Post by kagomeshuko on Apr 20, 2006 22:53:29 GMT -5
"Stein Auf!" comes from my favorite band, Lost And Found!
Michael is the guitar player.
Michael's Description of "Stein Auf!" from February 2002, Beaumont, TX.
We were singing in Germany one time, and we wanted to, you know, translate our codes, like at the beginning of a song, I might say, "Fehrtig, Baum?" "Ish bin fehrtig!" "Yeah." Or whatever, and we wanted to say "Rock On!" You never know when you have to say "Rock On!" The light turns green, it's time to go 140 miles on the Audobon, we'd say "Rock On!" Someone'd bring you a dozen salami sandwiches for breakfast, we'd want to say "Rock On!" or whatever. So, we would translate. We would say, "Stein Auf!" Rock. On. Stein. Auf. Well, we're going around on tour, we're like "Hey! Stein Auf!" After about a week, some of the Germans came to us and said, "You know, 'Stein Auf!' doesn't really mean 'Rock On!'" We're like "Oh? Well, what does it mean?" And they said, "It means like, 'Stone on top of.'" And so, you can imagine our embarrasment to discover that we'd been on tour in Germany trying to be all cool Americans and we're like, "Hey! Dude! Stone on top of!" So, the only way we could kind of limit our embarrasment is to tell the Germans that's what we say in the United States to each other. You know, 'Stone on top of,' so, a lot of our German friends, they write to us and say, "Lost And Found, Stein Auf!" and that's what we consider a cultural moment with Lost And Found.
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Fans of the band use "Stein Auf!" to mean "Rock On!" still. It also tends to carry a bit of a message of "God bless" or "In Christ," or something in that general idea. . .we don't tend to use it w/o that all that often.
And speaking of that,
Stein Auf!
Bridget