The other guests were Alexander Arnz, Supercharge, Mario and Romano Colombaioni, Majorie Barnes, the Rollstuhlfahrer-Tanzgruppe der Technischen Universität München, Imrat Khan Family, Gustl Thoma, Serapions Theater, and the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination*. Source here.
"Our show included a yodeling instructor, a bunch of dancers dressed up like evil Disney animal characters, rippin' their way out of a giant grocery bag, and the afore-mentioned wheelchair dance group, which was a bunch of women ballroom dancers with their wheelchair-bound parapalegic husbands. [...] The FUNNY part is that after a mad scramble up the Autobahn (it was raining, so Ray wouldn't fly), a whole afternoon of rehearsal & sound-check with this high-powered band (I remember that Bob Coassin was playing lead trumpet [...]), with Bio & his producers running around like high-stressed madmen trying to keep the obviously overbooked show (two hours of weird shit in a 90 minute bag) on the rails, the show runs long anyway, and with about 45 seconds of airtime left, they cue Ray to start What'd I Say. He goes to play the Rhodes intro & the sustain pedal's frozen down (not good). So he of course freaks out & these techs scramble over and slide the Rhodes away from him to work on it. Unfortunately, [Ray] doesn't realize that he is NOW no longer invisible from the waste down, and to end the bizarre show, the German public are treated to a live close-up two-shot of the Genius of Soul frustratedly & furiously scratching his balls. Cut to commercial..."The good news is that the footage has survived. Ray, the girls, and (a portion of)* the band (in T-shirts!) performed:
- Riding Thumb
- I Can't Stop Loving You
- What'd I Say
The bad news is that the Genius' cojones didn't play a really prominent part in the scene with the Rhodes (but what remains, is still funny to watch):
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Another bizarre sample of the show; much more on YouTube:
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