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Ghost towns and dead gas stations, and nothing but nothing and, you know, suddenly i arrive in marfa. ♪ ♪ and it's like, "would you like some bruschetta, some salumi, some $900 ponchos?." >> shelly: that's right. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what's going on? >> shelly: clearly it's not the old, old family marfa. ♪ ♪ >> ty: marfa has become three distinct cultures -- tourist town, art town, cowboy town. it's got it all. you can get calamari in marfa. who would've thunk it 20 years ago? nobody knew what the word meant. ♪

I drove for three hours through ghost towns and dead gas stations, and nothing but nothing and, you know, suddenly i arrive in marfa. ♪ ♪ and it's like, "would you like some bruschetta, some salumi, some $900 ponchos?." >> shelly: that's right. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what's going on? >> shelly: clearly it's not the old, old family marfa. ♪ ♪ >> ty: marfa has become three distinct cultures -- tourist town, art town, cowboy town. it's got it all. you can get calamari in marfa. who would've thunk it 20 years ago? nobody knew what the word meant.

I arrive in marfa. ♪ ♪ and it's like, "would you like some bruschetta, some salumi, some $900 ponchos?." >> shelly: that's right. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what's going on? >> shelly: clearly it's not the old, old family marfa. ♪ ♪ >> ty: marfa has become three distinct cultures -- tourist town, art town, cowboy town. it's got it all. you can get calamari in marfa. who would've thunk it 20 years ago? nobody knew what the word meant. ♪

I drove for three hours through ghost towns and dead gas stations, and nothing but nothing and, you know, suddenly i arrive in marfa. ♪ ♪ and it's like, "would you like some bruschetta, some salumi, some $900 ponchos?." >> shelly: that's right. [ laughter ] >> anthony: what's going on? >> shelly: clearly it's not the old, old family marfa. ♪ ♪ >> ty: marfa has become three distinct cultures -- tourist town, art town, cowboy town. it's got it all. you can get calamari in marfa. who would've thunk it 20 years ago? nobody knew what the word meant. ♪

Created in 1968, with holger czukay, jaki liebzeit, michael karoli, and this man, irmin schmidt, can was at the forefront of what was called inevitably the krautrock movement. combining the sounds and attitudes of classical, avant-garde, rock, and funk. so you moved here -- how old were you -- >> irmin: i moved here in '64. >> anthony: interesting time, '64. >> irmin: it was a very interesting time. it was the time of -- where cologne was really blossoming. it was the art town in germany. >> anthony: irmin studied with karl heinz stockhausen, but it was a trip to new york city where he was exp...