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At least three recordings have surfaced so far. Thanks to all the tapers, it's very appreciated!
I am listening to the matrix off dime as I type.
I would say much more than the first half is interesting.
Every song from August to Ship of Fools is heavy on jamming and far out stuff, except A.S.F.E., but it grooves along and works very well. Dream Home, Internet Explorer, Cornucopia, Pacific Sonata, even Cuckoo, and especially IMS, as well as Ship all reach new or different highs. Mountain is a bit shaky, but great that they play it in its full again, and that the original piano sound on the "The Entertainer/Pink Panther theme" references is back, curtesy of Kristoffer, I suppose.
In Our Tree makes for a shift of mood. From here on the rest of the main set effectively works as the first batch of encores.
In Our Tree is delivered very close to the album version, even the sound of the record is recreated on stage. I think they do this to a greater extent on this tour compared to many previous tours. Go To California back to record version. Upstairs-downstairs now finally with that one horn only – and it sounds better than ever before. The Wheel is restored to old glory, as is The Golden Core. Mountain sounds like Mountain again, while reports of a fully restored Taifun are ticking in. The catalysts here are of course Tomas and Kristoffer. The former opens up the landscape, and the latter fills it in together with the other two. It takes me back to the different records and periods of time again. I'd wish they broke out a restored 'Let Them Eat Cake' encore one day soon, opening with The Other Fool played on acoustic, amplified guitars like back in 2000.
You Lied is short, again as on record, while Spin Spin Spin stretches out in a 9 min jam that substitutes Lacuna/Sunrise, only upbeat.
Again an amazing, majestic The Tower with another beautiful, wild and far out middle part – one last round in orbit – before Feel takes us down and we have almost landed one more time…
Solid concert!
Yes, good old mindblowing. Outer orbit achieved. The Bomb-Proof Roll & Beyond on Roadwork IV to prove it.
I didn't notice. I am amazed he his in such good voice. Didn't someone mention a cold a few days ago?
Great! Thanks! Those were the times…
I think Heartattack Mac could have been the ultimate song here.
Any recordings?
Thanks for all the great comments and reviews! It's a pleasure to follow.
I totally get your gripe, Riccardo, with California placed there, although I love the song.
A presumably long and heavy Mountain followed by a groovy, jammed out Dream Home, and then a magic Manmower setting the perfect mood for more dark and doomy.
Can you describe Go to California? Short/long? Jams? Solos? Rocking/jazzy/laidback? Any thing new to it?
@ fillmore: Thanks, interesting. I used Spacebandit's estimate, he writes 500-600 in his notes to the recording.
An atmospheric recording has been up on DIME for a while. Thanks Spacebandit!
Great, great stuff going on. You can hear how this leads up to Bremen the next day.
Highlights almost too many to mention. Seven songs from The Tower performed with ever growing vitality, interspersed with a handful of lengthy renditions of beautiful older songs, served to this – for a Saturday night – amazingly quiet audience of 600.
Manmower is yet again growing in a new direction. Cornu-Cali-Copia contains a piano solo that sends my thoughts back to the Bård days. In Alchemyst they suddenly take it down to give way for a flügelhorn solo. The longest Lacuna/Sunrise recorded so far takes the journey deep into jazz land, and is chained together with a, so far, one-off performance on this tour of the laidback Entropy from 'Behind The Sun'.
To top it off after a mighty Ship of Fools they resurrect The Wheel in painstaking detail, and also add to it. The tour debut in Hamburg the night before was a good run-through. Here they nail it.
@ Punj Lizard: Thank you. My mistake.
@ Shakti: I kindly disagree about Lacuna Sunrise having a lame jam. It is on of the songs that differs the most from night to night. So far we have documented versions of everything from 10 to 16 minutes, and the jams and the whole structure of this piece varies greatly from night to night, depending on who takes the lead, and where it leads them.
Very intense version of Heartattack Mac. Overpowered in the loud parts, but the hauntingly beautiful ending is well worth the effort.
Seems they just don't play it every night for the time being. Instead A.S.F.E. seems to have moved in the opposite direction, from sporadic to regular.
Intrepid was last played four concerts ago in Frankfurt, four concerts before that, in Sint-Niklaas, and the day before in Amsterdam, while it was rested in Bremen and London. Before that it was a regular.
I agree that it worked very well in Larvik (judging by recording). Beautiful and far out, and almost 13 minutes long, while most versions have been around 11. Also in Copenhagen was it a highlight, with a great space-out.
Ironic that the song has not been part of what has been considered the most psychedelic concerts of the tour so far, like for instance Bremen, Brussels and Biel.
