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Thank you very much for all your efforts, Metallicanor and Bernie. Even a double "Hog Lied" available
Eagerly awaited and rashly consumed – still to be appropriately appreciated
I just found out what a brilliant gig this was – two weeks after the event
Spent an afternoon painting and listening to the complete gig – this combination has become one of my favourite activities…
Excellent recording on DIME – thans once more, Lars!
What a show! Lots of jamming, great great playing overall and a definite Crimson '69 feeling to the whole gig.
Could it be that we haven't seen such a massive MP tour schedule since 2002? A very good sign for all MP aficionados and all those eagerly awaiting a possible MP concert somewhere near their homes.
That is exactly the problem with this topic: Motorpsycho tend to cite, adopt or hint at tunes, song or album titles by several of their heroes. So it should be easy to find titles that could be seen as MP predecessors – while it is actually just the other way round.
So the madness starts anew. Picture some peaceful small furry animals gathered together sheltering beside the road and blocking their ears: "M… M… Motorpsycho are on tour again…"
Very interesting setlist – great for a rather short gig (in MP terms only…)
Can't wait to listen to the first live recordings of The Crucible after listening to the song almost every morning during breakfast. (The other days it's side one).
Finally overcame my MP abstinence period (last year) and ordered a ticket for Wiesbaden. Cologne is still too far away – couln't wait that long.
Obviously Bent is in Folk/songwriter mode at the moment – wonder if that will have any influence on the material they are about to record these days.
I can vividly imagine them doing Same old Rock at the start of a show or as a first encore, sitting on barstools with Bent singing and Snah doing that Jimmy Page thing on that great final riff, with Tomas playing tambourine, hand cymbals or some other kind of percussive weirdness
Motorhead`s Whorehouse Blues comes to my mind – just as a visual blueprint for the thing, musically I consider it a rather dull blues number…
If you know Roy's early Work ca. 1967-70 you will find that style and mood in many of the earlier Tull acoustic numbers.
Shame he's known to most people only through "Have a cigar". Check out the albums "Folkjokeopus" or "Stormcock" as well!
@ PL: Dates in the UK? Plural? They must be doing really well these days…
Or the British are finally coming to their senses – regarding Motorpsycho at least. No offense meant
'The Wheel, The Golden Core, S.T.G., Un Chien d'Espace, Vortex Surfer and…dammit…Ship of Fools'…
I could easily add 'The crucible' to this favourite list – I think this is a superb composition, never a lenght in 20 minutes…
As for 'Lux Aeterna': still think the track could do without the very last chorus and end on a silent note – but that would probably be like removing the spectral rainbow from Floyd's Dark Side Cover and leave the white ray alone. So be it with all transcendental pomp and glory – also a great piece.
Köln is of course 01.10.2019. And it's fuckin' Gloria! Nice venue, but from my experience not up to Motorpsycho's sonic tornado. Not the best of sound there in 2010 and 2013. I grew to like Stollwerck. And Gloria's 10 minutes longer to travel from my home – hope I'll make it…
On the other hand Mousonturm in Frankfurt sounds much better than 2017's venue. Our boys played there in 2008 I believe.
Wonder what's between these dates – 14 day tour break doesn't sound like Motorpsycho, unless they once again adopt the guerilla tactics of 2018.
Second impressions after listenening to the whole thing twice today:
Psychotzar is a really great heavy track, albeit a little bit too long. I would have done without the last prog movement – it dilutes the character of the piece a little. Nevertheless – great one! The gong and all the other pomp fully in place on that one, given the theme of the song.
Lux Aeterna really grew on me – still not the shivering down the spine I felt when listening to the first live recordings, but a wonderful song, if a little bit too long (same as above).
That brings me once again to Side II: What a monster! Probably the best long song MP wrote after Un Chien (if you consider Year Zero and Lacuna Sunrise middle length numbers – in MP terms at least). Complicated and rather simplistic at the same time! Bents bass riffs save the composition from being overtly proggy. Great great guitar playing. Same for the drums – Bent and Tomas make a fantastic rhythm group these days. Not too many musical themes to distract you (like for example on "Gullible's Travails", where the composition really leads nowhere imho). Clever repetition of themes towards the end. Quite Lark's Toungs at first listen, but much friendlier and quite playful. Can't wait to hear that thing live – probably I'll skip waiting for Cologne in autumn and get myself a Wiesbaden ticket in addition.
Crucible arrived this morning. After first play I'm also still lukewarm – but it will probably get hotter every turn. Psychotzar – well, quite o.k. Not bad, but not exactly my stuff to jump at first listen. Lux Aeterna – was much more impressed by the live version from the German/Swiss mini tour (thought so at first), but then the middle: pure VdGG with Snah in Moester mode. Gripped me till the end.
Surprisingly I found the longest track the most accessible and rather short – not a small achievement for a 20 minutes piece. Time for the 2nd turn…
This sounds really exciting! Did´nt expect such great media response after the already huge Tower reception. Another week to go…
Great News – I will postpone my annual MP live experience to autumn then – usually it gets more interesting once the new songs have settled in a bit, like in 2018 with the Tower tracks. Prolonged tension and curiosity will hopefully lead to another overwhelming live experience.
That's the web for you – you find a lot of trash in picture and writing, because these days nobody's ever editing anyone's or even his own stuff (and of course noone would get paid for it either). So if you want to read reviews in a language that's not full of clumsy, crooked imagery and orthographic mistakes you have to stick to the few surviving magazines (mostly printed, but some also digital). Or just hang around here
