homes for her telefilm "Bambule."
Goergens was arrested in October of 1970 along with Horst Mahler, Brigitte Asdonk, and Ingrid Schubert. She was tried and found guilty in the fall of 1972 for her participation in the triple Berlin bank robbery a month before her arrest.

Monika Berberich



Berberich was a junior lawyer in Horst Mahler's Socialist Lawyers Collective. She joined up with the burgeoning Baader-Meinhof Gang when Andreas Baader was rescued from police custody in May 1970.
Berberich was arrested soon after the group returned from training in the Jordan desert. A 1995 interview for a BBC documentary called "States of Terror" revealed that Berberich has not changed her passion against the "fascism" of the German state.

Heinrich "Ali" Jansen



Ali Jansen joined the Baader-Meinhof Gang shortly after its return from training in the Jordan desert. He helped out in the "triple coup" Berlin bank raids in the fall of 1970.
Jansen was arrested on 23 December, 1970, along with Uli Scholze. During the arrest Jansen reaches for his concealed handgun and fires wildly. No one is hurt, but three years later Jansen is sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder.
Katharina Hammerschmidt
Hammerschmidt was associated with the gang early. By late-1971 she grew tired of her illegal life and fled Germany, leaving the gang. In mid-1972 she returned to Germany and gave herself up to authorities. While in custody, she developed a brain tumor, and later died. Many accused the authorities of failing to give her proper medical care.

Petra Schelm



Petra Schelm, a Berlin hairdresser, traveled to the Jordan desert for guerrilla training after the freeing of Andreas Baader from police custody in May of 1970. Schelm had joined the group with her boyfriend Manfred Grashof.
Schelm was killed in a shoot-out with Hamburg police. Her death caused shockwaves throughout Germany as many Germans found themselves horrified at the death of the young "innocent" hairdresser. A national poll taken shortly after the death of Schelm revealed that as much as 20% of Germans felt some sympathy for their cause.