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Given the dates published so far, I strongly assume there will be more German dates. At least I can't imagine they'll neglect the Cologne/Düsseldorf area totally – they never did on a major tour. My guess is there will be a few more dates in May, probably some Belgian/Dutch gigs, the sole London gig, one or two Southern German gigs before Wien (probably Munich), after Wien some Italian concerts and on returning after probably another Swiss gig (they benefited a lot this year, the Swiss!) and Reutlingen a few German gigs towards the end of the tour, probably Cologne, Bielefeld and Leipzig.
Would be great for me, as the gigs towards the end of the tour (and after the Italian trip) tend to be the best.
Hey Bernie, if you're posting Rockpalast as well, don't forget this one:
probably not the very best tv video quality, but still a great document of times long gone…
And another one from Cologne 2009:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wFocf0bz_I
Don't know what your policy with youtube videos is, but anyway – thanks for all your great efforts!
"No motor, no psycho, just a lot of jazzy noodle…"
Yep, it's called Grateful Dead tradition
And I love it…
I subscribe to this – thanks to all the tapers on the mini-tour. Especially to Spacebandit for his own stack effort, for gathering and uploading. But also to everybody who enabled us to follow that gem of a motorpsychedelic excursion. Some of the best gigs since The Tower has been released. Obviously this year the boys were much less under pressure to stuff as many new songs as possible into a gig. At the same time you can clearly hear that both band and song material evolved quite a bit in 2018. Lots of great jams and even a new pearl of a song. Looking forward to 2019!
@ Juergen: Yes please! Dresden on Dime!
I find this Dime/Motortrades business confusing. Probably we could organise a regular upload cooperation between those platforms or between regular DIMERS and Motortraders.
I prefer sharing on DIME – and it always looks better on the other side, where you're not
@ Juergen: "nearly every show has been recorded…"
I only know of the two Erlangen recordings, Spacebandit's brilliant Bielefeld effort and now Winterthur on DIME. Is there any more stuff from this Mini-Tour on Motortrades?
If so – could someone please upload it on DIME? As far as I know we Dimers have been doing the same for Motortrades quite often…
@ marc: O.K. – I see the Breivik connection now. Had been thinking of the "Satanic Motorpscho" accusement made by that stupid christian site. But in the context you point out it could well be a reference to the Utøya massacre. We'll probably have to wait until the album is released to find out.
Funny though that the fundamentalist Breivik connection was discovered here at almost the same time as the song's live debut. Another synchronicity?
The idea of (spiritual) salvation is at the core of almost all religious and spiritual systems. The idea of absolute, healing light – a central human perception.
Where there is light there is also shadow in the human world – so it is no wonder almost all salvation ideas have been captured by dictators, terrorists, religiously motivated murderers and so on. It is therefore quite natural that a radical maniac like Breivik also refers to that.
Nevertheless – there's no reason at all to link Motorphsycho to such a kind of distorted spirituality. Leave that to the manic christian fundamentalists…
As I have posted earlier, LUX AETERNA is also the title of a musical piece by Ligeti, used in the final part of the soundtrack of 2001 – A Space Odyssey. Furthermore it is part of the catholic mass, a prayer for the eternal light to shine for the soul after death. Only a corrupted fundamentalist logic could refer to killing in order to serve this spiritual light.
I hear some typical VdGG inverted heavy riffing in Lux Aeterna – especially clear in the Erlangen recording.
btw: Peter Hammill is God! And devil at the same time. With lots of demons in between…
The only other singer I can compare Hammill with is the great late Ronnie James Dio. Strange?
The enormous range of expressions between soft, soothing tones and full-on aggression – both sometimes in danger of losing themselves in their mannerisms (especially in their late periods) but still outstanding. Sometimes unnerving, but still always capable of vocally luring you into another musical adventure.
As for the alledged VdGG prog sterility – that's a fate they share with 80s and 00's Crimson. Still able to spawn beautiful and majestic tunes, but always tempted by dry chord mathematics. Well – bands sometimes dry out with old age. That's what makes the last few VdGG releases hard to listen at times for me.
Their best gig after the 2005 reunion is probably the enormous Paradiso 2007 concert – although in trio format, without Jackson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNDN6igr2M
But back to Lux Aeterna – and trying to top a weird comparison: To me it sounds like Van der Graaf Generator playing on the same stage with 1974 Barclay James Harvest in the court of the crimson king. Quite a disparate yellow jester, isn't it?
@ supernaut: You name it. Good old synchronicity. I have known the phenomenon for at least half of my life. Sometimes just an extension of our more unconscious thoughts in what we realize, sometimes outright spooky. Rationalists speak of "pure coincidence", believers try to find some meaning in it. I think it is something in between – with many different aspects.
Funny that it seems to happen more often in either psychedelic drug-induced or paranoid/mentally deranged states of consciousness. Some people say its an expression of a certain level / circuit of human consciousness that is beyond (or beneath) our every-day perception.
Ha! While I was replacing LUX AETERNA in Kubrik's epic movie by the equally epic Chien de Cologne, MP just called one of their new songs Lux Aeterna (or is it just a lyric quote?) How funny is that?
https://motorpsycho.fix.no/comeonin/forums/topic.php?id=10650
"I guess Motorpsycho is searching for the gun that Anders Behring Breivik left at Utøya."
Only Love…
Tristano was the name of a riff/song, that MP played a lot around 2000-2002, sometimes in combinations with other songs, like in Super-Tristano. The Fishtank version is the only officially recorded one, as far as I know. There was a live version played at the Rockpalast gig (Bizarre Festival 2002) featuring Jaga Jazzist Horns.
If that spiralling melody/riff was actually inspired by Lenny Tristano you'll have to ask Snah. But possible it is, given to Lenny Tristano numbers such as this:
Same spiralling riff structure, I think.
