Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen by Sahan Jayasuriya

Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen by Sahan Jayasuriya

'Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen' by Sahan Jayasuriya

Sahan Jayasuriya was born too late to see Milwaukee’s Die Kreuzen play live. So, he did the next best thing: he wrote a book about the band, Don’t Say Please: The Oral History of Die Kreuzen .

Drawn from interviews with members, people important to the band’s evolution and others who speak about the group’s influence, Jayasuriya presents a fully rounded perspective on a local band that achieved worldwide acclaim.

From the band’s beginnings as The Stellas to their 1992 swan song at UW-Milwaukee, Jayasuriya gets the stories from Keith Brammer, Brian Egeness, Dan Kubinski and Erik Tunison as well as insights from collaborators Richard Kohl a