Bela B. (drums, vocals)
Farin Urlaub (guitar, vocals)
Rodrigo González (bass, guitar, piano, vocals)

Die Ärzte are a band from Berlin. As a trio founded in 1982 (the year when punk rock struggled to survive in Germany), they were immediately very unsuccessful. The live performances of those early days were known and infamous for the pure chaos in which they normally ended. Either the band wasn't able to finish their songs (forgot lyrics, music or both) or they were rolling around on stage because of their own jokes - in front of the sometimes amused, often perplexed audience. While their musical abilities improved over time, Die Ärzte (besides other scandals) came into conflict with the German censorship authorities mainly because of their idiosyncratic humour. In the end this brought them the dubious title "Germany's most indexed band" - at least in the 80s.