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Overall high quality writing, performing and singing. Giving Kashmir a run for their money.
But the production… too much compression? It's my taste of course, but bassdrum and snare are too much upfront for my liking. And sound heavily compressed and (in case of snare) flat. Cymbals and hi-hat sound nearly distorted in Tarred and Feathered at 2'30" Don't want to be negative, it's just stuff I'm fighting with myself when mixing. Beware that Multimaximizer software! :mrgreen: But the songs are great. Like them.
yeah I might go too. I have never seen them and it's the only metal band I like (I don't consider Tool and Helmet as metal…)
and Boris will play the Rote Fabrik on june 30th.
I've been a Zurich based musician for 20 years now, thank you. And there sure are harder places on this planet to get a subculture going than here. Don't get so fired up about words on the internet.
"Crappy town" I wrote because nobody of the clubs books MP, if they even know them. Thanks to the gods of guitarmusic for our "frenchies" beyond the röschtigraben. And for Winterthur. The agency (and a band after 20 working years) probably just deals directly with club managers to maintain a professional level. I fully understand this. This is about money and business. Might be a bad thing for some romantic mindsets among the indie scene.
I could use a breather after that epic guitar solo in Wishing Well, that's why the vocals are a bit too early for me. The cymbals might only get a chorus treatment there. Or a simple vol fader push.
GBD's clip, hell yeah! That's what I love about them. After 20 years you'd thought you've heard it all but they still can push it further.
I must say I really like all of their periods and albums. There was just a phase of "Whip that Best Friend when we go to California" noodling jam extravaganzas ten years ago that sometimes got stretched a bit too lengthy for me. I'd always prefer a 30min "Chien d'Espace" to that.
That said, I just watched the 2002 Amsterdam show, the whole bootlegged gig, not just the RW3 edit, and its dynamics are astonishing. In light and shade, they've probably never been that extreme before and after. Geb's "What if" and "Little Ricky Massenburg", the magical "the Mirror and the Lie" and "Circles" put against the blasting "Hogwash" and "STG" and of course "Close your eyes", this show is some rollercoaster.
RW4's "Wishing Well" I do not regard as noodling, rather as the old ebb and flow game the guys master so nicely. It's absolutely wonderful magical. Noodling to me is endlessly soloing over a basic groove and chord structure. 97's "Nothing to say" live renditions come to mind, THAT was some great soloing over a big track building and building and building. Always like this stuff. Also elaborate things like Starhammer on the HMF album. But not the hippie Free Bird wheedelideedelideeedeeedeeedidelideeees.
ask me again in a few weeks or maybe months – i'm so slow at these things
– when i'll have set up my pc anew, because i got a nice digital copy IF you're not satisfied with superstooka's.
great stuff. have yet to listen to the mp3s.
but here's a nerdy correction:
Quote:then a visit to Rote Fabrik in Zürich, where they had not played since the “Demon Boxâ€Â-tour of 1993. Back then they had played in the café, this time they played in the biggest hall out of three or four. We had some food in the café, and it was very strange and very interesting for a psychonaut in his prime to sit there and imagine how the heavy sounds of “Home Of The Brave†must have devastated the place, encapsulating it in smoke from a broken smoke machine that would not stop until it was empty.Besides that café, the Rote Fabrik has 2 concert halls and on this 2002 tour Motorpsycho played in the smaller one of those. I've been at that gig but I haven't seen them in 93 (but a few weeks afterwards a buddy, who was at that show, played the Demon Box album to me and turned me into a motorpsychonaut on the spot).
Said café has seen a lot of loud bands, before and after MP, and Monolithic just played there a few months ago. MP themselves played Zurich only once more in 1996 at another venue. Nobody else books them. Crappy town.
There was more noodling about ten years ago when MP californicated to hippiedom. It got me worried a bit. I'd say this has mostly gone but nowadays I miss something else though: The delicacy of their songwriting and -playing. They're the massive droning onslaught machine today and seem to urge most songs into this formula. But hey, the KDH/Alchemyst combo on RWIV does floor me.
Quote:Nope, listen to Leipzig. bent doesn't say good evening until Bombproof even though it's the fourth song in. I thought that was strange.Bent does say "good evening" in Leipzig before the first song "The Other Other Fool" and it's obviously edited and mixed to "Arne H" (6th song there) to start RW4. Can be determined by one fan's audible rrrrr-reaction during the bass' delay intro.
(or did I edit leipzig's running order once myself? i tend to do that sometimes….)
I shall remain spectical because of the running order thing. And also for the possibility to be the "aha! told you so!" geek whenever it turns out to have been wrong all the time.
btw geeky: is the person who shouts "I get it!" after Bent's "kick out the marmalade" line present in this phorum? quite the lol moment when listening. :lol:
