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Oh puhLEASE…
Most times the Dutch get a bad rap for not making enough noise during a concert. Usually, the crowd is nearly too respectful and the band is embarrassed. I remember seeing Radiohead during their "OK computer"-tour in Ahoy. Total silence. Thom Yorke addressed the crowd: "I know this is Holland and all, and you enjoy just listening to the music, but hearing 10.000 people make no noise at all is kind of strange."
And the Dutch are really the only people in the world whose farts smell?
What I find most irritating is people in a tight crowd moving randomly and violently. There was this one guy close to me who did a Stevie Wonder impersonation with his whole body all night long and didn't seem to mind that he hit everybody around him. He was Dutch. Years ago in Tivoli the same happened with two people (who also had the WORST body odour I ever had the displeasure to experience). They kept shouting during quiet sections (which they halted a bit after I yelled in their ears to shut the f*ck up, of which even Bent was grateful), requested "Demon Box" loudly when Snah walked onstage with an acoustic, and in general made so many totally random jerking motions with their bodies (not to be confused with dancing) that they created a circle of about a meter in diameter around themselves in an otherwise packed crowd. They were blissfully unaware of their being overbearingly irritating. And they were Norwegian.
grtz, T
Go Pidah!
I was there too and thought the sound was quite muddy. Usually I can never hear Snah clearly and now he was all over the place. As a guitarist I was happy about that!
Bents' bass was very undefined though. But, as stated above and according to another person that worked there that evening, Bent was VERY loud onstage, so that too could have resulted in a less than favourable situation for their soundman.
Have no idea about the acoustics though, will trust the knowledgable ones on that one, but I saw MP there before and My Bloody Valentine & the sound at all these gigs was excellent to my ears. But what do I know, I just play guitar, hahaha!
grtz, T
You're welcome all, but I got the picture from the FB Effenaar Fan Page. Can't take any credit at all! :wink:
grtz, T
Thanks for the Goldtop references, must pay closer attention. :wink:
Knew about the P90 type pickups he put in his guitars; they are P94's (check them out here) and he started using them just before BH/BC. You can hear the difference in his tone quite clearly from that record on. I miss his humbucker sound a bit (a LOT actually), but that's me and the sound he gets out of the P's is absolutely killer. His Super Swedes have a coil-tap function for single coil tones, but of course that is nowhere near the sound of the Gibson P-style single coils.
Enough of the guitar nerd speak already. Thanks again, everyone!
grtz, T
Is that an actual Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90's Snah is playing? That must be a recent purchase, have never seen him play one before.
*hangs back and waits for the inevitable "Well, he played one in '96 in Stavanger" remark…
grtz, Thomas
Hey clavicula,
"Or something" sounds like a good idea, although I think I'll be lucky if I make it in time for the concert, since I have to work that day.
If you're worrying about finding the venue, it's very close to the railway station and it's indicated quite well. De Effenaar itself has a pretty good pub in the same building and there are a lot more in that area too.
This 38 year old dutch guy will be attending with his french wife!
grtz, Thomas
Just a quick note here…
1) Please be advised: the ticket for the gig does NOT double as a reservation for the record as well, these are sold separately. The records are available without an advance-reservation at the gig too, but considering the limited character it might be advisable to buy a reservation ticket beforehand.
2) It is meant as a celebratory record for the jubilee of the venue "De Effenaar". They consider Motorpsycho their house-band, since they have played there a LOT since the early nineties (at their old venue too). That is why they asked our friends to play at their jubilee and that is why they selected Motorpsycho for their celebratory record. It is not meant as "another MP live album".
Of course I get the fact that it sucks that not every psychonaut will be able to get one, but this is not meant as a kick in the nuts in any way.
Greets, Thomas
edit: It is great to see so many psychonauts from all over the place flying in to attend this show. This is one of the great things about Motorpsycho: their totally dedicated fans. See you all there! :MPD:
On the Motorpsycho News Facebook page was a comment related to Akane by The Big B. The record is being mixed next month and will not see release before Christmas, but it will be well worth the wait. According to Bent: "This just might be our masterpiece."
I love their last period and object to the term "jamming" used to describe their mindblowing improvisations. Jams for me never go anywhere. It's just an excuse for the bandmembers to take turns playing an extended solo; fun for the musicians, but mostly boring to an audience. What they are doing now is much closer to jazz improvisation in a rock format; like Cream at their best, most together moments.
The way the guys in Motorpsycho interrelate with each other, push each other further, actually listen to what the other one is playing and come up with something to go with or counterpoint that, until the music takes over them. They play as a unit, a tight-knit band that refuses to turn to formulas and continues to take risks to get to someplace they have never been before.
And that's why I respect them and love them so much: because they forge their own path, regardless of what people expect from them. True musicians in service of the music.
grtz, Thomas
Just have to say: Kenneth is one MONSTER of a drummer. Just listen to him on Arnie Hassle, going from jazz to rock to outer space and back again; this was during the HMF tour with the gigantic, but fully used perspex white kit, right? Or his superbusy but supertight playing on The Alchemyst: in one section he is pummeling every drum on his kit at the same time and then somehow finds the time to bring in his cymbals too! Had to scuttle around on the floor for my jaw after that one…
Grtz, T
Been thinking about it and I have to agree that this is the best Roadwork so far, although it still feels like comparing apples and oranges.
RW2 is an artifact in and of itself, quite separate from the rest of their output. RW3 is – like 2 – a complete concert, but of a band in transition, somehow losing focus from all the shifting musical interests of the members (as Bent pointed out in the RW4 press release).
So RW1 is the closest comparison, although that one had material from one tour only whilst 4 takes in roughly three years. What it does have in common however, is that it captures the band at a creative peak. Still, apples and oranges. 1 was recorded in '98 with Geb on drums, not Kenneth. RW1 was captured on recording equipment of that time, so of course this one has better sound quality.
What makes this one most special in my case, for as far as I am able to point it out: the focus of a band travelling in the same, though boldly undefined, direction – the scope of the material chosen and the liberties they take with it – the enormously diverse musical palette they now draw from for painting their sonic pictures – tight, but loose, whilst unafraid of bringing down the hammer of the gods…
"Oh my God, I think we're… coming together" (Volman & Kaylan)
Grtz, T
To all of you already playing RW4 while I'm not: you all SUCK!
Except Akane of course, who is having a bad enough time as it is; you should have gotten it a week early, hahaha!
Naw seriously: enjoy, you lucky ones!
Now if you'll excuse me, if have to go stand vigil at the window now, trying to spot the postman…
Grtz, T
