I don't know what to think about Richard anymore...I read a bunch of his interviews from their beginning to 2009 and he come off as someone really unlikeable who think he's still the main creative mind behind the band. Years later he still says he did most of the work on Mutter....And Schneider seems to still hold a grudge against him as as far as 2009 he never say anything positive about him and kinda destroyed Emigrate. Ollie also seems to hold something against him too....

You're entitled to your opinion, obviously you don't have to like him if you don't want to, but it's just really as not as dire as all that. Apart from anything else you should remember that making LIFAD was really hard for them all too. Where do you get the Oli stuff from though? I don't remember seeing much of anything? But either way they were all pretty burned out around the making and release of LIFAD. I'm gonna add some nice boy GIFs to break up the ranting.

Simply put, he did do most of the work on Mutter: by everyone's admission the problem was that he was doing to much and then rejecting criticism of the work he had done without them. The majority of the time even now Richard writes some music and takes it to Till, who matches it with a poem/writes something new, and then the others are there to fill out those skeletons and make them good songs. They're all vital, but they don't all perform the same role. When you're talking about creativity in the specific way he is then yeah, it's mostly him and Till, and given how it seems to be the only thing he likes about himself sometimes it's not surprising it'd be his focus.

The official line since it happened has mostly been "Richard go too big for his boots but we fixed it" but Schneider has also said that the issue was mostly that Richard was doing so much that others felt bad about not being able to keep up with him (which is a major part of why they all decided they were okay with him making Emigrate as long as it was always the side project).

They all love Richard and like Richard, theyve always said that even at the worst points they still got on when they weren't talking about work stuff. They wouldn't have stayed together this long if they didn't get on with each other at all: they have an agreement that means any of them could, if he wanted/needed to, leave the band and still get his cut so it's not like it's stay or be penniless. Other bands would love to have them and two of them have other bands themselves, they have options.

Richard was a drug addict with a lot of personal and interpersonal issues he has since worked on. He's not perfect and sometimes even quite slappable but if you want to go there you also have to acknowledge that many of them really disliked Paul at the beginning, he was half of the problem as far as Richard was concerned, he can be and was really cruel and cutting, and he has bad trust issues that make him hard to work with. Flake had alcohol problems, Schneider was an angry bitch who drowned a cat in his youth and expressly Didn't Join The Band To Make Friends, Till has... So many issues and idiosyncrasies. I'm sure Oli can be insufferable, who knows. Point is, Richard isn't the Problem in an otherwise perfect band, they're all fucked up and they all accept that about each other. Sometimes it's just nice to whinge about it. If they can accept their complex interpersonal stuff it would be weird for us not to on their behalf.

Plus just look at him, what a loving little sweetheart.

I don't know what to think about Richard anymore...I read a bunch of his interviews from their beginning to 2009 and he come off as someone really unlikeable who think he's still the main creative mind behind the band. Years later he still says he did most of the work on Mutter....And Schneider seems to still hold a grudge against him as as far as 2009 he never say anything positive about him and kinda destroyed Emigrate. Ollie also seems to hold something against him too....

You're entitled to your opinion, obviously you don't have to like him if you don't want to, but it's just really as not as dire as all that. Apart from anything else you should remember that making LIFAD was really hard for them all too. Where do you get the Oli stuff from though? I don't remember seeing much of anything? But either way they were all pretty burned out around the making and release of LIFAD. I'm gonna add some nice boy GIFs to break up the ranting.

Simply put, he did do most of the work on Mutter: by everyone's admission the problem was that he was doing to much and then rejecting criticism of the work he had done without them. The majority of the time even now Richard writes some music and takes it to Till, who matches it with a poem/writes something new, and then the others are there to fill out those skeletons and make them good songs. They're all vital, but they don't all perform the same role. When you're talking about creativity in the specific way he is then yeah, it's mostly him and Till, and given how it seems to be the only thing he likes about himself sometimes it's not surprising it'd be his focus.

The official line since it happened has mostly been "Richard go too big for his boots but we fixed it" but Schneider has also said that the issue was mostly that Richard was doing so much that others felt bad about not being able to keep up with him (which is a major part of why they all decided they were okay with him making Emigrate as long as it was always the side project).

They all love Richard and like Richard, theyve always said that even at the worst points they still got on when they weren't talking about work stuff. They wouldn't have stayed together this long if they didn't get on with each other at all: they have an agreement that means any of them could, if he wanted/needed to, leave the band and still get his cut so it's not like it's stay or be penniless. Other bands would love to have them and two of them have other bands themselves, they have options.

Richard was a drug addict with a lot of personal and interpersonal issues he has since worked on. He's not perfect and sometimes even quite slappable but if you want to go there you also have to acknowledge that many of them really disliked Paul at the beginning, he was half of the problem as far as Richard was concerned, he can be and was really cruel and cutting, and he has bad trust issues that make him hard to work with. Flake had alcohol problems, Schneider was an angry bitch who drowned a cat in his youth and expressly Didn't Join The Band To Make Friends, Till has... So many issues and idiosyncrasies. I'm sure Oli can be insufferable, who knows. Point is, Richard isn't the Problem in an otherwise perfect band, they're all fucked up and they all accept that about each other. Sometimes it's just nice to whinge about it. If they can accept their complex interpersonal stuff it would be weird for us not to on their behalf.

Plus just look at him, what a loving little sweetheart.