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Wbat was on the setlist between Manmower and Diana, but I cannot remember they played it, and I had no wbat in my notes after the concert, so I have left it out of the setlist here, but someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Mountain clocked in at 15 mins this time…
As Akane has already discovered, they played a Rainbow song in rememberence of the late Dio. They ripped through all eight glorious minutes of this fantastic epic, leaving no detail out. A big, probably once in a lifetime, moment – to have Motorpsycho play a song off Rainbow Rising! Needless to say, Kenneth nailed the powerfull drums of this track. Can’t help but to think/notice how Cozy Powel must be one of Kenneth’s heros/influences.
I am really sad and sorry to leave the tour for now. With the rock show they played last night in mind, I am sure Brussels will be as psychodlic and spaced out as it always seems to be. It fits in perfectly: Rock show the night before, sixth show in a row before a day off, the AB being a great venue, the respectful and consentrated Brussels audience: I can’t but imagine that the Motors will kick back and space out.
It is going to be more exciting than ever to follow the development of setlists. We know they have got 101 rehearsed songs plus a handful of covers, and we know now that they break out a couple of new ones every single night. I am also excited to learn how Duna Jam will inspire and influence the last shows of the tour.
So see some of you in Leipzig!
Hehe, Rune: I was keeping an eye on you, because I realised that you would have to run before the end of Gullibles. You looked really stressed when you had Ken grab your recorder for you, as did he. Haha!
But no need to despair, we already have complete versions from other shows of that song.
Vera was the best concert for me so far, mostly because of the most intense The Rounder We GO The Faster We Get part in Un Chien, but also because of the monumental Mountain this night, probably the first time out of the three I have heard where they nailed it, and salso Starhammer was a highlight, I’d be tempted to rename this version Spacehammer, as they took it all down before building it up again.
Sorry, my fault: That was not Sunship, but The Alchemyst. Full setlist:
W.B.A.T
->Mountain (13 mins)
->Giftland (12)
The Visitant
Bomb-Proof Arnie H.
->The Alchemyst
Un Chien d´Espace (27)
->Timothy’s Monster
Whole Lotta Diana
->Starhammer
->Greener
Like Always
->A Shrug & A Fistful
->X-3
->Come On In
Gullible’s Travails (21)
(2h 40 mins)
Yes it was a moog&keyboard chien. Just when you think you have heard it all, you have not. Mountain was jammed over into Starhammer, which was beyond aweseome, and it sounded like the most natural thing in the world. Gullible was the new Sunship, only even more intense. Gotta go to Bremen, now, more comments later.
I do not understand how it is possible to cram this awesome setlist into 1h 35min.
Hm. Pirat Bay is not accessible from Denmark….
Interresting development in the tour. The 10 minutes from Tønsberg does not make me sad I opted out, while the tentative setlist from Trondheim sounds like something I would have like a lot more. In Fredrikstad Snah payed a guitar solo, and in Trondheim they played several parts from MHF, both things that I missed in Drammen.
@ supernaut: Don’t you think there is a huge possibility that a recording from this tour will be released by Rune Grammonfon? I’d rather see it happen outside the Roadwork series. The only right thing for the Roadwork series now would be a complete, unedited 100% MP show from the Kenneth-lineup. Preferable from the HMF-tour!
@ Red Mosquito: Have you decided to go to Oslo to see Motorsilent?
Oh, and another remark: You are not listening to a bootleg, unless you have a(nother) recording (than mine) which was not cleared with the band, and/or you bought it for money. My recording was cleared with the band, and it can never be a bootleg as long as it is shared, and not sold.
Glad to see you enjoy it!
Hi OtherFool, whoever you are.
Did you see my notes from the Molde concert?
http://folk.uio.no/ahustvei/mp/molde_190702.html
(Sorry, I never made artwork for my recordings)
Hi M / prof_stoned!
I didn’t realise until now that it was you! Nice to hear from you.
Are going to any of the upcoming shows?
I decided to drop the expensive Tønsberg gig after the disappointing Drammen gig. That is why you see no report from me, sorry.
Looking forward to the HMF tour more than ever!
Judged by the first concert, this tour should not have been sold as Motorpsycho and Supersilent, it should have been sold as Supersilent with special guests/friends.
I did not expect Motorpsycho songs, although I had hoped they would use the opportunity to visit and experiment with a couple of themes or parts from the MP catalogue. If not that, I had at least hoped for a 50/50 sharing between the freeform stuff and something more structured.
But what we got last night was a Supersilent concert. It could have been any band up there on stage with them, I do not think we would have noticed any difference. Kenneth spent two hours “jazzing”, playing with his tam-tams, and hitting the edge of his drums with the wrong end of the stick in the same erratic way all night through. Not very impressive at all. Maybe he has got an education in jazz drumming, and maybe that is my problem, but he is an excellent metal and rock drummer. He is not a jazz drumer in my ears. What I heard yesterday was a two hour job application for the drummer slot in Supersilent.
What I missed yesterday was someone taking responsibility. A theme, a rythm, a pattern, structure, anything, to take us out of this endless intro, this endless promising build up, that eventuelly ended up in nothing but unreleased suspense. Everytime. I missed progression, dynamics and ideas. Someone who dared take a step forward and do something.
Thinking of it, I have seen interviews with Bent explaining how it will be a challenge for them to play free form, being used to structure. But I have seen no interviews with Helge Steen explaining how it will be a challenge for Supersilent to play structured being used to free form.
And therein lays my problem, I think.
(Another problem is ticket prices. Drammen was 28 euros, tonight Tønsberg is 35.)
Taken into account the current band, and the musical state they are in, having them play Timothy’s Monster feels kind of like many opportunities lost.
I always saw Timothy’s Monster as a collection of good songs, rather than an epic masterpiece tending towards a concept album, which is how I see Demon Box and Angels And Daemons At Play, and to a certain extent Trust Us.
This is a great opportunity lost to finally perform Mountain live again, and to revisit the old metal songs together with an out-of-this-world metal drummer. Both vocalists being in the best form of their lives, I think Bent would totally have pulled off Sheer Profundity and Feedtime. Snah could also sing them, he proved that already when Loaded was in the setlist in 2004.
This was also a great opportunity to perform ALL of Angels And Daemons, and finally tag Have Spacesuit, Will Travel to the end of Un Chien, where it has been missing all these years.
Trust Us has already been revisited a lot by the new lineup, so it was maybe the least essential of my three choices. But through the last three years together with Kenneth we have also seen some of the strongest performances of Trust Us songs such as Superstooge, Psychonaut, 577 and Vortex Surfer, and the bands new musical direction seems to own a lot to this part of their musical past.
All three records have a huge chunck of the progressive, heavy and jam elements which fits so well with the Motorpsycho of today, and which I do not see so much in the majority of the songs on Timothy’s Monster.
I am afraid that the first hour of the concert is gonna be a nice stroll down memory lane with many good, little, five minutes songs, rather than a wild ride of awesome jams and rejuvenited masterpieces.
Being the old, travelling geezer I am, it is of course the songs not performed in a long time which are attached to the biggest excitement: Leave It Like That, A Shrug & A Fistful, Beautiful Sister and Wearing Yr Smell.
That said, Grindstone is for sure going to be the most exciting song to me at Øya, together with The Wheel. Luckilly, these songs have got all of the elements above: They are progressive and heavy, and the band can jam it out if they choose to. In fact, when the concert finally reaches sides four and five of the LP I will probably think I am in heaven anyway.
Red Mosquito: That is a good idea. I feel exactly the same way. I would love to be able to join just for the MP content of the festival this year (don’t know yet if I can, so no plans made yet), but as long as there is a MP tour going on, I would not blow my whole money and time load down there. Then I’d probably go back there another year and stay the whole festival when MP is not touring. Will you write Dunajam with your question?
That said, Berlin seems to fall outside of the Ryan Air network, all I find is Lufthansa costing several houndreds of euros. Hm… And yes, Fillmore, 600 euro for the ticket is a lot, even when it includes accomodation and food. That is what I would use for a complete Roskilde, ticket and all. Or an Øya Festival.
Blueberry daydreaming… (NP: Motorpsycho @ Centralstation, Darmstadt 25.04.2000)
