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@Tomcat – I'm so in love with the five videos currently availabe on YouTube (listed in a post above), that a better quality copy of any of those would be very welcome indeed.
I never got into the 70s Battlestar Galactica, but the 00s reboot was, in my opinion, one of the best TV series ever made.
@ffbernie – Thanks for the videos. I'm a new fan, slowly making my way through your videos. What a treasure!
So it's now three weeks till the Norwegian shows. You all know the band better than I do, so who thinks there's a chance of some new material being played? Or will they hold off until either the November dates or the Byscenen gig or the new year? Or am I being foolish to speculate?
@ shakti. Send me an email and we'll make arrangements. And I don't drink alcohol these days, so no beer for me either.
This is such a great thread. I'm just absolutely loving all the comments.
The timing of the thread has been perfect for me as a few days before Hans' opening post I finally listened to Lobotomizer for the first time, having listened to 8 Soothing Songs for Rut once a few weeks back. For the past few days, then, I've now been listening to both those albums quite a bit and of course following through to Demon Box, which I'd only listened to maybe three or four times. It's so amazing to follow the band's progress/evolution from one album to the next, to see the leap they made from Lobotomizer to 8SSFR to DB to TM and so on.DB seemed to indicate a band refusing to be pigeonholed, possibly at that stage in their careers, afraid to be put in a (Demon) box. But when you're a young band, just getting started, it's hard to show the world you're not what they think you are. By releasing an album (nay, a double album) full of such variety, and starting with a song that bears no resemblance to what went before, that takes courage, determination, self-confidence and a general kind of 'fuck you' to whoever might want to stick a genre label on them. And I think to some degree they've managed to maintain that attitude. But it seems to me, that having made two albums (DM, TM) full of twists and turns – this sound, that style, those genres – they decided to start smoothing out the edges a bit and making albums that felt more coherent. Perhaps they felt they had achieved what they wanted, had made the statement they wanted to make – that they are not one-trick ponies, they are not a 'metal' band or whatever they were being sold as.
What they are to me is a band that has the brilliance to pull off whatever genre they like because they have the songwriting and playing skills, not to mention an apparent love of all music styles, to pull it off. They not only want to say, 'fuck you, we're doing what we want', but also 'we're doing it our way', which is an attitude that seeps into all aspects of their playing, writing, recording, perfomance, and so on.
I'm too late to the feast to be able to say I miss the heaviness and mayhem of Lobotomizer, 8SSFR and DB, or the lo-fi production of TM and Blissard, though I do appreciate the point about urgency. However, I dont think the fire has gone out, not by any stretch. Whether anybody else here felt it or not, I have to say that the Roadburn gig seemed full of fire and urgency. It was like they came to the audience saying "ok you got all these freaky metal bands here but this is what mind-blowing heavy rock sounds like when your focus is getting high on the music and not trying to put across some kind of image or specific style or concept or gimic". To me they are a band's band. They set a standard, not by trying to be amazing or by trying to set a standard, but by just following their muse and being themselves. That's invaluable. And if their style, choices and music changes in response to that, I don't care. The biggest thing I would be worried about losing would not be any one style or sound, but the sense of adventure, the desire to always be creative.
@ kjellepelle – I'm sure the atmosphere was brilliant. It looks like a good bunch of friends playing a bunch of tunes they love, everyone having a good singalong I expect. For that reason it would be fun to see.
Yesterday, as I was checking out Lars Horntveth's Instagram account (following his announcement that he's tracking horns for the new MP album
), I noticed that his previous post, from earlier this month, showed Reine Fiske recording guitar for the new Sugarfoot album. That Fiske man certainly gets around!
From a recent interview with Andrew Scheps.
QUESTION: Looking back on your career are there any, or several moments, that you thought: “This is heaven, can’t believe I’m working with this artist/project.�
ANSWER: Tons. If you look at my discography, if I hadn’t had them there would be something horribly wrong with me.
The obvious one is working with Red Hot Chili Peppers, I had been a fan of theirs since the very beginning. I saw them live in 1986 when they were playing in small clubs, so being able to work with them was absolutely amazing. Every single day in the studio with them is incredible.
Then there is a band called Motorpsycho (check them on Apple Music, or Spotify), from Norway, who I have been a fan of for years. Loved them but could never get in touch with them, tried a couple of times but it didn’t work out because I didn’t know any people who knew them. However, in the last year, I got to mix two live records for them which was absolutely incredible. When I finally met them all I wanted to do was to talk about their old records and ask how they did this and that, so just being able to have a conversation with them was amazing.
Full interview here:
@ TraktorBass – I will definitely be giving the albums more attention, but how much? I don't know
@ kjellepelle – Thanks for those two videos. I watched/listened to them this morning. I can't say they inspired me to wish for more TITS concerts. If they played in the UK I would go for the novelty value, but to be honest, there's nothing more than that to attract me. I certainly wouldn't be making any trips to mainland Europe to see them.
@Valderrama, Black-eyedJ and mybestfriend – Thanks for your sweet comments.
@Black-eyedJ – Thanks so much for translating the interview.
