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Just listening for the first time. Triggerman! Wow…
…and The Tower! Totally new improv.
Now Blueberry Daydream and Stardust. Got to love how they sprinkle this tour with the odd acoustic songs old and new, borrowed and blue…
Can't help but falling in love with this band. Again and again.
Try "Garman" from 1972. His second album, same concept as the new one, with Norwegian leading 60s band "The Pussycats" as backing band. His best album according to most people.
Great! Bent mentioned this project already in the video interview from the record store gig in London last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AvjPtrUKTU
Just watched Dream Home video, thank you ffbernie. It is 19 minutes long, with a seamless transition to Om Riff/Master Builder at around 15 minutes. Setlist should read:
Ship Of Fools
UberPilgrim
The Other Fool
In Every Dreamhome (incl. Master Builder)
Stardust (acoustic)
The Crucible
Lacuna Sunrise
Psychotzar
Hogwash
577
Neverland (acoustic)
the Tower (incl. Hell Part7)
Fools Gold
Do we have the sound of the whole gig? ffbernie? Rune? Any chances of a complete sound recording being torrented/shared?
I think the reason people think they don't like Reine or think they don't hear him is that they have no clue what he is playing. He plays lead in at least half of the songs, freeing Snah up for experimenting and playing rhythm. Then they switch, and Reine often plays fairly far out and creative while Snah takes the lead. This also changes the dynamics for Bent, who in many songs on this tour plays actual bass where he otherwise would have played barytone guitar or just guitar.
It's a pity people continue to complain about Reine. I agree Kristoffer Lo was great, but Reine is contributing no less than Lo did, and the band is so in sync when Reine is on board the ship.
Check out videos for evidence. Start with Dream Home, Heartattack Mac, Mountain and The Crucible to catch some Reine magic! Then continue with Ãœberpilgrim, August, and 577!
Lars M has kindly sent me setlist scans, but how do I put them up here? Do I have to be a web page programmer? Anyway, "Victim" is tagged on to "The Tower" in parenthesis…
@Devotional: All you say makes very good sense, except I have no problem getting into Go To California, My Best Friend or Neverland (Yes, I play on the Neverland team). My Best Friend didn't catch me at first back then. Not on record, not live, until they started exploring it during the second half of the 2000 spring tour. When I heard it in Stavanger at the beginning of the tour, it was 8 min long and played more or less like on record. When I rejoined the tour in Cologne a month later it was jammed out to 19 min, and I was awestruck. It was like seeing a different band. Same, but different. Something had happened along the road.
@TraktorBass: This brings me to your question. Were the stellar jams fewer and further between back in the days? In general I'd say yes. They have always been stretching out here and there, but not like today when almost every song is a vehicle for jamming. I guess this is partly also the reason why we seem to be two main camps these days: Those who want more 90's song-based songs, and those who are in it mainly for the jams, like I am. During the 90's, all concerts had at least a couple of jams, but not every night had stellar jams.
In '93 the jams mainly occurred in Mountain, Home of the Brave and Demon Box. Most concerts only include one or two of them. The Wheel is being jammed into life on stage this year.
In '94 the biggest jams were still Mountain and The Wheel.
In '95 they play around with Nothing to Say and Hogwash.
In '96 they start to stretch out STG. Nothing to Say sometimes includes part of Mountain. They also jam out the first embryonic Un Chiens.
In '97 the big jams are in Un Chien, Hogwash and, uhm… Nothing to Say with Mountain tease.
Come '98 and Trust us, and we get K9, Supertsoge/The Wheel, as well as Heartattack Mac which is jammed out for up to 15 minutes, sometimes including Waiting for my Man. It's a crime that this was not included on Roadwork 1. 1998 also saw the longest STG's to date, 17 minutes in Copenhagen including a long, floating and beautiful ending similar in mood to the ending that developed for The Cuckoo during fall 2018. And you had 10 min long Young Man Blues'es. I think it is safe to say that '98 saw the most jammed out sets of the Geb-era.
Spring '99 they continued the '98 jams, extended Black to Comm to up to 10 minutes, and at the very end of this era they introduced the mind-bending troika of Song for a Bro>Hogwash>Tristano.
Fall '99 and enter the pop-era. Still we got In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Song for a Bro, Un Chien and Tristano.
In 2000-2002 the stellar jams were inside Song for a Bro, Liz Reed, Go To California, Flick of The Wrist, K9, Superstooge, Supertristano, Hogwash (Spacewash), Dora Peach, 577, My Best Friend, Pills Powder & Passionplays, Landslide, and… Walkin' With J. In Wien 2002 we got the once-in-a-lifetime Superstooge>Hogwash with both the coolest intro to date as well as an intrepid skronk-transition between the two. Do I need to say it? Mind-blowing!
But still most concerts only included 3-5 bigger jams.
2006 continued in the same manner, the main jams were in K9, L.T.E.C., Triggerman, and a few more, but many songs were still song-songs, to use Bent's own word.
Enter Kenneth, and more and more songs become vehicles for jamming.
Enter Tomas, and almost every song is a vehicle for jamming.
Apropos Kenneth and Tomas, they bring me to the next question.
@BronYAur: Ãœberpilgrim is re-arranged.
To conclude and bind this together: the whole reason I started traveling to see multiple concerts was mainly because there were fewer and further between the stellar jams back in the day, and to a huge degree also because the setlist changed so much from night to night, and from the beginning to the end of tours. Norway always got the first and the last concerts of the tours, much like today. But back then they always seemed to peak in Italy. Nowadays they seem to peak every night. Still you don't have to go further back than 2016, when they played the first half or two thirds of the tour before they finally re-invented both the setlist and themselves in Wiesbaden. That is the kind of magic I am in this for, and every tour has a couple of those nights. In 2017 it was Cologne/Leipzig, both very good cities to see them in. In fact I will say most of the 2017 concerts were magic and packed with stellar jams. 2018 was one long big highlight, and they seem to continue the trend in 2019. I could not be happier.
Hahaha! "Terrible setlist"? "Endure GTC"? Thanks to tapers extraordinaire Lars M and Spacebandit I just had my mind blown by a Starhammer worthy of Roadwork release. Before that a fresh, jammed out Go to California had me smile for 13 minutes. Back in the day we traveled for weeks to witness stuff like this. These days they reach the boiling point 3-4 songs into the opening night already.
Each to his own opinion, setlists discussions are fun, and following the setlist postings is like football season. But the result does not necessarily say much about the game, and the setlist does not say much about the jams.
@Devotional: Superstooge was played quite a few times in 2017, and Hey Jane was played sometimes. Vortex Surfer is also still played now and then, so I don't think they have forgotten the existence of Trust Us. That said I would love to hear more songs from it too.
@supernaut: I have never been to Bodø for a MP concert, so I don't know if this concert had a smaller audience than usual, but it's a small town, so I am not surprised.
I find the setlist good. I am especially glad to see The Promise played again, got nothing against Go to Cal, and I am intrigued by Ãœberwagner>cover song.
Great video of The Crucible. I think this song draws musical lines back to Demon Box days.
Happy to see The Tower, as well as Dream Home survive. Would like to see more songs from The Tower re-appear, like Bartok and Cuckoo with its extended outro from fall 2018.
