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@Punj Lizard; yeah, I get that (upstairs?downstairs), nice. As for me having a hard-on for knocking the proggies: I used to listen a lot to Yes, KC (still do), Tull, even to cassette-tapes of Camel, Asia and whatnot, shared with some classmates, end 70's beginning 80's. For a lot of it I've lost interest but that's not what gives me "softy"! What I've come to dislike is the endless blabbering of proggy-friends of the past not about the music-experience, but about bandmembers, gear, statistics etc, as a cult in itself. Listening to impressive music, and then guys shouting out above the music things like: "you know, he's using these so and so strings here"… I just can't stand that. So therefore it may seem like I condemn all things prog (which I don't). :roll:
And; I'd just like us as forum members to not only sum up, but to express as well.
Guys, as recognisable (and extended) your accounts are, I don't read a lot about what the music
does for you on the emotional level. I hold MP so dear not just for their amazing history and catalogue and their working ethics, it's the huge part of my life they "soundtracked". It's the mystery of songs like Manmower or Sungravy still bringing the tears to my eyes, they helped me shout out with anger, joy, helped me grief, as well as made me think and explore which belongs to the brain-stuff. I think putting feeling/emotion into words (words belong to the brainy section of being, and as Wittgenstein explains cannot at all be trusted) is a very difficult thing, but I believe the reasons most of us are so attached to this Trondheim group is just that emotional bonding, where the language of their music speaks to your heart. How about trying to share what goes through you when you play Grindstone very very loud, what did you almost smash up in the room, how young and vulnerable do you feel when you listen, REALLY listen to something like the Ballad of Patrick and Putrick, etc? Just summing up when and where you found which album is to mea lot like the boring proggies talk in the schoolyard back in the day…
Great photography, Thor, thank you. Even if I can't hear the music of this gig, by looking at your pics I can very much understand the energy of it! :STG:
Did Tomas take the front of the stage here? (he deserves it!)
Caught myself whistling the title track while taking a shower this morning :lol:
And: at my local ElderYouthPlayRecords club the evening before I've played them Hogwash from the Four Norsemen Of The Apocalyps dvd, after which the Knights of the Turntable were silent for a minute and then one of the gentlemen remarked: after this, what is there to put on next!
Well, the Crucible (cd) dropped on the doormat today, after a long anticipating wait, especially for the title track, since I had got to know Psychotzar & Lux already from the internet radio podcasts.With those songs at first to me it sounded like flurries of ideas pasted upon each other, but listening closer they began to grow into fascinating constructions that did turn out to be coherent songs in the end, like mini symphonies (that horrible genre they used to name "symphonic rock" springs to mind, luckily MP stays far from what that usually stood for). So after 5 times hearing the title track is it winning coherence for me? Hmmmm…not yet, but it may be a grower, one of those tracks that gain in unity and get better and better until you're absolutely addicted to it, that happened to me before, for instance with Little Lucid Moments. Anyway, I can imagine this one to become a live monster and hope to witness it!
With the cd I had ordered the SuperSonicScientists book, read about half of it, and this seems like a must have for psychonauts , lots of background information, and diversity in the articles written, so if you don't own it yet, it can still be ordered from Stickman!
Now back to playing the Crucible some more! Is today Valentines day?, no way, it's a Motorpsychic day and my wife and I are not going the American but the Norwegian way! :STG:
Hey Bernie, wassup! Now that The Crucible is officially out, are you able/permitted to add Lux Aeterna to the Doornroosje-Nijmegen vids? I know there will probably be performances of it filmed in the future, but that night, that first experience of that song was for me the highlight of an otherwise perfectly rocking MPnight, which I relive every other night through playing the vids out loud and with the lights out! Cheers and zet hem op!
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GEB was the original guy, soulful drumming. Kenneth precise and Rock, did a great job for a certain MP-era. But now with Tomas, there's adventure again. His jazzy approach (all ears!), the crazy Brufordesque rolls and fills all over the place,his handling of dynamics; very impressive, like in Lux Aeterna, and all the time you have the feeling he is still growing and developping into probably one of the greatest drummers of our time. Again; so lucky to witness this band.
Been listening to Lux a lot by ways of that Polish podcast, and it's really hard not to use only superlatives like that German music-journalist does…This is perfection, there you go. An 11 minute symphony, and in lyrics and moods something like a process we go through confronted with death/the end : (denial) those first words; (anger) the total krankjoreme fucked up supernatural Snah part at 2/4 of the song; (reflection/sorrow) the bluesy part and (acceptance)the reprise. I'm not saying this is what the song is meant to be about, it's what I found listening to it's wonderful structure.
When that new album arrives sometime these next days, I'm damn sure it will fill this house with Motorpsychodelic sound for a long long while!
Sure, Punj, we are fans, and fan is short for fanatic
We are sitting on the curb in front of the same candy store, it opens in februari!
And by the way, I'm not only looking forward to a great new album (or ep , haha) but also hope for a Trust Us box (like they did with the first 4 classic albums) coming in 2019! Now that would be quite the bag of liquorice allsorts to chew on!!!Cheers!
Of course I'm curious about The Crucible like we all are, but I don't like the contemporary culture of song-snippets, sound-bites and titbits. It just shows there isn't the attention span anymore for a whole piece of music in the 21st century shizoid man of our time; like these 20 seconds?-buy the album. Hey, this is not your hitsingle teenybopperband here. And a piece of music by MP asks and deserves my full attention and time to make it into that special experience of the wonder we call music. So I'll wait, agree with Kid A here.
Snah has big strong arms, probably a byproduct of 30 years being his own roadie ?but to raise the doubleneck up in the air during STG would be serious weightlifting, haha!
For me, that must be Manmower. It was the very first impression I ever got way back on late night MTV, with that strange animation videoclip, and I was mesmerized and immediately moved by the emotional musical content of it. That melody on the mellotron!..what is this band, how come I did not notice until then…next day, to the record store, bought Timothy's Monster, and there started my journey through MPworld! The studio version has kept for me that strange melancholic intimacy, and still after all these years the mellotron at the end can bring tears to my eyes. It will forever stay impossibly beautiful, play this at my funeral, etc. Live renditions though, to me just bring it down to "another song", with sometimes a jam expansion that ruins it's compactness, it's like this little pearl of a world of it's own becomes something ordinary, even if ordinary at a MPgig is still great. Same with the other Holy song in my MPbook: Sungravy. Don't know if it even has been performed live ever? Guys covering it on the net…just don't do it, don't touch it! These two recordings are so perfect, nothing can improve on them. :MPD:
