zu Guttenberg's Zapfenstreich

[erichcraciun]

This is one for the German readers, but I will translate:

"Der CSU-Politiker hat sich das Lied "Smoke on the Water" der Band Deep Purple zum offiziellen Dienstabschied gewünscht. Vor dem Klassiker der Musikgeschichte wolle Guttenberg den Marsch "Großer Kurfürst" und danach den Marsch "König Ludwig II" hören.

Guttenberg, Fan der Hardrockband AC/DC, wird heute feierlich verabschiedet."

The former Minister of Defense Theodor zu Gutternberg would like the Bundeswehr band play "Smoke on the water" from Deep Purple along with more ...very traditional German military pieces such as Der Großer Kurfürst and König Ludwig II Marsch.

Maybe it is just me, but this is odd. I have seen the Stabsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr a fe times and besides being very talented musicians certainly, their choice of music - sometimes - is astonding.

[Thorsten B.]

Well, what do you expect - it just depicts the society we are living in.

[Nordmark]

The guy is a disgrace, I never understood the hype...

[Gary Jucha]

How

How dare he besmurch the name of "Deep Purple" ... mixing their glorious music with a load of leaderhosen hump-par marching songs !