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Just finished watching the new entry. What a beautiful little gem from way back when! Things that came to my attention during my first watch:
– Bent gesticulating and asking the audience to come closer. I guess that's normal when you're still just on of many metal-ish bands during the height of "grunge" and you don't really have a following yet. It's also funny to see how the audience hesitantly obliges. Well, at least sometimes. During the concert the movement in front of the stage is very uneven. Watch out for the frantic headbanger at the beginning of Sheer Profundity!
– Bent's attire. What the heck is he wearing? A tie die-dye shirt and a pair of extremely ripped jeans? Looks like he cut the pants himself a hundred times up and down the leg. Did people do that on purpose back in the day to score extra points for punkishness? I demand answers!
– Snah doesn't sing. We can only see and hear him providing back-up scream at the end of Sheer Profundity.
– There is no jamming going on. Except for the noise part in Demon Box, but i wouldn't call that improvising in the classical sense. Snah improvises some of his solos, but that's about it. When did MP really start "taking off"? Was that during the 1993 tour? It is really weird to see the band play one four minute song after the other, without a lengthy build-up. Motorpsycho then and now truly are two almost completely different bands.
– Deathprod doesn't really have a lot to do. To be honest, I actually prefer it that way, his samples and weird noises can add a lot, when they're utilised wisely, like on the Demon Box studio album. On the 2015 live recording of said record he often adds one layer too much, for example on Sunchild and The One Who Went Away. I prefer it when he supports bass, drums and guitar and doesn't really overpower those instruments and drowns the whole song in a wall of noise. There are exceptions of course, like the middle part of Demon Box. Love the sounds he adds to the beginnig of Plan #1, they create the perfect atmosphere!
Thanks a ton, Bernie! This one feels like a birthday present to me! I'm still waiting for the perfect time, when there's no one to bother me, and I can crank up the volume and fully immerse myself in the glory of early MP. Their sound would become so much more refined and many-faceted over the next decades, but something about that youthful, primitive energy moves me profoundly…
Wow Norman, I'm impressed!
It is quite clear that you have a much firmer grip on reality compared to "patronising, stuck-up snobs" like supernaut (and probably myself). You are rightly chastising the sluggish masses for clinging on to such obsolete concepts as the "hard built up" (whatever that means) welfare state and pointing out the breakdown of personal responsibility (so the downfall of the nation state makes personal responsibility obsolete? What? Can anyone half as intelligent and eloquent as Norman_Gold maybe make sense of this and explain it to a humble peasant like myself?). As we all know, globalisation has nothing to do with political decisions and can in no way be brought into line by policy makers! It suddenly came over us, just like the Holy Ghost!
It is also not under any circumstances pretty ironic, that on the one hand you berate the supporters of socialism for their laziness and entitlement, while on the other hand you idealise a man who is notoriously slothful, has never worked a day in his life, and had to be bailed out by his own father.
But if what you say is true, and he really brought back jobs and enabled a new economic upturn for his people, no political opponent will be able to beat "The Donald" in the forthcoming election, especially not "crazy Bernie" (as Trump likes to call him) with his outdated class politics approach. After having brought back American jobs, Donny Deals is now tackling the weakness of American toilets, so people don't have to flush ten or fifteen times anymore, once they have done their bathroom deeds (this is not a drill! Look it up!). He sure is a mental colossus!
I'm looking forward to reading more of your modest takes on politics and forum members. Your rock, dude! Keep on trucking in the free world!
Thanks otherdemon, your sleuthing was certainly more effective than mine. Funkadelic rule, that's for sure. In my mind I can see early Motorpsycho shaking their asses to George Clinton and his posse. As their nineties-videos demonstrate, they've got some serious moves!
Hey Punj! I already did that when the box set was released a few years ago. And I also had trouble figuring out the lyrics. But good to read that a native English speaker is also struggling
But I'm trying it again right now. It's really hard to make out the lyrics. I also hear "red" and "Louisiana" and then "Mr Sarge/George has got it all". Then Bent repeats the line but ends it with "Mr Clinton has got it all". I always thought that he was changing the lyrics of an already existing song to fit in with the political landscape of the time. But maybe he was talking about George Clinton, since he is a Funkadelic fan. Free Your Mind should also be on the song list, since Bent sang a small part of it in Demon Box in 1993.
But surely, somebody on this board has to know which song they were referecing in Hogwash. Do we maybe need a new thread?
I went through the whole list and listened to all the original versions of the covers I didn't know. Still I didn't find the song Motorpsycho play at 5:17 as a part of Hogwash at Rockefeller in 1997 (on the AADAP box set). Is that their own riff and melody they sing? I always thought I knew that song. Maybe a Grand Funk cover?
Wow Bernie, you're my hero! I feel really bad for watching all your videos without paying anything for your work. You should release some of your work as a DVD (with the band's permission, of course) so we don't get to ride along for free all the time! Thanks a ton, man, this documentary really is a treat!
Even though I'm a huge geek having spent hours and hours just reading MP interviews and deep dives from way back when, I still learnt something new and found a longstanding suspicion validated:
– Finally there's proof that MP where thinking of Helmet when they wrote Feedtime and the other groove rockers! Hell yes!
– I never knew that Snah wanted to be a shredder! But is makes sense, since he named Malmsteen as one of his favourite guitarists two decades ago (can’t really understand why…) It’s so weird to imagine him being disappointed in his own skills and starting from scratch. But I totally get why that would be a disheartening experience. When you see the Eddie Van Halens of the world shredding along while barely looking at the fretboard, it’s easy to feel like a total loser, happened to me as well. I think that his example is really encouraging, for he made up for his lack of technical skill with great songwriting and extremely emotional, dirty and at the same time melodic soloing. It’s great to see that your heroes struggled with the same problems.
I also have a few questions regarding the editing: Why did you use the clip of the band playing Waiting for the One after the story of their first meeting? What about the clip of Feedtime after Bent’s remark about boring metal from the eighties? To give MP’s idea of “unboring†metal?
I already have the box. I just have a question regarding my account. And nobody seems inclined to answer my mails. Just saw that their Facebook account hasn't been updated for more than a year. Have they tanked?
Wow, unbelievable! Being a Motorpsycho fan is really amazing as new (or in this case rather old) awsome stuff keeps on popping up constantly!
I want an official live version of Fool's Gold… Live that song turns from a nice little acoustic ditty into an absolute Monster on par with Vortex Surfer!
