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My first impression of Phanerothyme was that of a rather unspectacular, nice but rather short album. With MP delivering far less that they could. A rather short-sighted first judgement, as the songs started to develop in my ears over the years and I began to recognize the subtle quality of the compositions and recordings. I was rather a newly-convert then, having known MP by name and a rather muddy sounding old cassette for years, but not really discovering them until Trust Us and becoming a full enthusiast with RW I. So the following albums seemed a bit of a downer to me, fool that I was.
Bent’s commentaries about Phanerothyme especially are probably due to the fact that it is an album full of songs very hard to reproduce on stage to the band’s satisfaction. Really a studio effort. Besides that the massive touring betwenn 2000 and 2002 took its toll on the band, so I understand this period is not always regarded highly by them. Still there’s always some of material from this period represented in recent setlists.
Yep – Manzarek rhythm in the solo part. Though I rather think of his instrumental part in “Light my fire”.
@ shakti: Love it or hate it – but MP have developed a mastery of “pastiche” songs over the years. “Barracuda” is full of them, and there are several on the much loved and much hated “pop” trilogy.
Love Cult has “The Mirror and the Lie”, which alone makes it great. The bass riff (or is it guitar?) in the calm middle part is a forerunner to an obviously derived tune on “Gullible’s travails”. For me no weak track on the album – well, yes, “Serpentine” probably ;-)
And LTEC Side 2? “Whip That Ghost”, “Stained Glass”, even “30/30” – great tracks!
Therefore for me there are three best of three between 2000 and 2002 – or out of four, if you count “Barracuda” in, which isn’t bad itself.
There was certainly some Roadwork worthy material played on this tour. I just started my annual post-tour review listening to some tunes from Faust Hannover – the sequence “Song for a Bro” – “Sentinels” and “Spin x 3” is really good. They’d have to overdub the vocals in the studio once again though ;-)
I’ll happily wait for Bent’s decisions looking forward for another volume of the massive RW series…
Cheers, Johnny H.
@ Joecoco
If you like to help with archive uploads from the recent tour, I can send you one or two of the recent shows from dime. Would need your e-mail address though. Mail me at christof.koehler [at] gmx.de
As posting on archive.org has turned out to be a complicated and slow affair, the usual distributors continue on dime and leave it to all the others, i.e. us, to upload the stuff on archive. If you want to see Motorpsycho up there, feel free to contribute.
Because of all the alledged shortcomings of the archive upload we will need a lot of people to do the work together. The material once upped, the advantages of archive.org are obvious. But right now not yet a place for easy grabbing…While the first recorded shows are coming in via DIME, only one or two are available on archive.org. This may have a few understandable reasons:
1. Tapers still on tour
2. Time required for careful editing and posting on the common
uploaders
3. Complicated and very slow upload on archive orgPeople like myself have contributed to raise expectations for the archive, but after recognizing especially point 3 have not yet come around to uploading. This is understandable, but should be dealt with.
My suggestion: Do not rely on people who manage the gathering of recordings and uploads on DIME and Motortrades such as Spacebandit and Stadtfelder to upload anything onto the archive – they’re doing a great job already and invest lots of their time. So let’s share efforts and start work ourselves.
If everybody who gets a quick and free download of one or several of this years’ concerts on DIME or Motortrades undertakes to upload at least one gig on archive.org, we will surely make progress there.This will take a little time – let’s wait, till the tour is over, probably one or two weeks more, and then: Action!
(and I have to remind myself to put some effort behind my long words…)Theme de Yoyo was probably brought in as a tribute to the location and worked suprisingly fine without the horns – those being replaced by Reine’s keys and Snah’s guitar.
Snah concenctrated on rhythm guitar a lot in the first half hour and left much of the soloing to Reine. That began to change with August, though I’ve seen much jazzier, jammier and more extended versions of that song before.
Band on full course during Sonata & Dream Home at last.
Great psychedelic jams & keyboard swishes within The Tower – and a fantastic Fool’s Gold as encore.Quite a few newcomers in the audience. Location more a classic Jazz Vault (looked like a big vaulted wine cellar), low ceilings, but still spacious enough to contain the crowd (must guess – probably 300-400 people) – yet soundwise “bad for Rock music”, as Bent stated. Therefore no videos last night and not as loud as Cologne (in the first half). Fool’s Gold with Bent’s foot firmly on the Taurus pedal shook the walls though.
Yep – it’s a pity. The Cologne Jams were worth starting another “Roadwork” project. Let’s see, if some recording still appears, though.
Can’t confirm rude security, but wasn’t at the front row.
Confiscating recording equipment is a stupid thing at a Motorpsycho show – what’s on stage is a matter of the band, not any location security. Hope the person in question gets it back.Anyway: great show. Bent introduced it as a “Rock show”, setlist by Olaf. Well – you CAN call this a rock show, but for me it was everything motorpsychedelic at once – from heavy onslaught to westcoast jam noodling to rhythmic frenzy to spaced-out bliss (towards the end). Motorpsycho from tzar to tzar.
Motorpsycho will probably be out-Gullivered when they reach Cologne. All the better (for me) if they replace it with Neotzar.
Futile discussion, though – they play what they play, and we like it!Just from the setlist this appears to me the most diverse/psychedelic show so far this year. But of course I wasn’t there – won’t make it to Holland or Belgium either, just Cologne/Freiburg, but I digress. Lady May, Pacific Sonata, Pilgrim, Mountain, Neotzar – I would be happy to get this set in Cologne or Freiburg. Magpie welcome as well. Generally though I agree – those many rather short songs from the last few years sound rather similar.
