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Didn't someone mention in another thread that the Operaen gig has been pushed back until the summer at the earliest?
It does seem the most likely opening word, yeah – corrected it now.
Based on the theme presented in these songs they could turn out to be the two Proteus songs on the finished album. The first one has a prayer-like quality to it, and the second is very lamenting.
Titles makes it sound like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner meets The Odyssey played by King Crimson circa 1970.
Some quick comments to a couple of the titles:
The Hollow Lands: also the title of a science fiction novel by Michael Moorcock, named after an Ernest Dowson poem.
Limbo is the first circle in Dante's Hell
Into the Mystic is a song and an album by Van Morrison, though I'm assuming MP is releasing an original, not a cover.
The two Proteus songs show a slight connection to King Crimson's In the Wake of Poseidon, where there are three similarly named songs ("Peace – A Beginning", "Peace – A Theme", and "Peace – An End") in an album where Greek mythology plays some part. Of course, King Crimson have also released a song named Lament, and the phrase "bible black" from one of the two unknown MP songs we've heard also point towards King Crimson. As a huge Crimson fan I greatly approve of this!
Lovely setlist!
stanley: "Altso lovely not to hear Year Zero, Kill Devil Hills etc, that they've played so often the last couple of years."
Have to agree with you here, the setlists have grown a bit repetitive in the last year or two – and apparently the band thinks so, too!
When you focus so much on jamming it's always good to shake the setlist up a bit to keep things fresh.As for the u-boat reference, could this be it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Growler_(SSG-577)
Angelica's Elegy looks like a good choice to warm up for MP. They sound quite nice too! Anyone taping might want to catch them both.
Uploaded my recording to motortrades now, if anyone's interested. It can't really hold a candle to Rolf's recording, but they all count, right?
Again – this is not Motorpsycho's policy, as Strings of Stroop was released by the venue, Effenaar. Motorpsycho had little or nothing to do with the release.
I also taped this show, but it seems that the recording is a bit bass-heavy and lacking in definition. Will do some slight EQing and release it to the masses shortly.
Well… unlike most technical enhancements you can use, autotune is cheating in most people's eyes. Instead of actually being able to sing well, you can just sing a passable take, and the magic of autotune will make it note-perfect.
It's really common nowadays – when my band recorded a demo a couple of years ago, the producer insisted on employing autotune on the vocals – even though our singer sings *really* well. The producer didn't accept any part of a phrase to be even slightly off-key, and used autotune to save time.
If it's done well, you really can't hear that the vocals have been processed – it's simply the adjustment of the end of a phrase here, the beginning of a phrase there and so on. But if it's done badly you do get the "smurf" effect, where some notes have been transposed a full half step or more. Autotune can sound so ridiculous, and is so simple to use, that it lends itself easily to humour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4
EDIT: Also, I think the use of autotune on Roadworks is really annoying, and does detract a bit from my enjoyment of some songs.
The Iron Maiden song in question would be "Hallowed be Thy Name" – and Motorpsycho have always been using that ending for "Gullible's Travails" live. Did it at the end of Hallucifuge in London as well.
Now, for one Iron Maiden reference that's a bit harder to spot, Bent tends to throw in the opening riff to "Where Eagles Dare" in Cornucopia every now and then. In Burg Herzberg this happens at ~4:40-4:50.
