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I don’t know these. When playing with the band I have some expensive custom (at least something’s custom made in my equipment!) ones, but going to shows I sometimes use the very common foam plugs and funnily enough, at the Astra in Berlin, I got a perfect sound with them. Plug em in, then pull em slighty out again until they only cut the biting ssssscccccchhhhhhhhhhhhh frequencies from guitar and cymbals.
A Light In the Black!?!? Oh I nearly went there by train but the 200euros bugged me. Dammit, I guess it would’ve been worth it. Any recording done?
A note about live/studio versions: It took a while for me to recognize the main intro riff to Starhammer. I felt Snah should play it on the keyboard with a string sound. It would be kitsch as hell but on guitar only it lost some of its majestic vibe.
Maybe now they’re into stretching things and they’ll be more into short songs soon when they get tired of it again as usual.
And yes, I missed the video projections too. It’s weird they don’t use them considering the current setlists. Their current “light show” doesn’t really make up for it.
I remember Giftland from 2002 too.
Wow, Giftland, K9 and Sunship… No matter what they play one night, I always wish I’d seen them on another. :lol:
130min only? It felt much longer. Oh and sadly nothing from LLM was played. Doesn’t get much play on this tour it seems. Understandable though. They’re having fun with a new album and their classic past.
I’d say it was one of the best shows ever. I said this a thousand times before and probably will as well. But the setlist, the sound (definitely the best show I remember in this regard, much better than in the Lido 2009 and it’s a great venue anyway, doesn’t look like anything from the outside but they set it up very nice and pleasant inside), the blind interplaying, the control they got over their music while letting go and catching it back at the perfect spots… Like TvdR I took a friend along who’s usually not into rock but he gets good music no matter what when he hears it and he was amazed, too.
The moog wasn’t as physical as before. In Taifun there were some problems I think? I think Bent played it but it wasn’t really heard until a few bars later. But maybe he played not the usual BOOOOOOM bass at first which I might not have realised. But it DID blast through time and space at the end of the incredible “the rounder we go the faster we get” part.
Snah only sang 2 songs if I’m correct, contrary to the last shows I’ve been. So Bent was way more present this time. Singing great (no KSD, hehe) and his bass playing was a joy. I felt he held back a bit on the 3 shows I’ve been on the COTF tour, this time he definitely rocked out more, but maybe it was just the very transparent sound pushing him more upfront.
Shrug and Trapdoor were both fascinating. Short, sweet, precise, great songs greater played. Shrug with its weird dynamics and Trapdoor with 2 guitars/no bass, veeeery pleasant.
Hm, thinking about this, I’d like to have them playing a short songs only show. With this energy and sovereignty they got now, that would be ecstatic. Nerve Tattoo, Starmelt, Ozzylot, Hyena, Wearing yr Smell and all…
Diana/Mountain/Starhammer were all segued, maybe even with Wbat, not sure.
And as one lowpoint, there was the usual group of drunk morons with one especially annoying squarehead. What is wrong with people? But to end on a high note: Berlin is a great city with great and very nice people. They’re cliched as anything but, but even the Astra bouncer wished us a good night when we left.
