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Session happened just before we opened Burg Herzberg Festival 2011. I joined Freak City Band as flute and sax player only in 2010 – the band had been active a few years before. A core of 5 or 6 people who rented an old house with an extra rehearsal room from the festival landowner and organised things plus 6-10 musicians from the festival crowd. I don’t know all of them by real name – lot of them used nicknames. I was introduced by Paul Pott from “Space Invaders”, “Hausfrauen of Death”, Robb & Pott who however left the band the year before.
A diehard MP fan, he had been a central figure in bringing Motorpsycho to Herzberg festival for the first time in 2008.
Ingvald was one of two drummers, we had a regular bass player, Nafi on selectric sitar-guitar and occasional bass and a number of other people involved. Kind of band leader and organiser was Zoppo, who played guitar (Herzberg’s Stephen Stills, imho) and who uploaded the videos on youtube.This was Freak City Band named after the central camping and partying area on Burg Herzberg’s festival ground, which opened the festival on Thursday afternoon for a few years, until it all fell down in the mud chaos of 2012 and the aftermath.
We just rehearsed a few times the day before the gig – some people even just joined on stage. Besides I was a specialist in de-tuning my sax, so it all came out a little bit shaky in the recordings. Great fun and response on stage though!
Wohow! SLIFT! Grrreat Performance! Up to the point the singer starts to scream. Slightly damages the greatness of the music imho. What happened to good old singing? But still…
I’m still in doubt if I should buy a ticket for the Erfurt show. 90 mins might be ok on a regular basis, but I’m still not convinced about the “Singles” concept. As I’m either ignorant or even rejecting the other acts (I find Kadavar rather boring – or did so when they supported MP in 2014, sorry folks) it would be quite helpful to learn if there’s something else Motorpsychedelic to expect this year, probably a fall tour?
Yep – House at Pooneil Corners again! If Bent still manages the “Screamo” vocals, that is. “Have You Seen The Saucers” would also be a very welcome Airplane cover. “Mountains of the Moon”? Why not…
Rock Bottom / Silver Dollar Forger on ebay for a reasonable price:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/235340537750Just received mine today – red pressing, no quality problems, good sound, though a little on the bassy side
Funny Spidergawd Clip. But they sound like everybody else these days – mainstream stuff. Nothing to dwell on acoustically…
Finally could watch the Dutch/Belgian concerts in a relaxed mood and realized once again, what a great band MP can be these days. Some things escape your attention when you’re standing in the noise maelstrom front of stage. Those clips give the MP experience really another dimension.
@ Bernie: It may feel like work now, but you might take a well deserved rest till next year then ;-). Just don’t stop!
@ ThorEgil: Just as I thought – my Motortrades account has been deactivated by administrator some time ago. So I need a new one. Could you repeat your invite at christof.koehler[at]web.de (my other e-mail)?
Cheers!
@ThorEgil: Fuck – just deleted the spams without closer look, but I’m quite sure there was nothing from you in spam these last days. But probably it’s the same as with sonic99.
Used to have a motortrades account a few years ago, but thought it was long deleted. Will look myself – but forgot how to reach motortrades. address?Cheers,
Johnny
