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un interviu q Gordon trumper
DATE’s Interview with Gordon Trümper (the Twins stepfather)
How does your family handle Tokio Hotel extreme success, the fans and the hysterics that surround the band?
Every band would wish to have a breakthrough like this one day, especially when you have been performing in small clubs for a hand full of people for years, just like the boys did.
But noone can imagine the magnitude of this. Meanwhile we are terribly stressed from the masses of fans that have placed our house under siege, even going as far as to come into our front garden and look through the windows. We actually don’t have any privacy anymore, even when Bill and Tom are not at home.
Did the relationship between you (the parents) and Bill and Tom change whilst they were climbing their carreer ladder?
Uptill now, everything is really like it used to be. They thoroughly enjoy the little time they do get to spend at home. Of course we talk a lot about everything they experience during their concert (gigs) and TV and radio appearences. They still ask their mom about her opinion, they are simply very close and they have an open relationship. The only thing that has changed dramatically is, that we really can’t go out alltogether and do something, because on the street, they can’t move an inch without being surrounded by hysterical fans.
When they, like they’ve done lately, make somewhat lame remarks about Magdeburg, do you have a chat about that amongst family members?
Of course, we have especially told them, where statemenst like this are concerned, that we don’t think that generalizing statements like that are right. On the other hand, I have to say that they are both teenagers, that have always talked like that ever since they could talk, they have always been very outspoken. The problem is, that now every word they say is being weighed on a scale because there is such a big interest from the public.
The opinions about TH are really divided, some people simply see them as newcomers and Teenie stars, while others condemn their music and their outfits. How does one deal with people permanently painting them either black or white?
I know that Bill and Tom handle it quite losely, for them it’s all part of the deal, and at the moment they really enjoy their life, they think it’s exciting and are simply having fun.
Especially for their mother and also for me, things are slightly different. We sometimes get annoyed because its not true and it has nothing to do with Bill or Tom as a person. Sometimes we worry if they will get through this unharmed, but they grow up and learn from all this terribly fast.
From the very beginning the boys wanted to be in charge and made it clear they were making the decisions where their music and carreers where concerned. So what do you think, you are a guitarplayer yourself, what was your influence on their development?
I have actually tried to be like a big brother to them. They have developed their music style all by themselves. Because they simply started out really early, mostly in my music school, the Rock academy, trying out (rehearsing). I think however that I could pass on to them, the passion for music. And that is the part that will always stay with Bill and Tom.
How are you as a musician dealing with the incredicle succes of your sons? Are you at all jealous (envious)?
I have learned to play the guitar when I was 19, which is already to late if you want to have a successful carreer in music. And I lacked a good band, to really make it big, a guitarplayer on his own is not enough (grins*). The only thing I really envy them for, is that the don’t have to carry their own amplifiers and speakers, the entire equipment, and that they can afford every guitar they would like to have.
How do you think TH will be seen in one year from now, the famous One-hit-wonder or a band that is here to stay?
I think it will change. When the first rush dies down, and it is extreme how many awards they have managed to acquire in such a short time, like at the Cometen the first spot in the single charts and the album charst, then I am sure a somehat smaller but very loyal Fan community will remain.
But the boys have already proved at an early stage, that they have the tools to really get things cooking (heat up a venue), long before TH, they already rocked. And one thing is sure, they can excite people, and if anyone can handle fame, its them !
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