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Yes ASFE is a robotic machine groove. There's not much to swing about. I'm curious why they dropped this one so early from the setlist last year and didn't show up this time around either.
Punj
I'm totally with you about the guitar shredders without any sense of rhythm. And "And even if they could, why would they want to?" sums it up nicely. Individualism is the key.
Lux is probably unplayable as a three piece. So these 3 swiss shows were over the top out there, and I'm sure the whole tour was. So "there's two kinds of MP shows"? I do think it depends on the setlists and the intentions behind them, it can't just happen by some magic accidents. They're too good, experienced and professional for that. They took out their most massive songs this time for a mini tour, taking no prisoners.
thanks guys, listening to H to He at the moment. First impression: I'm liking vintage recordings more and more, these airy transparent mixes of the olde days. My ears got a bit tired of modern brickwall in your face music.
@punji
Neil Peart, what about early records and the Feedback cover album?
I don't think it's a challenge at all for skilled musicians to play straight'n'simple. Why would it be? But I'm a bit sensitive about this subject since it's been a dogma mantra credo back in my indierock days. Indie police says "It's either this or that", the unwritten rule for some weird reason and it annoyed me already back then. I wonder if in a blind test listening to say four Heartattack Mac live recordings from 1996, 2006, 2010 and 2018 we all could name the drummer? Ok, maybe Kenneth is easy to spot :lol:
Also Bent and Snah have become better players over 20 years naturally, so do they have a hard time nowadays to play STG, Feel, PPP or whatever? I think it's all very hypothetical and beyond reality. Which is my opinion to disagree with
I have to disagree a bit there. Skill- and soulful playing don't negate each other. And Tomas can't handle ASFE? Quite a bold statement. 8O And wouldn't the band be the first to know and "judge"?
interview from above extended audio: https://soundcloud.com/stadtfilter/motorpsycho-im-interview?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fstadtfilter%2Fmotorpsycho-im-interview&fbclid=IwAR1xUf-o4YoxDkREw1bJqmaDX87v7tAWdBmXw2BnrPf8MXPs9aKo8QSknQ4
which makes me stand corrected about my earlier impression about it.
you need a torrent client such as qbitorrent https://www.qbittorrent.org/ but for some reason it might not work with Dimeadozen or motortrades (don't remember which one) if you have the latest updated torrent version. I had some trouble there after updating, but with version v3.3.13 => https://www.neowin.net/news/qbittorrent-3313 both dimeadozen and motortrades do work fine.
so get this one and don't update thereafter.
kind of awkward interview: https://www.facebook.com/radiostadtfilter/videos/484232855398479/
obviously she never heard of the band Motorpsyche but that's ok.
About the show, I need to adjust some things I wrote about the Schüür gig the night before. I'm beginning to think the grand spectacular über extraordinary gigs (by MP standards) aren't the "rare by nature" anymore but have become the standard ones instead. At some point I thought this couldn't be happening. They topped or at least matched the Schüür gig. Utter authority on stage. On A Plate, once a solid rocker, turned into crushing monster every stoner band doesn't even dare to dream of. The Great Peter Green Manalishi! As I understood it was Reine's request for his last show. They seemed to have lost themselves during Lacuna's jam which was very funny. A highly dramatic build up, break down, pick it up again but then somehow they seemed to be out in the ditch for a second and just turned the shambles back into the song proper. At least it was my impression reading their smiles and body language. So at this point I knew this one was just as massive as the night before. Thrilled, impressed, happy, I've pretty much left that previous show behind me. That supposedly one totally super über show! And finding myself this elevated and dazzled, Ship, Starhammer and The Wheel WERE STILL YET TO COME!!! There were wtf!? and what just happened?!? moments by the dozen for the last hour. Ship Of Fools was a helluva trip. I think last year they pretty much played it as on record. This time it felt more dynamic, with those little stops and BAMMM! back on the beat numerous times. A fiery celebration of one of their grandest compositions ever. Starhammer indeed had an amazing jam, very different than on the album carried by a fast, Tower-middlesection/Triggerman styled, bass line. I'm not absolutely sure but I think I've witnessed The Wheel in its entirety for the very first time in 20+ years. There might have been a Superstooge/Wheel combo once but not the whole song by itself for me. And that's the one I've played to death back then to the joy of my trying-to-sleep roommates. A wonderful Fool's Gold to close. That fuzz bass, wow.
But no Lux though. But we'll always have Bern. Hm, but without Reine… guess not.
That's why I keep dragging friends along to see them for their first time because for me, like for the most of us, that first time is sadly way gone and it's an empathic illusion of some sort of being back there again, too.
Anders
Quote:BAM, there you go. Goodnight!:lol:
I think so. Don't quite remember any extended jamming or improv in Bartok, so it probably was not very different than usual. Also the encore break lastet about 5 seconds. They probably were so energized they wanted to go back on stage immediately to rock out one more. Hence Bartok and no Fool's Gold I guess.
btw it was kind of short. 2h15min maybe? But absolutely perfect. There was no need for anything after Bartok. And I even got the last train ride home.
(speaking of walking distances…)
There's two kinds of MP shows. One of them being the great fun amazing intense ones. The other one, rarer by nature, is the out there one. The big one. The one that answers my question why I keep going to see them. This one was one of those. They don't really differ in playing or sound quality, I find these matters mostly on the same outstanding quality. For me the difference comes with the setlist. And look at this one!!! One fat big number follows another. Even without The Wheel and Starhamster from previous shows, it was still monolithic. Heartattac Mac almost got to Chien's extremes in its noise section, Cuckoo was heavy, August a blast (including Reine getting some lead guitar spot, too), Ship was nuts with sound changes (Bent brought along a mean fuzz pedal, both for bass and guitar), The Tower had a headspinning jam, PPP was graceful, Plan#1 is what it is and Taifun of course came as the extended RWV version, with double bass pedal rumbling by Bent and Snah simultaneously.
But the high point: Lux Aeterna! Holy smokes! Didn't some write it feels like fitting within The Tower's (the album) vibe? I'd say it would have been an amazing stand out track on TDDU! Jesus, these bold Crimson Court vocal harmonies and then that bass break down gear shifting into complete madness. Can't wait for the new album. Tomas has definitely arrived in the band if I may be so bold to state something like that from my outside consumer's point of view. I mean, they totally gelled. He's it, period. I got the impression he plays more wild and versatile by still being completely within the music than on last tour, where he was more of a "solid and reliable" drummer? But I might remember it wrong, having still been Kapstaded in my head back then… Anyways: YAY! to Tomas!
I'll see them again tomorrow and maybe Bern, too. Three in a row. But I don't even expect it to be the same massive behemoth like this one. Hmmm maybe Starhammer and The Wheel pop up again, though.
The Schüür venue btw is wonderful. Hope they liked it and will play there again, it's a great room, like a big shed's attic. Wooden and comfortable. The crowd was very attentive, first I thought there are way too few people waiting in and around but suddenly it was quite full. Surprisingly, considering they play three shows in a row almost within walking distance in this small country.
