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70s galactica is rather cheap SF thrash – with lots of Defender-like shooting action and a crypto-Mormon plot – a trek through space in search of earth and the lost 13th tribe of humanity. But it's got Babylon industrial!
Oh yes – Feedtime's a killer – and that's exactly why it should be played as the very last sonng, if at all. Btw I quite enjoy the heretic role
Ok – skip the if – here's some very primal motorpsychedelic heaviness indeed (including Lake Innersfree):
https://www91.zippyshare.com/v/QyKgh4Q1/file.html
(Barbue Copenhagen 11 december 1991 – used to be on DIME, but vanished in the meantime, probably due to lack of downloads)
@ Hans Boller: I've got the 1991 Copenhagen bootleg with a live version from Lake Innersfree (flac files). If you're interested I could upload the stuff somewhere and post a link (for a short time).
@ shakti: I thought "Here Be Monsters" the best MP album in 20 years. Oh how lucky we are! Let's wait for the next one
Is there really something to miss? Things happen when they happen and we're lucky enough when they're good when they are good. Yes – I do consider Trust Us the best MP album by far – and yet there's so much fantastic stuff on most of the records that came after it, whoever the drummer at the time (with the exception of BH/BC which I will probably never consider a satisfying MP album, although there are so many great songs on it).
Recapturing the last gigs and the last two regular tours I was attending there was almost too much heaviness involved for me – especially on the somewhat ill-fated 2016 tour.
Too much Demon Box material in the wrong place in the set – killed the joy, made the gigs too long and was just too exhausting for me. That screaming alternative/hardcore/crossover Metal of the early years – a juvenile phase they had to go through, but please – concentrate on the few pearls from that time!
I learned to treasure Demon Box as an album after the re-release and the inclusion of "Mountain" – but please: No more fuckin' "Feedtime" in the middle of the set!
This is of course just my opinion – feel free to disagree! My point is rather this – whatever satisfying or disappointing the latest MP album might be – it is the gigs they're obviously living for, and you can feel it. And – they got better and better over the years! I consider the concerts I attended – and listend to – between 2013 and 2017 their absolute very best time on stage (especially when they were four…).
For me the exciting live band that MP became started in 1996-97 at the earliest and grew steadily to the kind of concert monster we have today – never mind the odd disappointment in a series of sheer musical bliss.
Saw the TITS gig in Cologne – Prime club, small venue, small audience – and enjoyed it as it was – a mere fun project for the musicians and for parts of the audience. Happy to hear a few Grateful Dead tunes and a few Rock classics played.
Definitely no comparison to the full MP onslaught: power, virtuosity and musical bliss. So I could live without another Tussler album or gig.
But hey – let the boys do what they like – always the best receipt for inspired music!
Yep – the most mind expanding stuff comes in written form…
Here they follow Onkel Fuzzbazz' "uncle" Lemmy, who in many interviews spoke about LSD in the 60s and early 70s as the best drug ever and spent the rest of his life reading books in his tourbus – beside the usual alcoholic mayhem, framed by two topless models, that is. Which brings us to the Tussler discussion – oh yes, wrong thread indeed
Drugs or no drugs, inspirational or not – does it really matter? As long as they're not openly advertising anything?? No reason for any dogfights!
R.A. Wilson & Tim Leary once suggested another amendment to the rights of man:
Every person should have the right to alter their mind with or without drugs – and no-one should have the right to alter another person's mind (for instance via brain-washing).
As long as you don't harm anybody else its up to yourself!
And back to Cologne at 1.55?
I'm still considering it – if somebody's willing to join for a drink or two after the gig the time might be passing faster…
I'll take a later bus to Maastricht though.
Yep, and the influence is loads of 70s records that stood the test of time. They are probably not recreating 70s originals intentionally, except for the odd title and musical wink here and there. But Bent has admitted on release of "The Tower" that his listening habits during the winter before – i.e. Magma and Van der Graaf Generator – have certainly found their way into the songwriting and recording somehow.
Wonder what he's been listening during the last months. According to his comments on the new material in the Romanian interview – or was it Belgrad? – it must be something like King Crimson meets the Mothers of Invention in Amon Düül II's kitchen
So it's the other Rockfield studios for the other other fools
Looks great – looking forward for the outcome…
Great pictures, Thor. As usual, I'm tempted to say, but they're special. Like the first one best – and the heavy contrast Bent of No.7 stepping on his pedals right out of the saddle.
Waht do we learn here? Violin players give good motives – it doesn't matter how thick the four strings are
Rockpalast "live" from Herzberg on 17th September 01.00 – 5.00 on WDR
Hopefully lots of Motorpsycho included – shame they didn't film the whole show!
